Data center and colocation company
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (Zayo) has expanded its data center in Miami, Florida, USA. The company, which has headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, USA, has a presence across the United States and in France and the United Kingdom. Its Miami data center, managed through Zayo’s zColo division, will see a 200% increase in capacity by early 2016.
Zayo offers a range of products and services including bandwidth infrastructure, fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud services. The company caters to some of the leading businesses globally in a number of industries including “wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies and finance, healthcare and other large enterprises”. It manages an 84,000-mile network in the U.S. and Europe. Its Miami data center has provided a “key source of growth for the zColo business” with around “35% unlevered return on its initial Miami facility investment”.
zColo’s center represents a major interconnection hub. Zayo has formed the Florida Internet Exchange (FL-IX) by partnering with Host.net and Netflix. FL-IX allows ISPs, businesses and content providers to “exchange traffic in an open and transparent environment”. The center offers access to Zayo’s dark fiber, wavelengths, Ethernet and IP solutions through its US and European fiber network. In total, zColo offers 480,000 square feet of space through 36 facilities.
“Customers have embraced this new data center with the extensive interconnection capability we have built,” explained zColo’s President, Stephanie Copeland. “This is evidenced by the support of key anchor customers out of the gate, plus strong follow-on demand in the short period since. Miami is a vibrant and growing market, and an important Latin American gateway for many companies. We have provided a differentiated option in the market.”
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