KIRKLAND, Wash. – Ziply Fiber today announced plans to upgrade its existing copper networks in Wenatchee, Washington, as well as Osburn and St. Maries, Idaho, to its new, ultra-high-speed, 100 percent fiber-optic network later this year. When complete, thousands of residents and businesses in and around these cities will have access to Ziply Fiber's popular “Gig-speed,” or Gigabit fiber connectivity, and its industry leading 5-gig and 2-gig for residential services, the fastest connections available anywhere in the Northwest.
Since the summer of 2020, Ziply Fiber has been aggressively expanding its fiber network across its existing service area in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, with more than 60 fiber build projects completed or currently underway. In recent weeks, the company launched fiber-optic services after upgrading its network in Mukilteo, Oakesdale, Sultan and Woodland, Washington, as well as Blanchard, Bonners Ferry and Potlatch, Idaho. The company expects to announce more than a dozen additional cities for fiber upgrades in the coming months.
Ziply Fiber already has invested more than $30 million in upgrading its intermarket fiber backbone in Central and Eastern Washington and into Western Idaho. That work has enabled the company to bring high-capacity, 100G and 400G connections to and through much of the region, connecting into several downtown cores, making the eventual fiber-to-the-premises projects easier and faster when they begin.
Ziply Fiber is local in the Northwest, headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, and has major offices in Everett, Washington; Beaverton, Oregon; and Hayden, Idaho. Most of Ziply Fiber's executive team, which consists of former executives from AT&T, CenturyLink and Wave Broadband, either grew up in the Northwest or have spent the better part of 30 years living here. That local ownership and market familiarity is an important part of the company mindset and culture.
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