Newsline
October, 2007
Texas Construction Magazine recently published their list of top speciality contractors. Electra Link is proud to be ranked among the Top 33 specialty contractors as well as #1 in the telecommunications industry.
May, 2007
Electra Link, Inc. was recently recognized by the Industrial Safety Training Council and the National Safety Coucil for outstanding safety efforts, receiving three safety awards for calendar year 2006.
The Industrial Safety Training Counci recognized ELI by awarding ELI a Safety Achievement Award for reducing our Total Recordable Incident Rate (TRIR) by 48%.
The National Safety Council recognized ELI by awarding a "Recognition of Significant Improvement Award" for the reduction of our TRIR. The NSC also awarded an "Occupational Excellence Achievement Award" for having a lost work day record significantly below the national average in our industry.
ELI wants to thank our employees for making safety a "Team" effort.
April, 2007
Electra Link is pleased to be awarded the communications cabling project for Cisco System's new data center in Dallas, TX. The certified Panduit installation consists of 340 Panduit cabinets, 1.2 million feet of shielded augmented Category 6 plenum cable, 35,000 shielded connectors, 848 zone boxes, 23,000' SM Fiber, 312,000' MM Fiber, and 178,000 fiber connectors.
February, 2007
Samsung Austin Semiconductor is building one of the most advanced semiconductor fabrication plants in the world and ELI is pleased to be awarded the communications cabling for the office area in the new FAB. In this certified Panduit installation, ELI will install approximately 827 Category 6 triplex workstation outlets over three floors as well as copper and fiber backbone cabling from each IDF to the Data Center and from the new office area to the existing FAB/Office building.
February, 2007
A major buildout of Fox Networks' new Network Center in The Woodlands has been awarded to Electra Link and is schedule to begin in March, 2007. The Systimax-registered, $400,000 cabling project includes Category 6 voice and data cabling supporting over 400 workstations, a copper and fiber optic backbone sytem as well as a CATV/MATV system consisting of over 400 available ports.
Electra Link Ranked Among the Top 600 Specialty Contractors
ENR Engineering New Record magazine's October 26, 2006 issue named Electra Link 410th in the nation among the Top 600 Specialty contractors.
August 1, 2006
In announcing the launch today of Electra Link's new Web site, company president, Ernie D'Antoni, stated that his goal of enhancing overall communications with customers, prospects and business parnters has been achieved through improved functionality, efficient navigational tools, expedited screen refreshes and internal control of content management.
"Our customers can now submit service or maintenance requests online, prospective customers can submit RFPs and RFQs on new projects more efficiently; and our partners will see higher traffic counts being generated to their sites through internal links we've embedded in key sections of our site", stated D'Antoni.
"In addition, we will be able to educate first time visitors to the site about our depth of experience in industry verticals from energy, manufacturing, retail, industrial and offshore-to-corporate office communicatons through our online Customer Project Portfolio", he continued.
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August 1, 2006
Electra Link's partnership with IBM, Cisco and other major technology service providers is paying off for Rice University in Houston. Electral Link Project Manager Russell Pearson, stated that major milestones are already being met by the ELI project team including:
• Creation of a single, high-performance converged network infrastructure that supports the university requirements for wired and wireless voice, video and data
• Higher speed user connections with scalable bandwidth for both student and research purposes
• Standardized and consistent implementation across the campus for cabling, wiring closets and networking equipment
• Future-ready network capable of supporting current and anticipated devices and applications; ability to add new services with minimal or no system disruption
• Improved data security environment
• Ability to introduce new network technologies like IPV6 and NLR high-speed connections within a confined environment allowing specific research activities to take place without jeopardizing the integrity of the Rice University network function More......
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August 1, 2006
A major build out of Enterprise Products' new data center at its corporate headquarters in downtown Houston is scheduled to be completed by Electra Link in October.
The Panduit registered, $1,15MM infrastructure project that began in April, 2006, encompasses 14 floors and consists of 2,000 triplex locations with 10Gb fiber backbone and copper riser and contains 7,500 drops.
Electra Link also recently cut over the company's new $75K data and fiber disaster recovery center in its San Antonio offices.
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Customer 'KUDOS'
June 18, 2008
Mr. Pete Rosa
Electra Link, Inc.
Re: Letter of Commendation for Tye Sanders, Ken Sifford, Anthony Tod, Benny Gonzales
Dear Mr. Rosa:
As you’re aware, Product Development Engineering (PDE) recently completed the monumental task of moving 450 people around within Building 3.
We had a timeframe of 3 months to complete this task, and it took the work of many dedicated individuals to meet our deadline. I write to commend you on the critical role that your team played in accomplishing this goal. Without the help of the above-listed individuals, we would not have had a successful move.
Each Friday we had a move of 60-70 people and your team made sure that we had no interruption to the workflow for people in their new locations. This task required them to come in on weekends, work late, and often troubleshoot issues that I didn’t anticipate since I was new to my role.
