Cable / Telecom News

Big Pipe to speed education

CALGARY - Shaw Communications' Big Pipe division announced today the Calgary Board of Education (CBE) has chosen it to provide them with high-speed data services. After a formal bid process, Big Pipe was contracted to provide Transparent LAN Service (TLS) between the CBE's data centres, to facilitate high-availability bandwidth for business continuity. "The CBE has growing data needs," said Cindy Seibel, director, information and technology services, at the CBE. "We needed a bandwidth provider to supply an innovative, custom solution for our particular network challenges, and Big Pipe delivered." The CBE currently supports close to 100,000 students and has over...