Fiber and Voice for California Public Agencies

E-Rate and CALNET-friendly connectivity on our vast statewide network for city halls, public safety, and transportation — with diverse-routed 911 dispatch and ITS backhaul.

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Public Sector runs on the network.

Cities, counties, and state agencies run essential services on the network — 911 dispatch, traffic systems, public records, and the daily business of government. Procurement rules and uptime requirements leave no room for improvisation.

Vast Networks delivers E-Rate and CALNET-friendly connectivity over our own statewide fiber, with diverse-routed circuits for dispatch and ITS backhaul. Local engineers handle the build, and our 24/7 NOC keeps every site watched.

Engineered for the work.

The capabilities our public sector customers rely on every day.

E-Rate and CALNET procurement

Contract-friendly services with billing that fits public purchasing processes.

911 dispatch resiliency

Diverse-routed circuits engineered so dispatch never depends on a single path.

ITS and traffic backhaul

Dedicated capacity for signals, cameras, and intelligent transportation systems.

Agency-wide voice

Civic-grade SIP trunking and hosted voice across departments and sites.

A starting point, engineered to fit.

The services public sector customers deploy most — every build is designed around your sites, bandwidth, and redundancy.

Dedicated Fiber

E-Rate and CALNET-friendly dedicated circuits.

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Point-to-Point

Diverse routing for 911 dispatch and ITS backhaul.

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SIP Trunking

Civic-grade voice for agencies and departments.

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Reliability you can build on.

Owned infrastructure and local engineering — not a reseller routing you offshore.

Privately owned fiber

5,000+ miles of underground fiber engineered in California.

Carrier-grade uptime SLA

Financially-backed service levels on every dedicated circuit.

24/7 local NOC

Monitored around the clock by California-based engineers.

California backbone

Low-latency routes across the Central Valley and statewide.

Public Sector connectivity questions

How do public agencies buy connectivity from you?

Through whatever process the agency is bound by — competitive solicitation, cooperative agreement, or an existing vehicle — and we provide the pricing, service descriptions, and documentation each of those needs. Where a program applies, such as E-Rate for schools and libraries or the California Teleconnect Fund for eligible entities, we support the filing rather than treating it as the agency’s problem to solve alone.

Can dispatch and public-safety sites be built resiliently?

Where physically separate routes exist to the site, yes, and that is engineered explicitly rather than assumed from a diagram. Where they do not, the honest design is a documented single path plus a secondary service over a different medium, described as exactly that. For dispatch in particular, knowing which of those two you have is more valuable than a redundancy label.

Can you backhaul traffic signals, cameras, and ITS equipment?

Yes, and it is a common build. Signal controllers and detection are light; camera coverage is the volume, and it is almost entirely upstream, which is where contended services fail. The practical questions are aggregation points along the corridor, growth headroom as cameras are added, and keeping that traffic on a private path rather than a public one.

Can facilities across a city or county share one network?

That is usually the point. Private paths between city hall, public works yards, libraries, corporation yards, and remote facilities put the agency on one network with centralised egress, one voice platform, and one place to apply policy — instead of a separate circuit, firewall, and phone bill at every address.

How long does a build in the public right-of-way take?

Longer than the fiber work itself suggests, because encroachment permits, traffic control, and coordination with other agencies set the pace. We give a timeline after a route survey against the actual addresses, and we would rather quote a realistic date than an optimistic one that a permit cycle then moves.

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