Cook County begins testing
Cook County has accepted the testing and as-built documentation for the fiber Indefeasible Right of Use for Oak Forest Hospital and Markham Courthouse. The dark fiber assets will be incorporated in the Cook County Bureau of Technology to support County administrative needs, healthcare and medical records transport, and critical data applications for Homeland Security.
South Suburban College goes live
South Suburban College has begun providing data interconnect and voice services (VoIP) across the CSFN fiber network, linking the central campus in South Holland with the remoted campus facility in Oak Forest. As a component of providing enhanced communications services, SSC leased fiber from CSFN and has turned up the communications equipment providing the primary […]
New CSFN Backbone interconnect with Urbancom.net Tier III+ data center
Final fiber splicing is completed providing connectivity between Equinix (Telx) facilities and the Urbancom.net Tier III+ Data Center in Oak Forest. The fiber provides for access and redundant connectivity to commercial Internet access at the Telix-Equinix facility along with ICN (Illlinois Century Network) bandwidth in support of schools, municipal government, libraries museums and other public […]
CSFN Fiber Network testing has been completed
The final electronics turn-up up was done over about 6 week time period to insure that all distribution points on the network were fully operational.
CSFN Network Construction Completed
Construction on the major distribution and backbone of the Chicago Southland Fiber Network has been completed. The 144 strand fiber cable installed adjacent to I-57 with laterals serving 18 of the South Suburban municipalities has been tested and Carrier Ethernet electronics have been installed for the data services distribution network.
Urbancom tapped as manager of Chicago Southland Fiber Optic Network
The complete CSFN project will consist of 60 miles of fiber optic backbone and lateral infrastructure linking south suburban municipalities, public safety sites, community colleges, economic development fiber optic access sites, and two major Cook County anchor locations – Markham Courthouse and Oak Forest Hospital. The fiber optic infrastructure will be used to provide backbone […]