Zayo’s Fiber-To-The-Tower (FTT) Network has reached another key milestone of 2,000 unique towers on-net. The FTT Network now offers more than 100G in overall bandwidth to over 3,000 tenants, with 46 markets in service and 6 more markets under construction. Throughout its history, Zayo has deployed over 4,000 metro route miles to support its FTT network. Additionally, Zayo is building more than 500 additional towers which will be brought on-net in the near future.

Through their FTT projects, Zayo has been a backhaul supplier for T-Mobile. Of their service experience with Zayo, T-Mobile USA’s Vice President of Technical Systems and Business Operations, Bryan Fleming commented, ”T-Mobile’s overall experience with Zayo on Fiber-To-The-Tower projects has been excellent. Zayo has worked through complex network designs, provided creative solutions and expedited service delivery that helped T-Mobile deliver amazing customer experiences, while providing exceptional service and network reliability.”

For more information on Zayo, please visit www.zayo.com.

In Section 3 of the World Bank’s report on ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Sustainable Rural Poverty Reduction’ statistics are provided on the impact mobile has on rural markets. The research in this report finds that fiber infrastructure directly relates to GDP growth, job creation, productivity, tax revenue as well as social benefits, such as entrepreneurship and job searches, transport and even education, health and disaster relief.  The report outlines the true need and direct measurable benefits of new infrastructure.

The statistics of this report are further supplemented by a recent article in Business Week featuring Alcatel Lucent’s CEO, Ben Verwaayen. The article quotes Verwaayen as saying:

“They (Asia) are building a physical infrastructure that allows people, wherever they are, to participate in the global digital economy. That will give them an enormous advantage in the years to come.”

In essence, Verwaayen states that Asia is ahead of Europe in terms of deploying fiber infrastructure, and therefore has an “enormous advantage in the years to come.” This same statement would be 100% true if the word “Europe” was swapped with “US.” What countries like Asia and Africa realize is that the World Bank report statistics are true, and by building new infrastructure today they are bettering their economies for tomorrow. The US must invest and build fiber infrastructure in the same way to remain a competitive player in the global economy.

Last Wednesday, Sidera Networks and Ciena hosted a webinar about the positive effects technology has on the healthcare industry.
Today’s technology is significantly contributing to improvements in patient care – providing greater access to patient records, higher availability of applications and lower mortality rates in highly wired hospitals.

The “Building Healthcare Networks that Solve Big Data Congestion” webinar provided attendees with insight into the benefits of advanced networks in hospitals along with a real-world example from Elliot Health System, the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire.

Key topics included:

• Is your network keeping up with the demands of new medical applications that can quickly congest your organization’s network with large data files?
• Do your future needs require that you adopt advanced electronic medical record archives or to make more network data available to improve diagnosis and patient care?

Featured speakers included Joseph Kestel, Vice President of Relevant C Business Group, Thomas Fairfield, Elliot Health System’s Manager of Technology, Maura Mahoney, Sidera’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Ray Patalano, Ciena’s Director of Channel Sales.

To view a replay of the webinar, please visit http://media.beaconlive.com/viewitem?bckt=99836. To learn more about Sidera’s services for the healthcare industry visit http://www.sidera.net/industry-solutions/healthcare.

Zayo will be adding dark fiber to ExteNet Systems Inc.’s open network for a Distributed Network solution. ExteNet designs, builds, owns and operates outdoor and indoor wireless networks for wireless service providers, government agencies, and transportation corridors throughout North America. Zayo will provide a metro dark fiber network in and around Indianapolis preparing ExteNet and its clients for future network growth.

ExteNet will leverage Zayo’s fiber assets to meet the increasing bandwidth demands of its wireless carrier customers. This expansion will also support bandwidth demands anticipated in Indianapolis for upcoming sporting events. With its concentrated metro fiber network within Indiana, Zayo offers capacity and diversity for service providers like ExteNet.

For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

TELEHOUSE and parent company KDDI recently launched a new Cloud portfolio, Telecloud, leveraging their state-of-the-art data centers and industry expertise. This private cloud solution offers enterprises a dedicated infrastructure platform to reliably host mission-critical applications.  Leveraging TELEHOUSE’s secure colocation and access to low latency, resilient networks, Telecloud can be deployed quickly and is an efficient approach to on-demand IT delivery.

