A Guide to Dark Fiber
Dark fiber is the backbone that underpins today’s greatest technology innovations. Here are Zayo’s 5 things to know about dark fiber.
Learn MoreWith more than 16 million miles of fiber, Zayo’s network was purpose-built for leading organizations that demand unlimited bandwidth, complete service control, and total reliability. Zayo’s dense, diverse, global fiber footprint provides the capacity, performance, and scalability you need to customize and manage your own network — today, tomorrow, and into the future.
Contact SalesFor the largest enterprises and most innovative companies — and anyone who wants to compete with them — the single biggest IT infrastructure advantage you have is your network. Zayo Dark Fiber gives you full control over your network, allowing you to scale bandwidth while maintaining the highest levels of security to meet the needs of your enterprise.
With Zayo Dark Fiber, you manage your own optical systems riding dedicated dark fiber, which delivers the highest levels of network security, visibility and scalability. You’re in control of your bandwidth growth, while we monitor and manage the fiber.
Zayo is the leading developer of fiber infrastructure, having built more fiber capacity over the last decade than anyone in the industry. All while upgrading and hardening our network with the latest fiber technologies to reduce signal degradation and improve latency and uptime. Our fiber is where you need to be.
Zayo is your strategic partner for routing architecture, planning, and deployment. We deliver best-in-class service support to stay up and running, whether it’s network monitoring to pinpoint where a fiber cut has occurred, or repair and uptime guarantees.
Dark fiber is the backbone that underpins today’s greatest technology innovations. Here are Zayo’s 5 things to know about dark fiber.
Learn MoreZayo is the largest independent network provider in North America, with dense, high-capacity metro fiber connecting the world’s critical data centers in the most important markets in the US, Canada and Europe — linked via extensive high-count long-haul dark fiber. Zayo’s multiple routing options in the metro and between metros add diversity for maximum uptime and protection, giving our customers — among the largest and most innovative companies in the world — the infrastructure foundation for what’s next.
See where Zayo’s network can take youDark Fiber offers the highest levels of security, scalability, and customer control.
Talk to our dark fiber team to see exact routes and start engineering your solution today.
Zayo’s Enterprise Solutions provide reliable, dedicated, and secure bandwidth — no congestion from sharing with other users — all from a single vendor, all locally supported. Watch our Milkshake video and find out what your options are with Zayo.
Learn MoreCloud solutions that enable digital acceleration and continuous communication worldwide need to be powered by high-throughput, low latency networks. Fiber-based networks provide the best solution for enterprises looking to gain a competitive advantage. Zayo’s President, Andrés Irlando discusses the importance of both for digital transformation efforts.
Learn MoreZayo’s Long Haul Dark Fiber connects Points of Presence (PoPs) in major markets with strategically spliced inter-city Dark Fiber, using routes and In-Line Amplification (ILA) sites unique to Zayo – with options to extend directly to your location by adding metro fiber.
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