Cox Gets Irvine Deal

Cox Business Services, the Aliso Viejo-based arm of Cox Communications Orange County that handles corporate clients, has won a five-year contract to build a high-speed, wide-area network for the city of Irvine.

The deal, worth $473,080, allows Cox to use its cable infrastructure to link Irvine’s Civic Center with 12 remote locations. These sites include the town’s senior center, animal shelters and several parks. The high-speed connections will allow city departments to streamline their internal accounting procedures and eventually roll out in-house broad-band services such as video teleconferencing, city staff said Monday.

Other cities in the region have also opted to build high-speed data and voice networks, including Anaheim and Laguna Niguel.