What Our Customers Have To Say

UPN’s work provides KETV with an important connectivity solution for 7 Burlington Station. This connectivity supports our 24/7 mission to serve our community with excellence. The Unite Private Network team worked seamlessly with KETV’s engineering staff, providing multiple updates throughout the build out, and finishing on budget and on schedule.

Warren Behrens

Chief Engineer at KETV

The Shawnee Mission School District’s wide area network will serve as the UPN is great to work with. Support is very knowledgeable, responsive, and courteous. Their network monitoring can’t be beat. Whenever we are doing maintenance on our equipment we receive a call from them regarding connectivity issues between us and them. It’s nice to know that someone is looking after your network when you aren’t.

IT Manager at JEO Consulting Group

The Warrensburg R-VI School District is pleased to partner with Unite Private Networks for our district’s fiber-optic network solution”, said Scott Patrick, Superintendent for Student Services for Warrensburg R-VI Schools. “UPN has provided us with a cost-effective, no-nonsense solution that will allow our district’s technology to expand exponentially. Our entire project was handled professionally and caused absolutely no disruption in our network services. We couldn’t be more pleased

Warrensburg, MO – Warrensburg R-VI Schools

I needed a stable connection that had sufficient bandwidth to handle 15 to 20 computers hitting the same website at the same time for our company training environment. We held 7 training sessions with no problems whatsoever. The connection was stable and dependable. I am very pleased with Unite Private Networks.
Greg Hatchett

District Manager – Farmers Insurance

Our experience with Unite Private Networks during the design and construction of the district’s fiber optic network was extremely positive. Not to be underestimated, Unite Private Networks was able to coordinate and work effectively with the public entities to obtain the necessary permits as well as with the private entities that prepared their resources for attachment of the cables. They were also accommodating when we requested modifications during the two-year construction period to meet our changing needs. Overall, Unite Private Networks was responsive to everything we asked of them and I would highly recommend Unite to anyone undertaking a project like our.

Don Freeman, former Technology Director

Lincoln, NE – Lincoln Public Schools, 59 initial schools

Unite Private Networks installed over 44 miles of fiber overhead construction as well as 5 miles of fiber underground construction to 37 school entities. Not only has Unite Private Networks given us an excellent, very dependable product, they have also given us excellent support. Their staff of professionals is competent, courteous and trustworthy. Unite Private Networks is more than a vendor to us, they are a business partner. They have listened to our needs and tried to help us find solutions that work the best for the staff and students of our district. We look forward to maintaining a longstanding relationship with Unite Private Networks and would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone who has need of such services
Frank Klein, former IT Director

Pueblo, CO – Pueblo District #60 Schools, 37 initial schools

The new service is a lot more stable, faster, and provides redundancy for our locations. If Dorchester’s fiber is down, all traffic is automatically routed through DeWitt’s service, which enables us to continue business as usual for our over 70 locations.

Darren Sasse

IT Manager at Farmers Cooperative

Gainesville City Schools was very impressed by UPN’s value proposition. Our challenge has been bandwidth allocation to some of our schools. UPN’s network design removes all of our previous choke points and guarantees we’ll have dedicated and guaranteed bandwidth,” said Phillip Martin, former IT Director for Gainesville City Schools. “Their solution was the best choice without a doubt. The fiber network will allow the district to improve current technologies and allow the District to move forward on other planned technology projects

Gainesville, GA – Gainesville School District, 10 mile Fiber Optic Network through much of Gainesville, Georgia.

Moffat County School District is very pleased UPN came to Craig, Colorado,” said Marlene Knez, Technology Director of Moffat County. “The District was very impressed with their ability to offer us dedicated fiber to each of our locations without the sharing of bandwidth found with most other solutions we’ve seen in the past. UPN will provide GigE to each of the sites with endless expansion possibilities which will give us comfort our bandwidth needs will be addressed for the foreseeable future

Craig, CO – Moffat County School District

We are pleased to have UPN as a service partner to Manhattan-Ogden USD 383,” said Mike Ribble, USD 383 IT Director. “It has been a six-year process looking for a vendor that could provide fiber to all our schools in a cost effective manner and UPN has offered us this opportunity.
Manhattan,

