MegaPath Connects with Time Warner Cable

MegaPath partners up with Time Warner Cable to deliver business-class cable broadband services in 44 regional service areas around the U.S.

by ISP-Planet Staff [September 25, 2002]

Business broadband service provider MegaPath Networks, Inc. debuted its business-class cable broadband services this week as a result of its partnership with Time Warner Cable, a division of AOL Time Warner. The alliance allows MegaPath to significantly grow the size of its national broadband service footprint and offer enterprises even more broadband connectivity choices.

Dr. Harry Taxin, MegaPath Networks president and chief executive officer, said the addition of cable-based broadband services allows the company to become a single-source provider of multiple types of business-class connectivity options.

"This is especially empowering for IT managers and CIOs at companies with large distributed enterprises that need 100 percent broadband availability across their remote users," Taxin said. "MegaPath helps save them an enormous amount of time, effort and expense that would go into managing multiple service providers and hundreds or thousands of branch office and telecommuter broadband connections on their own."

Ken Fitzpatrick, Time Warner Cable Commercial Services senior vice president, said its alliance with MegaPath Networks increases the company's opportunity to service business customers. "We look forward to a mutually advantageous partnership with MegaPath in our delivery of high-speed Internet connectivity to businesses and telecommuters through the deployment of our Road Runner Business Class suite of services," Fitzpatrick said.

MegaPath's cable broadband services are designed for distributed enterprise customers that require a high penetration of broadband access across multiple remote office and teleworker locations. The company's business-class cable services are available in 44 regional service areas across the U.S. Pricing for the service starts at $79.95 a month and comes with a choice of static or dynamic IP addresses.

While MegaPath expands its service area with the addition of Time Warner Cable's Road Runner markets, digital subscriber line (DSL) access has won the broadband battle for business clients to date.

According to recent research from In-Stat/MDR, business broadband usage is likely to grow in the coming years, but digital subscriber line (DSL) access has the edge over demand for business-class cable broadband services.

In its report, Pipe Filling: The Applications Driving Demand for Broadband in Main and Remote Offices, Part Three: US Enterprises, In-Stat/MDR revealed that 37 percent of businesses prefer DSL access, when asked which they would purchase for main office locations if monthly service charges and availability were equal across four types of broadband services: DSL, cable, fixed wireless and satellite Internet.

MegaPath may face an uphill battle peddling business-class cable connectivity for almost twice as much as a standard monthly fee for a residential DSL connee access is just the latest addition to MegaPath's business broadband porction. But cabltfolio; its product offerings include ADSL, SDSL, IDSL, T1 and ISDN leased line services.

In addition to Time Warner Cable, Pleasanton, Calif.-based MegaPath also resells broadband access from a bevy of telecom partners including Verizon, Bell South, SBC, Qwest, Covad, Allegiance Telecom, New Edge Networks and Level 3. Through these partnerships, MegaPath can act as the single-source provider, giving ubiquitous broadband access to companies with large distributed enterprises in more than 50 Local Access and Transport Areas (LATAs), from more than 6,600 unique Central Offices (COs) and now in 44 cable operator regions.

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