Zayo fiber, transport and network quotes

Zayo is a bandwidth infrastructure operator that sells fiber, transport and IP capacity to enterprises, carriers and data center customers. Its quotable list here covers business, fiber and dedicated internet, Ethernet, legacy circuit connections, managed hosting, colocation, SD-WAN, SIP trunking, voice and managed security in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia and New Zealand.

The company

What Zayo is

Zayo sits on the infrastructure side of the market. Its core business is selling capacity on fiber routes it operates, high-capacity Ethernet between buildings, data centers and carrier hotels, with dedicated internet riding the same plant. A managed edge portfolio, SD-WAN, SASE, managed firewall and SIP, sits above that layer so a network team can buy the circuit and the overlay from one supplier. It is a route-oriented provider, which means the useful question is never what Zayo offers but whether it already has fiber on the path you need.

Fit

When Zayo is the right call

• Links between your own buildings and the facilities you host in
• Enterprises consolidating circuits and overlay under one supplier
• High-capacity dedicated access where shared broadband will not do
• Routes in fiber-dense cities where somebody already has plant on the path

Comparison

What to weigh Zayo against

Set Zayo beside Lumen and Arelion when the requirement is high-capacity access with long reach behind it, and beside Uniti or Lightpath when it is metro fiber into specific buildings. Route ownership is the deciding fact: some of them will already be lit on your path and the rest will hand you a construction quote. Where the real want is a managed WAN rather than raw capacity, Aryaka, GTT and Fusion Connect are the more honest comparison.

Before you ask

Have this ready when you request quotes

• A-end and Z-end addresses for every path
• Capacity required and whether it must be protected
• Whether one supplier has to carry both ends, or a hand-off in the middle is acceptable
• Building access rights and any carrier hotel cross-connect needs
• Term length you are prepared to sign

Availability differs by address and by service, which is exactly what the quote process settles. Request competing quotes and see what Zayo and the other providers at your location come back with, or browse every provider we work with.