About SVP Fiber Enterprise
A Century of Reliable Customer-Oriented Service
For over 100 years, Silicon Valley Power (SVP) has provided exemplary, award-winning electric service to customers in Santa Clara, and now we extend the same reliability to telecom carriers and commercial customers navigating high-speed communications markets
SVP developed its 57-mile dark fiber backbone as an efficient and dependable way to link the electrical substations that serve the community. The backbone was overbuilt to allow the city to act as a wholesale provider and lease dark fiber within the City of Santa Clara.
The SVP Dark Fiber Enterprise and its dedicated professional fiber team serve:
- Business and residential sectors throughout the City of Santa Clara
- Co-locations to the proximity of local exchange data center central offices
- Key data centers within Santa Clara
- Long distance points of presence (POPs)
SVP is responsible for installing network attachments and maintaining the backbone throughout Santa Clara. In addition, we:
- Provide attachment points to minimize construction costs
- Help secure independent network attachments
- Coordinate network planning and implementation efforts
Case Study #1 (PDF)
Case Study #2 (PDF)