Urban Communications, Inc. is a locally owned, privately held corporation which has been providing broadband internet services to Chicago’s southern, southwestern, and western suburbs since 1997.
Urbancom.net currently maintains and operates its own equipment on almost two dozen transmission sites. We cover a substantial portion of Cook County, Will County, DuPage County, Kane County and Winnebago counties in Illinois, delivering fixed microwave wireless internet access to businesses, governmental agencies, school districts, public colleges, home based offices, and residential customers. Our business customers range from small one person companies to multi-national fortune 100 companies. Our customers do have one thing in common – they all desire the very best service and reliability. We also design, build and manage private microwave networks for government and educational institutions throughout other areas of Illinois and across the country. We provide continuously monitored premium bandwidth connected to Tier 1 providers, not the oversubscribed Tier 3 connections sold by others
Urbancom.net operates the Chicago Southland Fiber Network. This true public private partnership between Urbancom.net, CSFN, and the South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association and Cook County with construction funded by the State of Illinois Build Illinois Jobs Program, Cook County and Urbancom.net provides a state of the art ultra-high speed fiber optic backbone in the Chicago South Suburbs. The investment by the parties of over $19 million allows Urbancom.net to operate a Tier III+ data center for colocation of servers and operate the fiber optic network which provides redundant dual homes connections to the main backbone of the Internet.
As a service provider on the iFiber network we can provide services ranging from 100Mbps to 10 Gbps or even 100 Gbps to Community Anchor Institutions, (CAI’S) as well as commercial, enterprises and telecommunications carriers.
In addition to traditional internet connectivity, Urbancom.net provides our customers with a robust compliment of additional IP related services including VoIP, telecommunications and Polycom video conferencing. Our hosted solutions include data center services, co-location, managed servers, web hosting, disaster recovery, business continuity, hosted Cisco VoIP and hosted Exchange Server. Urbancom.net’s government services division also provides custom solutions for government agencies including secure high speed private microwave networks used for data, voice and video surveillance. Our video surveillance projects allow first responders to cost effectively provides protection of crucial public infrastructure and protect the community by viewing real time video from key areas in the community.
Throughout all our endeavors Urbancom.net strives to provide the best customer service and reliability possible.
As a complete solutions provider, we provide our customers with cost-effective IT solutions.
Call us at 708-687-2090 or e-mail sales@urbancom.net and let us empower your business with the access you need.