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DAY 1
Time Warner Cable Launches Carrier Portal for
Discovering Connected Locations
Time Warner Cable Business Class (TWCBC) has
announced a new online tool that will make
it easier for carrier customers to discover its
connected locations.
The Carrier Serviceability Portal enables service
providers to search nearly 1 million on-net and
near-net TWCBC-wired buildings. The service
provider can enter the address of a business loca-
tion, and within seconds the portal will respond
with serviceability information, including fiber or
DOCSIS availability in equipped buildings.
“This tool enables carrier customers to under-
stand our network availability in a building for both
our fiber and DOCSIS-based services,” said Marc
Dyman, vice president of carrier services. “The portal
allows customers to easily determine service avail-
ability at a single location or submit a bulk request.
This eliminates the need for manual intervention.”
TWCBC has a 150,000-fiber-route-mile network
infrastructure that serves 31 major metro areas
nationwide with more than 43,000 multi-tenant,
fiber-lit buildings, nearly 1 million DOCSIS-equipped
buildings and connectivity into 64 data centers
across the nation. In all, it serves more than 675,000
business customers throughout its service areas;
but the carrier services line of business is meant to
extend service providers’U.S. networks with the
additions of Carrier E-Access, transport, wholesale IP,
wholesale business Internet and cell-tower backhaul.
Earlier this year, TWCBC announced enhance-
ments to its Carrier Ethernet solutions, with updates
to Carrier E-Access and E-Transport offerings. In
2014, TWCBC became the first North American
service provider to achieve certifications for all
eight Metro Ethernet Forum CE2.0 Services.
Through its NaviSite subsidiary, TWCBS also
offers scalable managed services, including appli-
cation services, enterprise hosting and managed
cloud services primarily in the U.S. and U.K. o
Sunesys Adds 16,000+ Miles of Fiber to Footprint
Sunesys LLC (Booth 515) has announced that
its recent acquisition by Crown Castle has
effectively doubled its fiber footprint.
The acquisition has enhanced its fiber network
portfolio to include more than 16,000 route miles.
Sunesys services are now available in more than
31 states—a fact that has opened up several new
markets for the company, it said.
Also, it now has approximately 40,000 towers
and 15,000 small cell nodes supported by the
network (Crown Castle is the nation’s largest
provider of shared wireless infrastructure, with a
significant presence in the top 100 U.S. markets).
“We are very excited to bring Sunesys
to new metro markets we haven’t previously
served,” said Larry Coleman, president of
Sunesys. “The reach of the network provides
new opportunities across each of our
current verticals.”
Highlights of the combined network include
a contiguous network throughout the Mid-
Atlantic region, denser footprints in Atlanta,
Chicago and Southern California, and the addi-
tion of metro markets, such as Baltimore, Wash-
ington D.C. and New York City.
Sunesys is headquartered in Pennsylvania. o