Dark Fiber

Dark Fiber is a customized, private network that is secure, scalable and exclusive to a respective customer. Everstream’s Dark Fiber service includes the highest quality fiber optic cabling, above and below ground fiber construction, personalized route planning, and ongoing support, maintenance and testing.

A Dark Fiber connection allows an organization to future-proof its network. It can deliver nearly unlimited bandwidth, depending upon the customer-provided equipment. An Everstream Dark Fiber solution will include an operating expenditure (OPEX) lease with a term of one to 10 years or a capital expenditure (CAPEX)/IRU lease with a term of 10 to 20 years.

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Product Benefits

Top Benefits

  • -Private, secure solution
  • -Build-to-suit connection
  • -Customer retains control

The Everstream Difference

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Connectivity

Everstream has raised the bar for business connectivity, delivering a Business-Only Fiber Network with speeds up to 100 Gbps available across our footprint. By using 10 Gbps switches, Everstream ensures your network can scale quickly and easily.

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Bandwidth Bursting

Everstream’s no-charge bandwidth bursting* delivers the flexibility of on-demand bandwidth when your needs increase temporarily. With no data caps or network slowdowns, your business continues to operate at peak performance.
* Bandwidth bursting allows for occasional bandwidth increases at no additional charge.

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Direct Peering

Our direct peering connections bypass the public internet to provide direct access to more than 40 CDNs and ISPs, such as AWS and Salesforce — reducing latency, maximizing bandwidth and improving overall network performance.

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Technical Support

Our two Midwest-based Network Operations Centers are staffed by highly trained engineers, who answer 98% of incoming calls within 60 seconds and serve as a single point of contact to deliver the support you need.

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Network Diversity

The combination of Everstream’s network architecture, engineering expertise and equipment deployment delivers four critical types of diversity: network, route, equipment and point-of-entry — eliminating the need for multiple carriers.

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Low Latency

Our average network latency is less than 5 milliseconds, approximately 90% less than other providers.* A low-latency connection is critical when business operations demand real-time applications and data replication.

*Latency is measured in market / in region from customer location to internet gateway or between in market customer locations.

Bandwidth bursting allows for occasional bandwidth increases at no additional charge.

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