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Press Release -- April 21st, 2015
Source: Zayo Group
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Peak Hosting Selects Zayo to Provide Network Connectivity between Data Centers in U.S. and Europe

Boulder, Colo. – April 21, 2015 – Zayo Group Holdings, Inc (NYSE:ZAYO), an international provider of Bandwidth Infrastructure services, today announced it has signed a three year agreement with Peak Hosting, the leading provider of Operations-as-a-Service™ (OaaS) managed hosting, to provide network connectivity between Peak Hosting’s five locations across the U.S. and Europe. By leveraging multiple connectivity services from Zayo, Peak Hosting will be able to rapidly expand its network footprint as needed.

As part of the agreement, Zayo will provide dark fiber connectivity spanning more than 30 route miles between Peak Hosting’s three Bay Area sites, enabling the managed hosting provider to scale services quickly and easily to meet its customers’ bandwidth demands. Zayo will also provide Ethernet connectivity between Peak Hosting’s data centers in Ashburn, Va., Dallas, Tex., and Santa Clara, Calif., and 6-gigabit of IP connectivity to these data center locations and additional sites in Amsterdam and Milpitas, Calif. Additionally, Zayo installed 10-gigabit Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) ports in all five data centers to further promote flexibility.

Peak Hosting provides its customers with the design, maintenance and technical operations staff needed to support critical data center functions. Its AlwaysUp Architecture® is comprised of a fully redundant data center environment, which employs a duplicate component for every moving part to eliminate downtime.

“Providing our customers with geographically dispersed data centers that can scale rapidly is critical to fulfilling our promise to our customers of ‘what’s the most that we can do’ to meet their hosting requirements and allow them to focus on their core competencies,” said Jeffrey Papen, CEO and founder of Peak Hosting. “We chose to work with Zayo for our connectivity solution as it was able to provide the quality solutions that we required on a timeline that met our needs. The diverse circuits Zayo provided gives us room to grow, and we look forward to providing our customers with Zayo connectivity.”

“Zayo’s global IP backbone and deep metro footprint enable us to provide the high-speed internet connections our customers need to support their business,” said Chris Morley, president of Cloud and Connectivity at Zayo. “We look forward to expanding our relationship with Peak Hosting.”

For more information on Zayo Group, visit zayo.com.

For more information on Peak Hosting’s OaaS managed hosting offering, please visit PeakHosting.com.

About Zayo Group

Based in Boulder, Colo., Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) is a publicly traded company that provides comprehensive Bandwidth Infrastructure services in over 300 markets throughout the US and Europe. Zayo delivers a suite of dark fiber, mobile infrastructure, and cloud & connectivity services to wireline and wireless customers, datacenters, Internet content providers, high-bandwidth enterprises, and government agencies across its robust 82,000 route mile network. The company also offers 45 carrier-neutral datacenter facilities across the US and France. Zayo was the first to offer bandwidth shopping and buying in under 2 minutes through Tranzact. Visit zayo.com for more information.

About Peak Hosting

Peak Hosting is more than a managed hosting company – since 2001, we’ve helped design, build, maintain and support some of the world’s largest Internet properties, across every vertical. As an extension of your business, our technical-operations-as-a-service offering handles the 17 elements critical to running a data center. Our industry experts take care of everything but your code®, allowing you to concentrate on moving your business forward. When your business success depends on technology for its survival and you don’t want to handle the Internet plumbing, you need more than “just” a managed hosting company. You need Peak Hosting. For more information, visit www.peakhosting.com, contact sales@peakhosting.com, or call (855) 901-7325 (PEAK).

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