Crosstown Fiber Has Big Fiber Plans for the Chicago Region

Chicago-based Crosstown Fiber aims to build, maintain, and operate a robust fiber network with a specific focus. The company will offer fiber infrastructure built below ground to provide unique routes and strategic alternative paths between data centers and other entities. Crosstown custom designs, builds, leases, and maintains high-capacity, high-bandwidth, dark fiber optic networks providing customers the ability to use a redundant ring structure with a network route spanning approximately 400 route miles across all corners of Chicago. Crosstown’s underground network is designed for customers who need access to resilient fiber pathways. The company will target school systems, large corporations, hyperscalers, and data center operators, small cell wireless carriers, content providers, as well as municipal and other government agencies. The company’s network will initially connect educational institutions to the city, providing them with unlimited bandwidth and transmission speed, access to a multitude of service providers, customer control of the network, security, optional redundancy capability, along with lower communications costs. The initial, three ring-backbone will be available by the end of 2022.