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Alaska overview
Your customers drive demand for voice and data in Alaska. Alaska is better positioned than most states to weather the current economic storm.  Our strategically located, resource-based economy continues to add jobs, and the state’s large savings account provides a stabilizing influence.

ACS overview
Let Alaska Communications Systems cost-effectively protect, manage, and deliver your voice and data traffic to and from Alaska.

ACS is the technology leader in telecommunications in Alaska, based in Anchorage with 1,000 employees serving over 74 communities.  We have just completed the build of our new undersea cable Alaska Oregon Network, AKORN.  With our peering points in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, we are ready to connect your customers to the rest of the world.

In 2009, ACS invested $175 million to connect Alaska to the Lower 48 via two fiber optic cables: the most advanced fiber optic cable ever to be built in Alaska, the Alaska Oregon Network (AKORN), and the Northstar cable. These two cables offer Alaska connectivity and a protected path to the Lower 48.

Before AKORN, Alaska's communications traffic was connected to the Lower 48 via three undersea fiber optic cables that traveled to the Alaska departure point within feet of each other along the Turnagain Arm. Any disaster along this route could have wiped out connectivity. To avoid this, ACS designed a new fourth cable, AKORN, for total traffic security. It avoids Turnagain Arm and travels a completely different route from Anchorage, to Nikiski, to Homer and on to Florence, Oregon. It's buried deeper than any other cable, offers the highest speed, and the best error correction technology.

Keeping Alaska connected is what ACS does.  
That’s why ACS built diverse routes, dual Network Operation Control Centers (NOCC), and Remote Data Hosting to provide reliable and secure connectivity in good times and in the case of disaster.  To provide this level of service, ACS has invested in assets across the country.  All these investments are of strategic importance, giving you access to the most important locations and to the best talent.

ACS provides diverse submarine routes that meet at the ACS Landing Stations in Florence and Nedonna Beach in Oregon.  In addition to serving ACS’ AKORN and Northstar cables, these landing sites are used by other trans-Pacific cables such as the Southern Cross cable from Australia and have room for more.  Diverse paths then carry traffic to connect to ACS Peering Points in Seattle and Portland.  This diverse fiber network in Oregon and Washington is also available for other customers who have traffic requirements in the Pacific Northwest.

In Seattle and Portland, ACS has meet-me connectivity and co-location facilities in the Westin and Pittock buildings, respectively. These “carrier hotels” allow for easy interconnection to many if not most global carriers.  ACS’ fiber access can be used by other carriers to allow them to more easily connect to these major network nodes.
 
ACS offers out-of-state Remote Data Hosting at our facility located in Hillsboro, Oregon.  This location is in the Silicon Forest, a nickname that refers to the cluster of high tech companies between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon.  Many companies doing business in Alaska also have offices here.  Hillsboro could also be used as a connectivity point to improve access by their high tech companies to global networks.

ACS also offers network management services from Dual NOCCs in Anchorage and the Lower 48.

ACS isn’t just in Alaska anymore.  Recent investments have extended the ACS presence into the Pacific Northwest and beyond.  This not only benefits Alaska, but opens new opportunities up and down the west coast.

Strategic Business Partnerships Big three US Carriers Carrier Services Data Large bandwidth Internet SIP terminations Voice Voice terminations Co-location

Systems Integrator Services Data Networks Metro Ethernet MPLS Internet Dedicated Internet Access SIP terminations Voice Voice terminations Managed Services INMC

To learn more, contact ACScarrier_federalsales@acsalaska.com