Newsline - 2006

October 2006
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.

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......

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.