Success Stories
FairlawnGig Peers with Chicago Exchange for Direct Connections
FairlawnGig continued our efforts to improve speed and low latencies by establishing a peer-to-peer relationship this week with the Equinix Internet Exchange in Chicago. Connecting directly (via fiber) to Equinix brings FairlawnGig customers a direct connection to...
FairlawnGig Delivers Record Customer Satisfaction in a Pandemic Year
In April of 2021, FairlawnGig surveyed its residential customers in an effort to better measure the impact the network has on the community and measure customer satisfaction. The survey consisted of ten questions and took on average two minutes to complete. In two...
Survey: FairlawnGig Delivers Pandemic-Proof Business Services in 2021
In early March of this year, FairlawnGig surveyed its business customers in an effort to better measure the impact the network has on the community. To drive participation, we kept the survey to ten questions, lasting less than two minutes. Approximately 60 businesses...
Fairlawn Named One of the Intelligent Community Forum’s Smart21 Communities
Fairlawn One of Only Four US Communities Named Fairlawn, Ohio – On Wednesday February 24th, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named the world’s Smart21 Communities of 2021. Selections are made based on the six principles of the ICF Method which weighs the efforts...
Deadline Day… Sort Of
Originally, the CARES Act required all work to be complete by today, December 30, 2020. Since the grant, the deadline was extended into next year. For our part, we are wrapping up slicing fiber connections this week and are done laying fiber everywhere except for one...
Improving Bandwidth with Speed AND Latency
The need for speed. Tom Cruise had it in Top Gun and the need for broadband speed (download and upload speeds) has been a big part of the success of FairlawnGig and our ever-growing subscriber base. But just as important as speed for rock-solid Internet service is...
A Letter to Our Customers
Dear FairlawnGig Customers, My reflections of the year 2020 mostly center around Covid-19 lockdowns and our increasing dependence on Internet technologies. FairlawnGig first launched in January of 2017. Since then, the growth of FairlawnGig has been beyond our...
Summit County Medical Examiners Hooked Up and Ready To Go!
Today we connected the Summit County Medical Examiners office on Summit in Akron to the fiber ring project and with it, the Summit County network. The medical examiners need to be on the network as they work hand-in-hand with the county coroner. Follow along the...
Splicing in Akron
Today our CTO, Dustin Wright, is splicing fiber in the Ohio Building in Akron. Smile, Dustin... maybe he is smiling?!?! Follow along the process of the Fiber Ring Project with this Google Map where ORANGE indicates where conduit has been placed and GREEN is where...
Conduit Laid and We’re Getting Closer!
Today, we're announcing that laying conduit for the fiber ring construction project is complete. Finishing fiber construction, placement, and splicing is ion track to finish before our December 30th deadline, but we're in a full court press to get this done! Follow...
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