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The Calling of Huntsville Alabama
Due to the geographical location in the Tennessee Valley as well as
being a high technology based town, the communication lines, satellite
connections, and energy services (Tennessee Valley Authority- TVA)
are some of the best in the country around the Huntsville region. In
1992, South Central Bell made Huntsville the first major metropolitan
area in the US to have 100% digital network switching and
transmission facilities, allowing information to be transmitted faster,
clearer and more economically. Huntsville has also been the first site
for five other major telecommunication projects for South Central Bell,
one of which was the first networking by way of ISDN technology. It
also has many other large telecommunication companies such as
Boeing, Adtran & SCI. The Supercomputer Network Services at
Boeing, which has headquarters in Huntsville, made Alabama the first
state to initiate the unifying of a network for use by both the academic
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Huntsville has the second largest Research Park in the world
(Cummings Research Park) which does research for many of the US
defense and NASA contracts. It is home of the US government’s Space
and Missile Defense Center (SMDC) & Redstone Arsenal, where the
Patriot missile, which was used in the 1991 Gulf War, was partially
developed. Some of Huntsville’s scientists work on the Space Station
Freedom, which is an observatory, laboratory, and manufacturing
facility in space. The main civic center and several public schools in
Huntsville are named after people or things that relate to the Space and
Missile industry. Because of all the high technology work done in
Huntsville, it boasts one of the highest per capita incomes in the nation,
but also has the highest spies per capita as well. Therefore, we have a
high concentration of extremely intelligent rocket scientists in
Huntsville, as well as top level security.
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