Northwest Open Access Network

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| name = Northwest Open Access Network

| logo = Northwest_Open_Access_Network_logo.svg

| type = Non-profit municipal corporation

| industry = Telecommunications

| genre = Open-access network

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| founded = {{circa}} 1999, Washington State

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| hq_location_city = Spokane Valley, Washington

| hq_location_country = United States

| area_served = Pacific Northwest

| key_people =

Craig Nelsen, CEO

Mike Henson, COO

James Wong, CFO

John Smith, CTO

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| website = {{URL|noanet.net}}

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Northwest Open Access Network (NoaNet) is an open-access network in the United States Pacific Northwest region. NoaNet is a public-benefit wholesale telecommunications organization that supplies solutions and resources for all aspects of broadband and telecom projects to serve Washington State including wholesale wide-area and last-mile bandwidth on optic fiber and other means from pooled public utility district (PUD) assets, as well as over 30 colocation centers. It was formed {{circa}} 1999 and began operating in 2000 on Bonneville Power Administration-owned fiber.{{citation|title=BPA's Fiber Optics Can Help Rural Northwest Economically|journal=Bulletin|date=November 1, 1999 |author1=Sliz, Deborah |author2=Lindsay, Scott M.|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-58125225.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120125949/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-58125225.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 20, 2018}}

By 2015, it had over {{convert|3000|mi}} of fiber.{{citation|title=Need for speed: Broadband comes to rural areas|date=September 16, 2012|newspaper=The Spokesman-Review|location =Spokane|url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/sep/16/need-speed/}}

Membership consists of the following Washington State PUDs: Benton County Public Utility District,Kitsap County PUD, Pend Oreille County PUD, Franklin County PUD, Mason County PUD, Clallam County PUD, Okanogan County PUD, Jefferson County PUD and Pacific County PUD.{{citation|title=Grant PUD declines request to support credit, leaves NoaNet|author=Cameron Probert |date=June 18, 2014|publisher=iFiberOne News|url=http://www.ifiberone.com/news/grant-pud-declines-request-to-support-credit-leaves-noanet/article_0ccc36b0-f74a-11e3-8ee8-001a4bcf6878.html}}

NoaNet Oregon began operating in 2004, also on Bonneville Power Administration fiber.{{citation|title=NoaNet Oregon brings service to rural areas|author=Adam Haas|date=March 17, 2002|publisher=Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-114304007.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214014701/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-114304007.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2018}}

By 2010, NoaNet had received over $100 million in Federal grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.{{citation|title=High-speed broadband coming to all corners of Washington State|work=Fiber Optics Weekly Update|date=August 20, 2010|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-236649084.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180214014657/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-236649084.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2018}} By 2015 it had completed a four-year $180 million National Telecommunications and Information Administration Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant.2017 [http://portal.sao.wa.gov/ReportSearch/Home/ViewReportFile?arn=1018782&isFinding=false&sp=false Washington State Auditor report] citing Moss-Adams CPA December 3, 2015 reports p 8 Though NoaNet has made use of federal grant programs, NoaNet does not collect any tax dollars or subsidies from rate payers in Washington State. All revenues from selling wholesale services on the open market are put back into the network to bring network and services into rural areas of the state.{{Cite web|title=Northwest Open Access Network - NoaNet {{!}} WA State Broadband Solutions|url=https://www.noanet.net/|access-date=2021-07-26|website=NoaNet|language=en-US}}

NoaNet connects to the Internet at Seattle Internet Exchange and Northwest Access Exchange in Portland.[https://beta.peeringdb.com/ix/13 Peering DB] (SIX peers), accessed 2018-02-13[https://beta.peeringdb.com/ix/165 Peering DB] (NWAX peers), accessed 2018-02-13[https://www.nwax.net/Members Member list], Northwest Access Exchange