KsFiberNet
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Kansas Fiber Network (KFN) is a regional fiber optic network provider that owns and operates dedicated fiber infrastructure across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, connecting 250+ cities and approximately 50,000 near-net locations. Founded in 2009, KFN serves enterprise organizations, carriers, and hyperscale operators with services including dedicated internet access, Ethernet, dark fiber, wavelength, cloud connectivity, mobile backhaul, data center connectivity, and custom fiber builds. KFN is ...
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Ideal Customer
- KFN's sweet spot is mid-market to large enterprise organizations, wholesale carriers, and hyperscale operators with multi-location footprints in Kansas, Missouri, and/or Oklahoma that need dedicated (not shared) fiber infrastructure.
- Their typical customer has sites across the Midwest region and operates in bandwidth-intensive sectors such as banking, healthcare, government, or telecommunications.
Key Differentiators
- KFN's primary differentiator is ownership of all fiber miles — the company explicitly positions itself as owning the physical infrastructure rather than reselling third-party capacity, enabling dedicated (non-shared) enterprise and carrier-grade performance with no residential traffic on the network.
- KFN competes on regional depth and local accountability: the same engineering team that designs a circuit also installs and supports it, with no handoffs to national call centers or regional queues.
Industries Served
- KFN explicitly serves carriers and wholesale network operators, enterprise businesses, hyperscalers and cloud infrastructure providers, banking and financial institutions, healthcare organizations (hospitals, clinics, multi-site health systems), K-12 education (as a USAC-registered E-Rate Category 1 vendor with a 498 ID), and federal, state, and local government agencies.
- For banking and finance, KFN provides annual SOC 2 reporting; for healthcare, its infrastructure is positioned to support HIPAA compliance requirements; and for government, KFN is included on the State of Kansas WAN contract, covering multiple political subdivisions including education, healthcare, and local government.
Service Coverage
- KsFiberNet (KFN) is a regional fiber provider operating across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, with long-haul routes extending to Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas, and Chicago.
- The network spans 6,000+ miles of owned fiber, reaching 250+ cities and connecting 19 data centers, with primary offices in Wichita, KS and Overland Park, KS.
Partnerships
- KFN participates in the channel through a formal agency agreement with Telarus, the largest technology solutions brokerage in the U.S., making KFN services available to Telarus' network of 4,000+ technology consultants via its GeoQuote platform.
- KFN is also a member of INDATEL, a national consortium of independent state fiber networks, which extends KFN's footprint and provides rural Ethernet exchange (REX) access nationwide.
Company Size & Ownership
- KFN was founded in May 2009 and is a small-to-mid-sized company with an estimated 35–58 employees depending on the source, with LinkedIn and Glassdoor citing 11–50 employees and some data aggregators reporting up to 51–200.
- Estimated annual revenue is approximately $10–$15 million, with ZoomInfo and Datanyze reporting $14.9M and Glassdoor estimating $10–$25M.
Compliance & Certifications
- KFN offers annual SOC 2 reporting for banking and financial services customers, and its dedicated fiber infrastructure is designed to support HIPAA compliance requirements for healthcare customers.
- KFN is a USAC-registered E-Rate vendor (498 ID), qualifying it for federally subsidized school connectivity programs.
Compiled from public sources by VenSearch · Last researched October 14, 2026
Offerings
9 offeringsCloud Connectivity
Direct fiber paths to AWS (via AWS Direct Connect), Microsoft Azure (via Azure ExpressRoute), and Google Cloud (via Cloud Interconnect) through carrier-neutral cloud on-ramp facilities in Kansas City and Wichita. Bypasses the public internet to deliver predictable latency and consistent bandwidth, with bandwidth tiers from 1G to 100G and redundant connectivity options for production workloads.
Custom Fiber Builds
Project-managed fiber construction engagements to install new fiber infrastructure to off-net locations across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Covers route engineering, permitting and right-of-way negotiation, outside plant construction, splicing, and connection to KFNs existing backbone, with defined scope, schedule, and named engineering and construction leads. A recent 130-mile build into the Kansas City metro demonstrates the scale supported.
Dark Fiber
Long-term leases of unlit fiber strands on KFNs regional backbone for carriers, ISPs, and hyperscalers that install and manage their own optical equipment. Available in both monthly lease and IRU (indefeasible right of use) structures across documented routes between Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Lawrence, and adjacent markets, with KFN handling physical fiber, splicing, and outside plant operations.
Data Center Connectivity
Direct fiber access to 19 data center facilities across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, including carrier-neutral interconnect points in Kansas City and Wichita, with long-haul routes extending to Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas, and Chicago. Connection types include cross-connects, dual-entry, and route-diverse fiber, supporting enterprise colocation, carrier interconnect, and hyperscale campus connections with bandwidth tiers from 1G to 100G.
Dedicated Internet Access (DIA)
A private fiber connection reserved exclusively for one organization, delivering symmetrical upload and download speeds with guaranteed bandwidth and SLA-backed uptime of 99.998%. Available at speeds from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps on KFNs owned regional fiber backbone across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, with no shared capacity and 24/7 Kansas-based engineering support.
Ethernet
Point-to-point and multipoint Ethernet transport on KFNs owned regional fiber backbone, supporting EPL, EVPL, and E-LAN configurations with bandwidth tiers from 10 Mbps to 10G and higher capacity delivered as dedicated wavelength. Designed for multi-location enterprise private backbones and carrier-to-carrier transport between primary Midwest markets, with availability SLAs and 24/7 support.
Klear Portal
KFNs managed network monitoring portal included with service, providing customers real-time visibility into every circuit under one login with alerts, utilization data, and scheduled maintenance notifications. Gives customers provisioning control and performance visibility in one place across all their KFN-connected sites.
Mobile Backhaul
Dedicated fiber backhaul connecting cell towers, small cells, and DAS nodes to mobile network operator core networks across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Delivers lit Ethernet backhaul from 10 Mbps to 10 Gbps, dark fiber options for higher capacity, EVC routing and VLAN flexibility, and carrier-class SLAs with 24/7 NOC monitoring. Supports macro cell towers, small cell densification, and neutral-host/DAS deployments.
Wavelength
Dedicated optical transport services from 20G to 400G on KFNs 400G-ready DWDM backbone, with 100G available today on primary routes across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. Provides point-to-point capacity between primary markets with deterministic latency, no contention, and diverse route options engineered to carrier and hyperscale specifications.
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