For Commercial Instruments & Alarm (CIA) Security Systems of Fishkill, New York, this disaster may have left loss of life and property of the 5,500 accounts that rely on electricity, telephone or cable service for the communication of their alarms. John Lombardi, president of the CIA, explains that most of his customers rely on telephone alarm communications and about 25% are cable-based. Approximately 25% of the accounts were powerless, but the AES network survived without complications.
The AES-IntelliNet system allowed CIA to reach places that had not been possible with the traditional point-to-point radius.
