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Zayo Europe expands network across Iberian Peninsula

Zayo Europe partnered with Reintel, a dark fibre operator in Spain, to expand its service offering across Iberia. The partnership sees Zayo Europe brings its 400GE enabled wavelength network to the Iberian Peninsula as well as expanding its Tier-1 IP offering to Portugal and to more Spanish cities. Carriers and enterprises in the region can […]

January 19, 2026

Zayo Europe hires former AWS executive

Zayo Europe has announced the appointment of Davin Rice as Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer, effective immediately. Rice brings over a decade of experience building and scaling fibre infrastructure globally. Most recently, Rice led the Global Backbone Network Development team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). His work included driving its global fibre investment strategy, […]

September 1, 2025

Zayo Europe sees network expansion across UK, Germany

Network infrastructure provider Zayo Europe reports that it has increased the route miles it powers by 61 per cent in H1 2025, compared to H2 2024. This growth has been pan-European, with significant growth in Zayo Europe powered route miles during H1 2025 in both the UK (241 per cent) Germany (173 per cent) highlighting […]

July 31, 2025

Zayo Europe delivers Pan-European network to GNM

Zayo Europe has announced the delivery of a 100G Wavelength network for fellow infrastructure provider GNM. The network was built on Zayo Europe’s 800G-ready infrastructure, creating a low-latency and reliable route with a five working day delivery – a fast turnaround for long-haul optical connectivity. This new route enhances GNM’s European backbone and expands its […]

June 4, 2025

Nokia, Zayo Europe trial 800Gb/s alien wavelength

Nokia and network infrastructure provider Zayo Europe have successfully completed an 800Gb/s alien wavelength trial between Paris and Marseille, spanning over 1,000km.  The live field trial used Zayo Europe’s optical line system and deployed Nokia’s PSE-6s transponders. The setup between Nokia and Zayo Europe increases data-carrying capacity compared to a standard 150GHz WDM (Wavelength Division […]

April 10, 2025

Crown Castle agrees $8.5bn deal with Zayo, EQT

Zayo, the communications infrastructure provider backed by DigitalBridge and EQT, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Crown Castle’s Fibre Solutions business in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $4.25 billion (€3.92bn). Additionally, EQT has announced that the EQT Active Core Infrastructure fund has agreed a deal to acquire Crown Castle’s Small Cells […]

March 14, 2025

Data: Spike in DDoS attacks in 2024

Zayo Group, a communications infrastructure provider, has released its biannual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, revealing a nearly 82 per cent surge in attack frequency between 2023 and 2024. Attack volume almost doubled from 90,000 incidents in 2023 to 165,000 in 2024, as cybercriminals leverage AI and expanding adoption of IoT devices to […]

February 20, 2025

Zayo Europe names O’Connor as CLO

Zayo Europe, the fibre network infrastructure provider, has appointed Caroline O’Connor as Chief Legal Officer.  O’Connor will join Zayo Europe’s Executive Committee. In this new role, she will oversee all legal functions across Zayo Europe, including compliance, risk management, and corporate governance. She will be instrumental in enabling the company’s strategic ambitions as Zayo Europe […]

January 8, 2025

Zayo Europe appoints Smith as CFO

Zayo Europe has announced the appointment of Jennifer Smith as Chief Financial Officer. The new role, which Smith takes up effective immediately, is part of the development of Zayo Europe as a standalone entity. Smith has previously served on Zayo Europe’s advisory board and has also held CFO and senior finance roles at euNetworks, contributing […]

September 18, 2024

Data: DDoS attacks surge 106%

Zayo Group, a communications infrastructure provider, has released its bi-annual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, which found the company observed a 106 per cent increase in attack frequency from H2 2023. The report also found that an average DDoS attack now lasts 45 minutes – an 18 per cent increase from this time […]

August 15, 2024