Colo.-based Zayo Group will add dark fiber to ExteNet Systems Inc.’s open network for a distributed-network solution. The deal has Zayo building a metro dark fiber network in and around Indianapolis.

No financial details were disclosed.

ExteNet designs, builds, owns and operates outdoor and indoor wireless networks for wireless service providers, government agencies and transportation corridors throughout North America. The company plans on leveraging Zayo’s fiber assets to meet its wireless carrier customers’ increasing bandwidth demand, and the extended dark-fiber access prepares ExteNet and its clients for future network growth.

The expansion also will support bandwidth demands anticipated in Indianapolis for upcoming sporting events.

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