Digital Realty announced another significant step in its plan to create next-generation interconnection and security capabilities and build the largest open fabric-of-fabrics interconnecting key centers of data exchange. As part of this development strategy, Digital Realty is working with Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. to lay the physical and virtual foundations of a new open fabric. This collaboration represents a significant milestone on the cross-industry roadmap outlined earlier this year in Digital Realty's industry manifesto for open interconnection and next-generation colocation solutions. The collaborative approach aims to unlock trapped value and remove legacy barriers to digital transformation by more closely aligning with the hybrid IT and security considerations of multinational enterprises. This initiative builds upon new and existing innovative capabilities, including PlatformDIGITAL®, Digital Realty's first of its kind global data center platform, which already brings together over 4,000 participants in connected data communities around the world, as well as Zayo's extensive global fiber network. The new collaboration also follows Digital Realty's recent announcement of its plan to build native SDN-enabled multi-platform orchestration and global fabric connectivity across its global platform.