Zayo has finished off another of the longhaul buildouts it has been working on. The 622-mile path between Reno NV, the central Oregon city of Prineville and Umatilla on the Oregon-Washington Border is officially complete.
The infrastructure provides a diverse inland route out of the Pacific Northwest, both to California and connecting to major east-west routes. Zayo built out a Portland-Umatilla route a few years ago of course. The new infrastructure is built for scale as well, with multiple conduits, high-count SMF-28 fiber, and 13 ILAs.
The project was supported in part by a NTIA Middle Mile grant, offering connectivity between regional markets. But its scale is of course all about the rising demand from AI for raw bandwidth. Zayo started off this year by promising 5,000 route miles of new longhaul fiber over the next 5 years.
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