Time Warner Cable installs 361,000 miles of fiber optic cable in Southland

Dec. 14, 2010 7 AM PT

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Time Warner Cable has finished installing 361,149 miles of fiber optic cable in Southern California and now has enough strands in place to wrap around the equator nearly 15 times.

Over the last two years, the company’s Business Class arm underwent a $120-million infrastructure expansion. The effort opens up phone, Internet, ethernet and cable television services to another 125,000 businesses in the Southland.

The cable network can quash power outages in 50 milliseconds, according to Time Warner, and had the added bonus of creating 250 new jobs.

The installation created 16 new coverage rings across the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, Inland Empire, West Los Angeles, Downtown, Hollywood and South Bay areas.

-- Tiffany Hsu

Technology Blog

Tiffany Hsu

Tiffany Hsu is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote about the California economy, fast food, restaurants, retail and alternative energy for the Business section. A Bay Area native, UC Berkeley graduate and eternal Nor-Cal fan, she once worked for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She also did a stint at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where she developed a passion for sweet tea. She still has faith that someday she’ll find two economists who agree.

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