108 School and Public-Sector Sites Near Our Network
599 Fiber Route Miles Built
Colorado springs
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., or Zayo Group, is a privately held company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with European headquarters in London. Zayo provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud infrastructure. Zayo’s primary customer segments include data centers, wireless carriers, national carriers, ISPs, enterprises and government agencies and K-12.
CUSTOM K-12 PRODUCT SOLUTIONS
Zayo is an E-Rate, Tier-1 provider focusing on leveraging all funding structures to build schools cost-effective, scalable networks.
- Zayo has been an active participant in E-Rate for the last 12 years and has become an established leader in dedicated fiber infrastructure and other Category 1 services.
- Zayo has provided E-Rate funded services in 23 different states, successfully navigating unique procurement criteria to deliver network on time and USAC compliant.
- Zayo has been awarded more USAC Special Construction dollars than any other carrier participating in E-Rate with over $200M application requests.
Using the Emergency Connectivity Fund
Evolving beyond the E-rate program, Congress established a $7.1 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund to build a bridge between education at school to education at home. Have you taken advantage of the opportunity to:
- Purchase equipment
- Improve telecommunications services
- Build Privately Dedicated Wireless
The Emergency Broadband Benefit is temporary. It will expire when funds are exhausted or six months after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declares the end of the COVID-19 health emergency.
Secure IP
IP
Leverage our global IP backbone & deep metro footprint to deliver optimal connectivity. It's all fully dedicated and delivered directly over a metro circuit to our Tier-1 IP backbone.
DDoS Mitigation
Zayo DDoS Protection is a network-based cloud solution. Advanced detection and mitigation technology minimizes the impact of DDoS attacks by re-routing all traffic to one or more scrubbing centers. Only clean traffic is delivered.
Security
A bundled DIA and DDoS protection solution to provide the lowest impact to your network. Monitoring continuous traffic, analyzing, redirecting, and protecting to restoring a fast and direct path to mitigate.
Fiber Infrastructure Solutions
PDN
A fully managed private network that has custom built network designs and dedicated fiber. Giving schools high speed connectivity solutions such as improved latency, a dedicated platform and many encryption options.
Dark Fiber
Providing dedicated fiber pairs between two or more locations allowing our customers to use their optronics to light the fibers, enabling a custom network with flexibility, security and scale.
Cloudlink Solutions
Cloudlink provides direct network connectivity to over 50 cloud providers and over 150 cloud on-ramps globally. We utilize our industry-leading fiber communications infrastructure across Dark Fiber, Wavelengths, Ethernet, and IP Solutions.
E-Rate Awareness & Overview
Our team has more than 12 years of experience in delivering network solutions in the E-Rate program. Because of our extensive knowledge, our team designs and deploys solutions that are eligible for full program discounts and compliant to E-Rate rules.
Many school entities in Washington, such as K20 and Highline Public Schools, have selected Zayo’s wide range of E-Rate solutions for dark fiber and lit fiber-based connectivity to provide high-speed connectivity.
High-speed internet is vital for digital curricula, which includes online educational resources and streaming media. Zayo works closely with school districts across the nation to deliver high-quality, fiber-based connectivity to replace or upgrade outdated technology.
“Zayo can provide school districts a full scope of solutions from dark fiber to traditional lit services,” said Jack Waters, president of Zayo Networks and COO. “Serving these schools is making a difference for thousands of students and teachers across the country.” Read more here.
K-12 & PUBLIC SECTOR TEAM
We have decades of experience delivering secure, scalable, customized technology solutions for our customers. Managing federal funding, programs, compliance, and technology sets our team apart from competitors and enables us to deploy fiber internet infrastructure and cloud solutions in support of our customer’s efforts to improve outcomes for students, educators, and healthcare providers.
Kip Preston Territory Manager of the Central Region. He is a trusted K12-customer advisor with more than 10 years experience working with schools and more than 25 years experience in telecommunications. Prior to joining OneTel, Kip served in leadership positions at CenturyLink, XO Communications and Comcast.
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