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// ABOUT

We started openlink9 because we were tired of being our friends' tech support.

Three engineers, one rented APC chassis, twelve buildings on Road 11 in Banani. That was 2019. We're now the largest engineer-owned ISP in Dhaka.

Founded
2019
Engineers
168 of 240
BTRC license
#1213/F
// TIMELINE

Five Eids of fiber.

  1. 2019

    Twelve buildings, one rented chassis

    Two ex-Robi engineers and a former Grameenphone NOC lead pull a 1 Gbps line from BDIX into Banani Road 11. They wire 12 buildings between Eid weekends.

  2. 2021

    Series A — local, no foreign

    After two years and 1,400 subscribers, we close ৳18 crore from Bangladeshi family offices. No foreign capital. We keep 100% of the routing decisions in-country.

  3. 2023

    AS137912 goes live

    We retire our upstream-only setup, register AS137912 with APNIC, and start peering directly at BDIX-1. Latency to local game servers drops from 22 ms to 4 ms.

  4. 2024

    47 thanas, 12,400 subs

    Mirpur, Uttara, Mohammadpur, Motijheel come online. We open a 24/7 NOC in Tejgaon and stop using third-party support tooling.

  5. 2026

    1.2 Gbps everywhere we go

    Symmetric gigabit becomes the floor, not the ceiling. We start the South Dhaka rollout (Lalbagh, Sadarghat, Old Dhaka).

// LEADERSHIP

The four people who pick up the phone at 3 am.

Faiyaz Hossain

Founder & CEOEx-Robi · CCIE #58112

Tahmid Rahman

Co-founder & CTOEx-Grameenphone NOC · APNIC trainer

Rumana Akter

VP NetworkEx-Mango Teleservices · BDIX board

Sanjida Karim

VP CustomerEx-Pathao · BUET CSE
// PUBLIC RECORD

Numbers and licenses, all on file.

Founded
2019, Banani
BTRC license
ISP-Nationwide #1213/F
ASN
AS137912 (APNIC)
Subscribers
12,400+ residential · 380 enterprise
Engineers
168 (of 240 employees)
NOC
24/7, Tejgaon DC
// VALUES

Three sentences. We try to live them.

01

We answer the phone.

Every line we operate has a human on the other end inside 90 seconds. No menu trees, no 'press 7 for billing'.

02

We publish our numbers.

Uptime, latency, incident reports — on /network, every month, no asterisks.

03

We ship what we'd want.

Every engineer here uses openlink9 at home. If a ticket would frustrate us, we fix the underlying network, not the ticket.

// JOIN

We hire engineers, not switchboard staff.

If you can read a BGP table over chai, we have a chair. Send us a repo, an HN comment, anything you've shipped.

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