Cybera is a not-for-profit corporation responsible for the operation of Alberta's Optical Regional Advanced Network.

The initial manifestation of this movement in Alberta was the Western Universities Research Consortium Network (WURCNet).

With offices in Calgary and Edmonton, Cybera maintains indefeasible rights of use on network links for research and education purposes in the province of Alberta.

Cybera also partners with researchers and the private sector on projects that explore digital technologies including cloud computing and next-generation networking, and provides above-the-network services to members.

Cybera works in co-operation with CANARIE and the high-speed fibre-optic networks in Canada's provinces and territories known as Optical Regional Advanced Networks (ORANs): Cybera also connects the supercomputers, managed by WestGrid and Compute Canada, used to carry out Alberta's high-performance computing.