A point-to-point circuit connects two of your locations directly. Traffic between them never enters the public internet, is not subject to internet routing, and does not need a VPN wrapped around it to be private. For Fresno organizations with a headquarters in town and operations outside it, this is usually the service that actually solves the problem.
The Fresno version of this requirement is distinctive because of what sits around the city. Packing houses, processing plants, well sites, district facilities, and county buildings are spread across a county larger than several states, and a great deal of what we build is a private path from one of them back into town.
A site-to-site VPN gives you privacy through encryption but inherits every property of the internet paths underneath it — variable latency, variable loss, and a failure mode nobody controls. A point-to-point circuit gives you a dedicated Layer 2 path with predictable behaviour, which matters when the traffic is control systems, clinical data, replication, or voice. Many organizations run both: the circuit as the primary path, the VPN as the fallback.
Two shapes dominate. A hub design connects several outlying sites back to a Fresno headquarters, keeping internet access centralised and inspected in one place. A pair design connects two facilities directly — usually a primary and a secondary site that replicate to each other, or a plant and the office that runs it. Both are engineered against specific endpoints rather than sold by distance tier.
The distance and route between endpoints, whether each site is reachable from existing fiber, what construction either end requires, and whether a physically diverse second path is possible. That last question is where most of the value is, and it is site-specific — we will tell you plainly whether diversity is achievable rather than implying it.
Full service detail lives on the Point-to-Point Fiber & Ethernet Transport page, and the wider market context is on the Fresno location page.
Dedicated internet connects you to the internet. A point-to-point circuit connects two of your own sites to each other and nothing else. Organizations often buy both: a private path between locations, plus one dedicated internet circuit at the site where internet traffic is centralised and inspected.
Frequently — it is a large share of what this network was built to do. Whether a specific outlying site is reachable depends on distance and route, and the review establishes that before anything is quoted.
Size it to the traffic that actually crosses it. Replication and backup windows usually set the number; control and monitoring traffic is small but latency-sensitive. Capacity is straightforward to change later, so it is better to size for what you know than to guess high.
Service levels for point-to-point circuits are set out in the service agreement, covering availability and response. Ask to see the specific terms before signing — with us or with any provider.
Send us the address and a bandwidth target. A California-based engineer confirms what can be delivered there, what it involves, and how long it takes.
Send the Fresno address and what the connection needs to carry. An engineer confirms whether it can be served, what the build involves, and how long it takes.
Service availability depends on location, network proximity, capacity, and engineering review. Share an address and we will confirm what can be delivered there.