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
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
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
- ↑ 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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