Jan, 2004 : Broadwing Partners With Covad to Offer DSL

📅 January 8, 2004 - Austin, Texas-based telecommunications carrier Broadwing Communications (broadwing.com), said on Thursday that it has entered an agreement with Internet service and Web hosting provider Covad Communications to offer Broadwing's enterprise customers nationwide DSL access in the country's top Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs).

Under the agreement, Broadwing said it is expanding its current portfolio of access alternatives to include DSL, interconnecting its nationwide, all-optical network with Covad's nationwide DSL network.
"Our large enterprise customers have diverse networking needs. They are continually looking for cost-effective ways to interconnect their smaller facilities to their corporate wide area networks and to offer redundancy to current private line access connections. This is particularly important as customers look to add new enhanced services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and video conferencing to existing data networks," said Mark F. Spagnolo, chief executive officer of Broadwing. "We're excited about this new relationship with Covad: By adding nationwide DSL connectivity to our portfolio of offerings, we believe we can respond to a larger percentage of customer opportunities."
Broadwing said it expects to begin offering this service to its customers during the first quarter of 2004.
"Covad is pleased to be teaming with Broadwing and with the opportunity for continued growth in our business class offerings," said Charles Hoffman, president and chief executive officer of Covad. "Our broadband expertise and our ability to combine our nationwide DSL network with Broadwing's all-optical network will enable them to offer highly competitive enterprise solutions to their customers."
Broadwing was acquired by Corvis Communications in June of 2003 for $129 million.