CableRunner North America and Hypower Inc. announce strategic alliance

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, July 5, 2002

CableRunner North America, LLC, a public/private business venture part owned and operated by the City of Vienna, Austria Water and Sewer Department (Wien Kanal Abwassertechnologien GmbH), a fiber optic deployment company, announced a strategic alliance agreement with Hypower Inc., a specialty construction services company. Under the agreement, both companies will mutually benefit by providing municipalities with total solutions to deploy fiber optic network infrastructures within existing sewer and drainage systems.

Hypower will perform construction services using advanced methodologies for CableRunner NA's installations in the United States. CableRunner NA will provide product innovations, consulting, educational and support services to Hypower's client base. Additionally, both companies will mutually explore new niche markets such as Fiber-in-Sewer networks for banks (ATMs), airports, military bases, large corporations and facilities that require having their own private communication and data centers.