Skywire Networks
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Skywire Networks is a New York-based independent connectivity provider that has operated since 2002, delivering high-speed internet, voice, and mobile solutions to businesses and residences across the NY Metro tri-state area and beyond. The company built a private Fixed Wireless rooftop radio network powered by a fiber Tier 1 backbone, serving over 3,000 business customers and 28,000 residential customers across more than 2,200 on-net buildings. Skywire also offers enterprise solutions including...
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Ideal Customer
- Skywire's sweet spot spans SMBs to mid-market and enterprise organizations, with a particularly strong focus on businesses in NYC commercial buildings that are underserved by legacy fiber carriers.
- The ideal commercial customer is typically a mid-market to enterprise organization with 20–500+ employees operating in industries requiring high uptime such as media, finance, healthcare, and technology.
Key Differentiators
- Skywire's primary differentiator is its proprietary overhead Fixed Wireless rooftop radio network, which is completely independent of underground fiber infrastructure, enabling it to serve buildings unreachable by traditional carriers—a positioning it trademarks as 'Connecting the Unconnectable.' This hybrid fixed wireless and fiber delivery model allows rapid installation in days rather than months, with no trenching, digging, or permits required, and symmetrical dedicated bandwidth with no throttling.
- Skywire positions itself as the 'agile alternative' to incumbent telcos, emphasizing local Brooklyn-based engineering support, white-glove service, and true network diversity (aerial path vs. underground fiber) for redundancy and failover.
Industries Served
- Skywire explicitly targets government, healthcare, media and entertainment, finance, real estate, education, and technology sectors.
- Within its coverage footprint, the largest business concentrations are retail trade (16%), professional and technical services (11.69%), healthcare and social assistance (9.76%), accommodation and food services (9.47%), and real estate and rental (8.46%).
Service Coverage
- Skywire Networks is primarily a New York Metro regional provider, with its densest footprint covering all five NYC boroughs (Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island) and extending into New Jersey, upstate New York as far as the Hudson Valley, and Central New Jersey.
- The company operates over 2,000 lit buildings, 50 neighborhood hubs, and a near-net footprint exceeding 350,000 commercial buildings.
Partnerships
- Skywire's real estate partners listed on its website include major commercial real estate firms CBRE, GFP Real Estate, Madison Realty, American Tower, and Newmark.
- The company maintains Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) relationships with the nation's top carriers to deliver coast-to-coast circuits with its own personalized service layer.
Company Size & Ownership
- Skywire Networks (operating as Skywire Networks LLC d/b/a Xchange Telecom LLC) was founded in 2002 as Xchange Telecom, with the Skywire commercial division formed in 2012.
- Current employee counts vary by source, with estimates ranging from approximately 48–87 employees across the combined Xchange/Skywire entity, reflecting recent headcount contraction of roughly 23% year-over-year.
Compliance & Certifications
- No specific compliance certifications such as SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FedRAMP, or ISO 27001 are publicly documented or confirmed for Skywire Networks.
- The company does serve HIPAA-regulated healthcare clients and explicitly references HIPAA mandates in its healthcare vertical marketing, implying an operational awareness of HIPAA requirements.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
14 offeringsAppAssure
Skywire AppAssure is a sub-second failover solution deployed alongside the SD-WAN service to ensure seamless network continuity. It operates transparently so that end users are unaware of outages, with failover occurring in real time without dropping active web sessions or in-progress data transfers. Customers are notified of outage events via Skywire alerts rather than experiencing direct disruption.
Business Ethernet
Skywire offers Ethernet connectivity services for business customers as part of its suite of business solutions. This service is listed as a distinct offering within the company's business product lineup alongside Internet and other connectivity options.
Business Internet
Skywire provides dedicated, high-speed business internet service delivered over its private Fixed Wireless rooftop radio network powered by a fiber Tier 1 backbone. The service offers fully dedicated bandwidth with no throttling during peak traffic and is custom-engineered for businesses across NY Metro and the tri-state area. Installation is completed in days rather than months, with local engineers providing ongoing support.
Business Mobile
Skywire provides mobile services for business customers as part of its business solutions lineup. This is listed as a separate offering alongside internet, ethernet, voice, and other business connectivity products.
Business Voice
Skywire offers voice services for business customers as a distinct product within its business solutions portfolio. Voice management and phone management tools are available to customers through their account portal.
Cloud Connect
Skywire Cloud Connect provides secure, direct, low-latency private connections to major cloud hyperscalers including AWS and Azure, bypassing the public internet. It supports single-cloud, multi-cloud, hybrid, backup, and disaster recovery scenarios with 50 Mbps to 10 Gbps connectivity options, Layer 2 or Layer 3 architecture, and SLA-backed performance guarantees. The service is available bundled with DIA or Ethernet services and connects at major exchange hubs.
Managed Wi-Fi
Skywire offers Managed Wi-Fi as a business solution, providing professionally managed wireless networking for commercial customers. It is listed as a distinct service within the company's business product portfolio.
PartnerUP!
PartnerUP! is Skywire's partner program designed for channel partners, agents, or resellers to work with Skywire in delivering connectivity solutions. The program has a dedicated login portal and is promoted with a why-join section on the company's website.
Real Estate Solutions
Skywire offers connectivity solutions specifically tailored for the real estate industry, serving property developers, managers, and building owners. The company designs and builds fixed wireless, fiber, or hybrid networks custom-engineered for residential buildings and commercial properties to help attract tenants and support redevelopment projects.
Residential Internet
Skywire provides high-speed internet service to residential customers across NY Metro and the tri-state area through its Fixed Wireless rooftop radio network and fiber infrastructure. The service is fully dedicated with no throttling and is installed in days with local support.
Residential Mobile
Skywire provides mobile service to residential customers as part of its residential solutions lineup. International rates are also referenced in connection with this offering.
Residential Voice
Skywire offers voice phone service to residential customers as a distinct product within its residential solutions portfolio. It is listed separately alongside residential internet and mobile offerings.
SD-WAN
Skywire's SD-WAN solution is a software-defined wide area network service designed for enterprises requiring seamless failover and high uptime reliability across multiple locations. The solution routes SaaS traffic through Skywire's own core data centers and instantly reroutes traffic to secondary connections during outages, enabling zero packet loss and sub-second failover. It supports 5G broadband throughput and can be deployed across dozens of locations during scheduled maintenance windows to avoid business disruption.
Skywire Hotlines
Skywire Hotlines is listed as a distinct business solution offering within the company's product lineup. It appears alongside other business services such as internet, voice, and managed Wi-Fi.
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