We Exist to Strengthen North Carolina's Future
For over 45 years, MCNC has delivered the secure, high-speed internet and technology infrastructure that North Carolina's anchor institutions and businesses depend on. As a nonprofit network, we measure success by your progress: connecting communities, protecting what matters, and building the foundation for tomorrow's breakthroughs.
- Consult
- Connect
- Protect
Consulting Solutions
Trusted advisors who understand your mission.
Our North Carolina-based engineers understand the landscape, and bring decades of experience to help you plan, design, and secure the technology infrastructure that will serve your community for years to come.
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Built for North Carolina. Trusted for over 45 years.
Connecting, protecting, and empowering the organizations and businesses that make our state stronger.
Why Organizations Choose MCNC
Built by and for North Carolina.
We're a nonprofit network created specifically for our state. Every decision, every investment, every engineer is focused on making North Carolina the most securely connected state in the nation.
99.99% uptime on mission-critical infrastructure.
Over 40 years of carrier-grade reliability. When your network goes down, it's not just data that stops flowing, it's learning, healing, discovering, and serving. We take that responsibility personally.
Your neighbors, not a distant vendor.
Our North Carolina-based team provides 24x7x365 support and understands your challenges because we share them. We live here, work here, and have a stake in the same communities you serve.
HERO Project
Across the state, MCNC’s High-speed Economies for Rural Opportunity (HERO) project is bringing high-speed internet to underserved communities by removing geographic barriers to internet access. With the investment in 209 miles of new middle-mile fiber, the project will impact over 350,000 homes statewide.
eNCore
MCNC, Roanoke Cooperative, and Fybe developed a scalable, community-driven model to accelerate the rollout of final-mile rural broadband; and bring advanced cybersecurity capabilities, NCREN, and Fybe’s affordable, high-speed internet service to rural and overlooked North Carolina communities.
NCShare
The North Carolina Shared Research & Education partnership between MCNC and a coalition of higher education institutions is creating a dedicated Science DMZ network architecture, a Compute as a Service software ecosystem, and a virtualized GPU as a Service platform to democratize access to high-performance cyberinfrastructure.