Zayo has detailed the next wave of longhaul buildouts it will be working on over the next few years, and it’s quite a lot. The communications infrastructure provider says it has more than 5,000 new route miles of fiber in the pipeline. The buildouts are in response to AI-driven data center capacity buildouts, which will inevitably require significant new capacity.
So where is Zayo looking to build? The list includes 5 brand new routes:
- Chicago-Columbus
- Las Vegas-Reno
- Atlanta-Ashburn
- Minneapolis-Chicago
- Columbus-Indianapolis
And it includes 7 overbuilds of existing Zayo infrastructure:
- Denver-Dallas
- Denver-Omaha-Chicago
- Denver-Salt Lake City
- Salt Lake City-Reno
- Dallas-Atlanta
- Columbus-Ashburn
- Phoenix-Tucson
All that is at a similar pace as the past 5 years. And if you piece it all together over a 10-year span, Zayo will have pretty much built out a national footprint of new intercity fiber. That’s something nobody has done since the dot-com boom, and Zayo will have done it backed by actual revenue and profits and without the massive unsupportable debt loads incurred 25 years ago.
Of course it’s not done yet and there’s plenty of work to do first.
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