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Company profile
Zayo provides fiber-based communications infrastructure, including long-haul, metro, dark fiber, wavelength, and connectivity services for cloud providers, enterprises, carriers, and data center operators. The company operates one of North America’s largest fiber networks and is increasingly focused on supporting AI infrastructure and hyperscale connectivity requirements.
| Headquarters | Denver, Colorado |
| CEO | Steve Smith |
| Founded | 2007 |
| Ownership | Private; owned by DigitalBridge and EQT |
| Coverage | Fiber Infrastructure • AI Connectivity • Long-Haul Networks • Metro Fiber • Dark Fiber • Wavelength Services • Data Centers • Digital Infrastructure |
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Zayo Group announced it plans to separate into two publicly traded companies: one to focus on providing core communications infrastructure and another to leverage infrastructure to provide solutions for a…
Zayo disclosed plans for two new unique, low-latency long haul dark fiber networks from Columbus, Ohio to Ashburn, Virginia and Dallas, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia. The company said the expansion…
Zayo announced a contract with a major retailer to connect its core and edge data centers across the U.S. with fully diverse 10G and 100G wavelengths. Financial terms were not…
Citing demand from hyperscale, cloud and data center providers as well as enterprise customers, Zayo announced expansions of its fiber networks in four European markets, including London, Paris, Dublin and…
Zayo announced a contract to provide a U.S.-based multinational bank with dark fiber, colocation and wavelengths. Zayo said the colocation solution at a zColo data center in the western U.S.…
Zayo announced a contract to provide a high-bandwidth IP solution to a leading Mexican carrier. The solution will facilitate interconnection to U.S.-based content, gaming and webscale companies via Zayo’s data…
Zayo announced that aan international carrier has selected it for a pan-European dark fiber backbone. The name of the customer was not disclosed. Zayo said this dark fiber project includes…
Zayo Group reported $657.6 million in consolidated revenue for its fourth quarter ended June 30, 2018, and net income of $43.8 million, including $30.6 million from the Communications Infrastructure segments…
Zayo announced a contract to provide multiple 100G wavelengths to an international telecom carrier to connect its new point of presences (PoPs) in North America. The name of the carrier…
Zayo completed a long haul dark fiber route between Los Angeles and Dallas. The route complements Zayo’s existing long haul network, enabling diverse connectivity between major West Coast data center…
Zayo announced that a global cloud provider customer has selected it to expand its long-haul dark fiber network and to upgrade optical wavelength capacity across the U.S. Zayo did not…
A global cloud provider is leasing space at Zayo’s One Wilshire data center location in Los Angeles, bringing the occupancy rate to more than 60 percent since the opening of…
Zayo announed a major contract with a global webscale provider for colocation in Zayo’s data center in McLean, Virginia. Zayo acquired the McLean data center in April. The facility is…