NYC Ethernet Options for Businesses - CNSG Converged Network Services Group

NYC Ethernet providers are prevalent in both the state of New York, and especially in New York City where the rich infrastructure of fiber connectivity, coaxial cable, and copper lines provide small businesses and corporations alike a myriad of options for connectivity.  Manufacturers, distributors, and service companies all rely on the dependable infrastructure to connect to their customers, suppliers, and the web for research, and advances in technology have driven down the cost of being and staying connected over the years.  

Copper Lines
Today’s infrastructure across the United States had its initial development started back before the turn of the 20th century!  (In case anyone is curious, that was the 1800s)  AT&T; was the unchallengeable dominant force as it owned and controlled most all of the critical telephony patents (and telegraphy patents) into the early days of the 1900s.  At the time the telephone was a relatively new invention; created on March 1, 1876 and AT&T was the combination of Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) and two other men who were the financial backers of the research that Bell was undertaking.  The company grew to be declared a “government sanctioned monopoly” in 1913.

The New York network was a high priority to the newly founded company and the network was receiving significant investment.  By 1915 the first transcontinental telephone line connected New York to a network in California; essentially providing phone services across the United states to all who could afford it.  All of the network at the time is based on copper lines.

Coaxial Cable
Though it may seem like a recent invention, coaxial cable was first patented in 1880 by English engineer and mathematician Oliver Heaviside.  The benefit of the cable was that its design allowed it to repel electromagnetic interference that encumbered copper lines that lacked the protective sheathing found in coaxial cable.  In 1929 AT&T enhanced the design and in 1941 the first installation of “non-experimental” coaxial cable was installed in the United States for the first transmission on the “broadband” medium.

Fiber Optics
Also initially and occasionally known as a “light pipe”, an optical fiber is roughly the diameter of a human hair and is constructed of silica (glass with a very low number of impurities).  Signals sent over the “fiber” are actually pulses of light.  Due to the complexities of connecting strands of glass together, there are drawbacks to using fiber in all situations; however, the benefits of optical fiber are numerous.  Fiber lines can carry exponentially more data than their copper or coaxial counterparts can.  Signals on fiber also do not weaken over long stretches, nor is it affected by electrical interference.

The cost of the hardware that was needed, combined with the cost and complexities of installing fiber made it suitable initially only for applications where the fiber was covering long distances.  Since the turn of the new millennium, the costs associated with installing and using fiber lines have dramatically decreased to the point that the concept of providing fiber to the home (FTTH) has become as affordable as a similar installation with copper lines.

Converged Network Services Group – CNSG provides a near unlimited number of telecommunications services to both international and national cities including NYC Ethernet.