03/15/06
" The board also adopted a resolution to support Broadband Networks. Cherokee Electric Cooperative, as stated in the resolution, will support efforts to bring broadband Internet access to areas in this district with the technologies developed by Cybrtyme, Inc. and IBEC, Inc. Their patented technology will use existing electric power lines to allow signal connections, independent of the power distribution circuits, that will deliver broad band services and wide area network (WAN) access to customers. The broadband service will usher in new options for customers that are only available through high-speed Internet access and will help close the “digital divide” that separates rural America. In other business, the board: -was reminded of the AREA training meeting scheduled for April 4-5 in Birmingham. -approved Pam Dorsett as the chaperone for the Annual Youth Tour 2006 in Washington D.C. -approved Thereasa Hulgan, executive director, Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, to be on the agenda for the Cherokee Electric Cooperative Board of Directors March meeting. "
Thursday, March 16, 2006
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Deal to spread broadband use
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From staff reports
Huntsville Times
Local firm IBEC's technology will help improve rural service
An agreement between Huntsville's International Broadband Electronic Communications (IBEC) and Cooper Power Systems will enable utilities across the country to deliver broadband Internet services to customers, even in rural locations.
Cooper Power Systems will incorporate IBEC's unique, patent-pending broadband-over-powerline (BPL) coupling technology into its own surge arrester products to deliver efficient, high-performance signal couplers for the rapidly growing BPL marketplace.
As a result, rural utilities across the country - using their own powerlines - will be able to deliver Internet broadband services to their customers no matter the location.
"Customers outside of large urban areas are limited to the slow and frustrating proposition of using dial-up services for obtaining broadband capabilities,'' said Scott Lee, CEO of IBEC. "Combining our BPL coupling technology with Cooper's market-leading surge arrester products, we will be able to deliver the world's most cost-effective and reliable high-performance capacitive BPL coupler solutions.
"Even rural utilities looking to provide their customers with broadband access over powerlines will be able to do so cost-effectively.''
IBEC, with offices in Madison Business Park South, was formed in 2003 and has about 20 employees.
In 2005, the Federal Communications Commission approved the use of powerlines for delivering broadband services. Ultimately, customers will simply plug a modem into a wall power outlet to gain access to broadband services.
Wisconsin-based Cooper Power Systems is a subsidiary of Cooper Industries, a diversified worldwide manufacturer of products to the electrical, commercial, and industrial markets.
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