Comm-Tract completes advanced fiber optic network project for the City of Methuen
Comm-Tract designed, constructed, and fully implemented an extensive Fiber Optic Municipal Area Network (MAN) that provides the high speed voice and data services to all of the city buildings including the police, fire, library, water and sewer, and city utilities. The network is also planned to be extended to service the school buildings as well in 2009. The network has been built in stages, the first phase was completed in June 2006 and encompassed over 2000 Verizon pole locations, and had over 100,000 feet of single mode 24 to 288 strand figure 8 self support Corning fiber cable installed along with the switching layer of the network. In subsequent phases, the City network is now complete. The Fiber Optic MAN is primarily aerial cable, with the remainder in Comm-Tract provided trenching/underground facilities that provide crossings under the state highways. The gigabit switches provide the access layer, and this in turn ties into the respective LAN environments in the buildings. Comm-Tract also provided and installed all of the City of Methuen’s interior structured cabling systems for all LAN environments and workstation locations, the Communications Rooms, and the Data Center in the Town Hall. The City of Methuen is ahead of the times and one of the first Cities to deploy 10gbps fiber all the way to the desktop. Kingsley Lough, the Director of Information Systems for the City of Methuen, rated Comm-Tract a perfect 10 in every aspect of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ITC 32 blanket contract customer survey after the project was completed.