Time Warner Telecom Wins Department of Defense Contracts to Deliver High Speed Fiber Networks in Hawaii

Time Warner Telecom Wins Department of Defense Contracts to Deliver High Speed Fiber Networks in Hawaii

- Six Military Locations Will Benefit From Secure and Reliable Communications Services at Up to 10 Gbps Speeds

HONOLULU, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Time Warner Telecom (NASDAQ:TWTC), a leading provider of managed voice and data networking solutions for businesses, today announced that it has been awarded contracts for six OC-192 (10 Gigabits per second) high speed, fiber network connections from the Department of Defense to serve military locations in Hawaii. The 20-year lease contracts total $12 million.

The Department of Defense is leasing the fiber optic connections from Time Warner Telecom to deliver high speed communications services, like voice, data and Internet access. Hickam AFB, Fort Shafter and Camp Smith are three of the six locations on the island of Oahu that will use the Time Warner Telecom networks.

The contracts were awarded by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization-Pacific (DITCO-PAC)/PL71 in Pearl Harbor, and were solicited under full and open competition.

"The Defense Department contracts validate our ability to competitively deliver high-speed, highly secure and reliable communications services to the military," said Galen Haneda, general manager for Time Warner Telecom in Hawaii. "We deliver these types of services every day to businesses and organizations that require high performance transmission of their critical information. Our services are based on redundant connections utilizing highly reliable SONET networks to meet and exceed a company's availability goals. By combining those capabilities with top-of-the line customer service, we've established a value proposition that can't be beat."

About Time Warner Telecom

Time Warner Telecom Inc., headquartered in Littleton, Colo., is a leading provider of managed network solutions to a wide array of businesses and organizations in 44 U.S. metropolitan areas that require telecommunications intensive services. One of the country's premier competitive telecom carriers, Time Warner Telecom integrates data, dedicated Internet access, and local and long distance voice services for long distance carriers, wireless communications companies, incumbent local exchange carriers, and such enterprise organizations as healthcare, finance, higher education, manufacturing, hospitality, state and local government, and military. Please visit www.twtelecom.com for more information.


Source: Time Warner Telecom Inc.

CONTACT: Bob Meldrum of Time Warner Telecom, +1-303-566-1354,
bob.meldrum@twtelecom.com

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


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