Last week’s program was provided by Rotarian Jake Austin.  Jake’s
guest speaker was Steve Jones with Spectrum Enterprise.  Jake was
introduced to Steve Jones, and Spectrum Enterprise, through their
involvement with the Plant City Economic Development Council. 
Spectrum has been a great partner with the EDC in developing fiber
service to the Plant City area to improve the attractiveness to incoming
businesses to the area.  Spectrum Enterprise, a division of Charter
Communications, is a national provider of scalable, fiber-based
technology solutions serving many of America's largest businesses
and communications service providers. The broad Spectrum
Enterprise portfolio includes Internet access, Ethernet access and
networks, Voice, and TV solutions and extends to Managed IT
solutions including Application, Cloud Infrastructure and Managed
Hosting Services offered by its affiliate, Navisite. Their industry
leading team of experts works closely with clients to achieve greater
business success by providing right-fit solutions designed to meet
their evolving needs. Charter Communications has merged with
Time Warner Cable and acquired Bright House Networks. This
new company has divisions serving residential customers (Spectrum),
small businesses (Spectrum Business™) and enterprise clients
(Spectrum Enterprise). Together this new company provides advanced
communications services to over one million business customers
across 41 states, and is one of the largest Ethernet providers in the
country and the largest provider in many major cities served. Over
the next few years Spectrum plans to make significant investments
to expand their commercial network while deploying a substantial
number of public WiFi access points. This greater scale will offer
enterprise clients advanced technology and product innovations to
address the growing demands for increased bandwidth, scalability,
reliability and mobility. In addition, Spectrum will be implementing
best practices across the new integrated company to support their
continued focus on delivering industry-leading client service and
support.  Spectrum Enterprises is a Fortune 100 company investing
over $1billion in citys and communities to bring fiber opportunity
to more people.  Spectrum Enterprise offers faster internet service
through dedicated bandwidth, not shared.  Fiber Optic is shared
while “Fiber” isn’t, resulting in faster speed and seamless WiFi. 
Cloud based internet and a variety of other services are available. 
Contact Steve Jones or Spectrum Enterprise for more information
         -submitted by Mike Arndt