Zayo has another longhaul build planned for 2015. While they’ve already got a project building new infrastructure between Omaha and Dallas, this new buildout will connect Salt Lake City and Sacramento via a new diverse route.
They plan to take a more southerly route from Salt Lake to Reno, going through the desert along US Route 50 through central Nevada, a hundred or so miles to the south of the usual path. When complete in the fourth quarter of 2015, it will add some 800 route miles to Zayo’s intercity footprint.
The market’s fear of building longhaul fiber has been dissipating over the past couple of years, although nobody is even remotely thinking about the sort of national fiber blitzes we saw in the late 90s. What we’re seeing now is specific routes targeting specific needs and driven by immediate and measurable demand — healthy stuff at last.
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I think that most providers already have more than sufficient fiber counts on most of their routes, given the WDM that they can use. However, there are routes where dark fiber is not available for International or upstart carriers. Then there are many, many routes where fiber is needed for middle mile access to independent ISPs.
The route along Hwy 50 is the route built by Sierra Pacific and Touch America and completed in 2003. A number of extra duct were placed and there are currently a couple of carriers using this route. So while maybe a new diverse route for Zayo not a completely new route.
Who would be using this route now?
Ma Bell got that and all the other TA assets
I thought TA assets were acquired by 360networks, and Zayo acquired 360 in 2011.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/360networks-announces-completion-of-its-touch-america-acquisition-58943232.html
http://www.telecomramblings.com/2011/12/zayo-closes-360networks-deal-goes-transcontinental/