KS – Manhattan Ogden USD #383, 24 mile initial build to connect all facilities

Unite has been an excellent partner. From sales to support, their staff has been very responsive and professional. We have several site to site links in addition to a colocation lease for DR and Internet access through Unite, and all of them have provided excellent availability, throughput, and uptime. The improvement from our previous provider has been excellent and quantifiable. I would highly recommend them to anyone for their business connectivity needs.
Bill Dick

IT Manager at Hexagon Lincoln

We are very satisfied with the services offered by Unite Private Networks. They have provided the bandwidth we require to support the many sites in our metro area. This has enabled us to maximize redundancy in our systems, reduce IT costs and collaborate with other government agencies to save tax dollars.

PJ Biodrowski

Infrastructure Administrator at Sarpy County

We are very pleased with the solution UPN provided,” said Janice Uptegrove, IT Director of Grain Valley Schools. “The unique value proposition they offered versus other options ensures we’ll have our long term bandwidth needs addressed. The dedicated fiber gives us advantages we never experienced with our previous wireless system. UPN will be building fiber throughout Grain Valley connecting all our schools in a cost effective manner

Grain Valley, MO – Grain Valley School District, 8 miles

Thank you for the service. The new pipe has solved so many problems! No more slow computers and no dropped connections when someone sends a large email.
Chris Routhe

Business Process Manager at Millard Lumber

We are very happy with the network solution that UPN provided. The value proposition UPN offers, ensures we’ll have our long term bandwidth needs addressed. The dedicated fiber gives us advantages we never experienced with our previous vendor, we’re very happy with the UPN partnership. UPN built fiber throughout Galesburg connecting all our buildings in a highly cost effective network.

Rick Lawsha, IT Director

Galesburg, IL – Galesburg Schools, 11 Initial Schools

Our law firm was in the process of migrating our servers to a cloud-based system. We needed a direct, secure and reliable connection to our data. UPN came highly recommended from our managed service provider. The sales staff was very professional and kept us in the loop with regular project status updates. Ultimately, we were able to get our secure connection up and running on-time and on-budget with no major issues. This would not have been possible without the help of everyone at Unite.

Thomas Jarvis

Office Services Coordinator at Gross & Welch

We are very satisfied with the services offered by Unite Private Networks. They have provided the bandwidth we require to support the many sites in our metro area. This has enabled us to maximize redundancy in our systems, reduce UPN has been a great partner for us and we look forward to a continued long-term relationship. Their state-of-the-art fiber network provides a great business tool for us to support our growing business operations.

Ryan Theil

COO at Kidwell

The Sedalia School District is very impressed with the finished product. We were using a wireless based network previously and our new Fiber network is in a league of its own in terms of volume of data and uptime across our locations. We’re adding another location with them this year.” said Brad Pollitt, Superintendent of Sedalia Schools. “The District is very pleased and would recommend UPN to anybody looking for a robust network, especially someone using wireless today. UPN is providing fiber to all our schools in a cost effective manner at light speeds

Sedalia, MO – Sedalia School District

As a benefits consulting agency we needed a solution that would transmit confidential information securely. The team at UPN created a custom solution that not only allowed us to pass confidential data between offices, it also increased our bandwidth. We are very pleased with the new capabilities.

Mike Bukaty

President, Chairman and CEO of Bukaty Companies

Unite Private Networks personnel kept us informed through every step of the process. Several meetings were held to plan the best available and expandable network for the future of the district. The switch over from the existing wireless network to the fiber network was accomplished with a minimum of network interruption during a holiday break. Any troubleshooting needed has been accomplished with little or no interruption. All deadlines were met. The fiber network was installed by January, 2005. I would strongly recommend Unite Private Networks for technology implementations in school districts” said Becky Klein Former Technology Director.

Raymore, MO – RayPec School District, 6 initial schools

I needed a stable connection that had sufficient bandwidth to handle 15 to 20 computers hitting the same website at the same time for our company training environment. We held 7 training sessions with no problems whatsoever. The connection was stable and dependable. I am very pleased with Unite Private Networks.

