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OpenAccess provides internet connectivity and hosting solutions for businesses, property owners, government agencies, individuals and non-profit groups.


We offer fiber-optic, wireless and xDSL internet connectivity, as well as hosting and data storage services to clients throughout northwest Washington.

Our value proposition and competitive advantage in the marketplace is providing reliable, stable, locally supported internet service products to our customers. OpenAccess’ customers rely on their internet connection and hosting services for critical day-to-day operations and count on our friendly staff who know their needs.


OpenAccess was founded in the Fairhaven district of Bellingham, Washington in 1998 by veteran technology professionals. Located some ninety miles north of Seattle and forty miles south of Vancouver B.C., within sight of the Cascade Mountain Range and the beautiful archipelago made up of the San Juan Islands, OpenAccess continues to be committed to being a part of our local community as well as championing the continued growth of sustainable clean technology industry in Bellingham.  We are members of and support such organizations as the Technology Alliance Group of Whatcom County, and Sustainable Connections.


Whats New?
2008.07.25 OpenAccess chooses vmware.
OpenAccess has settled on vmware as the preferred solution for our server virtualization, both internally and for our customers. 
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2007.09.26 Changes in paper billing system.
Effective January 1st 2008 we will be doing what most of our competitors have been doing for years and adding a $1.00 surcharge for paper invoices.
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2007.05.30 New web servers in production.
In May we got two new web servers in production. These machines are based out of our facilities in Seattle and were needed as we have about hit capacity on our existing webhosting infrastructure.
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2007.03.15 Additional nationwide and global network capacity added.
OpenAccess is glad to announce that we have put into production a new circuit providing us with direct Tier-1 nationwide and global Internet transport.
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2007.01.17 Verizon DSL speed upgrades complete
Today we did the work to convert all NAS.COM customers over to our faster connection into Verizon. Everybody should be seeing performance increases.
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2006.12.22 Akamai audio/video content acceleration implemented
OpenAccess is now integrated with the Akamai EdgePlatform.
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2006.11.06 Spam problems hit a new crescendo worldwide
Worldwide spam has increased by 80% in the month of October alone.
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2006.08.05 Are you going global?
OpenAccess is pleased to announce that effective August 1st 2006 we now have global geo-redundant options for our offsite storage products.
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2006.06.01 MailGuard Updates
Our spam-filtering system for residential accounts (username@openaccess.org) is now updated.
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Acquisition of Evolutionary Visions
On June 10th 2005, OpenAccess acquired the assets of Evolutionary Visions, a Bellingham based webhosting company.
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OpenAccess turns up fiber at the Port of Bellingham
OpenAccess has become a licensee of the Port of Bellingham's?high tech computing initiative (HTCI)?fiberoptic system.
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$40,000 in upgrades
Although you may not have noticed, we at OpenAccess were busy during the summer of 2005, performing a comprehensive upgrade to our network.?
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New website
We are currently updating our website.? This has been on the 'to do' list for a while.? Some of the content for the site is incomplete, but we are steadily adding to it.
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P.O. Box 4220, Bellingham, WA 98227
Bellingham/Whatcom (360) 647-0785 Toll Free: (800) 882-4979
e-mail: info@openaccess.org Fax: (360) 543-5632