Broadwing MultiConnect Continues to Gather Momentum.Business Editors, High Tech Writers CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 2002 The integrated communications leader, 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 its distinctive product, MultiConnect, continues to attract an increasing number of major enterprises including, most recently, CoorsTek (Nasdaq:CRTK CRTK Community Right-To-Know ), Holland & Knight LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , and Kforce Inc. (Nasdaq:KFRC). MultiConnect enables customers to integrate numerous Broadwing services ranging from dedicated long distance to international private line, and it supports multiple transport protocols including voice, frame relay A high-speed packet switching protocol used in wide area networks (WANs). Providing a granular service of up to DS3 speed (45 Mbps), it has become popular for LAN to LAN connections across remote distances, and services are offered by most major carriers. , ATM and IP via one cost-predictable solution. Recently, Broadwing's MultiConnect was awarded the Frost & Sullivan Product Differentiation Product Differentiation A source of competitive advantage that depends on producing some item that is regarded to have unique and valuable characteristics. Innovation Award. "The Broadwing product we selected, MultiConnect, is providing us with ten times the bandwidth for the same cost as our old frame-relay network," said Richard Bilancia, vice president of Information Technology for CoorsTek, a leading supplier of components and integrated assemblies to the semiconductor capital equipment industry. "With twenty-five law offices across the U.S., we needed a solution that provided security, flexibility and the highest quality of service. Broadwing's unique MultiConnect solution is replacing our ATM network and is allowing us to triple our bandwidth to transmit voice, video and data applications at a tremendous savings on a secure, dependable and simplified network," said Ralph Barber, CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. , Holland & Knight, one of the twenty largest law firms This list of the world's largest law firms by revenue is taken from The Lawyer and The American Lawyer and is ordered by 2006 revenue:[1]
"MultiConnect provides us with a secure alternative to frame relay, and gives us the freedom and flexibility to reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of lines to other locations, without additional costs," said Jay Astell, director of Network Services, Kforce, a specialty staffing firm providing flexible and permanent staffing solutions for organizations and career management for individuals. "The flexibility of MultiConnect allows us to transmit voice and mission-critical data applications such as file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. and access to our proprietary database systems more efficiently enabling us to provide a quicker response to our customers." "Broadwing's quick provisioning, flexibility and customer focus coupled with the unique attributes of our all-optical switched network, which makes MultiConnect possible, continue to gain traction with innovative companies like CoorsTek, Holland & Knight and Kforce," said Jack Chidester, president, Business Enterprises, Broadwing. "Since our introduction of this product earlier this year, Broadwing has sold more than 1,000 locations of MultiConnect, demonstrating the power of this easy-to-use solution." MultiConnect provides a distance insensitive, protocol agnostic, secure, point-to-multipoint solution that utilizes Broadwing's all-optical switched network, providing a restorable, easy-to-use private line solution. About Broadwing Broadwing Inc. (NYSE:BRW) is an integrated communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. . Broadwing leads the industry as the world's first intelligent, all-optical, switched network provider and offers businesses nationwide a competitive advantage by providing data, voice and Internet solutions that are flexible, reliable and innovative on its 18,500-mile optical network and its award-winning IP backbone. Local service subsidiary Cincinnati Bell is one of the nation's most respected and best performing local exchange and wireless providers with a legacy of unparalleled customer service excellence and financial strength. Cincinnati Bell was recently ranked number one in customer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates for both local residential telephone service and residential long distance among mainstream users. Cincinnati Bell provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services to residential and business customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Broadwing Inc. is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. For more information, visit www.broadwing.com. |
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