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October 17, 2008

Cablevision Completes Optimum WiFi Deployment in Long Island and Connecticut

By Shamila Janakiraman, TMCnet Contributing Editor

Cablevision Systems (News - Alert) Corporation has announced the successful completion of Optimum WiFi wireless Internet deployment in Long Island. This is expected to give wireless Internet access for the commercial and high-traffic areas in Long Island, Connecticut and Western/Dutchess service areas.



 
WiFi will be a free enhancement to Cablevision’s Optimum (News - Alert) Online high-speed Internet customers. Optimum WiFi has been activated on the commuter rail platforms and station parking lots in Long Island and at Metro North stations.
 
Cablevision owns a large and advanced consumer WiFi (News - Alert) network in the U.S based on its geographical coverage area. It has also increased its Optimum WiFi service area to more than double within a month of starting the deployment update. Cablevision plans to deploy WiFi in commercial and high consumer traffic areas covering the full tri-state service area within the next two years.
 
“We are pleased to announce that Optimum WiFi is now available to customers across Cablevision’s Long Island, Connecticut and Westchester/Dutchess service areas, as our market-wide deployment continues,” said Kevin Curran, Cablevision’s senior vice president of wireless product development.
 
“Free and broadly available WiFi access is already becoming a popular enhancement for our Optimum Online customers and a significant differentiator over our competitors. With an estimated 300 million WiFi-enabled consumer electronics devices shipped last year - a figure that is expected to grow to 1 billion by 2012 - we believe the interest and value associated with Optimum WiFi is only beginning,” added Curran.
 
Optimum Online customers will be able to access Optimum WiFi via a simple sign-on screen. The logging in of a customer into the service by using an Optimum User ID and password enable the network to deliver high-speed symmetrical speeds of nearly 1.5 Mbps.
 
Cablevision caters to over 2.4 million customers providing them with Optimum Online high-speed Internet service including more than 51 percent of homes passed by its fiber optic network. Cablevision’s customers benefit greatly from the wireless access with most of them using wireless routers in their homes.
 
Optimum WiFi employs the standard used in wireless home networks that is 802.11. Devices certified by the WiFi Alliance (News - Alert) as compatible with 802.11 standards and provided with a browser can access the Optimum WiFi network. Cablevision has also launched a consumer Web site for providing more information to consumers about the Optimum WiFi like tutorials and detailed coverage maps which will be continually updated as deployment progresses. Optimum WiFi community zones activated earlier provide services to Denville, Ridgewood and Tenafly in New Jersey, and Parkchester in the Bronx.
 
Cablevision Systems Corporation is a media and entertainment company. Its telecommunications offerings include iO TV digital television, Optimum Online high-speed Internet, Optimum Voice digital voice-over-cable, and Optimum Lightpath integrated business communications services.
 
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Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Michelle Robart


 







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