David Howson, President of Zayo Bandwidth, will present at the Ethernet Technology Summit 2012. The Summit is taking place on February 21-23, 2012 at the Doubletree by Hilton in San Jose, California.

David will participate in the “Ethernet and Cloud Computing” panel on February 23, 2012 from 8:30-10:00 a.m. The presentation will examine how cloud and Ethernet work together to provide business solutions that move data more effectively and cost-efficiently. Additionally, David will discuss ways to implement cloud over Ethernet and the benefits these solutions supply businesses.

To learn more about Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

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.

Hibernia’s recent announcement with Huawei shows that Project Express is underway and taking the necessary steps to complete the cable build. The purpose of Project Express will be to connect London to New York, two of the largest exchanges, with the lowest latency. Announced in 2010, Project Express has made significant strides since then. November 2011 brought on the physical survey where ships surveyed the entire proposed route.

The significance of Hibernia’s latest news with Huawei is that manufacturing of the cable is now underway. With the cable manufacturing underway, the next step will be the installation and delivery of service. Project Express will be an essential key route addition to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing Global Financial Network (GFN), by uniting hundreds of financial exchanges and global banks with a single low latency connection.

For more information on Project Express, visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

Zayo has completed the deployment of an Ethernet network for U.S. Electrodynamics, Inc. (USEI) to its Brewster, Washington Teleport facility. USEI delivers its satellite communications services from its satellite uplink facility in Brewster. It provides services for broadcast, government, telecommunications, and enterprise customers.

Growing bandwidth requirements from satellite-delivered content requires uplink facilities like USEI’s to be tied to national fiber networks. Zayo’s Ethernet services are available across its 44,000 mile network. Deployment of Zayo’s Ethernet services at USEI’s Brewster Teleport and the expansion of terrestrial service allows for USEI’s remote station to be available to anyone on-net to Zayo’s network footprint.

For more information on Zayo, please 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

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.

GlobeNet and TE SubCom have commenced construction for the replacement of Segment 5 of GlobeNet’s high performance subsea cable system. This new subsea cable will provide more than 30 times the current capacity between Bermuda and the United States and is planned for completion in the first quarter of 2013.

The new segment will be approximately 1,350 km in length and is designed to support 150 wavelengths per fiber-pair at 100 Gbps per wavelength, giving the 2-fiber-pair system a total design capacity of 30 Terabits per second. It has the largest cross-sectional capacity per fiber pair of any system built or contracted to date.

Originally installed by TE SubCom in 1997, GlobeNet’s Segment 5 lands in St. David’s, Bermuda and Tuckerton, New Jersey. The replacement project includes the supply of new TE SubCom Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE), which allows transmission of multiple high-quality, high-bandwidth optical signals over ultra-long distances. To prepare for the upgrade, a marine route survey was completed in November 2011.

For more information, visit www.globenet.net.

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.