Cyber Internet Services

Cyber Internet Services Private Limited, typically referred to as Cybernet is a B2B Internet service provider (ISP) based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a subsidiary of the Lakson Group of Companies.

Cyber Internet Services

Trade name	CYBERNET
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Karachi , Pakistan
Number of locations	20 cities
Area served	Pakistan
Key people	Danish Ali Lakhani (CEO) Maroof Ali Shahani (COO)
Brands	StormFiber
Services	Tier 1 network Data center Broadband Internet IPTV HDTV Telephone Dark fibre Multiprotocol Label Switching Cloud computing
Number of employees	2,600+ (2024)
Website	www.cyber.net.pk

Cybernet became a Tier-1 provider in November 2022 by launching their own submarine communications cable project called 'PEACE',^[1] connecting Pakistan to Europe, Southeast Asia, East Africa and the Middle East.

Network

Cybernet peers with Equinix in Singapore and Muscat as well as with DE-CIX in Frankfurt and Marseille. They also have peering and interconnect agreements with networks in the Middle East, through Etisalat by e& and Omantel.^[2]

They own and operate the PEACE submarine cable that lands in Karachi, providing them with over 600 Gbit/s of bandwidth, which can be expanded to almost three times that amount based on its currently installed capacity of 1.6 Tbit/s.^[3][4]

In July 2021, Cybernet rolled out IPv6 across its network making it one of the first ISPs in Pakistan to deploy IPv6.^[5]

StormFiber - A brand of Cybernet

Services

Cybernet offers various connectivity solutions such as dedicated fiber internet, data center services, web hosting and cloud computing to SMEs and large companies across Pakistan.^[6]

Outages

Cybernet suffered an outage on December 1, 2019, due to a fire at its headquarters.^[7]

Controversy

• Cybernet, together with Nayatel took PESCO to court for abusing its dominant position by increasing Right of Way charges by 10 times. Cybernet won the case in December 2022.^[8][9]
• StormFiber employees were attacked by local cable operators in Lahore^[10]

StormFiber

StormFiber is Cybernet's consumer facing brand that offers Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) internet to residential users. They have coverage in over 20 cities across Pakistan.^[11][12]

It has plans ranging from 20 Mbit/s to 120 Mbit/s, as well as additional services like landline telephone and high-definition IPTV.^[13]