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Time Warner Telecom Wins Three-Year Contract With Colorado's Cherry Creek School District

Posted on: Wednesday, 25 June 2008, 12:01 CDT

LITTLETON, Colo., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Time Warner Telecom Inc., , a leading provider of managed voice, Internet and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced it has been awarded a three-year contract to provide voice and data services to the Cherry Creek School District, Colorado's fourth largest school district. Time Warner Telecom will deploy enterprise-wide Ethernet-based Internet (EIS) and voice services throughout the district.

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"Time Warner Telecom demonstrated tremendous professionalism and a highly consultative approach to positioning our communications services for the long term," said Glenn Owens, manager of networks and data processing for the Cherry Creek School District. "Based on my conversations with other school districts using their services, I expect to get great customer service and great response times, some of which I've already experienced. In addition to Time Warner Telecom's competitive pricing, we ended up with an absolutely phenomenal solution that meets our needs."

Time Warner Telecom is delivering 200 Mbps Ethernet Internet service and nearly 600 lines of voice to the Cherry Creek School District for all primary voice services at its schools and the Education Services Center. "We wanted reliable lines for use by our administrators, parents and teachers," stated Owens. "As a network manager, I particularly liked the fact that we were able to consolidate our telephone services provider to one. It was cumbersome with different schools using different providers, each with its own process to resolve problems. With Time Warner Telecom, all that has gone away."

As teachers continually increase their use of Web 2.0 applications, along with a high utilization of streaming video content, school districts are pushing the limits of their existing Internet circuits. "Our Internet usage alone has grown 100 percent a year for the last few years," said Owens. "We needed a reliable, high-capacity, cost-effective solution that could scale to 1 Gbps bandwidth as our District's needs grow. We got that with the Time Warner Telecom Ethernet Internet circuit."

"Bandwidth-intensive educational applications like distance learning and streaming video are driving the demand by school districts for our Ethernet Internet service," said Rick Corbett, vice president and general manager for Time Warner Telecom in Colorado. "Our service's scalability to 10 Gbps, our easily-administered native Ethernet handoff and our superior customer support make it a highly attractive alternative to others providers of communications services."

Time Warner Telecom is changing its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. About Time Warner Telecom

Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP and security, to enterprise organizations and communications services companies throughout the U.S. As a leading provider of integrated and converged network solutions, Time Warner Telecom delivers customers overall economic value, quality, service, and improved business productivity. Time Warner Telecom will change its name to tw telecom on July 1, 2008. Please visit http://www.twtelecom.com/ for more information.

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Time Warner Telecom Inc.

CONTACT: Patrick Mulcahy, Media Relations of Time Warner Telecom,+1-303-566-1470, patrick.mulcahy@twtelecom.com

Web site: http://www.twtelecom.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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