Cavalier Wins IT Contract from Pittsburgh Housing Authority

Cavalier, a provider of telecommunications services throughout the eastern United States reportedly landed an Internet services and data communications contract from the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh.

 

The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, or HACP, is a municipal corporation formed under the United States Housing Act of 1937. It is charged with providing decent, affordable housing for low-income persons. It currently manages more than 20,000 Pittsburgh residents and more than 4,500 public housing units, and provides oversight of management on an additional 900 mixed-finance units.

 

Under the agreement, security cameras located within the HACP's 26 housing developments will stream live video over Cavalier's network to the HACP's security command center, providing the communities with greater safety and security.

 

"The visual access that Cavalier enables will allow our locations to share surveillance images instantly, empowering our security guards and decreasing emergency response times," said Will McDanel, procurement director, HACP, in a statement.

 

Bryan Grimm, director of product management, Cavalier said that the mesh network they have designed for the HACP using Multiprotocol Label Switching provides exceptionally reliable connectivity for this critical application. He said that the network will be provisioned using a combination of access technologies, including SONET and Ethernet in the First Mile. EFM technology provides the HACP with the flexibility to increase bandwidth quickly and in increments suitable for its unique needs while providing greater protection against individual loop outages.

 

Cavalier is headquartered in Virginia and is a full-service provider of reliable and efficient telecommunications solutions for business, consumer, and government customers.