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Member News: Standards Core, Comcast, and Perkins Eastman

Comcast Business Unveils Powerful New Suite of Solutions and Upgrades for Millions of American Small Businesses

Comcast Business, the largest provider of connectivity to small businesses in America, today announced a powerful new suite of advanced solutions and upgrades designed to help keep small businesses connected, protected, and prepared ahead of the holiday rush – and beyond.

Comcast Business is now offering:

  • Faster speeds, up to 300/300 Mbps through its expanded Dedicated Internet service – now available to more than 3.5 million businesses nationwide. This represents a 50% increase in available symmetrical speeds over HFC and extends reach to 40% more businesses since February 2025;

  • Full-coverage WiFivia WiFi Extenders that eliminate dead spots and create consistent connectivity for staff, customers, and guests;

  • Wireless Connect, which intelligently combines Comcast Business internet with dual cellular networks to provide businesses with greater reliability via continuous connectivity – even during a power outage;

  • Enhanced security with the beta release of SecurityEdge Preferred™, which brings big business cybersecurity to small businesses with a next generation firewall that protects against malware, phishing, ransomware, and botnets, with no additional equipment needed for Internet customers.

The new suite of advanced solutions and upgrades builds on the already strong benefits Comcast Business offers small businesses, including a 30-day money back guarantee, 24/7 expert support, proactive network monitoring with Dedicated Internet, and unlimited data on up to 20 lines with Comcast Business Mobile. And now, for a limited time, eligible new customers who switch to a qualifying Gig-speed Internet package may also receive a $1,000 Holiday Bonus in the form of a prepaid card.

“Small businesses are the heartbeat of our communities and local economies,” said Christian Nascimento, Senior Vice President, Connectivity and Digital Customer Solutions, Comcast Business. “From powering point-of-sale systems to fulfilling online orders and staying connected with customers, small businesses depend on secure, always-on connectivity.”

Standards + Excelerate Copilots from Standards Core Now Available in the Microsoft Marketplace

Standards Core LLC today announced the availability of Standards + Excelerate Copilots in the Microsoft Marketplace. These add-ins for Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel empower technical and legal documents with safe, redundant, self-verifying, and iterative AI.

Standards + Excelerate Copilots serve as trusted AI assistants tailored to empower engineers, architects, and legal and technical writers who might be unfamiliar with or cautious about AI. These assistants guide you toward substantial productivity gains and innovative breakthroughs by meeting you where you are already working — alongside your existing workflows within documents and spreadsheets to elevate and augment your work to new and exciting performance levels.

Leon Gorbaty, Standards Core Founder and CTO, himself a trilingual engineer with over 30 years’ experience working on international projects, said, “Infrastructure is an international industry: Global know-how is more comprehensive than local know-how. We serve a truly global audience with translation available in 130+ languages and tailored user-interface experiences for more than 20 international locales. We support multi-language documents and strive toward developing international standards. Translation is also able to be piped to the AI models, with AI suggestions resolving in the translated-to language.”

For organizations looking for advanced AI solutions, this is a state-of-the-art multi-model, multi-agentic, subject matter-driven AI application for your office environment.

Standards Core’s breakthrough Arbitrator architecture enables improved suggestions. Instead of trusting a single model, multiple models continuously peer-review and validate one another, flagging inconsistencies, surfacing evidence, resolving conflicts, and delivering answers far more accurately than conventional solutions. Read the entire release here.

Perkins Eastman Wins AIA Pittsburgh Design Award

Perkins Eastman's design of Dickie McCamey's workplace was awarded in the large project category at AIA Pittsburgh's Design Awards last month. Workplace projects are rarely recognized in these programs, so the architectural design (in addition to the interior design) was noted by the jury for its "Innovative rethinking of what it means to be a law firm office." Dickie McCamey is the most recent of Perkins Eastman workplace work in the Pittsburgh, a portfolio that includes Google, BNY, Smith+Nephew, and currently, additional confidential clients in the tech sector.

Learn more at: https://aiapgh.org/events/design-pittsburgh/2025-award-winners/

Perkins Eastman also just released renderings, and the contractor has been hired, for the Institute for Cyber Security at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. 

The 72,000 square-foot facility will be located directly across Hal Greer Boulevard from the university’s Old Main and will serve as the west gateway to the Fourth Avenue innovation corridor, now known as the IDEA District. The $45 million facility will focus on training the next generation of cyber professionals.

The story hit the press locally with the Herald Dispatch: https://www.wsaz.com/2025/10/15/new-rendering-marshalls-institute-cyber-security/