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 […]
Broadband Communities Conference held in Tinley Park Convention Center
(L to R) CSFN Executive Director Rusty Winchel, SSMMA Executive Director Ed Paesel, Urbancom.net CEO Ed Urban, and Tinley Park Mayor Ed Zabrocki at the Broadband Communities Conference held at the Tinley Park Convention Center. The meeting was a national conference focused on municipal based broadband projects. The event celebrated the commencement of construction of […]
Urbancom.net Achieves Milestone Expert Certification
Urbancom to participate in Gigabit Internet Partnership with City of Evanston and Northwestern University
Strategic $1 Million State Investment Will Help Northwestern University and Area Businesses to Build Innovation Corridor, Create Jobs EVANSTON – January 18, 2013. Governor Pat Quinn was joined today by leaders from the city of Evanston and Northwestern University to announce a $1 million state investment to help the city become an Illinois Gigabit Community, […]
10GB INTERNET ACCESS TO ONLITE AURORA
Urbancom.net CEO Edmund G Urban III (right) discusses with Gov. Pat Quinn (left) Urbancom.net’s expansion of their 10Gbps fiber optic network to supply Internet access to the OnLight Aurora project for which Gov. Quinn announced a $1 Million award from the State’s Jobs Now! program. Oak Forest based Urban Communications (URBANCOM.NET) to provide 10 Gbps […]
iFiber selects Urban Communications for wireless work
A wireless contractor has been selected for the project designed to bring a reliable high-speed broadband network to a nine-county region in northwest Illinois. Illinois Fiber Resources Group iFiber, an Illinois not-for-profit organization, has selected Urban Communications, Inc.URBANCOM.NET, of Oak Forest, IL. The company will provide the wireless portion of the broadband network under construction […]