Internet

Highline Launches 2-Gig Internet In UP, Thumb Areas Of Michigan

ESCANABA–Highline, the high-speed internet provider, announced the availability of 2-gigabit-per-second internet service in the markets it serves in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and the Thumb area. Company officials said Highline is on target to complete construction to more than  32,000 Upper Peninsula and Thumb residential households while fulfilling the company’s mission to address unserved, underserved and previously

By |2023-05-22T10:11:15-04:00May 22nd, 2023|ESD|

Peninsula Fiber Network Identifies Source of 911 Outage, Commits $6 Million to System Upgrades

MARQUETTE – Peninsula Fiber Network experienced a system error on Jan. 10 that impacted service to 911 dispatch centers across the state. An error occurred in the company’s optical transport network resulting in database corruption. This caused a hardware/software mismatch resulting in some 911 calls to not be completed as expected or calls that lacked

By |2023-01-17T13:47:50-05:00January 16th, 2023|ESD, Internet|

Stellar Broadband To Provide Gigabit Internet To Corktown Development

DETROIT—East Lansing-based Stellar Broadband announced that it would work with developers Hunter Pasteur, Forbes Co. and Oxford Capital Group LLC to deliver gigabit internet service to the new Detroit development Perennial Corktown. Perennial Corktown will include a seven-story apartment building with 188 studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom units, as well a seven-unit townhouse development at 10th

By |2023-01-11T11:19:30-05:00January 11th, 2023|ESD|

What Should You Look For In A Good Internet Connection?

Getting yourself an internet connection isn’t as easy as it seems. There is a lot of research and market surveying that needs to go into it. One thing that you can keep in mind before buying an internet service is to see how popular the internet already is. Companies such as Xfinity are already popular

By |2024-12-02T10:16:05-05:00January 1st, 2023|Guest Columns|

New Chip Fast Enough To Send Entire Internet’s Traffic Once Every Second

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark and Chalmers University of Technology have created a superfast optical chip capable of transmitting the entirety of the internet in a single second. The chip, which is detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Photonics, is part of new experiments to push

By |2022-10-30T13:56:13-04:00October 30th, 2022|Industry 4.0|

123NET Brings Ultra High Speed 10Gbps Fiber To Ann Arbor

ANN ARBOR -123NET continues to expand its residential internet service rollout by partnering with Veridian at County Farm to bring 10Gbps Home Fiber Internet to its community development in Ann Arbor. Veridian at County Farm, a joint venture between THRIVE Collaborative and Avalon Housing, is situated on a 14-acre parcel in Ann Arbor that once

By |2022-10-13T13:01:09-04:00October 13th, 2022|Internet, IoT|

123NET Continues Home Internet Rollout to Detroit University District

SOUTHFIELD - 123NET, best known as a premier fiber internet, colocation and voice services provider for Michigan businesses, continues its residential internet service rollout with the addition of Detroit’s University District. 123NET’s solution is the first of its kind to provide 10 Gigabits per second fiber internet to Detroit residences. Property owners in the University

123Net To Install Fiber Network In Downtown Kalamazoo

KALAMAZOO - 123NET announced the start of construction on a major expansion to its Kalamazoo fiber network to install an additional 26 miles of fiber infrastructure throughout Kalamazoo's primary business district. The installation will connect all 15 municipal buildings, including a private network dedicated to serving the unique regulatory and compliance guidelines of the Kalamazoo

By |2021-12-05T16:43:42-05:00December 5th, 2021|New Products / Contracts|

123NET Surpasses 2,500 Lit Building Milestone

SOUTHFIELD – 123NET said it has completed high-speed fiber connections to 2,500 commercial buildings in the state, after achieving 2000 fiber lit buildings just six months ago. 123NET continues to invest heavily in its network infrastructure to help achieve its goal of making Michigan “the best-connected state.” The company has been aggressively connecting buildings with

By |2021-10-31T17:49:51-04:00October 31st, 2021|IoT|