OREANDA-NEWS. May 22, 2014. Verizon has installed almost 89 million feet, or nearly 17,000 miles, of fiber optic infrastructure in New York City, enough to stretch over six trips between New York and Los Angeles.

The company’s fiber infrastructure in the city includes facilities for interoffice and backbone network equipment, specialized fiber for large enterprise customers, as well its revolutionary FiOS services serving consumers and small businesses.

Unlike cable, FiOS utilizes light to transfer video and data signals all the way to a home or business, making it the highest-performing communications technology available.

FiOS currently delivers download speeds as high as 500 megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds of up to 100 Mbps – by far, the fastest Internet speeds available in the city. These speeds give customers the ability to download a two-hour HD video in just over a minute-and-a-half and upload the average PowerPoint presentation in less than a second. Unlike cable’s technology, FiOS is capable of delivering much faster Internet speeds for many years to come.