North America-based multinationals are growing across borders. Financial institutions need reliable access to international markets. Cloud providers must connect infrastructure across continents. Enterprises depend on consistent access to applications and data as their operations expand into new regions.
Meeting these demands requires navigating multiple network providers, complex routing decisions, and growing bandwidth requirements. The stakes are high: network performance and resilience directly affect business continuity and the ability to compete in new markets
Demand continues to grow. According to TeleGeography, international internet bandwidth increased 23% in 2026, more than doubling since 2022. Cloud adoption, digital services, distributed applications, and emerging AI workloads are driving the need for scalable cross-border connectivity.
Zayo’s strategy is straightforward: build on our unmatched North American network strength and extend that reach where our customers need to be.
Extending North American Network Strength Across Borders
Zayo connects more North American data centers and key markets than any other provider. Our network reaches more than 1,400 data centers, 400+ metro markets, and 90,000+ on-net enterprise locations across North America, providing the foundation that multinational customers rely on to run their operations.
That North American strength becomes a strategic advantage as customers expand internationally. Rather than navigating a fragmented mix of international carriers independently, North America-based multinationals can extend their existing Zayo connectivity into key global markets, backed by consistent network design, carrier relationships, and operational support.
For a multinational enterprise, that could mean connecting offices, cloud environments, and data centers across North America while extending capacity into key corridors like Brazil, Europe, or Asia Pacific. For a financial institution, it could mean linking North American trading infrastructure to international markets with the reliability and low latency those operations require.
Zayo supports this through relationships with more than 75 carrier partners, access to more than 30 subsea cable systems, and connectivity across major international corridors, including transatlantic and transpacific routes. This combination gives North America-based multinational customers more options for reaching critical global markets without having to independently coordinate every network relationship.
Why Subsea Cable Diversity Matters for Multinational Customers
Subsea cables carry the data that supports cloud services, financial transactions, content delivery, and enterprise communications across borders. As North America-based multinationals rely more heavily on these connections, route diversity is a critical consideration in network planning.
Alternative network paths reduce dependence on individual routes and give customers more options when planning for potential disruptions. The International Telecommunication Union’s 2026 submarine cable resilience research reinforces the importance of redundancy, geographic diversity, and proactive risk management in strengthening international connectivity.
Zayo’s latest expansion between the United States and Brazil reflects these priorities.
With the activation of capacity on the Monet subsea cable system, Zayo now offers a third diverse U.S.–Brazil route alongside existing connections through Seabras-1 and GlobeNet. This new route connects Miami to São Paulo, adding resiliency and routing flexibility between major U.S. connectivity hubs and one of Latin America’s most important digital markets.
“It’s about knowing which partners can deliver the fastest deployment, the highest reliability, or the route diversity a client requires, and having the expertise to bring it all together into one seamless, end-to-end solution,” said Alissa Clousing, Managing Director of Zayo Global Reach.
Latin America: A Growing Hub for North American Multinationals
Latin America continues to grow as an international connectivity hub for our customers. International bandwidth demand in the region grew at a 34% compound annual rate from 2020 to 2024, according to TeleGeography. Brazil remains central to that growth.
São Paulo is Latin America’s leading center for financial services, cloud infrastructure, and digital services. For North America-based companies with operations or customers in the region, reliable, diverse connectivity between Brazil and U.S. markets is a core infrastructure requirement.
Zayo’s new Monet route connects directly into its São Paulo metro fiber ring, providing access to Equinix SP2, SP3, and SP4 data centers, as well as B3, Brazil’s principal stock exchange. On the U.S. side, the route connects to Zayo’s extensive North American network, including MIAX Sapphire in Miami and Zayo’s ultra-low-latency Spread Network connecting Chicago to New York.
This creates end-to-end connectivity between major financial exchanges and corridors on both sides, allowing financial institutions to access key market infrastructure, cloud and content providers to connect regional data center environments, and multinational enterprises to support operations across the Americas.
Aligning Network Design With Business Goals
Building an international network involves decisions that extend well beyond selecting carriers and connecting locations.
Where are critical applications hosted? Which connections require diverse routing? How might traffic patterns change as the business expands? The answers influence network architecture, performance, and long-term scalability.
Zayo’s Network Design Authority approach helps customers address these questions by aligning network decisions with their technical requirements and business priorities. Our teams bring together network design expertise, carrier relationships, and operational coordination to develop solutions across Zayo’s owned infrastructure and partner networks.
For customers, this approach simplifies deployment and management, supports more resilient architectures, and makes it easier to adapt connectivity as business requirements change. Zayo also provides project coordination and 24/7 network operations support to help customers manage their environments across regions.
Zayo’s work with Xandr demonstrates this model in practice. With significant North American infrastructure requirements, Xandr worked with Zayo to extend connectivity into data center markets in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Singapore, leveraging Zayo’s transatlantic and transpacific infrastructure to reach the markets their business required.
Building a Connectivity Strategy That Grows With Your Business
Connectivity requirements will continue to evolve as North America-based multinationals expand, adopt new technologies, and distribute applications across more markets.
Cloud services, financial platforms, content delivery, and AI workloads are changing where data moves and how much capacity organizations need. These shifts make flexibility and resilience critical considerations in long-term network planning.
Businesses need to anticipate where capacity will be required, identify opportunities for route diversity, and ensure their networks can adapt as new markets and infrastructure requirements emerge.
Zayo supports that planning by combining unmatched North American network strength with international connectivity, regional carrier partnerships, and network design expertise. The activation of Zayo’s third diverse U.S.–Brazil route is one example of this ongoing investment: expanding connectivity options into a strategically important market to meet growing demand from North America-based multinationals operating across the Americas.
As your business pursues opportunities across borders, Zayo provides the network foundation, the routing diversity, and the expertise to extend your reach with confidence.