Cyber Internet Services Private Limited, typically referred to as Cybernet is a B2B

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(ISP) based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a subsidiary of the Lakson Group of Companies. Cybernet became a Tier-1 provider in November 2022 by launching their own submarine communications cable project called '

PEACE Peace is a state of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence, and everything that discusses achieving human welfare through justice and peaceful conditions. In a societal sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (suc ...

', connecting Pakistan to

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and the

Middle East The Middle East (term originally coined in English language) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage by the United Kingdom and western Eur ...

Network

Cybernet peers with

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and

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as well as with

DE-CIX DE-CIX (Deutsche Commercial Internet Exchange) is an operator of carrier- and data-center-neutral Internet exchanges (IXs), with operations in Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia. All DE-CIX activities and com ...

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and

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. They also have peering and interconnect agreements with networks in the Middle East, through

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and

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. They own and operate the PEACE submarine cable that lands in Karachi, providing them with over 600 Gbit/s of bandwidth, which can be expanded to almost three times that amount based on its currently installed capacity of 1.6 Tbit/s. In July 2021, Cybernet rolled out IPv6 across its network making it one of the first ISPs in Pakistan to deploy IPv6.

Services

Cybernet offers various connectivity solutions such as dedicated fiber internet, data center services, web hosting and cloud computing to SMEs and large companies across Pakistan.

Outages

Cybernet suffered an outage on December 1, 2019, due to a fire at its headquarters.

Controversy

* Cybernet, together with Nayatel took PESCO to court for abusing its dominant position by increasing Right of Way charges by 10 times. Cybernet won the case in December 2022. * StormFiber employees were attacked by local cable operators in Lahore

StormFiber

StormFiber is Cybernet's consumer facing brand that offers

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(FTTH) internet to residential users. They have coverage in over 20 cities across Pakistan. It has plans ranging from 20 Mbit/s to 120 Mbit/s, as well as additional services like

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and high-definition

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References

{{Reflist Internet service providers of Pakistan