Gateway Networks to Build Next-Generation Fiber Network across Western Canada

ISP Business, August, 2000

Gateway Networks announced that it is building a 3,000 mile fiber network across Western Canada, having reached an agreement with Canadian Pacific Railway to install fiber cable along its right-of-way. The Gateway fiber along CPR's fight-of-way will connect Winnipeg, Regina, Moose Jaw, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver and will extend south to Chicago. Terms of the agreement were not released.

The fiber build across Western Canada will connect with Gateway's current fiber project linking Montreal, Toronto, North Bay, Sudbury, Buffalo, Detroit, and Chicago, providing coast-to-coast coverage in North America. Gateway accesses the US market through an agreement with Broadwing Communications whose national US network spans more than 16,888 miles.

Gateway's fiber build in the east will be complete by early 2001. Its Western Canada network is expected to be complete by the end of 2001.

Gateway's next-generation IP network offers all carriers, ISPs, and, ASPs a wholesale telecom superstore of multiple point-to-point bandwidth and dark fiber, Signaling System Seven (SS7), Internet wholesale, and long distance in and between Canada and the US. Gateway offers these services over a unified network, a feat that cannot be accomplished through the traditional voice, data, and video networks available today. In addition, the Gateway MSCN can be easily upgraded to voice-over-IP technology.