Broadwing Breaks Ground on Executive Briefing Center Showcasing Its State-of-the-Art Network Operations Center.Business Editors & High Tech Writers AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2001 Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Broadwing, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BRW BRW Business Review Weekly (business magazine; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) BRW Business Report Writer BRW Barrow, AK, USA - Barrow (Airport Code) BRW Business Requirement Worksheet ), today announced it has begun construction on a new state-of-the-art Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. (NOC (Network Operations Center) A central or regional location for monitoring a large network. Also called a "network management center" (NMC), "service management center" (SMC) or "network control center" (NCC), a NOC may be used to manage a large enterprise network, ) and Executive Briefing Center at its corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas. The new Network Operations Center and Executive Briefing Center will incorporate the industry's most advanced network management and monitoring technologies and showcase Broadwing's award-winning network, products and services. "The Executive Briefing Center makes our technology tangible, and in turn, will be a powerful tool for recruiting Fortune 500 customers and showcasing our industry-leading technology," said Pat Glavin, vice president of corporate marketing, Broadwing Communications. This elite briefing center is one of the few in the nation to provide a hands-on approach to showcasing state-of-the-art technology from Voice over IP to streaming media See streaming audio, streaming video and digital media hub. and optical services. The unique, 10,000 square foot, customer-focused design will be co-located with Broadwing's new Network Operations Center and will demonstrate Broadwing's mission critical network management and engineering capabilities. "The new Executive Briefing Center will be the most advanced in the industry for showcasing Internet, data and optical transport products, and will serve as a venue for our customers to meet the senior leadership team of Broadwing," said Glavin. "This is the second state-of-the-art NOC Broadwing has opened this year. The first, located in Delaware, was completed in January 2001," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Roger Rosenberger, vice president of network operations, Broadwing Communications. "This project represents a significant upgrade to Broadwing's current network operations facility in Austin," said Rosenberger. "Our next-generation center takes network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. to the next level by adding proactive data monitoring and notification, customer network surveillance and dedicated enterprise customer network management. We lead the industry with the deployment of the industry's first all-optical network A communications network that works completely in the optical domain. It uses optical switches connected by optical fibers. See optical switch and optical computer. and will now have the most advanced NOC to monitor and operate our network." About Broadwing Broadwing Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW), combines unparalleled customer service with the industry's most advanced and flexible 18,500 mile next-generation fiber optic network and award-winning IP backbone, to create data and internet solutions that are innovative, reliable, and provide businesses a competitive advantage. Broadwing will be the first provider with a fully deployed optical network and sets the standard for customer accountability with the industry's only Installation Guarantee. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Austin, Texas, with 6,000 employees in 56 sales and service offices across the country, Broadwing can be found on the web at www.broadwing.com. |
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