[wirelesstoronto-discuss] Cogeco Data Services inks deal with City of Toronto

[Gabe Sawhney]

[Of course, we don't yet know the details.  But does this not remind us of
the classic tragedy of privatization?  The city just sold this fiber network
-- the one that the Onezone network runs on -- to Cogego, and now they're
going to spend how much on buying services back? -Gabe]
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/28/c2908.html
Cogeco Data Services inks deal with City of Toronto TORONTO, Oct. 28 /CNW/ -
Cogeco Data Services, a full service data communications provider, today
announced a 10-year, multi-million dollar agreement with the City of Toronto
that will see the City's wide area network (WAN) services upgraded to one of
the most technologically sophisticated, all-optical networks in Canada.

Cogeco Data Services will provide a wide area network connection to City
agencies, boards, and commissions including the Toronto Public Library,
Toronto Police Services, Toronto Transit Commission, Toronto Zoo and Toronto
proper facilities, serving a majority of the City's 50,000 employees.

"We know that the City of Toronto has extremely high demands for security,
performance and bandwidth," said Tony Ciciretto, President, Cogeco Data
Services. "We are pleased to be working with the City to develop a solution
that meets their needs and maximizes the full capabilities of our network."

Combined with the Toronto District School Board and Toronto Catholic
District School Board agreements, the City of Toronto deal will see Cogeco
Data Services significantly expand its network in the Metro Toronto area.

The initiative will provide for 1 Gbps Ethernet services to all City of
Toronto sites and 20 Gbps+ to the City data centres, while achieving an
outstanding 1 to 1 throughput ratio. The improved services will allow the
City to proceed with their unified communications plans without worries of
throughput delays.

The City of Toronto sites will be installed over a three year period with
the first sites becoming active this year, and 95 per cent of construction
completed by 2011.

About Cogeco Data Services

With its suite of connectivity and managed services (Ethernet MetroLAN,
Managed Wavelengths, Dedicated Internet, Co-location, Storage and Business
Continuity), Cogeco Data Services supplies its customers with the fast,
reliable and secure ability to access, manage, move and store large amounts
of data worldwide. The company's wholly-owned, redundant network is
all-optical, and offers near limitless bandwidth with services that scale to
meet the needs of some of Canada's largest public companies and public
sector organizations. For more information about Cogeco Data Services, a
wholly-owned subsidiary of Cogeco Cable Inc., see www.cogecodata.com.

For further information: Virginia Brailey, Vice President, Marketing and
Communications, Cogeco Data Services, (416) 840-8742,
virginia.brailey at cogecodata.com
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