Dark Fibre

A core network for your critical success

We are one of the only dark fibre providers with dense and deep fibre counts for both metro-level and long-haul requirements – we offer unique scope and scale to support the most demanding organisations.

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Power Your Future with Zayo’s Diverse Dark Fibre

What if you could choose a single supplier for both long-haul and metro fibre connectivity? With Zayo, that’s now possible. Zayo’s dark fibre network, our flagship product, meets the demands of the most exigent organisations.

Connects over

50,000

on-net commercial buildings

28,500

On-net enterprise buildings

Connects over

1,600

on-net data centres

Rethink Connectivity for Business Transformation

Whether you’re leading network operations for a carrier, a hyperscaler, a global bank or an enterprise, Zayo will help you connect what you do with a market-leading metro fibre network that’s ready for you. Our Dark Fibre service offers:

  • A network that’s right for you
  • Hyper-secure, unlimited bandwidth connectivity
  • Best-in-class collaboration for network planning, deployment, support, and service.

Future-proofed Connectivity 

With provisioned dark fibre you can light as needed, you’ll have a simple and powerful way to add bandwidth whenever and wherever you need to grow — letting you power new initiatives, new sites, and new growth opportunities. Zayo is accelerating our expansion, we’re adding dozens of new long-haul and metro connections every year to meet customer demand across 400 global markets.

Mission-critical Reliability

Our newer metro fibre network helps you sidestep problems with physical infrastructure degradation that could afflict your connectivity. We invest hundreds of millions of dollars a year to provide the resilience you deserve. We deliver 99.999% uptime across metro-level and long-haul networks alike.

Expansive and Diverse Routes

As one of the only dark fibre providers with dense and deep fibre counts for both metro-level and long-haul requirements alike, we offer unique scope and scale to support the most demanding organizations. We offer 16 million miles of fibre routing and 15 unique long haul routes.

Zayo’s future-ready, reliable dark fibre network with route diversity is an essential component in our network design to deliver best-in-class, scalable, and reliable IP services that our customers have come to expect from Cogent. We look forward to leveraging Zayo’s dark fibre footprint to grow our network in the future.

Dave Schaeffer

CEO of Cogent Communications

Grow your fibre footprint with Zayo

Talk to our dark fibre team to see exact routes and start engineering your solution today.
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