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WHO:CityNet Telecommunications, Inc.
WHERE:CityNet Corporate Headquarters
8405 Colesville Road, 6th Floor
Silver Spring, MD 20910
PHONE:(301) 608-2131   FAX:(301) 608-8121
WEBSITE:www.citynettelecom.com
FOUNDED:1999
CORPORATE OVERVIEW:CityNet Telecommunications is a leading broadband construction company and a pioneer in building last-mile fiber optic networks. CityNet utilizes a city's sewer system to deploy fiber optic cables within an urban setting. The Company provides customers with a unique, affordable and faster way to connect fiber optic cables directly into buildings without the need to trench roads and walkways.
PRODUCT:CityNet is a unique construction company that has pioneered the deployment of fiber optic networks through city sewer systems, building metro fiber optic networks for cable companies, telecom carriers, enterprises, federal, state and municipal governments and broadband/network service providers. CityNet enjoys an unrivaled position and reputation in the industry for cost- and time-effective approaches to building broadband infrastructure networks and for proactive, productive partnerships with city governments across the U.S. and Europe. With its in-sewer deployment technology, CityNet offers an ideal solution for fiber optic connections in areas where traditional trenching is not an option -- urban historic districts filled with older, protected buildings and roadways; difficult-to-negotiate rights-of-way, such as railroads and highway bypasses; congested, utility-burdened, urban streets; and cities with blanket moratoriums prohibiting traditional trenching construction. And CityNet delivers a cost-effective, all-fiber connection that allows for high security and survivability.
MARKETSCityNet quickly developed a unique position and reputation in the industry for its innovative methods of building fiber networks, and for its partnerships with city governments across the U.S. and Europe. In the past few years, CityNet has secured 20 landmark sewer license agreements/awards to date with the cities of:
  • Albuquerque, NM
  • Dallas, TX
  • Fort Worth, TX
  • Houston, TX
  • Indianapolis IN
  • Los Angeles, CA (pilot)
  • Mesa, AZ
  • Milwaukee, WI
  • Omaha, NE
  • Phoenix, AZ (RFP awarded)
  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • San Antonio, TX
  • San Diego, CA
  • San Francisco, CA (RFP awarded)
  • Scottsdale, AZ
  • St. Paul, MN
  • Tempe, AZ
  • Washington, DC (RFP awarded)
  • Seville, Spain
  • Vienna, Austria
CITYNET COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES:
  • CityNet provides a COST-EFFICIENT solution to building fiber optic networks within an urban setting
  • CityNet's in-sewer technology allows for QUICK DEPLOYMENT - up to 450 feet per night
  • CityNet's in-sewer fiber deployment provides a new source of conduit for REDUNDANT connections
  • Sewer depths range from six to 60 feet, offering better NETWORK SURVIVABILITY and SECURITY
  • CityNet's in-sewer fiber deployment allows customers to AVOID or BYPASS OBSTRUCTIONS such as train tracks, highways, historical streets, and other urban structures
  • CityNet allows carriers/agencies the independence to OWN their own network without the costly need to build their own infrastructures
  • CityNet's deployment methods allow for DISCREET DEPLOYMENT for high-security agencies
  • CityNet AVOIDS much of the serious transportation and traffic pattern DISRUPTION, as well as lasting detrimental impact to the long-term life of roads that traditional fiber optics deployment causes
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
LOS ANGELES, CA
Overview: The City of Los Angeles needed to connect the main administrative services building that lay stranded on one side of the Santa Ana Freeway to the city's fiber optic network and its other buildings on the freeway's opposite side. CityNet was charged with running fiber optic cable conduit through a series of storm drains, ranging in diameter from 21 inches to 11.5 feet for a distance of more than a half-mile.
Network Facts:
Length: .5 Miles Networks: PTP Buildings: 2 Municipal
Construction Time: 3 WeeksCompleted: October 2002
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Overview: The Indianapolis Project simultaneously links nearly 16 buildings, expandable to 70, in downtown Indianapolis to high-speed, fiber optic cable for advanced data and voice communications. In less than six months, CityNet installed more than 40,000 feet (nearly 8 miles) of fiber optic cable through Indianapolis' sewers.
Network Facts:
Length: 8 Miles Networks: 2 Buildings: 16 (70 planned)
Construction Time: 6 MonthsCompleted: February 2003
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Overview: In October of 2001, CityNet completed the world's first Last-Mile fiber optic network of its kind, connecting 19 downtown buildings (50% of all Albuquerque business and 75% of all Albuquerque communications) through the sewers of Albuquerque, New Mexico, with eight more buildings to be added at a later date.
Network Facts:
Length: 3.9 Miles Networks: 1 Buildings: 19 (27 planned)
Construction Time:  Under 4 MonthsCompleted: September 2001