Zayo Europe expands German presence with GasLINE

Press Release

|14 October 2024

Berlin / London, 14th October 2024Zayo Europe,  a leading network infrastructure provider, has entered an agreement with GasLINE, a leading German dark fibre network supplier, to continue its expansion throughout Germany. 

The agreement will enhance Zayo Europe’s coverage and capabilities by using part of GasLINE’s national dark ring network, enabling its 400G optical network and tier-one IP backbone across key German hubs, including Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Berlin. 

Zayo Europe’s planned German network features a direct shortcut from Berlin to Frankfurt, offering a low-latency path to major European financial hubs. The infrastructure interconnects with Zayo Europe’s backbone throughout the continent, providing direct routes to London, Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam and Dublin for data centre to data centre connectivity. 

The new network spans more than 3,000km of dark fibre in the region. The framework consists of a ring connecting all major metros with low-latency shortcuts, including Nuremberg to Frankfurt and Frankfurt to Berlin. This network complements Zayo’s existing Berlin, Frankfurt and Stuttgart metro fibre networks, extending this capability to key DCs and enabling local access.

Colman Deegan, CEO at Zayo Europe, said: “Germany is a strategic market for Zayo Europe and we are delighted to announce our agreement with GasLINE to materially extend our footprint and connect the major cities there. This follows our acquisition of Globalways last year and is another step in our expansion into Europe’s largest market. 

“We are dedicated to providing the best possible connectivity services to the region. Our agreement with GasLINE will offer both German and international businesses and carriers low latency connectivity to the key German metro markets and enable them meet the rising data demands driven by increased AI adoption and cloud usage.”

Wolfram Rinner, Managing Director at GasLINE, said

“Our customer, Zayo Europe, is expanding its business in the German market, using our dark fibre network to power its nationwide ring and further routes. GasLINE is proud to be supporting Zayo Europe with its huge German dark fibre-ring, which is connecting eleven metropolises and hubs.”

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About Zayo Europe: 

Zayo Europe empowers some of the continent’s largest and most innovative companies to meet the ever-increasing bandwidth, security and reliability businesses require. It connects more than 600 data centres with a future-ready network that spans more than 2.3 million kilometres of fibre, 7 subsea cables, and connects 17 metro markets across 8 European countries. Zayo’s tailored connectivity solutions enable telecom service providers, cloud providers, data centres, system integrators, and enterprises to deliver exceptional experiences from core to cloud to edge. 

Discover how Zayo Europe connects the world at www.zayoeurope.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

About GasLINE:

GasLINE is one of the leading fibre-optic cable infrastructure providers. It has a nationwide network in Germany covering over 42,000 km per 2024. The network is continuously being expanded, with another 3,000 km to be built by 2027. GasLINE has network interconnections to cross-regional fibre-optic infrastructures in cities (e.g. with city and regional carriers) and to network operators in neighbouring countries. The network topology includes telecommunication centres (Telehouses and PoPs), the relevant Internet exchange nodes and centres of the ICT and media industry.

More about GasLINE.

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