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Calendar of Events
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Regulatory Affairs
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Infrastructure
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Telecom facilities for business
SC's Local Telephone Companies have installed hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber strands and thousands of sheath miles of fiber cable across the state to provide rapid transport of data for businesses within the state. Self-healing ring networks with speeds from OC- 3 to OC- 96 are in place for hospitals, financial institutions and large industrial sites. Fast packet switches are located to serve all of South Carolina. They offer the business community data services like Frame Relay, SMDS, and CDS, these services are critical to businesses that rely on data communications between their locations.
In addition to fast packet services, the Local Exchange Carriers offer Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services that allow businesses to have bandwidth on demand. ATM services offer a business the ability to have their voice, data, and video on the same transport and share the available bandwidth with each application. These services are available in all areas of South Carolina through available ATM backbone switches.
Private industry is also being served with this high-speed fiber based infrastructure and ATM switching in South Carolina. 38 megabit data is being provided to private industry with self healing fiber rings connected to ATM switched data networks that connect locations in the state over a hundred miles apart. This allows industry to locate anywhere in the state with several sites in a local area or over the entire state without losing the ability to communicate at high speeds.
SC's telephone companies have also partnered with South Carolina State Government to implement a fully integrated ATM backbone network for local ATM and Frame Relay traffic.
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