Time Warner Telecom Builds Two New Fiber Networks; Connects Texas Cities

Greenwood Village, CO-based Time Warner Telecom Inc. plans to enter Dayton, OH and Fayetteville, NC by the middle of 2000. These are the 23rd and 24th markets the company will serve with fiber-based network services. The initial Dayton network will include a fiber backbone to be built in the downtown area to serve major Dayton-area employers with dedicated and switched data, voice and Internet access. Fayetteville is North Carolina's fourth largest metropolitan area. The local Time Warner Telecom-built fiber network will serve small, medium and large businesses as well as government and military customers.

In addition to the Florida expansions, Time Warner also announced plans to connect customer telecom traffic on a 788-mile fiber backbone between Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Waco, TX. According to Ray Whinery, Time Warner Telecom's senior vice president of Technology, Operations and Engineering, the Texas inter-city ring will consist of non-dispersion shifted fibers designed for optimizing long haul optical transmission, and Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology will be deployed throughout the route to maximize capacity.