Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Rutherford County is located in the Central Time Zone, which provides longer incoming and outgoing calling hours allowing companies to reach a wider customer base in a timely manner.
Rutherford County is in the 615 area code.
Telecommunication systems are available in Rutherford County to meet the growing and diversified needs of the business client.
Systems available:
- T-1
- OC 49 & OC 192
- Frame Relay
- Primary Rate ISDN
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
- High Speed Transport Services
- Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
- Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL)
- 10 or 100 Mbps Ethernet LAN
- Gigabit Ethernet Service
Local telecommunications service in Murfreesboro is provided by BellSouth, using an AT&T #5ESS digital switch. This switch is located at 221 North Church Street and provides an array of digital services to the area, including ISDN, T-1 and Interoffice Fiber Optic Routing and key Call Center services.
The City of Smyrna has a DMS 100 Digital Switch that provides a full array of digital services.
TDS Telecom operates an AT&T 5ESS Digital Central Office in the City of La Vergne. MCI and Sprint each have a Point of Presence located in the central office (advantage for call centers).
Five telephone companies provide countywide telephone services, with primary service providers BellSouth, DeKalb Telephone Company and TDS Telecom.
