Quanta to install fiber-optic cable for North Carolina communications network

An article in the Triangle Research Journal said Quanta Services ( PWR), Houston, will be one of two companies installing approximately 200 miles of fiber-optic cable for a communications network that will link schools, universities and research ...
Oct. 11, 2010
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An article in the Triangle Research Journal said Quanta Services ( PWR), Houston, will be one of two companies installing approximately 200 miles of fiber-optic cable for a communications network that will link schools, universities and research facilities in western North Carolina. North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) is being funded in part by $28.2 million in federal stimulus money.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.