Zayo Group Holdings Inc., a global provider of fiber-based communications solutions, announced the acquisition of QOS Networks, a provider of SD-WAN and edge managed services.
This move positions Zayo as a premier provider of secure edge networking services, helping enterprise customers deploy, manage and monitor their mission-critical SD-WAN and edge network environments.
Edge networks are seeing prolonged, strong growth, driven by users requiring applications to be delivered efficiently and ubiquitously across the enterprise from the edge. Solutions are shifting away from traditional private data center environments to edge and multi-cloud connectivity which enhance user productivity, reduce costs and improve the holistic customer experience.
Zayo’s fiber network, coupled with its optical and packet capabilities, is positioned to power the growth of the network edge and the adoption of 5G and private wireless. These technologies are the critical foundation for distributed, multi-cloud capabilities.
Together, Zayo and QOS will create opportunities to leverage relationships with cloud hyperscalers investing in the edge, multi-tenant data centers investing in the core and carriers investing in fiber-to-the-tower (FTT). The combination of Zayo and QOS provides enterprise CIOs high quality network services with global reach, real-time control and visibility, and consistent security at every network endpoint.
“This acquisition represents our commitment to, and investment in, our edge-to-core, edge-to-cloud and edge-to-edge network services portfolio,” said Brian Lillie, chief product and technology officer at Zayo. “We are extremely well-positioned to be a leading provider of networking for the evolving edge at all layers – fiber, optical and packet – and for all players – enterprises, hyperscalers and carriers. This requires secure, software-defined intelligent network control, management and monitoring capabilities that our customers need in a highly dispersed, multi-cloud world.”
QOS Networks, founded in 2012, is an independent managed service provider of SD-WAN solutions that help companies through digital transformation. QOS Networks provides enterprise-class SD-WAN hardware and software solutions, including VMWare’s VeloCloud solution, Versa and Palo Alto’s Prisma. QOS uses a powerful AIops driven platform to empower IT teams and lines of business to be productive with complete solutions from edge-to-cloud. The company has deployed more than 45,000 SD-WAN edge devices to large enterprises globally. As a division of Zayo, the QOS brand will be retained.
“Joining forces with Zayo will bring our leading SD-WAN solutions into their already robust portfolio of communications infrastructure solutions,” said Frank Cittadino, CEO of QOS Networks. “Combining our end-to-end enterprise SD-WAN solutions and white glove services with Zayo’s best-in-class fiber and network expertise will allow us to unlock unique value for our customers in the software-defined layer.”
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