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Thomasville Community Network Services (CNS)

A department of Thomasville Utilities 229-227-7001

Exploding Into the New Millennium

FIBER OPTICS

In 1995, Thomasville Utilities began construction on the first phase of Community Network Services (CNS), a citywide fiber network. Today, this community-owned network provides services to local schools, businesses and thousands of residential customers.

Specifically, CNS provides businesses and educational institutions with high-speed data connections, both to the Internet and to one another. CNS also provides capabilities for Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) at every school within the Thomasville City and the Thomas County School Districts. In addition, the local schools are capable of performing IDL sessions with schools in four surrounding counties. IDL is “teaching and learning through the use of video technology.” Each school is equipped with the highest quality video transport devices and the ability to connect to other schools in local districts as well as other locations across the nation and the world. With this technology, schools in the Thomasville area can share scarce resources, allowing for the broadest and most comprehensive educational experiences.

Thomasville Utilities recently began a large-scale expansion of the network. The expansion allows Thomasville Utilities to provide state-of-the-art communications – such as high-speed Internet access (Rose.Net Express), cable television (CNS Television), telephone service (CNS Telephone) – to homes and small businesses.

CNS Television offers a wide range of analog and digital services, including DVR (Digital Video Recorder) and HDTV (High Definition Television).

Rose.Net Express is high-speed Internet access that uses broadband cable modem technology to deliver speeds in excess of 100 times that of standard dial-up service.

CNS Telephone offers a variety of features including unlimited local and nationwide long distance, call waiting, caller ID and voicemail at affordable prices.