/ Resilience
Your connection runs on routes we bury by default, away from the street work that causes most outages. We design new networks as rings, bring routes in through separate building entrances, and lay spare conduit during construction.
Fiber infrastructure for the intelligent city.
UrbIN Networks, formerly Global InterXchange (GIX), builds utility-grade, carrier-neutral metro fiber infrastructure for American cities.
What every route gives you
/ Speed
Speed depends on how close and direct your connection is. We build high-capacity routes between in-city data centers and the networks that reach your users, and deliver fiber to the floor where your equipment sits.
/ Security
Your fiber runs underground, with secured access points and no splice points through the river crossing. Before you sign, we name the structures your route shares and any segments we haven’t surveyed.
Proven in one of the hardest places to build.
The fiber running through your city carries more than data. It carries your operations, your customers, and your growth. Chips and tenants turn over every few years, but fiber in the ground lasts for decades, so we build it once and build it right.
Our story starts under the Hudson River, where our route runs through the PATH train tunnel between New Jersey and Lower Manhattan. We hold our networks to the standard of a water main: we bury by default, design new networks as rings, and deliver fiber all the way to our customers’ floor. We keep every network open, because a city’s connection should work for everyone who depends on it.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHT · NEW YORK
Our first network is live in New York.
It runs buried from 165 Halsey Street in Newark, through Harrison and Jersey City, and under the Hudson River inside the PATH tunnel to 60 Hudson Street in Lower Manhattan. It is the southernmost Hudson River crossing into Manhattan.
Whole route
EXPLORE THE ROUTE
Every fact sits on the route.
Tap a marker, a leg, or Next stop to zoom in on what is built where, from 165 Halsey Street to 60 Hudson Street.
- Newark to Jersey City: From the meet-me room at 165 Halsey Street, the route runs buried through Newark and Harrison to Jersey City.
- Under the Hudson: The crossing runs inside the Sandy-hardened PATH tunnel, behind the Port Authority’s 16-ton flood gates, with no splice points through the crossing.
- Into Lower Manhattan: Into 60 Hudson Street through two separate building entrances, then up our own riser to the floor where your equipment sits.
- 165 Halsey Street, Newark: The Newark carrier hotel. The route starts in its meet-me room on floor 9 and runs buried end to end.
- UrbIN-owned manholes: UrbIN-owned manholes along the New Jersey route give us our own access to the buried fiber. With access manholes in Lower Manhattan, we can offer the route in segments as well as end to end.
- 16-ton flood gates: The Port Authority’s flood gates protect the Sandy-hardened PATH tunnel that carries our river crossing.
- The southernmost crossing: The southernmost Hudson River crossing into Manhattan, a physically separate path from the other crossings.
- 60 Hudson Street, Manhattan: One of the most connected buildings in New York, reached through two separate building entrances.
- UrbIN-owned riser: Our own riser in 60 Hudson brings fiber to the floor where your equipment sits, which simplifies cross connects between floors. It reaches DataBank, Hudson Interxchange, Digital Realty, and NYI on floors 1, 6, 9, and 12.
- 88,883 ns one-way: One-way optical fiber latency, 165 Halsey Street to 60 Hudson Street.
88,883 ns
ONE-WAY OPTICAL LATENCY
PATH Tunnel
UNDER THE HUDSON
Buried
END TO END
Lease fiber on our routes, or build a new one with us.
Carriers and network operators
Diverse, buried routes where you need them, starting in New York with a path across the Hudson that doesn’t share your other routes.
Data center and interconnection operators
Fiber to your campus, sized for your tenants. Anchor a new route with us, or lease fiber on ours and resell it.
Cloud and AI platforms
When the campus has power but no fiber, we design and build the route to your conduit and cable specs, with high-count cable and spare conduit for growth.
Banks, trading firms, and enterprises
Dark fiber you control, built in the ground and delivered to your floor.
Let us help you extend your reach.
Tell us the two ends you need to connect. We’ll show you where the route runs, what it shares, and how soon we can deliver.