i3 Solutions Group to Speak at DCD Intelligence Seminar in NYC on June 25th

i3 Solutions Group announced its participation as panelist and attendee for the DataCenterDynamics (DCD) Intelligence Seminar, “Leveraging Your Data Center Portfolio to Mitigate Risk and Create Strategic Advantage,” taking place June 25th at 200 Park Avenue in NYC. i3 Solutions Group’s Managing Partner, Michael Garibaldi, will speak on the Enterprise Risk Panel titled, “The C-Suite’s Responsibility for the Direction of International Data Centre Strategy.” “i3 Solutions Group is honored to participate in this event and provide our insights during what will be a most-engaging panel discussion,” comments Michael Garibaldi, Managing Partner of i3 Solutions Group. “The DataCenterDynamics seminar is an excellent … Continue reading

Tech Valley Communications Team Expands Again

Maura Mahoney  TVC Appoints Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management, a Newly Created Role that Supports the Company’s Next Phase of Growth  Congratulations to Tech Valley Communications (TVC), a facilities based telecommunications service provider operating networks in New York and Northern New England. The company today announced the appointment of Maura Mahoney as Senior Director of Marketing and Product Management effective immediately.  Ms. Mahoney is a top-notch industry professional, having more than 20 years of experience in marketing and product development leadership within the communications industry. As such, Ms. Mahoney is ideally suited to drive the marketing and product development initiatives … Continue reading

GlobeNet Opens Another Ultra Fast Network Route into LATAM

GlobeNet announced today it has opened the fastest US – Brazil IP Traffic Route.  As an extension of its over 22,5000 kilometer subsea network, GlobeNet’s new route connects into Equinix’s MI3 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Boca Raton, Florida and Equinix’s SP2 facility in São Paulo, Brazil. This new connectivity allows network service providers around the world to tap into economic opportunities stemming from emerging commercial centers in Latin America. “In response to the demand GlobeNet is seeing for high capacity, low latency connectivity throughout the Americas, we made a strategic decision to deploy in MI3. As a … Continue reading

DE-CIX’s New 100G Optical Layer Build Enables Customers To Leverage Robust Peering Backbone

DE-CIX, announced today that it has deployed four supernodes across the city of Frankfurt to support its new flagship DE-CIX Apollon platform.   This will complete the optical backbone of Apollon, making it the utmost in reliability and scalability. As the world’s largest and most advanced Ethernet platform, Apollon now delivers a total capacity of 12Tbps across its mesh-network topology. DE-CIX is also deploying a new switching platform later this year, which when combined with the new optical layer, will enable over 300 100Gig ports across the entire optical network. “With this robust 100G optical backbone now in place, DE-CIX sets … Continue reading

fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty and Hawaii Pacific Teleport Announce Development of New Datacenter in Hawaii

1547 fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty, LLC (1547) and Hawaii Pacific Teleport (HPT) announce the formation of Hawaii Pacific Data LLC, a joint venture to develop a state-of-the-art datacenter adjacent to the HPT facility in Kapolei, Hawaii.  Designed to be the premier datacenter complex in the Pacific, Hawaii Pacific Data will provide commercial and government clients with secure, high availability, critical infrastructure to support telecom, cloud presence, content delivery, and IT data system hosting, coupled with strategic, broad access to international fiber optic and satellite providers. Set to launch immediately, the multi-building project will initially redevelop an existing facility to provide over … Continue reading

Allied Fiber Launches Miami to Atlanta Segment of its Network-Neutral Fiber and Colocation System

Allied Fiber Florida Map Allied Fiber announces today that it has begun construction on the Miami, FL to Atlanta, GA segment of its planned nationwide network system. Beginning in Florida, the Miami to Jacksonville, FL segment of this route will continue north to Valdosta, GA where it will connect with 150 miles of Allied Fiber’s next-generation fiber optic system that was completed in February of 2012. The route will then continue on to Atlanta. Allied Fiber’s Miami to Atlanta segment will comprise 754 route miles, with Jacksonville to Atlanta accounting for 360 of those route miles. The route will initially utilize a 528-count fiber cable … Continue reading

Brocade Showcases Advanced Switching Technology at the Georgia Technology Center (GTC)

The Brocade MLXe16 series switch deployment highlights GTC’s commitment to interoperability testing and real-world trials GTC, a live laboratory for network equipment vendors to demonstrate their networking hardware and software functionality, located in Colo Atl’s Atlanta, Georgia facility, announced the deployment of Brocade’s  MLXe16 routers as the peering fabric in its Atlanta exchange.  As a new vendor partner of the GTC, Brocade can leverage its partnership to demonstrate its leadership in Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Ethernet fabric technology to local, national and global network operators within the GTC community. With OpenFlow support, the Brocade MLX Series delivers industry-leading 10 GbE and 100 GbE density for software-defined … Continue reading

DukeNet Expands Fiber Network into Sentinel Data Centers’ RTP/Durham Facility

DukeNet Communications, DukeNet, Sentinel Data Centers, Sentinel, data center connectivity, optical network, optical transport, fiber network, fiber transport, fiber optic transport, NC-1, data center solutions, Mike Prendergast, Durham, Research Triangle Park, RTP, Todd Aaron, business continuity, multi-tenant data center Continuing to show North Carolina’s data center corridor growing and thriving, DukeNet Communications and Sentinel Data Centers announced today that DukeNet will build diverse network routes into Sentinel’s NC-1 data center to provide network solutions to Sentinel’s enterprise customers. “Sentinel’s NC-1 facility will fill a void in this region for large, quality-sensitive enterprises seeking autonomous data center solutions,” says Mike Prendergast, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing with DukeNet. Sentinel began construction on its NC-1 facility in Durham in late 2012, and the first phase of the facility will be commissioned in the second quarter of 2013. DukeNet is building … Continue reading

DE-CIX Launches World’s Most Advanced Ethernet Interconnection Platform

DE-CIX, Germany, Internet Exchange, Interconnection, Peering, Frankfurt, Apollon, Ethernet, carrier-neutral exchange, ISP, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE, carrier interconnect, cloud computing, contend delivery networks, CDN, Gigabit Ethernet, Harald A. Summa, Global Peering Forum, GPF Out of Frankfurt today, DE-CIX announced the implementation of its newest interconnection platform, DE-CIX Apollon. This cutting-edge, scalable Ethernet platform will be the world’s largest and most advanced. DE-CIX is the world’s leading Internet Exchange operator. It operates carrier-neutral exchanges for carriers, ISPs, content delivery networks and cloud computing providers in Frankfurt, Germany and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. DE-CIX in Frankfurt currently serves and connects over 500 networks from more than 50 countries. The DE-CIX Apollon platform will provide transport speeds of up to 2 Terabits/sec per fiber pair, with a port density of up to 80 100 Gigabit Ethernet … Continue reading

Home to the Most Compact 100G Platforms in the Market, PacketLight Networks Introduces the PL-1000TE

PL_logo (3) PacketLight Networks Ltd., a leading developer of CWDM/DWDM and OTN transport devices, announced this week the launch of PL-1000TE, a new low latency, multirate/multi-protocol optical transponder platform that provides high capacity optical transport solution for rates ranging from 100Mbps up to 16Gbps  in a single 1RU unit. The PL-1000TE has eight low-latency, user-configurable, multirate ports and is the latest addition to PacketLight’s 1RU WDM offering, which already includes the most compact 100G platforms in the market. “The PL-1000TE’s unique architecture couples high optical transport capacity, rich optical transport features with sub microsecond end to end latency,” states PacketLight CEO Koby … Continue reading