Low Latency Route Ultra-low latency NY–Chicago route featuring 825 fiber miles, 12.9 ms round trip on dark fiber and 14 ms on wavelengths, with backbones capable of up to 8 Tbps per fiber pair and no regeneration needed. This makes the offering highly attractive to financial firms, trading venues, and data-intensive enterprises seeking dedicated, reliable paths.

Zayo Integration Upsell As part of Zayo's network portfolio, Spread's NY–Chicago route can be cross-sold with the broader Zayo footprint to wholesale carriers and enterprise customers. Opportunities include bundled dark and lit services, end-to-end latency optimization, and capacity scaling across the extended network.

Target Sectors Primary buyers include wholesale carriers, enterprises, and financial firms that require ultra-low latency and high reliability. Target hedge funds, exchanges, data centers along the route, offering dedicated dark fiber or premium wavelengths, with a strong reliability guarantee and competitive pricing.

Capacity Growth Backbone upgraded to 100 Gbps in 2012; scalable to as much as 8 Tbps per fiber pair without regeneration. This enables dynamic capacity upgrades, bandwidth-on-demand, and future-proof connections for growing clients needing large-scale data transfer and disaster recovery replication.

Risk & Continuity Route diversity and multi-state presence points in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana provide redundancy for business continuity and compliance needs. Sell DR/BCP solutions, multi-path connectivity, and colocated access along the corridor to reduce outage risk for critical workloads.