Farmers Insurance

It has been a pleasure for Nebraska Christian College to work with Unite Private Networks and their team of professionals that help provide the best Internet access to our campus community. We have been a customer with UPN for several years and could not be more pleased with the quality and reliability of the service. UPN provides not only quality service, but flexibility to provide additional capacity as needed for our growing campus. Thanks to Unite Private Networks, we have reliable service at a very reasonable price!

Tony Clark

President of Nebraska Christian College

Thank you, everything is going great here. We love the service, and I am very proud of our new network (it has taken us to a whole new level of IT service for the school district).
Don Howell

Canton, IL – Canton Union School District, 6 Initial Schools

Unite Private Networks was able to connect our entire network to a local data center. In turn, we are able to better serve our customers with our high-speed, high performance, and highly reliable fiber network.
R. Christensen

Director of IT and Compliance at Plains Equipment Group

The Shawnee Mission School District’s wide area network will serve as the backbone for all of the district’s communications and will support the district’s future technology and bandwidth requirements. A fast, reliable, and cost-effective network is imperative to ensure our students and teachers have access to cutting-edge technology and applications that support learning. We are looking forward to greater technological efficiency across all schools and district facilities.

Drew Lane

Executive Manager of Information Services at Shawnee Mission School District

Unite Private Networks was very helpful working with the City of Liberty and meeting the District’s needs. Even though there were setbacks during the installation that were beyond their control, they pulled in additional resources to complete the job with no additional cost to the District. The designers of the project were very knowledgeable and have done a great job in creating an infrastructure that we will be able to utilize and expand on for many years to come.

Trey Katzer

Liberty, MO – Liberty School District, 17 initial schools

Community High School District 218 is pleased to have UPN as a service partner.” said John Byrne, Superintendent of CHSD #218. “The District has been searching for ways to increase its bandwidth and UPN has offered us this opportunity.

Oaklawn, IL – CHSD #218 Schools, 23 mile school network connecting all high schools.

The Newman Center – St. Thomas Aquinas Church is extremely pleased and appreciative of our partnership with Unite Private Networks. Over the past year, the Newman Center converted its phone service and increased its internet bandwidth with UPN. Throughout the process, UPN’s level of proactive, customer-focused service made our transition seamless and stress free.

Each February the Newman Center hosts its annual phone-a-thon campaign which features fourty student volunteers calling our benefactors. Unite Private Networks provided us with incredible phone service throughout. The clear, reliable service was terrific – the backbone to one of our most successful phone-a-thons yet! We were thrilled.

And then the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

All of the Newman Center’s liturgies, student events and public gatherings were abruptly cancelled. Almost immediately, UPN stepped up – once again – by rapidly deploying increased internet bandwidth, enabling our ministries to become 100% digital. Through their assistance,
visitors could live stream Masses, Holy hours and pastoral messages. Endless conference calls ran without a glitch. We even live streamed a number of previously scheduled weddings. UPN’s Internet service kept our Virtual Newman running smoothly throughout.

Perhaps clear phone calls and uninterrupted streaming are relatively low priorities. A few months ago they were for me. That was until the Newman Center’s phone-a-thon -supported by UPN- was our last meaningful fundraising event before everyone was quarantined. That was
until our primary means to minister to thousands of students, alumni and benefactors became live streaming. That was until the only way a bride’s parents could watch their daughter’s wedding, due to COVID-19 concerns, was by streaming and providing access to friends and family.

At that point, I realized how essential a partner like Unite Private Networks truly is. On behalf of our staff, students, our newlyweds and their parents, I say thank you!!!

Jude Werner, CFRE Director of Development

Newman Center-St. Thomas Aquinas Church 320 North 16th Street Lincoln, NE 68508

We particularly appreciate the attention to detail that Unite Private Networks’ representatives exhibit. They (UPN) routinely brought the right people to make decisions and who understood what we were trying to accomplish, not just salesmen. We would be more than happy to talk with any prospective Unite Private Networks customer and give them a tour if desired
Dr. Lee Updike

Raytown, MO – Raytown School District, 14 initial schools

“In my experience working with Unite Private Networks, I’m highly satisfied. Their staff was able to quickly resolve anything I needed and I was impressed with their communication. The customer service received was unlike some of the network companies I’ve experienced.

Nina Pizano Assistant Property Management

Speedway Properties Lincoln, NE