Mr Tokuji Mitsui, Managing Director of KDDI and Telehouse Europe, stated: “Telecloud is a joint venture between two industry leaders. It marks the next stage in the evolution of Europe’s first purpose-built data centre provider and a step forward for the cloud industry. The data centre is at the heart of a cloud solution making the physical infrastructure the integral role in maintaining the reliability and accessibility of a company’s application. That is why the partnership of Telehouse and KDDI brings a new unique perspective to the cloud market.”

With cloud utilization on the rise, this joint venture is perfectly timed to meet the growing demand as companies look for increased IT flexibility and cost-savings.

Behind every cloud is a critical infrastructure – it takes secure colocation, resilient networking options, 24×7 support, and robust virtual security measures.  Telecloud offers a winning cloud combination.

For more information, please read the full announcement here: http://www.realwire.com/releases/KDDI-and-Telehouse-launch-Telecloud

EAGLE-Net Alliance has signed an agreement with Zayo expanding EAGLE-Net’s network capabilities in Colorado and Wyoming. EAGLE-Net is a cost-sharing cooperative which provides commodity Internet and advanced education and research networks to Colorado school districts and other community anchor institutions. This expansion includes 511 miles of fiber connecting locations from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Branson, Colorado, near the New Mexico border.

The agreement will help EAGLE-Net fulfill a significant part of the requirements of the $100.6 million Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) grant that was awarded in September 2010 and is scheduled for completion in August 2013.  Zayo’s network capabilities in Colorado and Wyoming provide the opportunity for EAGLE-Net to reach its goal of connecting 72% of the 234 community anchor institutions throughout the state of Colorado by the end of August 2012.

For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

zColo is opening a facility in downtown Chicago, located at 600 South Federal St to deliver colocation and interconnection services. This will be zColo’s first location in downtown Chicago and 13^th facility in the U.S. The carrier neutral colocation space will offer 8,500 sellable square feet and support up to 200 watts per square foot for high-power density applications. Services are anticipated to be available by the end of Q2 2012.

As Industry reports show growth in demand for data center services in Chicago exceeding supply by 50% over the prior two years, zColo plans to partner with other carriers in the area to support this demand. The site will leverage Zayo’s Bandwidth Infrastructure including its metro fiber network in Chicago and access to its 44,000-mile national network. The facility will offer a new downtown connectivity option to serve financial industry, media and other Internet content customers.

For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

NeXXCom Wireless announces it has joined Allied Fiber’s Dark Fiber Community. NeXXCom is a broadband wireless equipment and systems business with technology leadership in system latency and expertise in building ultra broadband networks where latency performance is critical.

NeXXCom’s radio technology delivers the industry’s lowest latency, highest capacity carrier class radio system, which is essential to high performance, broadband wireless networks. NeXXCom provides fixed ultra broadband IP wireless transmission equipment up to 1000Mb/s optimized for video, latency, jitter and ease of integration along with system design, integration and implementation services.

For further information on NeXXCom’s high frequency ultra low latency solutions, click here.

For more information, visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.

Zayo Group has implemented a dedicated fiber network for Meridian Joint School District in Idaho providing a 100 megabit Ethernet service to forty-nine schools and administration buildings. Meridian Joint School District serves over 35,000 students and more than 2,500 employees.

The Meridian School District network encompasses forty-nine sites connected across six fiber rings. It adds 46 route miles to Zayo’s network footprint in the Boise metropolitan area, which spans 175 on-net buildings and 182 route miles of fiber. The scalable, Gigabit Ethernet network enables knowledge-sharing by delivering connectivity and digital voice access to Meridian, a large and fast-growing public school district in Idaho. Additionally, the new dedicated Ethernet network is a private network, ensuring the protection of data throughout the district.

For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

Lightower Fiber Networks will attend PTC 2012 on January 15-18, 2012 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Attendees can meet with members of the Lightower team to discuss the latest network growth and recent 100G services announcement.

Lightower continues to aggressively expand its network in the Northeast while also maintaining a leadership position in new network technologies.  Last week, Lightower became the first metro fiber provider to roll out 100G services in the Northeast, including 40 Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet as well as 100 Gb wavelengths.  In 2011, Lightower introduced their Ultra-Low Latency Network which serves the financial industry in the New York City and New Jersey region.  Lightower has acquired six other companies in the Northeast over the past 3 years and has now established itself as the premier metro fiber and bandwidth provider between Boston and New York City and New Jersey.

For more information on Lightower, visit www.lightower.com.