***Road Runner to Pass 2 Million Homes in Texas
(March 30)
Road Runner announced two Time Warner affiliates ramping up to
offer Road Runner. Time Warner Communications of Houston and San
Antonio’s Paragon, a Time Warner Company, plan to begin offering
the Road Runner service in their respective markets during the
summer of this year, joining Austin and El Paso as Road Runner
providers. The addition of these affiliates will make Road Runner
available to over two million homes in the state of Texas.
Time Warner Communications, Houston, passes 1.3 million homes,
serving 650,000 cable customers. The Road Runner service will
rollout this summer to Time Warner Communications customers, and
will become available to those communities previously served by
TCI after upgrades are complete. More information about Houston’s
Road Runner offering can be found online at:
www.twchouston.com
The summer will also see Road Runner racing into the San Antonio
area, provided by Paragon, a Time Warner Company. Paragon passes
544,000 homes, serving 305,000 cable customers. Consumers can
find out more about the San Antonio Road Runner service at
www.paragon-sa.com
Notable in the Houston and San Antonio rollouts is the deployment
of Cisco System’s uBR7246 Universal Broadband Router and
integrated M16 modem cards. The Cisco uBR7246 is the first and
only Data over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS)
qualified broadband access solution on the market. The uBR
product family provides a cost-effective, scaleable interface
between subscriber cable modems and the backbone data network,
maximizing the efficiency of the network and supporting multiple
network services. The M16 modem cards will allow Road Runner to
support more customers on a single platform, and are fully
compliant with the DOCSIS standard. This network will interface
with Cisco 12000 series GSR‘s running on an OC-12 Packet-over-
SONET Internet backbone, providing Road Runner users with
reliable, powerful high-speed performance.
Road Runner has in excess of 200,000 customers in the communities
that it serves within the U.S. It is a joint venture among
affiliates of Time Warner, Inc., MediaOne Group, Microsoft Corp.,
Compaq Corp., and Advance/Newhouse.
www.cisco.com
www.rr.com
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