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Covad Wireless Teams With SyncLive(SM) to Power 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards.


SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850.
, Calif. -- Covad Wireless, a subsidiary of Covad Communications Group, Inc. (AMEX AMEX

See: American Stock Exchange
:DVW DVW Deutscher Verein für Vermessungswesen eV (German Surveying Association)
DVW Dynamic Virtual Worlds
), a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications, announces its collaboration with SyncLive to provide high-speed wireless broadband services for the 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards, which took place on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at the legendary Music Box Theatre The Music Box Theater is a legitimate Broadway theatre located at 239 West 45th Street in midtown-Manhattan.

The most aptly named theater on Broadway, the intimate Music Box was designed by architect C.
. The LA Music Awards were broadcast live on SyncLive, at www.SyncLive.com.

"Covad Wireless has a successful track record of serving entertainment industry clients in the Los Angeles area," said Patrick Bennett, executive vice president of Covad Wireless. "We were pleased to work with SyncLive to provide the LA Music Awards with 2.0 Mbps wireless broadband service to facilitate event-specific activities such as streaming video and high-resolution digital photo uploads."

SyncLive chose Covad Wireless Special Event Service to power the LA Music Awards because it provides ultra high-speed Internet connectivity to event venues and remote locations and features fast installation and 24x7x365 customer support without a long-term contract. Available bandwidth for Event Services ranges from 2 to 45 megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576).

E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps.
 (Mbps), enabling live video web-casting, company demonstrations, remote Internet and email access, file transfers, and live data feeds.

"Our past experience as a Covad customer told us that their fixed broadband wireless services would be the perfect fit for this year's LA Music Awards," said Aric Berquist, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of the SyncLive. "We require a business-class, high-speed broadband service, combined with excellent customer service, which Covad Wireless is consistently able to deliver."

Covad Wireless operates California's largest fixed broadband wireless network and recently expanded its Los Angeles-area network to enable it to serve over 90 percent of LA-area businesses. Covad solutions range from T1 replacement to high-capacity service with data speeds up to 100 Mbps. These services, in high demand by Los Angeles entertainment industry clients, combine high-speed, high-quality broadband that can be deployed in days, instead of weeks.

In addition to serving various entertainment industry customers in the greater Los Angeles area The Greater Los Angeles Area, or the Southland, is the agglomeration of urbanized area around the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. There are two "official" definitions—the Los Angeles metropolitan area consisting only of the Los Angeles and Orange , Covad Wireless serves 4,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
, Chicago and Las Vegas. For more information on Covad Wireless services, please visit www.covadwireless.com or call 1-866-805-1630.

About Covad

Covad is a leading nationwide provider of integrated voice and data communications. The company offers DSL DSL
 in full Digital Subscriber Line

Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary
, Voice Over IP, T1, broadband wireless, Web hosting, managed security, IP and dial-up, and bundled voice and data services directly through Covad's network and through Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
, value-added resellers, telecommunications carriers and affinity groups to small and medium-sized businesses and home users. Covad broadband services are currently available across the nation in 44 states and 235 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and can be purchased by more than 57 million homes and businesses, which represent over 50 percent of all US homes and businesses. Corporate headquarters is located at 110 Rio Robles Robles is a common surname in the Spanish language meaning oaks, and may refer to:
  • Alfonso García Robles (1911-1991), Mexican diplomat and politician
  • Aurora Robles (born 1980), Mexican fashion model
  • Charlie Robles (born 1943), Puerto Rican musician
 San Jose, CA 95134. Telephone: 1-888-GO-COVAD. Web Site: www.covad.com.

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2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
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The foregoing contains "forward-looking statements," which are based on management's current information and beliefs as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future events made by management. Examples of forward-looking statements include expectations regarding the future sales of Covad's wireless services and growth of its wireless network. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of which are outside Covad's control that could cause actual results to differ materially from such statements. These risk factors include operational challenges that may arise as we deploy new services, difficulties as we rapidly expand, deploy and improve our services, the impact of increasing competition, pricing pressures, consolidation in the telecommunications industry, uncertainty in telecommunications regulations and changes in technologies, among other risks. For a more detailed description of the risk factors that could cause such a difference, please see Covad's Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Covad disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. This information is presented solely to provide additional information to further understand the results of Covad.
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