Not once did anyone complain, not once did anyone say no – they offered to help; they were positive and responsive, and at all times, they were professional, even in the wake of some internal customers who did not offer them the same courtesy. I never observed anything less than a willing and positive attitude from all of these guys, and the answer to anything I needed was always, “no problem.”
It is difficult to describe in words how much all of us sincerely appreciate the work of this team, and it speaks very well of Electra Link. In short, we couldn’t have done it without Tye, Ken, Anthony, and Benny.
These gentlemen are an asset to Electra Link, and a tremendous asset to all of us in PDE at AMD.
Thank you for all that was accomplished because of these great employees.
Best Regards,
Christine M. Brown
Administrative Specialist
Product Development Engineering
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From: Jim Rawson
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:59 PM
To: Robert Drosche
Subject: VMware
Robert,
I want to thank you for the great job Electra Link did in taking care of the project for VMware in Austin. The word I have received is that everything was complete and ready for the move in. Phil was helpful and took control of the project. I really appreciate that when I can’t be there myself.
I hope we can have the opportunity to work together again.
If there are any outstanding issues with VMware Corporate, please let me know.
Thanks again,
Jim Rawson
TELADATA
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From:Michael Huynh
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 9:34 AM
To: Chuck Cassidy; Vicky Jacoby; Robert Drosche
Subject: Job Well Done ELI @ Austin
Hi Chuck et Al,
I want to say “Thank You” for an outstanding job with the Austin4 relocation project. You, your team and crew went beyond mine (and my team’s) expectations. From helping us move some of the gear from the ADC to providing last minute support, you all delivered promptly and professionally. I don’t have Brad’s email address but please extend my gratitude to him in orchestrating the onsite logistics.
You all have truly defined what “Great Customer Service” is all about.
Many thanks for all your help and efforts! Best regards,
Michael C. Huynh
Oracle Corporation
Global IT Project Manager
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I would like to take the opportunity to thank and compliment Electra Link for the high quality of their work over this past school year at Lake Travis ISD./
I have utilized Electra Link's network cabling services several times this year, for projects ranging from new installations to discovering and remediating segments of our existing cable plant. I have been consistently impressed witht the attention to detail, quality control, and performance of both the infrastructure and technicians that Electra Link employs.
Lake Travis ISD will continue to seek the type of standards-based, scalable network infrastructure that Electra Link has helped us to build this year, and we will rely on the quality installation techniques and documentation provided to us by your company to ensure that this infrastructure is manageable and supportable over time.
I would be happty to recommend Electra Link to other districts or organizations for their infrastructure cabling needs.
Sincerely,
Sean Casey
Director of Technology
Lake Travis Independent School District
Austin, Texas
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From: Henry Diecker
To: Ben Russo
Subject: Kudos for communication and performance
Ben:
Just a quick note of positive feedback regarding my most recent servers being racked by Hector Martinez at Electra Link. Hector communicated with me prior to the serever installation to clarify a point that I left off of the ISSR. Today when completing the installation of the server, Hector again contacted me regarding the powewr state preferred post installation. When I typed into the Same Time session, a request for the ILO details on the tag hanging from the front of the server, the reply came that he had already included the information in an email he was sending me. OUTSTANDING job. Hector historically has delivered performance that has exceeded my expectations and this is yet another example.
Thank you.
Harry Diecker
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From: Richard Langseth II
To: Dale Pearson; Russell Pearson, Stephen Phillips
Subject: Leland Hedgebeth
I just wanted to drop you all a line and tell you that Leland is doing a great job at Enterprise. The job is coming together quite nice, the quality is very good and Leland is performing the role of the good project manager. Enterprise loves him, and loves your work and quality.
It is very good, too, that your team and ours work so well together and enhance each other to our clients.
Richard Langseth II
Techknowledge Consulting Corporation
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From: Kyle Short
To: Ben Russo; Margaret Jones; James Gardner
Subject: Electra Link Support for B2B Moves
Hi Everyone,
I wanted you to know that this weekend was the largest move we have done so far ( 17 connections, 9 devices ). It is also the smoothest move so far. Mike Sladek and Judd Sanders of Electra Link were outstanding. And Hector Martinez also did a lot of the preliminary work.
All in all, this is the best cabling/move crew I have seen.They should be congratulated on a job well done.
Thanks,
Kyle
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From: Elaine Thayer/Capital Group Companies
To: Mario Vela/Electra Link/Austin
Subject: SNO IA Lab
Hey Mario,
We owe you big time. Thanks for helping straighten out the new SAN issues there at SNO and getting the servers JERD donated to us racked and ready to go! This stuff is huge for us and makes us finally ready to host lab activities.
Lunch or dinner is on us next time we visit you guys in SNO.
Thank you,
Elaine Thayer
T & O Infrastructure Architecture
