In today's environment, telecommunications infrastructure is as important to businesses as roadways. Harrison is fortunate to have Windstream as a great corporate partner with the city. Harrison is one of the best "connected" cities of its size in the United States.
Harrison was the Windstream Beta site for DSL and was the third city in the US to have the DSL Broadband capability.
Call centers prefer to be in a community where their long distance vendor has a physical POP and Harrison is the POP site for numerous carriers. The POP resides on an AEN 192 Sonet Ring.
Reliability is the key and there are diverse routes to multiple carriers from Harrison.
Faster switching capacity is critical and a DMS 100 Nortel Switch handles switching.
There is a OC 48 ring throughout Harrison
There is SS7 connectivity.
Harrison is the Tandeum for North Central Arkansas
T1 and T3 telephone lines are currently available and Windstream will bring in ISDN and can provide dual entrances.
