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Harris Acquires Infrastructure Assets of Core180

March 14, 2011

Communications and information technology provider Harris Corporation announced it acquired infrastructure assets of the government business of Core180, a telecom network integrator.


Core180 offers wide area networks and management services to government agencies, large enterprises, telecom carriers and systems integrators.

The acquired assets will be part of Harris CapRock Communications. With this Harris CapRock is expected to expand its terrestrial network infrastructure. Harris CapRock will also be in a position to offer managed communication services for both government and commercial customers.

The infrastructure assets of Core180 include carrier agnostic Network as a Service (NaaS) platform. The NaaS platform enables customers to extend their networks without extra capital or operational expenses. It also offers network choices while reducing upfront investments.

The acquisition includes 50 skilled terrestrial networking experts based in Core180's New York and Washington, D.C,-area offices, along with a 24x7 Network Operations Center used to monitor its extensive terrestrial infrastructure. Core180 will continue to serve its commercial and government customers directly, company officials said.

“Acquiring Core180 infrastructure gives us the people, tools and knowledge to dramatically scale our terrestrial capabilities on a global basis and support all the customers we serve today,” said Peter Shaper, group president, Harris CapRock, in a statement.

“We look forward to integrating Core180's extensive terrestrial infrastructure into new solutions we build for our customers to meet their growing communications requirements,” Shaper added.

Harris acquired CapRock Communications in August last year. Harris CapRock owns and operates a robust global infrastructure that includes five teleports, four 24 x 7 network operations centers, and eleven regional support centers, and over 150 in-house field service personnel.

Recently, Harris Corporation announced that it will supply the public safety equipment worth more than $100 million needed to build Oregon Wireless Interoperability Network (OWIN).


Rajani Baburajan is a contributing editor for ContactCenterSolutions. To read more of Rajani's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Janice McDuffee



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