Cablecos must work together to capitalize on business market growth, says Rogers' Canning

By Alan Breznick

NEW YORK – Seeking to boost its market share of medium- and large-sized companies, Rogers Communications’ business unit is pressing other North American cable operators to interconnect their networks and coordinate their commercial products and services. Speaking at a Light Reading conference on cable business services here last week, Terry Canning, senior vice-president of Rogers Business Solutions, argued that cable companies have a great opportunity to lure enterprises away from telcos because of cable’s unique hybrid fibre-coax (HFC) architecture, abundance of fibre lines and advanced DOCSIS 3.0 broadband technology. He also contended that cable has an advantage because its fibre...