Zayo selects Cyan for major Manhattan network upgrade

November 1, 2011

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LOUISVILLE, Colo. and PETALUMA, Calif. -- Cyan today announced that Zayo, a nationalprovider of fiber‐based bandwidth infrastructure and network‐neutral colocation and interconnectionservices, has selected the Cyan Z‐Series platform for an upgrade to its Manhattan network. With theManhattan network upgrade, Zayo is able to offer more advanced Ethernet and wavelength services tosome of the largest financial institutions in the world aswell as wholesale packet services to large carriers andwireless operators. The Cyan Z‐Series packet‐opticaltransport platform (P‐OTP) has been deployed inmultiple Zayo markets over the past two years –demonstrating carrier class reliability, scalable Ethernetservices, along with valuable service management andSLA reporting capability in the Cyan360 Softwareportfolio.

“Cyan has been very effective for us across multiplemarkets so it made sense to look to them when wedecided to upgrade our New York market,” stated DavidHowson, President of Zayo Bandwidth. “We see growingdemand for both capacity and for more advancednetwork infrastructure technologies, including pure wavelength and packet services for latency sensitiveapplications. Cyan helped us cost‐effectively meet that demand in Manhattan.”

Zayo Group Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO)

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