Nizhoni Health Systems, a home healthcare agency in Massachusetts, has selected Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) Business Ethernet and voice services to connect its 11 locations across the state on one network.
Nizhoni Health Systems now has a meshed Comcast Business Ethernet Network Service with connections ranging from 20 to 100 Mbps across its 11 locations, which allows all sites to share files, interact with each other and connect to the organization's two data centers. The business services [http://www.broadbandtechreport.com/verticals/business-services.html] deployment includes three separate Comcast Ethernet Dedicated Internet lines placed at different locations to provide redundancy. Additionally, Nizhoni Health Systems implemented four Comcast PRI trunks.
In other Comcast news, the MSO says its Internet Essentials low-income broadband adoption program has connected more than 450,000 families, or 1.8 million people, since it was launched in August 2011.