The Boulder Valley School District will get 1,600 Chromebooks and a new school wired for fast Internet as part of a deal with Internet network firm Zayo Group.
Zayo, which provides terabit-speeds to office buildings and wireless companies worldwide, is expanding its fiber-optic network by 93 miles in the Boulder area. It has worked with schools in the past, but this one happens to be in its home town. While the district is paying for the Internet because it legally can’t partner on fiber, the computers are donated.
“We had an asset they could utilize and we didn’t need,” district spokesman Andrew Moore said. “In exchange, we got fiber to the new school site and the Chromebooks.”
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