Morningside House Nursing Home Selects Optimum Lightpath to Replace its Existing...

Morningside House Nursing Home Selects Optimum Lightpath to Replace its
Existing Five Service Providers for Big Savings, Reliable Telecommunications
and Mission-Critical Technology

150-Year-Old Mainstay Consolidates Telecommunications, Simplifies Processes
and Reduces Costs with Improved Reliability, Quality of Service and Customer
Care

JERICHO, N.Y., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Optimum Lightpath(SM), a market leader
in Ethernet-based communication solutions for New York metropolitan area
businesses, today announced that Bronx-based Morningside House, a subsidiary
of Aging in America, selected Optimum Lightpath as its telecommunications
provider. By consolidating its telecommunications services with Optimum
Lightpath, Morningside House saves nearly $28,000 per year by utilizing the
company's innovative voice, data and Internet services.

Morningside House replaced its T1s and 1.5-Mbps Internet access provided by
five different telecommunications carriers, including Verizon and AT&T, with
Optimum Lightpath's 50 Mb metro Ethernet service and 20 Mbps Internet and
Voice service. The nursing home was able to consolidate its telecommunications
needs with Optimum Lightpath because of its metro Ethernet-based network,
better quality of service, and local, human touch. This deployment enables
Morningside to add more bandwidth to support immediate accessibility to its
mission-critical clinical database, hosted payroll and pharmacy applications
as well as its billing system - all for one predictable monthly cost.

"Before deploying Optimum Lightpath's service, we had serious concerns about
reliability, customer service, billing and price across our five selected
providers. Our monthly communications costs were shocking and still we
experienced consistent outages where each service provider would blame the
other, keeping me on the phone for hours at a time," said John Mastronardi,
Assistant Administrator for Aging in America. "When we brought in Optimum
Lightpath, we increased data and Internet performance by as much as 50%, for
$2,300.00 less per month - it was phenomenal. Our customer satisfaction really
went through the roof. With Optimum Lightpath, I get a live person on the
phone and any issues are resolved in minutes."

"We are delighted to add Morningside House to our growing team of smart
healthcare facilities in the New York Metropolitan area," said Dave
Pistacchio, President of Optimum Lightpath. "As our smart healthcare
facilities continue to deploy fiber-to-their-business and more efficient
voice, data, Internet and video technologies, they join the area's most
sophisticated businesses, and the Optimum Lightpath smart community."

Optimum Lightpath has selected Morningside House Nursing Home for its Customer
Spotlight of the Month for June 2009.

About Optimum Lightpath
Optimum Lightpath, a division of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC),
is an industry leader in providing advanced Ethernet-based data, Internet,
voice, video transport solutions and managed services to businesses across the
New York metropolitan area. Optimum Lightpath's Network is a highly reliable,
resilient, and scalable fiber-to-the-business-premises network extending more
than 3,700 route miles connecting more than 3,300 buildings. Exclusively
focused on meeting customer needs in the world's largest business market for
20 years, Optimum Lightpath has been continually recognized for its high level
of customer service. For 11 straight years, the New York State Public Service
Commission has given Optimum Lightpath its Commendation of Excellence. Optimum
Lightpath has received many industry awards for innovation and leadership. For
more information, visit www.optimumlightpath.com.

Media Contacts:
Jennifer Abelson Charlstie Laytin
Abelson Group for Optimum Lightpath Cablevision
917-445-4454 516-803-2357
Jennifer@abelsongroup.com claytin@cablevision.com

SOURCE Optimum Lightpath

Jennifer Abelson of Abelson Group for Optimum Lightpath, +1-917-445-4454,
Jennifer@abelsongroup.com, or Charlstie Laytin of Cablevision,
+1-516-803-2357, claytin@cablevision.com