MAY 23, 2007 -- Adesta LLC (search for Adesta), a systems integrator and project management company for communication networks and electronic security systems, together with Five Colleges Board of Directors, and other local and state officials, marked the completion of the Five Colleges Fiber-Optic Network.
The new $3.6-million network will connect Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts Amherst into a primary carrier hotel in Springfield, MA. These five institutions, which have been collaborating in several areas since 1965, have joined forces once again to develop this network to increase their data network capacity, add redundant links to handle network outages, and reduce their local circuit charges for data communications services.
The 53-mile-long network furnishes almost limitless bandwidth, which will significantly enhance the educational reach and ability of Five Colleges Inc. It will also present greater opportunities for rural-area communities the network touches upon, say Five Colleges representatives.
"Adesta is proud to have been involved in this exciting network opportunity for Five Colleges from design throughout the construction," reports Bob Sommerfeld, president of Adesta. "We are confident this unprecedented network will greatly increase the distance learning and communications possibilities of these institutions," he says.
"Five Colleges looks forward to a continued relationship with Adesta," adds Five Colleges IT Director, Donna Baron. "The people with whom we worked are most knowledgeable and responsive. They helped us value-engineer our network to get the most for our telecommunications dollar today and in the future."
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