Zayo Rolls Out New Slate of Infrastructure Upgrades on North America’s Largest Independent Network
11 Julio 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
With these upgrades, Zayo has added nearly
500,000 fiber miles to its network in the first half of 2024
Zayo, a leading global communications infrastructure provider,
today announced its latest round of critical infrastructure
upgrades. This includes significant expansions of its network
connectivity offerings, including new 400G-enabled wavelength
routes not available from any other provider, expanded on-demand
network capabilities, and IP core upgrades—enabling the most
forward-thinking and innovative companies to connect what’s
next.
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“Today's businesses need to deliver connections and experiences
faster than ever to remain competitive. And in our digital business
age, their network can be a make-or-break,” said Bill Long, Chief
Product & Strategy Officer at Zayo. “Zayo has built North
America's largest independent fiber network, and we continue to
advance our offerings to ensure our customers have a network that's
ready for tomorrow's challenges. Our ongoing infrastructure
upgrades continue to make our network a competitive differentiator
— providing fast, reliable connectivity where it's needed most,
from tier-1 cities to rural markets and data centers."
What’s New:
Diversifying 400G Connections
Since April 2024, Zayo has completed five unique and
carrier-diverse 400G wavelength routes. The routes provide
diversity not available from any other provider. Connecting into
Zayo’s expansive backbone and key unique routes across the country,
these expansions enable North to South and Coast to Coast
connectivity with resiliency and 400G capacity.
The new routes include:
- Los Angeles to San Jose: Ensures diverse and unique
routing between the Bay Area and Los Angeles with high capacity,
low latency, data center-to-data center connectivity and extends
into other key locations like Salt Lake City, Portland, Dallas, and
Phoenix.
- Chicago to St. Louis: Completes a critical path between
these key markets, adding another diverse entrance into Chicago,
and completes a core North-to-South path across the U.S. connecting
to Zayo’s Memphis to New Orleans route.
- Reno to Barstow: Completes a critical low-latency path
between the markets for carriers, government agencies, middle-mile
infrastructure for rural connectivity, and enterprises with high
bandwidth needs.
- Columbus to Pittsburgh: Provides faster and more direct
access and ‘triversity’ between the markets.
- Quebec City to Montreal: Connects key data centers in
Montreal, the second-largest data center hub in Canada and one of
the fastest-growing in North America, with extended reach to Quebec
City.
- Zayo is currently the only major U.S. fiber provider offering
400G connectivity into Quebec City through Montreal with multiple
routing options across the border into the U.S.
Zayo has also expanded 400G capacity on four routes connecting
key cities including Richmond, Cleveland, and Chicago. Zayo
currently provides the largest 400G network in North America. With
the completion of these routes, Zayo’s North American fiber network
is now nearly 90% 400G-enabled and is expected to be one of the
largest fully 400G-enabled by the end of 2024.
Enabling Easy-to-Turn-Up Wavelength Capacity
With the rapid growth in capacity needs thanks to high-bandwidth
applications like AI, Zayo continues to expand on-demand and
easy-to-turn-up capacity in key markets across North America. In
2023, Zayo unveiled an industry-first Waves on Demand offering,
providing a turn-up of wavelength services in 24 hours, a
previously unheard-of concept in the telecommunications
industry.
Today Zayo offers Waves on Demand services on 10 of its most
high-demand routes with plans for continued expansion. Its latest
routes include Atlanta to Miami and Seattle to San Jose, completing
important coast-to-coast connections:
- Zayo’s Atlanta to Miami route links into its unique route
connecting from Dallas to Atlanta
- The Seattle to San Jose route completes Waves On Demand
capability from Seattle to Los Angeles.
Strengthening Strategic Connections with IP Core
Upgrades
Zayo added 11 new North American IP points-of-presence (PoPs) in
key data centers, including in Arizona, California, Florida,
Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, and Ontario.
Additionally, Zayo upgraded four existing 400G IP PoP locations,
including strategic markets like San Jose, Seattle, Phoenix, and
New York—providing 400G capabilities to some of the richest peering
ecosystems in North America.
With these additions, Zayo now has 375 global IP PoPs, 250 of
which are located in North America. The addition of new IP PoPs to
Zayo’s IP network guarantees scalable and dependable capacity
availability. Built on Zayo’s wholly-owned fiber backbone, Zayo’s
IP network also ensures enhanced reliability and performance with
reduced latency to support the high-speed connectivity required for
advanced applications like AI.
These upgrades underscore Zayo’s dedication to network
innovation and service excellence. In 2024 alone, Zayo has expanded
its network with nearly 500,000 additional fiber miles and 2,000
new on-net buildings. The company has also significantly enhanced
its service delivery, surpassing 300Tb in pre-provisioned capacity.
With these continued upgrades, Zayo is making it easier and faster
for businesses to connect whenever and wherever they need it
most.
To learn more about Zayo’s latest network expansion and its
global network capabilities, please visit
https://www.zayo.com/resources/global-network-capabilities/.
About Zayo
For more than 17 years, Zayo has empowered some of the world’s
largest and most innovative companies to connect what’s next for
their business. Zayo’s future-ready network spans 18 million fiber
miles and 145,000 route miles. Zayo’s tailored connectivity and
edge solutions enable carriers, cloud providers, data centers,
schools, and enterprises to deliver exceptional experiences, from
core to cloud to edge. Discover how Zayo connects what’s next at
www.zayo.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Kayla Bodel Walker Sands for Zayo Group press@zayo.com