NATCO Project to Bring More Bandwidth, Higher Speeds

NATCO has recently trained staff members in order to offer high speed Internet services at increased speeds, Steven G. Sanders, NATCO vice president and plant manager, said. Network Services Supervisor Travis Sullivan, Bill Hunt, and Kirby Davis, network services technicians, have been trained to use Occam Networks technology for a project to improve high speed Internet service as well as other telecommunications/data services.

The new system uses Ethernet and Internet Protocol to provide everything from a basic telephone line to high speed Internet and video services to the home, Sullivan said.

This installation will take about three months, Sullivan said, and will be accomplished customer-by-customer in the NATCO service area in Marion County and Boone County. Individual customers will see the improvements in service as soon as their cutover to the new system is done, Hunt said.

NATCO will ultimately be able to increase high speed Internet services and provide a larger conduit to the Internet backbone. Overall, a customer’s service will also become more reliable, Davis added, and NATCO will be able to initiate new services quicker in the future.

Sanders said the technology from Occam Networks will fulfill customer needs. With the new network loop carrier system, NATCO can take fiber optic cable to each customer’s premise.

“Although we are a small, independent telecom provider, we are committed to rapidly upgrading our networks,” Sanders stressed. Here, as is the case across the nation, consumers and businesses want more bandwidth for social and business networking, video, and other content.