ZenFi Networks
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Telecommunications backhaul, dark fiber |
| Founded 📆 | New York, NY (2014) |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | 90 White Street New York, NY 10013 |
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Key people | Ray LaChance, CEO |
| Products 📟 | Fiber optic connection services for mobile carriers, neutral hosts, and traditional telecommunications service providers[1] |
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| 🌐 Website | Zenfi.com |
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ZenFi Networks, also known as ZenFi, is a dark fiber backhaul company based in New York City. The company operates an 800 route mile fiber optic network in the New York City metropolitan area that connects mobile phone macrosites, small cells and Wi-Fi nodes to carriers and other core network facilities.[2]
History[edit]
ZenFi was founded in 2014 in New York City.[3] The company's goal was to help connect fiber networks to wireless distributed antenna systems (DAS), which provide Internet access inside properties, in order to extend mobile phone networks.[4]
In May 2015, ZenFi established a connection at 325 Hudson, a well known data center in Manhattan.[5]
In May 2016, the company expanded its network to The Bronx, New York City's northernmost borough.[6]
In January 2017, the company partnered with NY Metro service provider Cross River Fiber to launch a portal to streamline the dark and lit fiber ordering process for data center interconnection (DCI).[7]
In May 2017, the company completed fiber build-outs at carrier hotel (colocation facility) operator ColoGuard’s CGNY1 Brooklyn data center, and at 32 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, also known as the AT&T Building.[1] The company also announced that its network at the time included 200 route miles of fiber in the five boroughs and New Jersey.[8]
By Spring 2018, the company was reportedly operating over 300 route miles of fiber.[2] In April 2018, ZenFi announced it was merging with fellow fiber network provider Cross River Fiber, and that the new combined company's fiber network would be 700 route miles long.[9]
Network[edit]
The company's 800 route mile metro fiber optic network connects to twenty major carrier hotels in New York City, and 25 data centers in New Jersey.[4]
The company splits its network into two parts that it calls the Access and Express Networks.[4] The Express Network is the company's core network, which links data centers, carrier hotels and businesses to ZenFi's Access Network. The Access Network supports wireless interconnections and collocations for bandwidth-intensive applications such as Internet of things (IoT) and 5th generational wireless systems 5G.[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ZenFi Expands Dark Fiber Footprint in NYC". channelvisionmag.com. 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "On Street Corners And In Skyscrapers". nxtbook.com. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "Industry Spotlight: ZenFi's Ray La Chance on Wiring NYC For Mobile". telecomramblings.com. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "ZenFi Networks". construction-today.com. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "ZenFi Moves Into 325 Hudson". channelvisionmag.com. 2015-05-20. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "ZenFi Expands Dark Fiber Connection From Manhattan To The Bronx". newyorkcitywired.com. 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "Cross River Fiber, ZenFi create self-service cross-connect portal". fiercetelecom.com. 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "Wireless evolution depends on dense, future-looking fiber networks". rcrwireless.com. 2017-05-26. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "NY/NJ fiber network service providers ZenFi Networks, Cross River Fiber to merge". lightwaveonline.com. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
- ↑ "ZenFi builds dark fiber spider web for 5G across five boroughs of NYC". rcrwireless.com. 2016-11-09. Retrieved 2018-05-08.
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