PITTSBURGH, and BUFFALO, N.Y. -- TelCove, a leading provider of business critical telecommunications services to enterprise customers and carriers, recently completed a major network upgrade in the Buffalo, N.Y. metro area. The network upgrade included installing Metro-Dense Wave Divisional Multiplexing (MDWDM) technology and was designed to accommodate growing regional demand for next-generation telecommunications services like enterprise Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP), disaster recovery/business continuity services and 10-Gigabit metropolitan Ethernet service. The project investment alone totaled approximately $800,000.

TelCove now has 411 route miles of dense embedded fiber-optic cable in the metro Buffalo area, which extends into Niagara County. The fully-redundant SONET based fiber-optic network supports 186 "on-net" buildings in the city of Buffalo and more than 1,000 business customers overall.

"TelCove is firmly committed to the business growth of the metro Buffalo area, as is evident from our recent investments in its fiber-optics network infrastructure," said Jim Edison, regional general manager at TelCove. "We are meeting our local business customers' growing demands for bandwidth to support metro Ethernet and long haul Ethernet data connections, enterprise VoIP and business continuity/disaster recovery services. Our regional investment and commitment to customers signals our growing confidence in Buffalo's rebirth as a major hub for business and innovation."

With offices in downtown Buffalo and Amherst, TelCove employs 59 locally- based employees under the seasoned management of Jim Edison, general manager. The team includes technicians, engineering/operations specialists, sales and customer service representatives.

TelCove Inc.