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Re: Zayo woes


From: Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:55:08 -0500 (CDT)

The other way around. Zayo acquired ENA. 


That acquisition seemed odd. ENA did a lot of value add and non-IP services. Zayo seems to shed those on every 
acquisition. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Bill Murphy" <William.Murphy () uth tmc edu> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net>, "Randy Carpenter" <rcarpen () network1 net> 
Cc: "nanog" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 8:53:13 AM 
Subject: Re: Zayo woes 


Recently reached out to Zayo and found out we have a new account manager, and also discovered they were acquired by a 
company called ENA... 


Bill 



From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+william.murphy=uth.tmc.edu () nanog org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2023 7:19 AM 
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net> 
Cc: nanog <nanog () nanog org> 
Subject: Re: Zayo woes 


        External: Increase caution when handling links and attachments. 


I've never understood companies that acquire and don't completely integrate as quickly as they can. 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 



From: "Randy Carpenter" <rcarpen () network1 net> 
To: "JASON BOTHE" <jbothe () me com> 
Cc: "nanog" <nanog () nanog org> 
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 7:01:03 PM 
Subject: Re: Zayo woes 


The problem we have run into is that there does not appear to be a "Zayo." There are dozens of acquisitions of regional 
providers with completely different infrastructure and teams and they have done a very poor job at gluing it all 
together. I have seen service orders that have gone *years* without being complete. There are also currently some 
breaking-the-entire-regional-network sorts of outages going on currently. I am guessing what clued employees they still 
have are quite tied up. 


-Randy 


----- On Sep 18, 2023, at 7:06 PM, JASON BOTHE via NANOG nanog () nanog org wrote: 

Does anyone know what’s happening at Zayo? Tickets are taking weeks and months 
to get resolved, much less get a tech assigned to them. 

The folks answering the noc phone are mere order takers and are only reading 
from a script, manager on duty/escalation lines go to voicemail. 

If anyone can help get to a human in the transport group, that would be great. 
I’ve given up all hope at this point. 

Appreciated. 

Jason 



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