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Community owned fibre, smart city networks and Indigenous and rural broadband, planned, costed, built and operated on one platform, with quantum-safe encryption designed in rather than added later.
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Federal and provincial broadband funding is moving into construction, and every funded build carries reporting obligations on progress, spend and approvals that most communities have never had to produce before. Smart city networks are growing by the sensor: traffic, transit, water, public safety and facilities each add links the city did not design and rarely inventories. Canada's National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure names the sectors these networks serve, and ITSM.40.001 sets the migration timeline the systems on them will inherit. A network built this year will still be in service in 2045. Whether it is quantum-safe by then is decided now, at the design stage, when it costs almost nothing, not later, when it costs a rebuild.
The network lasts twenty years and the council that approved it changes every four. Ownership matters: a community that builds its own fibre wants to keep it, and most do not want to become a telecom operator to do so. Open access means several service providers on one network, each with their own requirements. The people who run the water plant, the traffic signals and the community centre are often the same small team, and the budget is public, scrutinised and tied to a funding agreement.
For a new build: the network planned, costed, built and documented on one fibre infrastructure intelligence platform. GIS route planning, estimating with cost codes, materials and procurement, crews, permits and construction, and commitment accounting with portfolio reporting, in one workspace with controlled access for the funder, the contractor and the community. Quantum-safe encryption and monitoring switched on from the first splice, so the as built network is protected on the day it is handed over.
For an existing network: the Fall 2026 Discovery Program, scoped to the community's network and the smart infrastructure on it, with a cryptographic bill of materials, findings ranked by consequence to the services the network carries, and a roadmap phased to fit a capital plan and a funding cycle.
For operation: Network Operator as a Service. The community keeps ownership; Fabric runs the operations and security layers under a fixed scope and reports to the council and the funder.
A written, fixed scope quote before any work starts. Flexible pricing to fit your budget, with monthly instalments available.
Plan, estimate, design, bill of materials, procure, build, verify, as built and operate: one sequence, one source of truth, every change approved on the record. Every security finding is labelled customer supplied, discovered or our judgment. Fabric Networks designs, supplies, installs and operates in Canada, from Calgary, with decades of experience in Canadian open access network operations. The report and the as built documentation are written for the operator who has to run the network and the council or funder who has to sign for it.
Municipalities and regional districts, First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities and their development corporations, community broadband corporations, smart city and technology integration leads, and the funders and program managers who oversee them.
Fall 2026 Discovery Program · Fibre network build and operations · ITSM.40.001 migration roadmap
Twenty year infrastructure built on a four year political cycle. Funding agreements that demand reporting the community has never produced. Keeping ownership without becoming a telecom operator. Several service providers on one open access network. Smart city sensors adding links nobody inventories. Small teams responsible for everything.
Community owned fibre, built once and operated under Network Operator as a Service. Smart city networks: traffic, transit, water, public safety and facilities on protected links. Indigenous and rural broadband with community ownership and managed security. Funded build reporting for governments and funders. Healthcare and education connectivity across a region.
Yes. That is the point of building and operating on one platform: the route, the materials and the construction are planned in the same workspace that the quantum-safe encryption and monitoring are switched on from, so the network is protected from the first splice rather than retrofitted.
The scope is sized to the network, not to the population. A community owned network or a regional district can run a Discovery Program on the segments that matter most, and Network Operator as a Service means the community keeps ownership while the operations and security layers are run for it.
Funded builds carry reporting obligations on progress, spend and approvals. The build platform tracks commitments, change approvals and financial performance in one place, with controlled access for funders and partner organizations, so the reporting is produced as a by product of the build rather than reconstructed afterwards.
You do. Fabric designs, builds and can operate it under Network Operator as a Service, and the as built documentation, the inventory and the roadmap are handed over as yours.
Twenty minutes, no slides. We ask about your sites, what is driving the interest now and what a useful outcome looks like, and we tell you plainly whether a Discovery Program fits or whether a smaller first step is right.
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