Zayo, a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, has selected the Cyan Z-Series platform for an upgrade to its Manhattan network.

Thanks to the Manhattan network upgrade, Zayo will now be able to offer more advanced Ethernet and wavelength services to some of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as wholesale packet services to large carriers and wireless operators.

Officials with Cyan pointed out that the Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platform (P-OTP) has been deployed in multiple Zayo markets over the past two years -- demonstrating carrier class reliability, scalable Ethernet services, along with valuable service management and SLA reporting capability in the Cyan360 Software portfolio.

"Cyan has been very effective for us across multiple markets so it made sense to look to them when we decided to upgrade our New York market," said David Howson, president of Zayo Bandwidth (News - Alert), in a statement.

Howson said that the company sees growing demand for both capacity and for more advanced network infrastructure technologies, including pure wavelength and packet services for latency sensitive applications.

“Cyan helped us cost-effectively meet that demand in Manhattan," he said.

Keith Broach, vice president, sales, Cyan said that Zayo is emblematic of the forward-thinking carriers the company likes to work with -- they understand that evolving packet networks will be held to a higher standard by customers who have stringent SLA requirements.

“The Cyan toolkit for provisioning, managing, and monitoring wavelength and Ethernet services is complementary to Zayo's mission to meet this growing market demand," said Broach.

Cyan is an industry-leading, global innovator of multi-layer packet-optical transport platforms, software and SaaS solutions, and professional services that fundamentally transform networks into Service Level Aware (News - Alert) Networks.

TMCnet recently reported that GWI, Northern New England's leading telecommunications provider, has selected Cyan for a major network expansion.

Officials with Cyan said that GWI has deployed Cyan Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTPs) and Cyan 360 multi-layer software support systems to enable rapid services expansion in the region and meet the needs of their customers.