A regional provider of bandwidth and telecom solutions, Zayo Group, announced it has closed its acquisition of a privately owned competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) and interexchange carrier (IXC) currently operating in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, called Northwest Telephone, Inc. (NTI).NTI now becomes part of Zayo Group's business unit that provides fiber-based bandwidth solutions to web-centric companies, carriers, public and educational institutions and enterprises, called Zayo Bandwidth. Ethernet, wavelength, private line, Internet and colocation are included in Zayo Bandwidth services. Zayo Bandwidth's network, with the acquisition, now encompasses 18,500 metro and regional fiber route miles, serving more than 1,100 on-net locations in 20 states.
NTI, founded in 1999, brings to Zayo a carrier-class fiber optic network with 1,500 route miles of fiber in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Lending to lower latency and increased network efficiency, NTI's footprint connects rural and underserved markets to larger Tier 1 markets with regional rings. NTI, additionally, much like Zayo, has been integral in creating end-to-end solutions for the wireless industry.
Zayo Bandwidth will operate, with this acquisition, a unique fiber optic network statewide in Washington as well as to Portland, Ore., and Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Customers will soon have diverse routes in and out of Quincy and Wenatchee, Wash and will have access to nine LEC central offices, key data centers.
