CASCADIA GATEWAY CORPORATION

The Internet, just like electricity, is now an essential service and like the brown-outs that have occurred in major cities due to lack of electrical capacity, so too is Vancouver and the Cascadia region faced with an Internet capacity issue. The current digital highway connecting Vancouver, and the lower mainland as a whole, is out of capacity for connectivity to the rest of the world to the point where companies wanting to locate anywhere along the Cascadia corridor are unable to as a result of this issue. The situation also places limits on access to education, health care, services, job creation, corporate growth in the more rural regions of Cascadia. Compounded by the need for substantially greater capacity when considering the coming 5G wireless and IoT services, this is fast becoming a critical situation. This challenge has provided Cascadia Gateway Corporation the opportunity to install a new 864 strand high-density fiber-optic network between Harbour Centre in Vancouver and..

Also known as: Cascadia, Cascadia Gateway

Primary location: Canada