Comcast Business announced plans today to invest in a significant expansion of its Boston metro fiber reach. They will be spending some $25M on the buildout, which will extend the company’s reach both for Ethernet connectivity and for its voice and video offerings to the business community.
Comcast Business is already in Boston of course, but plans to deploy 40 new route miles of new fiberoptic cable throughout the Back Bay and the Financial District, and also on the other side of the river through parts of Cambridge. The expansion will bring Comcast alongside some 3,000 additional businesses.
Meanwhile, earlier this week Comcast Business also announced some interesting progress in Philadelphia. They will be providing 100Mbps Ethernet connectivity to the start-up and tech community at The Microsoft Reactor in the University City Science Center. That’s at uCity Square at 3711 Market Street, a few blocks from both the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel and a local hub for entrepreneurs and such.
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Categories: Cable · Metro fiber
Does Comcast build this out on their own, or will they lease from existing dark fiber (if available…)?
If comcast wants to be a baller in Enterprise Networks,why don’t they just buy somebody? They can afford it and it would be alot fast than building. Thought they would have taken L3, but now L3’s gone and the options are dwindling fast.
The cable MSOs need to figure out a way to effectively deliver managed router service for their EPL, ENS, etc service. They would win many more Layer 2 deals if they could also provide the Layer 3 edge device.
Barclay, they better come up with a Layer 3 game plan quickly since they have been accustomed to just pitching bandwidth and expecting the end users to create their own Layer 3 architecture. It would be quicker for the cablecos to overlay one of the existing SD-WAN providers on top of their Layer 2 networks, regardless of whether they own the fiber or coax, or lease it from others.
https://jobs.comcast.com/job-153576-solution-architect-sd-wan-in-philadelphia-pa-technology-network-engineering
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