The North Carolina Next Generation Networks project received...
The North Carolina Next Generation Networks project received bids this week in its connectivity venture that promises faster Internet and public-private leveraging. The partnership combines several universities and communities in the state’s Research Triangle Region and issued an RFP in…
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February seeking companies to assist in its next-generation efforts. Time Warner Cable bid to “play an integral role,” the cable company said in a press release Wednesday (http://bit.ly/12lKKxs). “We ... believe our highly reliable, advanced network can exceed the future requirements of the NCNGN to deliver speeds of 1 Gigabit per second,” said COO Rob Marcus in a statement: “Our network is capable of, and is already delivering, multiple Gigabit speeds and so much more, meeting customers’ needs today and into the future.” The company has invested upwards of $1.5 billion and installed 28,000 miles of fiber and coaxial cable infrastructure in the region the request covers, it said. It touted its 6,600 employees and 1.6 million customers in the state. The request received eight responses total, including Time Warner Cable’s, Triangle J Council of Governments Regional Planning Director John Hodges-Copple told us. “We were pleased with the response.” He described an initial review process that should happen rather quickly, followed by a more elaborate, intended period of negotiation set to happen likely throughout the summer before any contracts are signed. Time Warner Cable is the only bidder that’s publicly announced itself, he said, declining to disclose the others.