FairlawnGig: Fairlawn
FairlawnGig, the City of Fairlawn's municipal broadband utility, runs a small colocation data center inside the city's service department building in Fairlawn, Ohio.
FairlawnGig
FairlawnGig is owned by the City of Fairlawn, Ohio, and run by its service department. It operates a fiber network that passes every home and business in Fairlawn and in the Akron, Bath and Fairlawn Joint Economic Development District, and it extends service over the Medina County Fiber Network.
The utility runs a data center inside the city service building at 3300 Fairlawn Service Drive, with generator backup and multiple carriers, where businesses rent cabinets. It also offers Layer 2 transport, dark fiber and a direct connection to Amazon Web Services.
FairlawnGig History:
- By February 2026, FairlawnGig had begun a $2 million remodel of its data center to triple its space.
- In 2020, FairlawnGig began offering colocation to businesses.
- In 2017, the city built the FairlawnGig data center inside its service building and began offering gigabit home internet.
- In 2015, the mayor of Fairlawn proposed the FairlawnGig network.
FairlawnGig Data Center Map
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