Community digital infrastructure · Chicago
We build the infrastructure between the regional network and your community.
NODE Networks carries high-capacity fiber and wireless from the region’s data centers and carrier networks into neighborhoods, and runs it as one network for the schools, homes, businesses and institutions that need it.
Why NODE
The capacity exists. We bring it home.
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The capacity is already here.
The Chicago region is full of data centers, fiber routes, carrier networks and research networks.
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But it stops short.
Too many neighborhoods, buildings and institutions sit nearby and still aren't connected to it.
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We carry it the rest of the way.
NODE builds and operates the infrastructure that closes that gap, block by block.
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Then everything can run on it.
Internet access, private networks, research, edge computing and services that don't exist yet.
More than an Internet connection
Internet is one of many things our network carries.
A typical provider sells you a connection. We build and operate the infrastructure underneath it: the transport, the neighborhood hubs and the links into every building. That foundation carries Internet access today, and private networks, research connections and edge computing alongside it.
A typical provider
NODE
The platform
Seven layers, integrated and operated as one network.
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Core & interconnection
Our network core: routing, security and the interconnections that tie us into regional networks.
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Regional transport
High-capacity links between major infrastructure and the communities we serve.
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Community aggregation
A neighborhood hub where capacity lands once and is shared across the area.
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Last mile
Fiber and wireless connections to each home, building and institution.
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Buildings
The networks inside properties and campuses, down to the unit and the device.
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Services
Internet, transport, private networks and managed connectivity.
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Applications
Education, healthcare, research, AI, workforce and business, running on top.
Who we serve
One network, built for every organization in the community.
- CarriersYour community infrastructure and last-mile partner.
- Property ownersYour building connectivity and infrastructure partner.
- MunicipalitiesYour community digital infrastructure partner.
- SchoolsA pathway into a larger technology ecosystem.
- Research institutionsA way to bring advanced infrastructure into community settings.
- Community organizationsInfrastructure that powers your programs and opportunity.
- BusinessesConnectivity and infrastructure services.
- ResidentsReliable, affordable connectivity.
- Infrastructure investorsInfrastructure linking regional digital assets to community-scale demand.
A designated Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in Illinois.
In November 2022 the Illinois Commerce Commission designated Node Networks LLC an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (Docket 22-0085) for the limited purpose of offering Lifeline service, providing facilities-based broadband over a fiber and fixed-wireless network we own.
Building, connecting or investing in a community?
Carriers, property owners, municipalities, schools, research institutions, community organizations, businesses and residents: tell us what you need to connect and the right person at NODE will reply.