Texas Education Service Center Region 11 Selects Zayo for New Infrastructure
26 July 2016 - 12:00AM
Business Wire
Major E-Rate contract includes dark fiber and
IP
Texas Education Service Center Region 11, serving more than
600,000 students and educators in north-central Texas, has selected
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) for dark fiber and IP
services. The solution will predominantly leverage existing fiber
and network under construction for the previously announced
fiber-to-the-tower (FTT) project in Dallas-Fort Worth.
The dark fiber network will connect 122 locations in 77 school
districts across a 10-county area in north-central Texas. The
1,178-mile solution consists of 440 miles of previously planned FTT
build, 443 miles of existing network and 295 miles of new
construction. The new network will be funded by the Region 11’s
significant upfront investment in the project. The agreement also
includes 100G IP connectivity.
Traditionally, many school districts and charter campuses have
relied on legacy copper networks, wireless or patchwork solutions.
With the widespread use of digital textbooks, streaming media and
online testing, high-quality, high-speed internet has become
fundamental to K-12 education. E-Rate is a federal program that
subsidizes internet infrastructure so schools and libraries can
provide high-speed internet.
“Our current solutions caused bandwidth to throttle and the
network to experience congestion, which restricted us from using
educational tools and technology that are vital to our curriculum,”
said Rory Peacock, Deputy Executive Director for Technology
Services at ESC Region 11. “Zayo’s infrastructure offers a
high-capacity, cost-effective solution and will enable us to scale
as bandwidth demands continue to grow.”
“Region 11 is one of the first educational regions in Texas to
leverage E-Rate funded dark fiber,” said John DiLacqua, director of
Zayo’s K-12 & E-Rate segment. “It’s a forward-looking decision
that will give them the ability to increase bandwidth as they need
it. Educators and students will be able to use the full array of
innovative tools and technology that continue to provide an
important new dimension to learning.”
Zayo has implemented E-Rate-funded solutions in Colorado,
Georgia, California, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, New York, Texas, Utah and Washington. For more
information on Zayo’s E-Rate certified services, visit
http://www.zayo.com/solutions/industries/research-education/.
About Zayo Group
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides communications
infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth
connectivity, colocation and cloud services to the world’s leading
businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media
and content companies and finance, healthcare and other large
enterprises. Zayo’s 112,000-mile network in North America and
Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of
buildings and data centers. In addition to high-capacity dark
fiber, wavelength, Ethernet and other connectivity solutions, Zayo
offers colocation and cloud services in its carrier-neutral data
centers. Zayo provides clients with flexible, customized solutions
and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform
for managing and purchasing bandwidth and services. For more
information, visit zayo.com.
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