VICTORIA – BC-based infrastructure provider Charter Telecom will partner with Blink Communications to help upgrade Blink’s network technology, in turn enabling Blink’s customers to upgrade their own networks and the applications they run on them, the companies announced.
Blink, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oakville Hydro, serves the networking needs of businesses, counting Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies among its customers, said the press release.
"This project with Charter increases our capacity to deliver the next generation multi protocol label switching network and its key benefits to our clients: high-touch services, reliability and scalability," said Jeff Cowan, Blink’s engineering team leader, in the release. "The trend today is for clients to look to converge their services – one common pipe for voice, video and data communications – and it’s an especially interesting solution considering the economy."
The new network, using equipment from Juniper Networks equipment, will be staged, configured and shipped by Charter to 15 locations in Blink’s Ontario network installations by June.
