Wisconsin Independent Network, LLC

Eau Claire, WI - November 7, 2007 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC (WIN™), today announced the availability of its new 4200+ square foot Data Center in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The company completely refurbished a former Sequent Computer/IBM office and data center in the Banbury Place complex after moving its headquarters to the location this past May.
Click here for more info.

Eau Claire, WI - September 1, 2006 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the extension of its network into three rural locations in northwestern Wisconsin.
Click here for the complete story.

Eau Claire, WI - February 24, 2006 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the turn up of its new Point of Presence at the Minnesota Technology Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Also known as the "511 Building", located at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis, it acts as a major Midwest hub from many companies involved in long-haul carrier, enterprise and other telecommunications services.
Click here for more information.

Eau Claire, WI - January 8, 2006 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the turn up of its new Point of Presence at the Equinix Internet Business Exchange Center in Chicago.

Located at 350 E. Cermak in Chicago, Equinix is a 143,000 square foot collocation facility, acting as a meeting point for many of the long-haul fiber network operators and large enterprise customers in the US and beyond.
Click here for the full press release.

Eau Claire, WI - August 25, 2005 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the upgrade of its network to OC-192.

"We began this business with OC-48 SONET equipment at the core of our network" said Scott Hoffmann, Executive Director of WIN. "We knew eventually we would exhaust that capacity and we started looking at alternatives to upgrade last year. We eventually settled on the Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Platform for our network."
Continue reading...

Eau Claire, WI - April 15, 2005 - Wisconsin Independent Network™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today a major expansion of it's fiber optic transport network.

WIN has acquired 505 miles of fiber network between Minneapolis and Chicago, and another 194 miles from Madison to Green Bay. These routes will form a portion of the core of WIN's network, enable WIN to complete key SONET rings for redundancy and diversity purposes, and provide WIN access into new markets, including Madison, Milwaukee, Fond du Lac and Chicago. WIN will also utilize this fiber to establish a second Point of Presence (POP) in Minneapolis.
Click here for the full story.

Eau Claire, WI - January 24, 2005 - Wisconsin Independent Network's™, LLC, (WIN™) announced today the recent acquisition of dark fiber and the launch of its 2005 network build-out throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois...
Click here for more information.

Click here for additional press releases prior to 2005...

Click here for a printer-friendly version of this page