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Zayo Group Delivers Fiber-Based Services To All CoreSite Data Centers
CoreSite's data center platform and Zayo's extensive network combine to give customers a secure data hosting and interconnection solution.

Louisville's Zayo Group Completes $110 Million Acquisition
Louisville-based Zayo Group announced Monday that it has completed the purchase of First Telecom Services, a provider of bandwidth infrastructure services throughout the Northeastern and Midwestern United States for $110 million.

Litecast/Balticore LLC, to be acquired for $22M by Zayo Group
Litecast/Balticore LLC, a bandwidth infrastructure provider, has reached a deal to be acquired by a Colorado company for $22 million.

Zayo capitalizes on the emerging small cell backhaul opportunity
Zayo has responded to the emerging Small Cell trend wireless operators are using to enhance network capacity and coverage by forming a specialized team that will craft fiber-based backhaul solutions for this segment.

Zayo Group Obtains Metro Ethernet Forum Certification
Zayo Group announces it has obtained Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) MEF 9 and MEF 14 certification. The Metro Ethernet Forum is an organization responsible for accelerating the adopting of Carrier class Ethernet networks and services. Zayo has been a member of MEF and recently obtained certification.

Cbeyond Announces Partnership with Zayo to Expand Fiber Reach
Cbeyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBEY), a leading provider of network and cloud services to over 62,000 small and medium sized businesses, today announced a formal agreement with Zayo, a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation. This partnership will enable Cbeyond to leverage Zayo’s infrastructure to bring high-speed bandwidth connectivity to small and medium sized businesses via dark fiber.

AboveNet deal could buoy Louisville's Zayo to leadership position
Future bright for fiber bandwidth infrastructure provider, analysts say

2012 U.S. Long-Haul Wholesale Carrier Winners of ATLANTIC-ACM Awards Announced
ATLANTIC-ACM, a leading telecommunications industry research firm, named Zayo a winner of its 2012 Awards for U.S. Long-Haul Wholesale Carrier Excellence at the COMPTEL PLUS Spring 2012 Convention and EXPO in San Francisco, California. The awards are derived from data for the 2012 edition of ATLANTIC-ACM's U.S. Long-Haul Wholesale Carrier Report Card.

JOBS bill touted as startups' on-ramp
Zayo Group chief executive officer Dan Caruso was among the executives and politicians who shared the stage with Obama when he signed the bill.

Zayo Acquires AboveNet and Arialink – What’s Next?
The past year has been huge in terms of acquisitions in the telecom world. In 2011, the buzz was about Zayo’s acquisition of 360 Networks, and it looks like Zayo’s moving on the same path at a steady pace. Zayo has made the official announcement that they are in the midst of acquiring dark fiber giant AboveNet, and the very next day announced that they are also to acquire Arialink, Mid-Michigan’s largest fiber optic service provider.

Carrier Ethernet: Important Business for Fiber Network Consolidator Zayo Group
After making a string of 16 service provider acquisitions over the past few years, Zayo Group in March announced its biggest deal yet—the acquisition of fiber network operator AboveNet.

Zayo's Network Reaches 100 G Bandwidth Milestone
Zayo's fiber-to-the-tower network has reached a key milestone of 2,000 unique towers on-net. The network offers more than 100 G in overall bandwidth to more than 3,000 tenants, with 46 markets in service and six more markets under construction. The company has deployed more than 4,000 metro route miles to support its FTT network.

Zayo Group buying N.Y. company for $2.2 billion
Zayo Group LLC continued its string of acquisitions Monday with a deal to buy AboveNet Inc. for $2.2 billion.

Zayo Takes AboveNet Private for $2.2B
Privately-owned Zayo Group is buying broadband provider AboveNet for $2.2 billion to expand its fiber-based bandwidth footprint in North America and Europe.

Zayo Agrees to Acquire AboveNet in $2.2 Billion Deal
Privately held Zayo Group LLC agreed to acquire AboveNet Inc. in a deal valued at roughly $2.2 billion that is expected to create a leading pure-play bandwidth-infrastructure provider.

AboveNet Agrees to Be Bought by Zayo Group for $2.2 Billion
AboveNet Inc., the White Plains, New York-based operator of fiber-optic networks, agreed to be bought by Zayo Group LLC for $2.2 billion after failing to find a buyer last year.

Zayo Group Buying AboveNet for $2.2B
Telecommunications company Zayo Group says it will acquire AboveNet Inc. for $2.2 billion. Both companies offer Internet and phone services to companies over fiber-optic networks.

Zayo, AboveNet and FiberTech kick off Metro Connect 2012 with CEO Interviews
February 28, 2012 by Telecom News Now. Dan Caruso, President of Zayo Group, is joined by Bill LaPerch, CEO of AboveNet and John Purcell, CEO of FiberTech on the first panel of Capacity’s Metro Connect USA 2012.

Zayo Adds to Growing List of Educators Using Carrier Ethernet
February 21, 2012 by Annie Lindstrom, Carrier Ethernet News. Local school districts across the nation are aggregating the many sites they oversee onto a single computing platform and cloud of services. As they make the leap from distributed to centralized architectures, their need for bandwidth skyrockets.

Cable comes knocking
February 17, 2012 by Richard Irving, Capacity Magazine. Over the last two years, network providers in the metro arena have done a very good job of driving consolidation among themselves to create a handful of premium platform assets that are profitable and growing.

Zayo's fiber to the tower network reaches 2,000 towers
February 1, 2012 by Sean Buckley, Fierce Telecom. Zayo's aggressive deployment continues to resonate with the wireless service provider community looking for alternative backhaul solutions; the wholesaler's fiber to the tower (FTT) network now reaches 2,000 cell towers.

Zayo Group makes 18th acquisition
January 3, 2012 by Andy Vuong, Denver Post. Zayo Group, which last month completed a deal for 360Networks, said today that it has acquired a data center business in Las Vegas.

10 companies to make waves in Boulder, Broomfield counties in 2012
January 1, 2012 by Alicia Wallce, Boulder Daily Camera. Congratulations to Zayo Group for making the top 10 in companies to watch in 2012 for Boulder County!

Top 250 Private Companies - Colorado
Congratulations to Zayo Group for making #14 on Colorado Biz Magazine's Top 250 Private Companies in Colorado list!

The most important M&As of 2011
December 14, 2011 by FierceTelecom. What's also significant about this deal is that it gives Zayo greater capabilities on the West Coast in addition to a number of smaller Tier 2-3 markets.