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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Zayo Group, a provider of network infrastructure, has announced steps to carve out two independent entities. One will consist of Zayo’s European business and the other will encompass its business that manages customers’ global network needs outside of Zayo’s core North American and European networks. Zayo says the separations will provide flexibility to capitalise on […]