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Elimination of 200 Ft Driveway Limit

Carver County negotiated with Metronet to pilot their first ever rural program that eliminates Metronet's maximum 200 ft driveway limit to the house or business that would have previously labeled that address as unserviceable

Connect Up Carver Fiber Line Feeder Routes and Across the Road Addresses

Based on the separate but associated Connect Up Carver Project, the County identified addresses on the opposing side of the road and along fiber feeder line connection routes that fall outside of the Connect Up Carver "Defined Geographic Construction Area".

City Fiber Agreements

City Fiber Agreements are non-binding agreements that CarverLink drafted and then helped to facilitate agreement of between Metronet and individual Carver County cities, which encompass Metronet agreeing to build out fiber to all addresses within each respective citys, city limits

Connect Up Carver Initiative

View all the information about our $10.5 million Connect Up Carver project that started in 2022 and runs through Dec 31, 2024, that is constructing over 350+ miles of rural fiber in Carver County to make fiber internet service available to almost 2200+ rural addresses.

Connect Up Carver Fill the Gaps

Based on the separate but associated Connect Up Carver Project, the County identified roughly 9 miles of "fill the gaps" fiber construction in the overall 350 miles of build that would benefit from filling gaps along various routes.

Connect Up Carver 5 LCP Areas

Based on the separate but associated CarverLink rural build Connect Up Carver Project, these 5 city limit build areas, located within Chanhassen, Victoria, Watertown and Cologne, are part of an arrangement between CarverLink and Metronet to construct fiber within them.

State of MN Line Extension Program

The purpose of this State of Minnesota funded program is to award grants for the extension of existing broadband infrastructure to individual unserved locations that are just outside the distance service providers consider serviceable

Help Us to the Finish Line - Carver County Rural Broadband

CarverLink submits a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) Request Application due by Friday March 10th, 2023 called the Help Us to the Finish Line - Carver County Rural Broadband

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Connect Up Carver Exhibit C Items

Based on the associated Connect Up Carver Project, the County identified a number of high priority fiber routes to several public and community support entity locations,which the County identifies as Exhibit C items.

Eden Prairie Collaboration

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Hennepin County Collaboration

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Public Entity Dark Fiber Rings

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Public and Community Support Entities

The public and community support entities served by the CarverLink Fiber Network include the County, connection to all 11 cities within the County, the transit authority (SW Transit), all public schools, the college (Crown College), the two largest medical providers within the County (Ridgeview Medical and Lakeview Clinic), the Carver County Economic Development Authority, and several townships. There are two types of public users on the CarverLink network: users that only use CarverLink as their internet service provider (ISP) and users that use CarverLink internet as well as dark fiber between their facilities, allowing them to eliminate communication lines known as T1’s or their equivalents.

If you are with a public entity, either within or outside of Carver County and have questions about connections to the CarverLink Network, please contact Randy Lehs, CarverLink Fiber Manager at 952-361-1200.

Private Businesses and Residents

The private customers in the CarverLink Network, which include the businesses and residents of Carver County, are served by the initial service provider in the network, Metronet (formerly Jaguar Communications) and Arvig. CarverLink also has fiber available for other qualified service providers to utilize so they can provide services to businesses and residents as well and it is the County’s desire to allow the free market to initiate competition and shape the opportunities and services in the marketplace. At this time no other service providers outside of Metronet and Arvig have entered the marketplace using the CarverLink fiber. If you are interested in connecting to Metronet's fiber network or Arvig's fiber network please contact:

ARVIG
www.arvig.net
Call 952-236-5666

Open Access / Open Interconnect (Internet Service Providers Only)

The primary reason for the construction of the CarverLink Fiber Network was to provide high-speed connectivity for the County and the public entities of Carver County.

Second, the CarverLink Network was constructed to put in place the middle mile communications infrastructure to allow qualified private service providers to provide services to residents and businesses that they could not previously reach. Apart from Metronet and Arvig, there are six additional wired service providers in Carver County: CenturyLink/Lumen, Comcast, Frontier, Mediacom, Charter, and Nuvera. To date, none of these providers has expressed an active interest in using CarverLink fiber infrastructure to provide services to new customers or upgraded services to their existing customers.

If you are a service provider and are interested in potentially utilizing fiber within the CarverLink Fiber Network, please contact Randy Lehs, CarverLink Fiber Manager at 952-361-1200.