the guide for enterprise connectivity in North Dakota
DCN is built for organizations with real infrastructure demands. Commercial, wholesale, government, hyperscale. If your connectivity has to stay on, you're in the right place.
Which best describes your organization?
commercial
Multi-location businesses that can’t afford to be down.
Banks, hospitals, schools, retailers. One network connecting every site, with the uptime your business plans around.
wholesale
A carrier partner that consistently delivers.
Top-rated service delivery and service assurance. Reliable routes across North Dakota. A genuine diverse path.
government
Secure, compliant connectivity for the public sector.
State, federal, public institutions, and critical infrastructure. Built to the standards the public sector requires.
hyperscale
Direct access to North Dakota’s fiber backbone.
High-capacity wave and dark fiber. Low latency. Zero jitter. Diverse routes. No middlemen between you and the network.
the services behind every solution.
Whatever your industry, the toolbox is the same. Here’s what we build solutions from.
DCN operates a 100% fiber optic network.
Annual global IP traffic is estimated to quickly reach a zettabyte, if it hasn’t surpassed it already. Are you prepared? With DCN’s Carrier Ethernet and Private Line services, you can reliably deliver...
Private cloud, hosted in North Dakota.
Dakota Carrier Network brings private, public, or hybrid cloud hosting, data storage, and disaster recovery solutions to businesses across North Dakota. With enterprise data doubling every 12 to 18 months according to...
Tier III Data Center Facilities | Bismarck & Fargo
DCN’s carrier-neutral 23,180-square foot Great Plains Data Center in Fargo and 72,000-square foot Coleman Data Center in Bismarck provide hardened, secure, affordable, customized, comprehensive co-location data storage for an array of companies,...
Private connections between your locations.
With the ever-increasing sophistication and frequency of cyberattacks, it’s critical that your business has a reliable network and endpoint security in place. DCN’s industry-leading DDoS protection and high availability firewall solutions deliver...
Bandwidth that stays yours.
With DCN’s direct fiber connections from Fargo and Bismarck to multiple Tier 1 service providers, speed, reliability, and security are built into every connection. Combined with our industry-leading service guarantees, we offer...
Your own fiber. Your own rules.
DCN Wavelength Service – also known as Carrier Wavelength, Fiber Optic Service, or Lit Fiber Service – is a large bandwidth connection delivering internet or data service over lit fiber-optic lines. Wavelength...
Your own fiber optic infrastructure with total control. DCN’s Dark Fiber solutions provide dedicated, unlit fiber strands across North Dakota’s largest 100% fiber optic network, giving your organization complete autonomy over your...
Four distinct pathways carry your data across a secure, 100% fiber infrastructure. We work directly with you to customize the perfect mix of Ethernet and dedicated internet bandwidth.
Four distinct pathways carry your data across a secure, 100% fiber infrastructure. We work directly with you to customize the perfect mix of Ethernet and dedicated internet bandwidth.
Real vendor diversity, not just another name on the contract.
Hyperscale operators are increasingly asking a harder question: when you say you have three carriers serving your data center, how many of them are actually different networks? Three resellers pulling from the same underlying fiber isn’t vendor diversity. It’s the same risk with three invoices.
DCN is a genuinely different option. We own our network. Our routes are our own. Our operations happen in North Dakota, on fiber we built and maintain. When you bring DCN in alongside a national carrier, you’re adding real redundancy.
hyperscale data centers
Built for the Buildings that can’t go dark.
High-capacity wave service and dark fiber. Low latency on engineered routes to Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and beyond. Operational support from a North Dakota NOC.
vendor diversity
Truly different paths.
Independent ownership. Independent operations. Independent routes. The kind of diversity that holds up when you need it.
hyperscale data centers
Built for the Buildings that can’t go dark.
High-capacity wave service and dark fiber. Low latency on engineered routes to Chicago, Denver, Seattle, and beyond. Operational support from a North Dakota NOC.
vendor diversity
Truly different paths.
Independent ownership. Independent operations. Independent routes. The kind of diversity that holds up when you need it.
Why organizations choose dcn.
There’s no standard package. Every business runs differently. A bank with eight branches needs something different than a hospital system or a hyperscaler planning a data center.
Here’s why our customers trust us.
99.999%
Engineered uptime.
The five nines.
70,000+ miles
Of fiber across North
Dakota and beyond.
100%
Fiber network.
No workarounds.
Your connectivity isn’t a line item. It’s the floor your business stands on.
The organizations that work with DCN tend to have one thing in common. Downtime isn't an inconvenience. It's a real cost. Missed transactions. Delayed care. Stalled operations. If that's your reality, start a conversation.