The Southern Utah Peering Regional Network is a regional exchange point - a local Internet access hub that streamlines and improves the efficiency of the way data is exchanged between service providers, businesses, government, and residents of the Southern Utah region.  By choosing InfoWest, you are automatically connected to the hub.

InfoWest and other locally-based ISP's, city and county governments, as well as the Utah education network all "peer," or exchange traffic at the SUPRNET hub.  Traffic between the connected peers does not have to travel the often congested internet backbones to reach each other.  For example, in the past, a file emailed from Dixie State College to an InfoWest customer would travel to Salt Lake, then to a number of points in the Denver or San Jose area, eventually making its way back to Salt Lake, St. George, then on to InfoWest.  During the trip, the download may be delayed by congested routers or over-used links anywhere in the path.     

With InfoWest's SUPRNET connection in place, the same file will go directly from Dixie State College, across a high speed Interlinx fiber connection to the SUPRNET, across another fiber connection directly to InfoWest - with as much as 100X less delay.  

A few more examples: Parents can now check student grades more quickly.  Library searches are just as fast at home as they are in the library.  School, city and county employees can do more work from home.

InfoWest business customers also reap the benefits of the local peering network.  For example, local title companies routinely connect to the Washington County recorder's office to search and download property information, maps and more.  With the new SUPRNET connection, our customers are just a couple hops away across a MUCH faster connection to the county than was previously in place.

Currently, the SUPRNET includes three locally-owned Internet service providers, the City of St. George, Washington County, and the Utah Education Network.  Utah Interlinx provides fiber optic connections between the peers.  We welcome other organizations to peer at SUPRNET. 

For more information on SUPRNET peering, contact Cassidy Larson or Randy Cosby at InfoWest.