Internet2 offers cost efficient solutions in advanced networking for the higher education and research community. Providing dark fiber assets, Internet2 FiberCo supports community control and initiatives to enable a wide variety of bandwidth-intensive applications under development at campuses and research labs today.
FiberCo Deadline: 1 June 2008
Contact FiberCo before 1 June 2008 for new dark fiber purchases
Quick Links
Network Forms, Maps, Policies, and Procedures
FiberCo Case Study
High-Performance Networks for Data-Intensive Experiments
"They supported our team every step of the way, simplified the project and brought the connectivity together for us."
Dale Finkelson
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Networking and
Information Services
FiberCo Infosheet [pdf]
To request additional information about FiberCo, please contact fiberco@internet2.edu.
Impending Deadline
FiberCo’s current dark fiber agreement with Level 3 Communications is set to expire in June 2008. Internet2 members and partners considering dark fiber purchases are encouraged to contact FiberCo as soon as possible to take advantage of the current agreement. New fiber purchases under this agreement will be accepted by FiberCo until June 1, 2008.FiberCo was established as a means of acquiring, holding, and distributing dark fiber network assets. Through its agreement with Level 3 Communications, FiberCo offers intercity and metro dark fiber, and colocation services, at competitive aggregated rates to the Internet2 member community.
- Nearly 13,000 route miles of intercity dark fiber within the U.S.
- Metro dark fiber assets in select U.S. cities
- Complements the existing Internet2 Network infrastructure
- Facilitates regional optical networking initiatives around the country
- Provides network access to the more than 6,000 on-net facilities of Level 3
To request additional information about Internet2 FiberCo, please contact fiberco@internet2.edu.
