Zayo is entering the Louisville, Kentucky market with 60 new route miles and six on-net buildings. This build will expand Zayo’s fiber network throughout southern Indiana and into metro Louisville, Kentucky. With these additional route miles, Zayo’s fiber network in the region totals more than 700 miles.

Through the initial build into the Louisville market, the underlying infrastructure for wireless services will be available. The core ring through Louisville and out to Jeffersontown provides metro connectivity within the city as well as access to Evansville, Indianapolis and Chicago. Zayo’s Dark Fiber, Ethernet and Wavelengths services will be available to the area with the build scheduled to be complete by end of Q3 2012.

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

Just shortly after announcing its plans to acquire Arialink, Zayo has completed the purchase transaction. The acquisition adds 930 new route miles to the Zayo network, including 400 miles of dense metro networks in Lansing and Ann Arbor, Michigan. With an extensive network in Michigan, Arialink complements Zayo’s national footprint.

The network will provide Ethernet, dark fiber and optical transport services across a 437 on-net building footprint in Michigan. Through the acquisition Zayo gains a regional long haul network and connectivity to smaller markets in central Michigan.

Arialink recently began the construction of a 190-mile network to interconnect major healthcare facilities as part of an FCC grant to the Michigan Public Health Institute. This build supports connectivity to healthcare facilities in rural Michigan and brings broadband services to underserved communities.

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

ViaWest invites you to join them as they host an upcoming webinar titled “Cloud with Confidence: How to Execute a Successful Cloud Strategy” The webinar takes place on May 1st at 1pm MDT.

Attendees of the webinar will hear from cloud experts from NetApp, VMware and ViaWest as they discuss both the business and technical aspects of cloud. The cloud is changing the face of the technology industry, and preparing for it today is critical to ensure successful business in the future. These executives will provide insight on how your IT team can avoid common pitfalls and get the most from your company’s investment in the cloud. Topics to be covered include hybrid approaches to cloud, balancing cost and control and compliance and data security.

If you would like to join the ViaWest team as they host this insightful webinar. Register here https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=ipol7gj2gs0r

And for more info on ViaWest’s cloud offerings, visit http://www.viawest.com/solutions/cloud-computing.

Mobile Backhaul Asia’s recent conference in Bangkok was a great success. As a Dark Fiber Community (DFC) Media Partner, Mobile Backhaul Asia partnered with the DFC to further promote its conference to the global community.

The Dark Fiber Community Media Partnership Program was designed to help industry events share news and conference information across the community and open up dialogue to encourage new event attendance. Mobile Backhaul Asia is the DFC’s first Media Partner in Asia and the DFC was happy to help get the word out about the conference and its benefits to those in the mobile backhaul industry.

If your conference or event is interested in partnering with the DFC, email jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com.

ViaWest has been recognized in the Denver Post’s 2012 Top Workplaces list. Top Workplaces recognizes organizations that provide employees with a great place to work, inspire its employee base and take an ethical approach to meeting customers’ needs. ViaWest’s dedication to its mission and values has remained central to its approach over time and its employees deliver exceptional service at all levels.

ViaWest has increased its Colorado’s employee base by more than 30% over the past two years. The company diligently focuses on finding employees that possess the right mix of position expertise and alignment with ViaWest’s core values. With 22 data center facilities and strategic product offerings such as cloud computing, colocation, and managed services, ViaWest advances its offerings while remaining focused on the dynamic needs of its customers.

For more information on ViaWest, please visit www.viawest.com.

Hibernia Media has entered a strategic relationship with Colt to connect their European and US broadcast networks globally. Colt has selected Hibernia Media’s platform to deliver managed broadcast services from its customers in Europe into the US, expanding reach and creating a seamless content-delivery system. Colt is Europe’s leading information delivery platform.

Hibernia Media will provide Colt’s European customers a variety of services including over 45,000km of terrestrial and trans-Atlantic fiber connectivity, over 100 POPs in the US and Europe, with another 50+ on-net media customer nodes and world-class Content Exchange Center (CEC) for native HD content delivery from programmers to cable and consumer satellite distributors. The agreement helps broadcasters meet the increasing industry demand for high quality content by providing unmatched connectivity options for US and European media companies, A full complement of video transmission services, including HD and 3D delivery, for both full time and event-based services will be available through this partnership. The service will be available to customers from May 15, 2012.

For more information on Hibernia Media, visit www.hiberniamedia.com.

zColo will provide a private customized suite and interconnection services for Hibernia Atlantic at 165 Halsey, Newark, NJ. zColo’s 165 Halsey facility provides a fully enabled environment serving as a key aggregation point for Hibernia’s low latency and high-bandwidth connectivity services.

Hibernia Atlantic offers a full range of network services to the wholesale, financial and media sectors with over 120 points of presence globally. With colocation facilities in key markets such as Chicago, New York and New Jersey, zColo’s solutions are designed to meet the security, connectivity and growth requirements of customers like Hibernia. With this connectivity, Hibernia can provide proximity based hosting solutions together with its bandwidth offerings to meet additional network requirements.

Lightower Fiber Networks will showcase its high performance video transport solutions at NABSHOW 2012 on April 14-19 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lightower offers media customers the most advanced video transport solution with network routes and access to data centers throughout the Northeast. Lightower’s market-leading Video Transport Solutions are purpose-built for numerous video formats including uncompressed high definition video, and offer options for advanced management features and integrated Ethernet networking.  Lightower customizes each video transport solution for each customer, engineers each solution into the Lightower Network, and guarantees performance with service level agreements up to five 9’s.

NABSHOW 2012, organized by the National Association of Broadcasters, will bring together media, content and entertainment professionals from around the world, offering hands-on access to tools and resources that shape the media marketplace.

To meet with a Lightower representative at NABSHOW 2012, please email info@lightower.com or call 888-LT-FIBER. For more information on Lightower and its Video Transport Solutions, visit www.lightower.com.

i3 Forum has launched DealCenter for its IP Migration Kickoff event taking place May 16, 2012 in Chicago, IL. The IP Migration Kickoff is colocated at International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2012. The IP Migration Kickoff event was designed to bring together carriers preparing for the migration of their IP networks. DealCenter creates an environment within this event for carriers to exchance ideas with partners experiencing similar migrations.

DealCenter is an online meeting system that allows conference attendees to schedule meetings with peers leading up to and during the event. i3 Forum selected DealCenter to facilitate onsite, face-to-face meetings during the event and offer attendees additional networking opportunities. Meetings that are scheduled through DealCenter will be held on-site at the Chicago Hyatt Regency Hotel.

For more information on i3 Forum, visit www.i3forum.org.

ViaWest‘s Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder Nancy Phillips has been nominated for the ATHENA Award Hosted by Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce. The ATHENA Award honors the Denver woman who best exemplifies exceptional professional achievement, devotion to community service and generosity in actively assisting other women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills. The award gala will take place on April 26 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Denver, Colorado.

Fully entrenched in the community, Ms. Phillips is dedicated to empowering the next generation of leaders throughout the Colorado region. She holds board positions on the Colorado Technology Association, National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) and Startup Colorado.

For additional information on Phillips and other ViaWest executives, visit www.viawest.com.