As the industry is busy building core networks on fiber, Zayo Gropu, LLC is hard at work building the last mile.

Tyler Coates, director, Ethernet product management for Zayo Group, sat down with John Furrier and Jeff Frick on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Console Connect LIVE 2015  at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco to talk network constraints, interconnections and the lack of network engineers.

The last mile

According to Coates, “The last mile hasn’t made it to consumers yet, so we are helping to build the scalability on networks that consumers want.” Zayo Group is an IP network and Ethernet provider, serving up layer 2 fiber and infrastructure services to the enterprise.

As technology advances, the old infrastructure is able to scale and support the growth and bandwidth. Coates believes the partnership with Console, Inc. is a great opportunity for business to access Zayo Group’s network in a more simplified way through software. He also stated, “Public IP has limitations and is not scalable to the level as something you own would be, and it is not as secure.” He said that Console will help take the risk from the enterprise and move them to better connectivity.

Instant gratification

Addressing open source, Coates said, the future is instant gratification, and it is important to make connections through your locations seamlessly, effortlessly and live. The next step is buy in.”

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of Console Connect LIVE 2015.

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