LSN Extends Fiber Networking Service to Northern California

PORTLAND, Ore. - Nov. 12, 2014 - PRLog -- LSN is excited to announce that they are expanding high-speed fiber networking services to Northern California next year.  The new fiber build to extend LSN’s network into California comes after months of planning and agreements with both local and national partners.  While still in the preliminary phase now, the company expects to complete the project sometime in Q3 or Q4 of 2015.

In light of LSN’s ongoing success in bringing services to rural communities in Oregon and Washington, expanding to California is a natural progression. The company has a presence in all 36 Oregon counties and an ever-growing presence in Washington State, where network expansion projects have just finished up in Yakima, Tri Cities and Longview.  Northern California is considered an underserved rural market, and LSN sees a need to help close the digital divide in the area.

Closing the digital divide, the gap in networking capabilities between metropolitan centers and their more rural counterparts, is an important issue in the telecommunications industry, one that both government and other organizational institutions (both non profit and private) are trying to solve. Northern California has rugged and mountainous terrain, which makes it a challenging and expensive area for telecommunication service expansion. An attempt was made to better serve the area through the Golden Bear Broadband proposal, however due to the amount of funding required and petitioning from incumbent service providers the project was withdrawn, leaving many Northern California residents and businesses without a reliable network.

LSN’s current expansion will bring new networking capabilities to the communities of Yreka, Weed, Mt. Shasta, Tule Lake and Susanville, with service extending as far south as Quincy. By tying these communities and the surrounding region to LSN’s backbone, Northern California will have access to highly redundant and robust networks, something the company has been providing to Pacific Northwest communities for 10 years.

For more information about LSN, visit www.LSNetworks.net

About LSN:

LSN, a facility based communications and network services provider, provides Internet and networking services to enterprise, small and mid-sized businesses, government agencies and carriers throughout Oregon and Washington. Founded in 2005 by a conglomerate of rural utility companies, LSN has grown to meet the expanding needs of both metropolitan and remote markets across Oregon and Washington.  For more information please visit www.lsnetworks.net.

About Golden Bear Broadband LLC:

Created by Native Business Enterprise and Siskiyou Telephone Company to expand broadband in Northern California, Golden Bear Broadband created a proposal to get high-speed broadband access to communities in need. The proposal would have seen the installation of fiber rings along the North Coast and 33 fiber-fed wireless towers.  It was planned to serve 150,000 rural homes and businesses.