Zayo and NVIDIA Partner to Scale Critical Network Capacity for AI Factories
Zayo, a leading digital infrastructure provider, announced it is delivering critical network capacity to power today's AI ecosystem and accelerate the next generation of AI innovation with NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
Through this collaboration, Zayo is building more than 8,000 miles of new long-haul fiber across the fastest-growing AI corridors and significantly expanding capacity across its existing infrastructure, according to the companies.
As the gap between compute demand and available network capacity widens, Zayo is expanding bandwidth to help AI factories operate, scale, and innovate.
“AI is fundamentally reshaping where and how network infrastructure needs to be built across the U.S. Zayo has invested significantly in modelling where AI-driven demand will emerge and is actively expanding infrastructure ahead of that demand,” said Steve Smith, CEO at Zayo. “As AI adoption accelerates and compute demand grows across the ecosystem, the need for new network corridors and scalable connectivity is increasing. While much of the market remains focused on overbuilding existing routes, Zayo is one of the few providers adding capacity to existing infrastructure while building in the locations and at the scale AI requires for long-term growth. Zayo’s work combines decades of experience building and operating large-scale network infrastructure with NVIDIA accelerated computing to support AI connectivity across North America.”
AI factories are reshaping the requirements of global network infrastructure, driving demand for fiber capacity at a scale the industry has never seen before, said the vendors.
Long-haul fiber is critical to connecting workloads across the increasingly distributed AI ecosystem, including in new and emerging AI corridors where existing long-haul capacity is scarce or does not yet exist.
Zayo's buildout will deliver six net-new long-haul routes across emerging AI corridors as well as overbuilds of existing network across 10 high-demand markets.
"AI is moving faster than ever, and the network is quickly becoming just as critical to that progress as compute itself," said Vladimir Troy, VP engineering, AI infrastructure, NVIDIA. "Zayo’s work with NVIDIA is helping us get ahead of that curve; pairing Zayo's expertise in large-scale network infrastructure with NVIDIA's AI leadership to build the connectivity backbone the entire ecosystem needs to keep innovating."
AI cannot scale broadly if access to connectivity is limited to only the largest hyperscalers. Neoclouds, frontier model developers, and enterprises across healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and other industries increasingly depend on the same high-capacity network foundation that Zayo’s network expansion will deliver.
Over the last 18 months, Zayo has significantly expanded its AI-focused network buildout, with build and overbuild projects now underway spanning more than 15,000 route miles across North America.
Zayo also recently introduced its AI Infrastructure Blueprint, a first-of-its-kind framework for connecting training, inference and interconnection environments across the AI ecosystem.
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