Cox Communications Offers Economical Bandwidth in Tough Economy

January 27, 2009

By Jennifer Hull

In the current challenging economy, Cox Business is encouraging IT directors, chief information officers, and business owners looking for ways to manage operational costs to consider Ethernet networking services. Ethernet, the preferred emerging networking technology for businesses, provides higher bandwidth rates and lower costs per bit compared to legacy telecommunications services. Ethernet networking services create an opportunity for significant savings that can be allocated to additional network services or other parts of the organization.

Cox Business Provides Economical Ethernet to Business Customers

"The vast majority of advanced data networking circuits in use today by businesses utilize legacy technologies that were aggressively deployed over the last two decades by regional telecom carriers," said Kristine Faulkner, vice president of product development and management for Cox Business. "Although Ethernet represents an ideal solution for many businesses, these traditional telecom carriers have very little incentive to migrate customers from higher billing legacy services."

According to Vertical Systems Group, the majority of business Ethernet deployment will come from the replacement of legacy services. Ethernet services provide a simpler, more transparent, lower cost and far more scalable transport option than many legacy technologies. With Ethernet services, businesses get multi-megabit to gigabit transport speeds for a fraction of the cost per bit.

Cox Business Ethernet Networking Services Reduce Operational Costs

"The economy is forcing managers to aggressively and strategically drive cost out of their business. Replacing legacy networking connections with Ethernet is an immediate way to reduce operational costs, while gaining greater flexibility and scalability for future growth," said Rosemary Cochran, principal, Vertical Systems Group. "As businesses make final IT spending and strategy adjustments for 2009, this will be a top consideration."

Cox Business is the fourth largest Ethernet service provider in the U.S., according to Vertical Systems Group, and is the only multiple system cable operator ranked in the top tier. Cox Business provides voice, data, and video services for nearly 250,000 small and regional businesses, including health care providers, K-12 and higher education, financial institutions, and federal, state, and local government organizations. Cox is currently the seventh largest voice service provider in the U.S., and provides more than 600,000 phone lines to business customers.