Since 1996, OneNet has connected Oklahomans to essential research, education, health care, and government services. Our network was initially designed with a hub-and-spoke model that spanned points across Oklahoma.
Today, we connect subscribers in a wide variety of ways, from our robust fiber backbone to our state, regional and national partnerships.
Discover all the ways we keep Oklahomans connected!
Optical Fiber Network
OneNet utilizes an optical fiber network with multiple rings around the state for more reliability and resiliency for our network. The rings provide multiple paths for data to travel from community to community and outside the state.
Oklahoma Community Anchor Network
The Oklahoma Community Anchor Network, a 1,100+ mile fiber network managed by OneNet, is part of the fiber network. OCAN connects 93 community anchor institutions to high-speed broadband services and delivers connectivity to rural communities in 35 Oklahoma counties.
400G Research Backbone
In 2025, OneNet is upgrading our research backbone from 100G to 400G, with the capacity to grow to 800G in the future. This upgrade is driven by data-intensive research and high-throughput computing at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. The upgraded research backbone will enable data transfers for nationwide and global research projects.
Partnership with Higher Education
OneNet’s network is connected at approximately 90 points of presence across the state, known as “POPs”. These POPs include hubsites located in communities and rural areas. Many of OneNet’s hubsites are strategically located at our state’s colleges and universities, creating a robust partnership with our higher education system. This collaboration not only provides reliable connectivity for campuses but also creates a dependable and easily accessible location to house our network equipment—a win-win for education and connectivity.
Public-Private Partnerships
While OneNet’s network connects communities across the state, we depend on partnerships with local telecommunications providers to connect our subscribers to our network, which is called the “last mile” of service. We partner with approximately 30 private providers in Oklahoma. Over the last 12 years, we have reinvested more than $130 million with private partners to deliver last-mile services to our subscribers.
Watch our explainer video about how OneNet partners with local providers.
Dedicated Circuits with Symmetrical Speeds
One advantage of using the OneNet network is that we provide subscribers with dedicated circuits and symmetrical speeds. This means subscribers don’t share their circuits with every business or agency along the same path. Additionally, subscribers benefit from having the same upload and download speeds on their circuits.
State and County Partnerships
OneNet partners with other state agencies with fiber networks around the state to share access to state-owned fiber routes, saving network construction costs for all agencies. We also have partnerships with some county governments to share fiber assets.
OneOklahoma Friction Free Network
To support research and high-throughput computing at Oklahoma’s colleges and universities, OneNet operates the OneOklahoma Friction Free Network or OFFN. This research network will soon connect 30 campus sites, providing access to high-speed data transfer for global research initiatives and supercomputing resources for research and education at even our state’s smallest colleges.
Internet2 & Great Plains Network
OneNet partners with regional and national networks that provide high-speed connectivity for research and education organizations like those OneNet serves. The Great Plains Network connects OneNet subscribers to other organizations throughout the region, while Internet2 moves OneNet’s subscriber traffic across the country and around the globe.
Datacenter
OneNet’s Oklahoma City datacenter offers subscribers options for equipment colocation, disaster recovery, and virtual infrastructure. Our datacenter features state-of-the-art systems and robust connectivity.
Content Providers
OneNet enhances network speed and efficiency through content delivery networks (CDNs). Many content providers, like Google, use CDNs to position their content as close as possible to their users. OneNet’s datacenter houses CDN nodes for Netflix, Facebook, Akamai and Google. When OneNet subscribers access one of these sites, the information request must only travel to Oklahoma City and back, rather than across the country.
All these features and partnerships work together to provide OneNet subscribers with robust, reliable, and resilient high-speed connectivity. Over the last three decades, connectivity requirements have grown for Oklahoma’s research, education, health care, and government services, and OneNet has expanded its network to meet those requirements.
Looking ahead, OneNet is prepared to support upgrades to 800G to offer larger bandwidths for our subscribers. And we will continue to build partnerships that benefit Oklahomans in all 77 counties across our state.
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