Lighting up the neighbouhood
Location: South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario
Fibre To The Home
Engineering, route design, permitting, Municipal concurrence, construction, and neighborhood management.
Key Facts:
- 1,100 premises connected
- 35km of dark fibre and duct established
- 40km of new fibre deployed
The Challenge
A hyperscaler secured real estate and power for a new data centre in northeast Toronto, but the site had no underground duct infrastructure to reach existing outside plant (OSP) fibre networks.
The data centre sits inside a commercial compound, bordered by:
- A major highway corridor
- Multiple privately owned properties
- Limited direct access to the public right‑of‑way
To achieve the required carrier connectivity and true path diversity, the facility needed two physically separate underground routes across private lands before reaching municipal corridors. That meant:
- Designing redundant fibre paths around physical and regulatory constraints
- Negotiating easements and access with multiple landowners
- Securing permits and approvals across several jurisdictions
- Coordinating construction in a high‑traffic, infrastructure‑dense area
The hyperscaler needed a partner who could align all parties, own the risk of delivery, and provide a scalable, carrier‑neutral fibre solution into the new data centre.
The Solution
Shared Fibre led an end‑to‑end program to connect the new data centre and extend high‑speed access into the surrounding community.
Working closely with the hyperscaler, local government, and adjacent landowners, Shared Fibre:
- Engineered two diverse underground fibre routes from the data centre to the public right‑of‑way, each traversing separate private properties to ensure physical path diversity
- Negotiated easements and access agreements across the commercial compound and neighbouring parcels
- Managed permitting and coordination with municipal authorities and utility stakeholders to minimize disruption and align with existing infrastructure plans
To deliver scalable connectivity:
- Shared Fibre partnered with a Tier‑1 national carrier to integrate the new routes into existing OSP networks
- 35 km of leased dark fibre and duct were secured to provide high‑capacity backhaul and transport
- 40 km of new fibre were constructed to deliver high‑speed FTTx service to more than 1,100 residential and commercial addresses in the area
Through this model, the hyperscaler gains:
- Dual diverse fibre paths into the data centre
- Carrier‑neutral connectivity options over resilient infrastructure
- A faster, lower‑risk path to bringing the facility online
At the same time:
- The carrier achieves its goals for improved network performance and subscriber growth, while minimizing capital expenditure through Shared Fibre’s flexible financing model
- The municipality gains a new marketable digital asset and enhanced reputation as a connected, investment‑ready community
- Residents and businesses benefit from reliable, high‑speed broadband that supports growth, innovation, and next‑generation services
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