The building also houses a "co-location provider," Meridian Telesis L.L.C., where internet-based and telecommunications businesses can lease space for their computers and fiber optic cable equipment.
While crews repaired cable equipment, the utility asked customers to refrain from using appliances like washers, dryers "and other energy-intensive equipment," and to turn off lights when not needed.
Scientific Atlanta, a maker of broadband cable equipment, has moved some operations back to Mexico after unhappy experiences in China.But the structural pessimists note that Mexico's traditional advantages are rapidly being cancelled out.
General Instrument was the market leader in analog cable equipment, but it had invested hundreds of millions of dollars with scant return in developing new digital products that it hoped would be the foundation for the next generation of cable.
Still, he said he warned clients earlier this week that earnings at several suppliers of cable equipment would probably suffer in the next two quarters because of uncertainty regarding capital spending by AT&T.
Gabriel Ruhan, chief executive of Global Marine Group, says offshore wind has hit a "hiatus" in the UK, leading him to start moving assets such as vessels, cabling equipment and personnel to overseas markets likely to take off more quickly.
When I stopped by the local office to return her cable equipment, I was surprised to learn that the deposits that the company had required to establish her account — $100 total, which I had paid for, on my credit card — weren't going to be returned right away.
But there is some breathing room for cable equipment makers.
So, what will happen to the cable equipment makers?
Manufacturers of cable equipment: Motorola, Bay Networks, Hybrid Networks and NextLevel.
