Kirkland, Washington (June 5, 2024) – Ziply® Fiber, home to America’s Fastest Home Internet, today announced the addition of a second high-capacity fiber-optic route ringing the cities of Albany and Corvallis, Oregon, just six weeks after bringing fiber to these markets for the first time. The new fiber route into and around the cities provides added reliability and redundancy, allowing the company to automatically reroute internet traffic to the new, redundant route in the event of damage to the network, such as if construction work near a highway was to accidentally cut a fiber line.
“We’re building our network to ensure that our customers don’t even notice when an internet or phone service outage could have occurred,” said Harold Zeitz, CEO of Ziply Fiber. “The investment we’re making in this new route in and around Corvallis and Albany will help give customers the confidence that Ziply Fiber’s network has the highest level of reliability.”
In late April, Ziply Fiber hosted ribbon-cutting ceremonies in both cities, where it officially turned-up the network it had been building over the past several months. Ziply Fiber’s network offers speeds ranging from 100 Mbps to America’s fastest home internet at 50 Gig. In Albany, Ziply’s network will be able to serve more than 6,000 homes and businesses across the city when construction is complete in the coming weeks and in Corvallis it will be available to more than 5,200 homes and businesses.
“Albany and Corvallis already have the fastest household internet speeds in the nation,” added Zeitz. “Now customers at every speed tier can be confident they also have best-in-class reliability."
With household data usage across the U.S. expected to double every year, Ziply Fiber’s advanced network gives customers the great speed and reliable service for everything they want to do online today and into the future.
Residents and business owners can check for fiber availability at Ziplyfiber.com and sign up to be alerted when service is available at their location. Residential customers can switch to fiber internet for as little as $20 per month and receive a $50 bill credit for themselves and any new customer they refer. Details can be found at referafriend.ziplyfiber.com.
What to Expect During Ziply Fiber Construction
Corvallis residents can learn more about the work Ziply Fiber is doing and what to expect during construction at ziplyfiber.com/fiber-construction/construction-process. Ziply Fiber’s goal is always to leave an area in a condition as good if not better than it was before construction. If residents notice something has been missed the company wants to know about it and asks that details be shared at ziplyfiber.com/new-fiber-locations/construction-process/construction-feedback.
The Many Benefits of Fiber Internet
Fiber internet, unlike other options like cable or satellite, provides the bandwidth and capacity to keep entire families streaming without interruption. Fiber provides symmetrical upload and download speeds and lower latency to easily power video conferencing and online gaming without lag and delivers the reliability to empower residents and businesses for decades.
Ziply Fiber offers many different service options for residents, including:
Ziply Fiber Investing in Albany and Corvallis, Oregon
The work in Corvallis is part of Ziply Fiber’s commitment to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to build an advanced, 100-percent fiber network to both suburban and rural communities across the Northwest that have been underserved when it comes to internet access. The company believes that everyone should benefit from amazingly fast, game-changing internet, not just people in big cities. Ziply Fiber has been actively building fiber across the Northwest since June 2020 and continues to build and deploy new fiber-optic cables, local hubs, new offices, and new hardware to run the network as part of hundreds of projects across its 250,000-square-mile footprint. That’s how the company will deliver what its customers need and deserve as they learn, work, play and move into the future with ease.
Ziply Fiber’s primary service offerings are Fiber Internet and phone for residential customers, Business Fiber Internet and Ziply Voice services for small businesses, and a variety of Internet, networking, and voice solutions for enterprise customers. The company also continues to support Ziply Internet (DSL) customers, and its TV customers in Washington and Oregon. A full listing of products and services can be found at ziplyfiber.com.
About Ziply Fiber
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.