On the heels of a new five-year contract, Cox Business recently completed the build-out of 40 miles of its broadband network to 165 Navy sites in San Diego County.
Cox’s network now reaches into barracks, hotels, fire stations, residential housing, recreation centers, and ships in the harbor in order to offer its triple play services to approximately 50,000 sailors stationed in San Diego.
“A complex project of this magnitude would normally take a year to finish, from planning to construction, but we were able to complete it in six months, and we were proud to do it,” said Larry Coval, vice president of Cox Business in San Diego. “One of every 10 Cox employees in San Diego is a veteran, and the Navy is such a huge part of our community. Our team understands how important it is for us to serve the men and women who give so much of themselves every day to serve us.”
The contract awarded Cox Business the rights to provide to provide communications services to sailors in residential housing and barracks, as well as business services to critical facilities such as fire stations. Services provided by Cox Business include:
• Digital TV and HD television for on-base locations such as recreation rooms, fire stations and barracks common rooms;
• Digital TV and high definition channels on the ships;
• All of the HD channels at the Navy Gateway Inns and Suites military hotels, which are used by active duty and retired military personnel, as well as for temporary housing;
• Residential high speed Internet services up to 150 Mbps down/20 Mbps up, which Cox claims is fastest residential Internet service in San Diego.
With its Ethernet-based services, Cox Business can also provide well over 10 gigabit speeds for any future needs the Navy may have. Also serving the Navy in Norfolk, Va., Cox Business now serves the two largest Naval bases in the country.
“State-of-the-art internet communications and cable television serve the ever-important task of keeping our sailors and their families connected to each other,” said Rear Adm. Patrick Lorge, Commander, Navy Region Southwest.
Cox said it was using a quay wall to run a connection from the pier to the ships in the harbor so that the service men and women on board had access to Internet and cable television services in order to communicate with family members and stay up to date on current news.
