Zayo Group, provider of network connectivity and data center services, announced it has won a contract to install a Point of Presence (PoP) network for SSE Telecoms, the network infrastructure and data center service provider arm of the SSE Group.

Zayo said it has designed and will provision the dark fiber backhaul network for SSE Telecoms, which will connect 21 BT phone and Ethernet exchange points in London and a further exchange serving the Slough area.

The contract supports SSE Telecoms’ plan to extend its network coverage to all major business conurbations across the UK. This programme, known as ‘Project Edge’, will see SSE Telecoms deploy its own high capacity PoPs in 54 additional central business districts, serving almost an additional 106,000 business postcode areas with high bandwidth fiber connectivity.

SSE Telecoms already operates its own fiber network in London, but this new contract will enable it to leverage Zayo’s additional fiber reach, as well as Zayo’s ability to design and build large scale fiber networks, in order to offer high capacity connectivity services to a greater number of London-based businesses.  Services in the London area will go live in Q2 2014.

Alastair Kane, European VP of Zayo, said the reach of Zayo’s London network and ability to rapidly expand to new locations for customers is the foundation of its bandwidth infrastructure business.

The extension of Zayo’s network into these 22 BT exchanges provides significant diverse connectivity, both between exchanges and to key data centers and traffic exchanges.  This expansion brings Zayo’s coverage to 22 BT exchanges and 43 data centers as part of its 499 building footprint in London.  London is one of X markets served globally by Zayo’s fiber network. 

Last month Zayo announced it is building a data center in downtown Miami.