FiberCo

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.

Learn More

Network Forms, Maps, Policies, and Procedures (wiki)

FiberCo Infosheet (pdf)

UNL Case Study

FiberCo Case Study: High Performance Networks for Data-Intensive Experiments (pdf)

"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

For additional information, please contact fiberco@internet2.edu.

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.

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