Caribe.Net

Critical Hub Networks, Inc.
Caribe.Net
private
Industry telecommunications
Headquarters San Juan, Puerto Rico
Products broadband
telephone
Website https://web.archive.org/web/20090418001046/http://caribe.net:80/

Caribe.Net, also known as Critical Hub Networks, is a telecommunications company that provides broadband Internet access, data center and telephone services in Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in San Juan. On April 26, 2010 the company receive a $25.7 Million dollar federal award from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration for the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative.

History

Caribe.Net was founded in 1994 in Puerto Rico. It was the first internet service provider in Puerto Rico. Some of the services that the company offer for the first time in the island were:

In 1999, Caribe.Net was acquired by PSINet the largest independent facilities-based ISP in the world. In 2001 the company was acquire back by the original shareholders. Caribe.Net was also co-founder of the Internet Society of Puerto Rico and Network Access Point (NAP) of the Caribbean. In 2007 Caribe.Net teamed up with Voz to offer Enterprise-Level Telephone Services VoIP over Caribe.Net's Internet services.

In 2010 Critical Hub Networks Inc, received a $25.7 million ARRA grant through the U.S. Department of Commerce to bridge the technological divide, boost economic growth, create jobs, and improve education and health care through the improvement of broadband Internet services in Puerto Rico. The project awarded is the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative.

On February 22, 2011, Critical Hub Networks officially inaugurated the Puerto Rico Bridge Initiative, which established the PRBI Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Congressman Pedro Pierluisi participated in the inauguration event.

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