Unite Private Networks to Provide Fiber Optic WANs to Illinois Schools

Unite Private Networks announced today its agreement to provide data services over a fiber optic Wide Area Network for five new school districts in Illinois. Darien, Antioch, and River Forest Schools are located in the Chicago area. Canton Union and Galesburg are nearly Peoria, Illinois. The five districts each signed long-term agreements which will consist of UPN greatly enhancing its existing Illinois network.

"Due to shrinking budgets, Illinois School Districts are forced to do more with less. That has inspired new creative innovation initiatives providing cost savings and operational efficiencies and clearly, that means more data across networks," said Judy Gallagher-Cosgrove, Vice President Business Development for UPN. "It is exciting to know that we provide the foundation to their solution."

"Antioch District #34 is very excited to partner with UPN. Because of this project, we will now be able to fully utilize Instructional Innovation throughout our district," said Dave Downing, Research Director.

The proposal that UPN gave us

"I am very pleased with the proposal that UPN gave us. With more cloud computing, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and security systems eating up valuable bandwidth, we are looking forward to having UPN as our long-term solution. The proposed fiber network will give Canton Union District #55 enough bandwidth for years to come," said Don Howell, Innovation Director.

UPN provides high-bandwidth, fiber-based communications networks to schools, government, carriers, data centers, hospitals, and enterprise business clients. UPN currently has clients located in 19 states throughout the U.S.

Unite Private Networks specializes in providing high-bandwidth, fiber-based communications networks and related services to schools, government, carriers, data centers, hospitals, and enterprise business clients throughout the United States. Service offerings include dark and lit fiber, private line, metro-optical Ethernet, Internet access, and other customized solutions. Headquartered in the Kansas City, MO metro area, Unite Private Networks has been providing customer-focused communications solutions since 1999. For more information on UPN, please visit www.upnllc.com. A link to our video can be found @ www.upnllc.com/rob.