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Optimum Lightpath Metro Ethernet Services Deliver Robust, High-Capacity Bandwidth for New York Metro Area Businesses

Posted on: Tuesday, 28 June 2005, 09:00 CDT

Lightpath(R), the business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, announced that, effective today, the company is being rebranded "Optimum Lightpath" to better position its Metro Ethernet services for success in the business telecommunications marketplace. This move integrates the organization's portfolio of Metro Ethernet product offerings with Cablevision's highly acclaimed Optimum-branded suite of digital cable, high-speed Internet and digital voice products and services.

"For more than seventeen years, the Lightpath organization has been a leader in delivering fiber to the customer's premise as the underlying infrastructure for high-capacity, high quality data and voice services," said Dave Pistacchio, executive vice president and general manager of Optimum Lightpath. "Our recent shift to Metro Ethernet and our initiative to simplify our customers' wide area networks strongly aligns us with the Optimum brand and its excellent reputation in the marketplace. Our new product set will deliver the best and most technologically advanced solutions available that are easy to buy, provision and use."

In January 2005, Lightpath introduced its highly-reliable Metro Ethernet product line that is offered at very high speeds (10 Mbps up to 10 Gbps) and is delivered via fiber optics directly to the customer's premise. These Ethernet circuits can be used for high-capacity data transfer, Internet access or a combined Internet access/voice services bundle.

Optimum Lightpath's focus on Metro Ethernet coincides with a growing demand from enterprises that are hungry for more bandwidth and are looking to reduce their costs associated with moving data and voice around the New York Metropolitan area. Ethernet offers a way to do both due to its bandwidth capacities and relatively inexpensive cost per bit.

"Optimum Lightpath maintains the same commitment to providing customers with superior service, something which we've been recognized for by the New York State Public Service Commission for each of the last seven years," said Kevin Curran, Senior Vice President of Marketing for Optimum Lightpath. "In this ultra-competitive telecommunications marketplace, we take pride in consistently outperforming our competition on service quality. When we combine our track record on service with our new product portfolio, Optimum Lightpath truly represents a new, easier way for enterprises to satisfy all of their high-capacity bandwidth needs with a single provider."

About Optimum Lightpath

Optimum Lightpath, the business telecommunications services division of Cablevision Systems Corporation, uses the power of its own reliable and resilient fully fiber optic network to deliver converged, IP-based data, Internet, and voice solutions to medium and large businesses throughout the New York metropolitan area. Over the past 17 years, Optimum Lightpath built an advanced Fiber-to-the-business-Premises network that has over 2400 route miles of fiber optic cables throughout the tri-state area. As a result of owning and maintaining this state-of-the-art network, Optimum Lightpath can better ensure the quality of the customer experience, while delivering reliable, high bandwidth business communications services at lower prices. Optimum Lightpath now provides its customers with a variety of scalable, high-capacity IP-based Metro Ethernet services (E-LAN and E-Line) to support high bandwidth data, Internet and voice applications, while also delivering highly personalized customer service unparalleled by competing service providers.

About Cablevision

Cablevision Systems Corporation is one of the nation's leading entertainment and telecommunications companies. Its cable television operations serve 3 million households in the New York metropolitan area. The company's advanced telecommunications offerings include its iO: Interactive Optimum digital television, Optimum Online high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable, and its Lightpath integrated business communications services. Cablevision's Rainbow Media Holdings LLC operates several successful programming businesses, including AMC, IFC, WE and other national and regional networks. In addition to its telecommunications and programming businesses, Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and its sports teams, the New York Knicks, Rangers and Liberty. The company also operates New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, and owns and operates Clearview Cinemas.

Source: Business Wire

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