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vol. 14, No. 34 Week of August 23, 2009
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

AK-WA Connection 2009: ACS sprints ahead in Alaska telecom race

New fiber-optic cable brings geographical diversity, greater reliability to telecommunications provider’s connections to Outside

By Rose Ragsdale

Alaska-Washington Connection

When Alaska Communications Systems brought its new undersea fiber-optic cable on line in April, the company became the only telecommunications provider in Alaska with two subsea links that follow different geographic routes to the Lower 48. ACS hailed completion of its Alaska-Oregon Network, or AKO....

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Fiber technology advances

Redundant network, reliable service


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