Zayo Group Holdings (NYSE:ZAYO) says it has won a deal from an undisclosed customer for 5 Tbps of wavelength services. The customer will use the capacity for data center interconnect. Zayo says the award is the largest in its history.
Zayo says it continues to see an uptick in capacity demand, particularly from webscale, content, and cloud providers looking for diverse, high-capacity, highly reliable connectivity for data center interconnect. “Our customers are no longer talking gigabits -- they’re talking terabits on multiple diverse routes,” said Julia Robin, senior vice president of transport at Zayo. “Zayo’s owned infrastructure, scalable capacity on unique routes, and ability to turn up services quickly positions us to be the provider of choice for high-capacity infrastructure.”
The fiber-optic network services provider adds that enterprises in such sectors as finance, retail, pharma, and others are asking for higher-speed metro wavelength services. Zayo says it meets such needs by offering dedicated bandwidth to major data centers, carrier hotels, cable landing stations, and enterprise locations via its long-haul and metro networks. Zayo asserts it adds new routes and optical technologies to eliminate local stops, reduce the distance between essential markets, and minimize regeneration points. It offers express, ultra-low and low-latency routes, and private dedicated networks.
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Stephen Hardy
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Stephen Hardy is editorial director and associate publisher of Lightwave and Broadband Technology Report, part of the Lighting & Technology Group at Endeavor Business Media. Stephen is responsible for establishing and executing editorial strategy across the both brands’ websites, email newsletters, events, and other information products. He has covered the fiber-optics space for more than 20 years, and communications and technology for more than 35 years. During his tenure, Lightwave has received awards from Folio: and the American Society of Business Press Editors (ASBPE) for editorial excellence. Prior to joining Lightwave in 1997, Stephen worked for Telecommunications magazine and the Journal of Electronic Defense.
Stephen has moderated panels at numerous events, including the Optica Executive Forum, ECOC, and SCTE Cable-Tec Expo. He also is program director for the Lightwave Innovation Reviews and the Diamond Technology Reviews.
He has written numerous articles in all aspects of optical communications and fiber-optic networks, including fiber to the home (FTTH), PON, optical components, DWDM, fiber cables, packet optical transport, optical transceivers, lasers, fiber optic testing, and more.
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