PAETEC to Supply Fiber Services to Fort Drum Through Contract with the Department of Defense
November 28 2011 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET) and its subsidiaries,
which serve the growing network needs of government enterprises and
carrier customers, announced today that it has been awarded a
three-year contract by the Defense Information System Agency (DISA)
to provide Fort Drum with fiber and dense wavelength division
multiplexing (DWDM) services.
Located in northern New York near Watertown and just outside of
the Adirondack Mountains, Fort Drum trains an estimated 80,000
troops annually and is home to the 10th Mountain Division. Fort
Drum, like other major U.S. Army facilities requires the highest
level of service, approaching 100 percent up-time. To accommodate
this need, DISA has awarded PAETEC a contract to install diverse
fiber access systems from its backbone network near Syracuse and
Watertown, NY to the base.
Utilizing these diverse fiber paths, PAETEC has deployed diverse
and redundant DWDM network services connecting Fort Drum to other
DISA network nodes in the region. This network solution will help
ensure that DISA’s networks at Fort Drum remain effective in the
event of a catastrophic event, such as a fiber cut anywhere on the
network.
“When you have a military facility that houses one of the Army’s
largest units, you need to be confident that the network services
are dependable,” said Mike Magliato, PAETEC vice president of
government markets. “This is the twenty-fifth military facility
that we have provided these services to, showing the quality
offered by our diverse fiber routes and redundancy.”
PAETEC and its subsidiaries serve governmental entities, such as
the Department of Defense and Defense Information Systems Agency,
FAA, Department of Treasury, Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S.
Army, Air Force and Navy, U.S. Courts, and the Department of
Homeland Security. In 2010, the company announced the activation of
the 500th high capacity circuit delivered to the United States
Department of Defense (DoD). Circuit speeds for the DoD range from
DS-3 to 10 Gbps wavelengths, covering 14 states and more than 150
locations.
“As our network extends to more government facilities, so does
our dependability around providing robust access points,” said
Clint Heiden, president of PAETEC Fiber Services. “Military
facilities require top-of-the-line security and reliability, and
our infrastructure has proven time and time again that it lives up
to those needs.”
PAETEC owns and operates a state-of-the-art fiber network
spanning 36,700 route miles, offering reliable, efficient and
scalable network solutions for enterprise, service provider and
government customers. Its high capacity bandwidth solutions include
custom networks, Ethernet, wavelength, SONET, voice, data and
Internet options.
About PAETEC
PAETEC (NASDAQ: PAET) is personalizing business communications
for medium and large businesses, enterprise organizations and
institutions across the United States. We offer a comprehensive
suite of IP, voice, data, and Internet services, as well as
enterprise communications management software, network security
solutions, CPE, and managed services. For more information, visit
www.paetec.com.
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