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The Metro Orlando region has the most advanced
telecommunications assets in the Southeast. Orlando is the only MSA
in nine southern states served by five incumbent local exchange
carriers – AT&T, CenturyLink (formerly Embarq), Smart City
Telecom, tw telecom (formerly Time Warner Telecom), and Level 3
Communications. Their competition has fostered the highest possible
degree of customer service, capital investment, innovative system
applications, and extremely aggressive pricing.
All of Metro Orlando’s telecommunication central offices are
fiber optic with digital switching, and 100 percent of the fiber
optic systems are fully redundant and self-healing. The regional
fiber optic network is so extensive it is referred to as a fiber
optic “cloud” by industry experts. Fiber-based service
throughout the region meets and regularly exceeds the services
provided in very location-specific “info parks” or “smart parks.”
If a company’s top Metro Orlando real estate selection initially
lacks fiber-based infrastructure, extensions have been completed in
as little as 30 days.
The cornerstone technologies that constitute today’s most
advanced telecommunications services are available, including:
Ethernet, Frame Relay Networking, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM),
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Synchronous Optical
Networks (SONET) Rings, Internet, Intranet (LAN) and Extranet
Services (WAN).
AT&T, CenturyLink, tw telecom, and Level 3 Communications
will undertake any specialized deployment of technologically
intense applications, including Fiber to the Premise (FTTP), on a
case-by-case basis. As three of the largest providers of
professionally engineered voice, data and videoconferencing
systems, they have established reputations for delivering intense
“built-to-suit” telecommunications suites. The assets found in
Metro Orlando include: data cabling systems, automatic call
distribution, interactive voice response, pbx and key systems,
network consulting and design, structured wiring, distance learning
solutions, hubs/servers, routers/switches, multiplexers, digital
T1, T3, OC3, OC48, OC192, and Gigabit Ethernet; maintenance service
plans, switched multimegabit data service, virtual private
networks, symmetrical and asymmetrical/high-bit-rate/very
high-bit-rate digital subscriber lines, multiple POP’s, local and
wide-area networks, and integrated campus communications.
The telecommunications capacity in Metro Orlando is demonstrated by
the concentrated telecommunications requirements of technical
education institutions and existing industries, which range from
unique entertainment giants like Walt Disney World Resort and
Universal Orlando, to corporate headquarters such as Tupperware
Brands Corporation, Darden Restaurants, Inc., and the American
Automobile Association. Consider also the needs of numerous office
operations such as Charles Schwab & Co., First USA, Cincinnati
Bell Information Systems, Hewitt & Associates, CNA Insurance
and high tech manufacturers like Lockheed-Martin. These
organizations’ capacity and performance in Metro Orlando attest to
the level of telecommunications service available in the
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