Wavelengths and Other Modern Connectivity Services Offer a Better Way Forward

Without question, higher network bandwidth and lower latency within enterprise networks improve both business operations and customer experiences. But where should one start with a network transformation journey? Most organizations focus on an assessment process to define critical infrastructure requirements, then create plans based on the findings. While this is a logical process, it often results in a proliferation of equipment and applications that forces IT staff into reactive, swivel-chair management, higher operational expense, and complexity. Reaching the best answer requires a delicate balance: infrastructure should not be overprovisioned, yet it should provide headroom for future application and workload needs.

Thanks to factors ranging from globalization to hybrid work, business operations have become highly distributed. The challenges this creates are compounded by the need to accommodate bandwidth-hungry applications such as generative AI that burden networking infrastructure. In this context, enterprises require simpler ways to deploy, manage, and transition the connectivity infrastructure to handle current and future needs. Infrastructure changes come with significant transition costs, and it is often difficult to calculate the return on investment for future use cases with costs that may be unknown. Organizations must also account for enhanced security in an ever-evolving threat landscape, as well as guidance in risk analysis, planning, implementation, and ongoing management of network and security operations. Given these complexities and the many networking choices available, it is no surprise that enterprises do not know where to start.

Moor Insights & Strategy believes that Zayo delivers the optimal balance of support and connectivity that enterprises require to meet their network transformation needs. Besides providing scalable wavelengths, dark fiber, and private networking services tailored to customer use cases and workloads, Zayo can also serve as a trusted advisor throughout the entire lifecycle. The result is a highly engineered set of connectivity services that are easy to plan for, deploy, and manage.

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Table of Contents

• Summary
• Wavelengths Connectivity Tailored to Application and Workload Needs
• Dark Fiber and Private Networks
• Why Zayo?
• Call to Action

Companies Cited:

• Zayo
• Dropbox