1623 Farnam, a networking infrastructure company, has announced the Iowa Communications Network has joined in a strategic collaboration with its Omaha IX internet exchange facility in Omaha. The collaboration hopes to allow ICN to provide higher performance internet to its users throughout Iowa. By participating in Omaha IX, ICN can now work directly with content and cloud providers geographically closer to its user base, a news release said. “Having a presence at 1623 Farnam and joining the Omaha IX peering exchange provides the ICN a vast opportunity for more interconnection with our partner networks in the State of Iowa,” Ryan Mulhall, executive director of the Iowa Communications Network, said in a prepared statement. “With ICN as part of this new digital ecosystem, it brings more options for peering and direct connections with content and service providers where our customers’ workloads and applications live.” ICN is Iowa’s state-owned fiber optic network providing high-speed broadband services to authorized users in education, public safety, health care and government.