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Calgary 10/100Gb Fibre Backbone

10/100Gb City Fibre & Backbone

WestNet’s 10/100Gb backbone in Calgary rides a UUNET / Verizon Tier-1 core (AS701) for ultra-low-latency Calgary–Seattle routing — one of the cleanest paths from Western Canada into U.S. cloud regions and data-centre ecosystems. Perfect for gaming, AI, medical, web hosting, wireless backhaul, and enterprise WAN.

10Gb & 100Gb ports DIA · L2 PTP · Dark Fibre · Waves IPv4 / IPv6 · BGP (your ASN or ours) US-terminated IP options 99.99% SLA · 24×7 NOC
~18 ms Calgary↔Seattle RTT class
10 / 100 Gbps port options
Tier-1 UUNET / Verizon AS701

Why this backbone feels fast

  • Optimised Calgary–Seattle path: hand-off into west-coast exchanges and Tier-1 long-haul, then east to major U.S. hubs — fewer detours, lower jitter for real-time traffic.
  • Strong latency profile: Calgary→Seattle round-trips in the high-teens ms range are achievable, which is excellent for gaming, VoIP, APIs and tele-ops.
  • BGP & IP flexibility: bring your own ASN or use WestNet’s; standard communities and US-terminated IP options for workloads that need a U.S. exit.
  • Tier-1 reach: the core rides on UUNET / Verizon Business (AS701), giving global Tier-1 reach with WestNet controlling the Calgary edge.

What you can run on WestNet City Fibre

Gaming & eSports

Low hop-count to U.S. west and smooth jitter – ideal for competitive gaming, eSports events and live streaming.

Pair with WestNet Wireless & Wired Internet Plans and Dedicated VPN Services.

Web Hosting & Data Centres

  • 10/100Gb DIA uplinks for racks and cages.
  • Cross-connects into Calgary meet-me rooms.
  • DDoS options via WestNet’s security stack.

See Dedicated & Virtual Servers, Web Hosting, and Email Services.

Wireless & City Wi-Fi Backhaul

The fibre core becomes a clean spine for rooftop radios, towers and muni Wi-Fi.

See WestNet City Wi-Fi, Business Wireless Internet, and Rural Wireless Internet.

AI / ML & Render Farms

Line-rate dataset moves and predictable latency for training, inference and rendering between Calgary and U.S. regions.

Combine with WestNet dedicated nodes.

Medical & Remote Procedures

Deterministic transport for imaging, live consults and remote support / tele-ops with strict jitter expectations.

Explore WestNet Medical & Unified Health.

Private WAN & Smart City

Layer-2 PTP and VLAN trunks for enterprise WAN, CCTV, traffic systems and SCADA.

See Smart Traffic Solutions, Cell Site Co-Location, and vpn.westnet.ca.

Ports & technical options

DIA — Dedicated Internet Access

  • 10Gb & 100Gb optical hand-off.
  • IPv4/IPv6 – static or BGP.
  • Standard and US-terminated IP options.
  • 99.99% SLA, 24×7 monitoring.

L2 PTP & NNIs

Layer-2 point-to-point and trunk NNIs for campuses, tower sites and data centres (Q-in-Q, tagged/untagged, private VLANs).

Dark Fibre & Managed Waves

Point-to-point dark pairs from WestNet core POPs, or simple 10G / 100G waves when you want bandwidth without optical management.

Security & VPN on the same backbone

Combine transport with CyberSecurity by WestNet and Zero-Trust VPN for DDoS mitigation, MDR/XDR and identity-aware remote access.

Hosting & fibre bundles

Build bundles that include fibre plus compute, storage and managed services.

Start with Dedicated & Virtual Hosting.

Humanitarian & critical projects

Fibre capacity can be dedicated for critical infrastructure and humanitarian deployments through WestNet Humanitarian Services.

Our global infrastructure

Calgary inner-city core

Backbone-grade optics, leased lines and laterals across the core. Trenching, in-building fibre and hand-offs are handled by WestNet’s deployment team.

Seattle hand-off

Low-latency Calgary–Seattle routing into major U.S. exchanges — ideal for gaming, cloud and AI workloads landing in U.S. regions.

UUNET / Verizon backbone

Global Tier-1 reach on a Verizon / UUNET core (AS701), with WestNet controlling the Calgary edge and customer experience.

99.99% SLA Dual-stack IPv4 / IPv6 BGP (single or dual-homed) US-terminated IP (optional)

From design to light-up

1. Design & feasibility

Address check, path options, latency expectations and hand-off details (optics, IP blocks, BGP vs static). Inner-city focus for fast turn-ups.

2. Build & splicing

Laterals, conduit, pulls, splicing and meet-me room coordination handled by WestNet and partners.

See WestNet Deployment for methodology and photos.

3. Testing & acceptance

Optics burn-in, throughput tests, latency/jitter baselines, BGP policy checks and final documentation so your go-live is clean and predictable.

Calgary 10/100Gb City Fibre & Backbone | WestNet

Calgary 10/100Gb City Fibre & Backbone | WestNet

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