CooperVision Increases Network Performance While Reducing Costs With Time Warner Teleco...( - Multi-year contract provides IP V...),Health

- Multi-year contract provides IP VPN service to eight sites nationwide - Triples network bandwidth to more than 1 Gbps at half the cost of legacy

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ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Time Warner Telecom Inc. (Nasdaq: TWTC), a leading provider of managed voice and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced a multi-year, contract to deploy an eight-site IP VPN solution to CooperVision, Inc. of Fairport, New York. CooperVision is a worldwide leader in the manufacture of contact lenses including toric astigmatism correction lenses and multifocal lenses.

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"Time Warner Telecom's end-to-end network solution delivers three times the bandwidth for about half the cost of our old network," said Steve Baxter, Director of regional IT, Americas for CooperVision in Fairport. "The installation of the high-capacity, IP VPN network was a critical to implementing the consolidation of our server and storage infrastructure in our Americas region. We estimate that project will save our company $1.5 million over the life of this telecommunications contract."

In addition to cost savings and increased bandwidth, CooperVision praised the flexibility that the Time Warner Telecom service provides. "We can scale circuit capacity up to a high of 1 Gbps in about one-third the time of other communications vendors I've worked with," explained Baxter. "And their class of service (CoS) technology is much easier and more flexible to implement than other providers, while being very cost competitive. CoS was a key technical requir
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