Hunter Communications Completes Network Upgrade22 May 2005
Hunter Communications, Southern Oregon"s leading provider of high-speed data and elecommunications networks, announced today the completion of a major network upgrade.
"For 36 months, our network has been evolving as we"ve brought more installations on-line," said Richard Ryan, founder and president of Hunter Communications. "Now, with over 800 miles of high-speed fiber in place, it was time to upgrade the entire network and take it to the next level."
Working with partner Cisco Systems, Hunter Communications has completed deploying the next generation of digital fiber-optic telecommunications switches throughout its southern Oregon Metropolitan Area Network (MAN). According to Ryan, the new equipment adds security options for customers, improves network error-detection and monitoring; and, decreases response time when problems occur.
"The new switches add enhanced capabilities to our network," said Chris Cahill, Hunter"s Information Technology manager. "That means that we now have the ability to do things that standard Ethernet networks simply can"t accomplish, like self-healing loops, load balancing, improved traffic management and Quality of Service. All of these capabilities are important to our customers now, and will be of increasing importance as voice services are moved to the Internet."
According to Ryan, Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) will be the next major direction in communications technology. "We wanted to make sure that our network was totally ready for the increased bandwidth and redundancy needs of voice over Internet. We believe that the economies of deploying this new technology will drive increased network traffic for the foreseeable future. Our customers and the region as a whole will benefit from this upgrade as they migrate to VOIP."
Hunter Communications has installed over 800 miles of high-speed fiber in southern Oregon, starting with the Ashland Fiber Network. Though Hunter serves corporations like Boise, the Grange Co-operative and Erickson Air Crane, the company"s network services have grown out of creative public-private partnerships that leveraged telecommunications funds already in school budgets to create new infrastructure – using the most technologically advanced components. This ground-breaking model has enabled Hunter Communications to install 2, high-speed fiber-optic rings that serve the Rogue Valley and Klamath Basin – allowing over 60 schools in 7 districts to share resources.
In 2004, the State of Oregon recognized Hunter"s contributions to expanding communications options in rural southern Oregon by bestowing the Excellence in Telecommunications Partnerships award on Ryan.
Founded in 1992, Hunter Communications provides local area networks, wide area networks, and everything in-between to businesses, governments and agencies like the Veteran"s Domiciliary. Hunter started building an all-fiber network throughout Medford in 2000, based on Ryan"s vision of rural Southern Oregon"s first Metropolitan Area Network (MAN). In response to expanded customer needs, Hunter created Core Digital Services as a separate group to provide advanced technical support and engineering solutions to businesses for all their telecommunications and networking needs. By January 1st, 2005, Hunter Communications had acquired all of Core Digital Services" employees and assets in order to bring them under the corporate umbrella and brand.
Source: Arrivenet
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