Zayo has signed an agreement with Starlink to resell and manage low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite connectivity for enterprise customers across North America. The Denver-based communications infrastructure provider will deliver Managed Starlink as part of its broader managed services portfolio, targeting organizations that require higher resilience, expanded geographic reach, and rapid deployment in remote or high-risk environments.
Under the agreement, Zayo will bundle Starlink LEO connectivity with services such as SD-WAN, firewall, and IP-VPN, offering centralized management and single-vendor support. The managed service is available in the U.S. and Canada and supports download speeds of 100–280 Mbps. Zayo said installations can be completed in days, positioning the offering as an alternative where fiber, DSL, or 5G deployments face delays or cost constraints. Customers also gain access to Starlink Priority Data plans designed to deliver lower latency and more consistent performance than traditional geostationary satellite systems.
Zayo positions the combined fiber-plus-satellite architecture as a resilience strategy. By integrating its 19.9 million fiber miles and 148,000 route miles with LEO satellite links, the company enables active-active connectivity or failover configurations when terrestrial infrastructure suffers outages from severe weather, physical damage, or other disruptions. Target use cases include rural and remote sites, disaster recovery and network diversity scenarios, and mobile operations requiring persistent connectivity.
- Managed Starlink available across the U.S. and Canada
- 100–280 Mbps download speeds with rapid deployment timelines
- Bundling with SD-WAN, firewall, and IP-VPN services
- Designed for remote, rural, mobile, and disaster recovery environments
- Supports active-active or failover network architectures
“By pairing Starlink’s low-latency LEO satellite connectivity with Zayo’s fiber network solutions, we’re setting a new standard for what network resilience looks like,” said Ed Loveless, Head of Product, Managed Services at Zayo. “Organizations can extend connectivity farther, stay online through disruptions, and do it all without the burden of added operational complexity.”
🌐 Analysis: Zayo’s move formalizes a broader trend in hybrid terrestrial-satellite networking, where LEO constellations supplement fiber and wireless infrastructure rather than replace it. Competitors including regional MSPs and global carriers have begun integrating Starlink or other LEO services into managed portfolios, but Zayo’s scale in North American fiber markets positions it to embed satellite into enterprise-grade architectures with unified SLAs and support. As Starlink expands enterprise-focused offerings and other LEO operators scale capacity, managed integration by fiber incumbents could accelerate adoption in regulated sectors and mission-critical use cases.
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