Cox Heads Into Carrier Business
By Matt Stump -- Multichannel News, 11/14/2001 9:08:00 AM
Cox Business Services is launching a Cox Carrier Services division that will provide dedicated local-loop access and transport facilities in 22 markets for telecommunications carriers.
The unit is designed to give businesses a telecommunications alternative to local-exchange carriers.
Cox said it will use its SONET-based (synchronous optical network) fiber optic network to connect carriers using OC-12 or OC-48 technology. The carriers can select various bandwidths -- DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and OC-192 -- for digital transmissions for end-customers.
'Thanks to our network infrastructure and ring-in-ring network topology, which helps us to reach vast number of buildings and facilities, we can provide a robust metro-access product for our carrier customers,' Cox Business Services vice president and general manager Chuck McElroy said in a prepared statement.
The company said it reorganized its carrier-sales strategy by developing a national-carrier-services team in Atlanta to partner with local Cox telephony managers in providing services to national customers.
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