What if you could rewire your network for AI and data-heavy workflows in just a few clicks? In an industry where seconds save lives and data drives discoveries, legacy infrastructure is becoming a critical liability. Traditional networks were built for stability, not speed, creating bottlenecks that stall AI initiatives, delay research, and complicate patient care.
As hospitals and pharmaceutical companies integrate AI, genomics, and telemedicine, they face a common hurdle: rigid, complex connectivity that can’t keep pace with innovation. You need an infrastructure that evolves as fast as your research does.
Zayo is changing the narrative on network management. DynamicLink replaces complexity with control, empowering you to rewire your network for AI in just a few clicks. It’s not just about connectivity; it’s about removing the barriers between your data and the breakthroughs it can fuel.
Here is how DynamicLink solves the most pressing challenges in modern healthcare:
1. High-Speed, Private Data Transport Between Facilities
Modern healthcare requires constant exchange of massive datasets between hospitals, research labs, imaging centers, and data centers. This data, including protected health information (PHI) and proprietary research, must remain secure and off the public internet. But static, multi-year connections are often too rigid as cloud, AI, and data strategies more rapidly evolve than in years past.
Use Case: A multi-state hospital system partners with a university research lab to analyze thousands of high-resolution MRI scans for a clinical trial on early-stage disease detection. Transferring these terabyte-sized files over an outdated network solution could take days and expose sensitive patient data to security risks.
DynamicLink Solution: The hospital can instantly establish high-speed, Virtual Private LAN services with DynamicLink, backed by Zayo’s owned fiber footprint — spanning 1,200+ data centers and thousands of enterprise locations. This private connection ensures that terabytes of PHI travel at high speed without ever touching the public internet, no matter where the hospital needs to connect now or in the future. Collaborate in real-time with strict compliance, then deactivate connections as soon as the project is complete.
2. Seamless Private Connectivity to Multiple Clouds
Healthcare organizations are successfully leveraging multi-cloud strategies, using platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for AI-powered diagnostics, molecular modeling, and electronic health record (EHR) management. The challenge? Connecting to these clouds securely and managing data movement between them efficiently.
Use Case: A pharmaceutical company uses AWS for its drug discovery AI models and Azure to host its clinical trial data. To train a new model, the research team needs to move a massive, curated dataset from Azure to AWS securely and quickly.
DynamicLink Solution: DynamicLink provides private on-ramps to all major cloud service providers. The pharma company can use Zayo’s self-service portal to instantly spin up private connections to both AWS and Azure — tackling their cloud goals for only as long as needed. They can also establish a direct, private cloud-to-cloud path, allowing them to move sensitive datasets between clouds in a secure, compliant, and efficient manner without routing back through their on-premises data center.
3. Isolate and Protect Sensitive Workloads
Compliance with regulations like HIPAA and GxP is essential. This requires the ability to logically separate different data types, like PHI, clinical research data, and operational analytics, preventing unauthorized access and reducing risk.
Use Case: A large hospital needs to ensure its patient billing system, which contains PHI, is completely isolated from the network segment used by a visiting research team analyzing anonymized imaging data for a machine learning project.
DynamicLink Solution: DynamicLink enables the creation of distinct network segments across geographies. The hospital’s IT team can configure separate virtual networks or establish policy-based routing policies for the billing department and the research team. This segmentation ensures workloads remain isolated, data stays in its designated compliant environment, and the risk of a data breach is significantly minimized. Combining private Layer 2 direct connectivity with Internet-facing Layer 3 circuits, all on a single port, allows the hospital to be agile and cost-effective.
4. Upgrade Connectivity with Zero Downtime
In healthcare, network downtime directly impacts patient care and halts critical research. As digital pathology and higher-resolution imaging become standard, the need to increase bandwidth is constant, but the upgrade process can’t disrupt ongoing operations.
Use Case: An imaging center is upgrading its MRI machines to a new model that produces files four times larger than the previous generation. The existing network connection is inadequate, but the center operates 24/7 and can’t afford downtime for a network upgrade. Waiting weeks (or more) for an upgrade is also not an option when they’re already bottlenecked today.
DynamicLink Solution: DynamicLink enables instant, non-disruptive bandwidth scaling. Through the online portal, the imaging center’s administrator can increase their Ethernet capacity in real time to accommodate the larger files. The upgrade happens with zero downtime, ensuring radiologists and clinicians maintain uninterrupted access to critical patient scans.
5. Simplified Network Management
Maintaining 100% uptime is critical for patient safety, but it’s a huge challenge for lean healthcare IT teams. When a connection slows down or a new service needs to be provisioned, you may not have a network engineer on call 24/7.
Use Case: A multi-hospital healthcare system invests in a state-of-the-art MRI machine for its primary imaging center. To maximize its use, the hospital needs to securely and quickly send large imaging files to radiologists at partner facilities. Traditionally, establishing a new HIPAA-compliant connection would be a lengthy multi-step process.
DynamicLink Solution: DashAI, an industry-first AI assistant integrated directly into the DynamicLink platform, empowers healthcare organizations to focus on patient outcomes rather than complex infrastructure. Instead of navigating a complex portal or waiting on hold, the hospital’s IT manager opens the DynamicLink platform and interacts with DashAI using a simple, natural language command.
6. Elastic Bandwidth for Bursty Clinical and Research Workloads
AI model training, genomic sequencing, and large-scale data ingestion create “bursty” traffic patterns that can overwhelm a network with sudden, massive spikes in demand. A network without elastic capacity will experience performance degradation, slowing down critical workflows. But this challenge has a solution.
Use Case: A genomics research institute runs large-scale DNA sequencing jobs that generate enormous amounts of data in short bursts. During these runs, other critical applications, like access to the central research database, become slow and unresponsive, frustrating scientists.
DynamicLink Solution: DynamicLink provides scalable bandwidth supported by instant alerts. When a traffic spike occurs, a network admin is immediately notified. They can log in and adjust the bandwidth at a specific location with a few clicks in minutes, without degrading the performance of other essential services or causing network-wide slowdowns.
7. Complete Visibility and Actionable Insights
To maintain compliance and optimize performance, IT teams need crystal-clear visibility into their network. This means understanding where data originates, how it flows, how redundant paths are performing, and when congestion is likely to occur.
Use Case: A hospital’s IT director is tasked with proving HIPAA compliance for a data audit. They need to show exactly where PHI from the EHR system is flowing and confirm that it never traverses an insecure path. They also want to proactively address potential bottlenecks before they impact clinicians.
DynamicLink Solution: DynamicLink provides a comprehensive analytics dashboard with powerful capabilities:
- Data Flow Visibility: The director can see precisely which systems (EHR, MRI machines, etc.) generate traffic and trace their path across the network, providing auditable proof of compliance.
- Redundancy Insights: The platform offers real-time understanding of router performance and failover paths, ensuring critical systems like EMR access remain online during a device failure.
- Proactive Alerts: The IT team can set predictive warnings for bandwidth spikes, allowing them to address potential congestion before it impacts end-of-month clinical reporting or large imaging uploads.
Build a Future-Ready Healthcare Network Today
DynamicLink makes network transformation refreshingly simple. Zayo streamlines the process of rewiring your infrastructure for AI, advanced research, and next-generation care. Our self-service platform empowers you to manage, segment, and scale your network instantly through a user-friendly interface. With just a few clicks, your healthcare or pharma organization can pivot quickly, experiment boldly, and accelerate progress without the typical technical complexity or delays.