132,000

Feet of fiber laid

100Gb/s

Speed

244

Number of dark fibers

About Us

ValpoNetTM‘s mission is to provide businesses and community organizations of the greater Valparaiso area access to a secure, vendor-neutral fiber optic network that operates at high capacity. This mission enables ValpoNetTM to provide high speed local and global networks to its customers.

ValpoNetTM will be community owned and operated by the City of Valparaiso. ValpoNetTM only provides an infrastructure resource through dark fiber installation. This infrastructure enables customers to directly lease dark fiber and allows internet service providers to provide competitively priced broadband, offering community businesses access to a high speed, high capacity network at low cost.

ValpoNetTM is fully built and is ready for customers.

  • Freedom

    Community businesses will have options to secure services from  multiple providers over an open access, carrier-neutral fiber network.

  • Reliability

    ValpoNetTM fiber is exceptionally strong and exceptionally fast. Only light travels across our fiber network, making it immune to radioactive or electrical field interference which not only protects, but enhances, signal integrity.

  • Security

    On ValpoNetTM, you have point-to-point service available between your facilities, allowing for the exchange of data without entering the public domain of the Internet.

  • Performance

    Fiber is 6,000 times faster than a T-1 line, which not all that long ago was the industry standard.

  • Competitive Pricing

    ValpoNetTM allows internet service providers to use dark fiber and compete with each other, reducing the cost of communication through competition.

2 Dark Fiber Loops Around The Valparaiso Community

Customers can take diverse paths on the dark fiber loop, or work through alternative service providers. We currently have 4 community cross connect points designed to help ValpoNetTM customers tie in.

Learn more about ValpoNetTM’s dark fiber network

Why lease dark fiber?

Dark fiber offers a fast, secure, cost-effective solution to any network. ValpoNetTM‘s dark fiber is capable of moving data literally at the speed of light.

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What services does ValpoNetTM offer?

ValpoNetTM works collaboratively with its customers to satisfy individual network needs. ValpoNetTM does not provide lit services; instead it supports the customer with dark fiber infrastructure.

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