ITW2013 is in the books…and this year’s event may be the best chapter ever!
As team JSA unpacks from another whirlwind Chicagoland adventure at this year’s ITW, we’re reminded of just how lucky we are to not only serve the best clients in the business, but to be working in a dynamic and innovative industry. We’re struck by the energy and positive attitudes of this year’s attendees…even after being on their feet for the better part of 72 hours. We’re motivated by our peers’ hard work and dedication and an industry that has had its expansion and consolidation in the last decade, but one that is clearly bursting with expectation – an industry driven … Continue reading
Troy Cablevision, Inc. Selects Optelian to Deliver 100G Network Services
Optical networking specialist Optelian announced Troy Cablevison, Inc. (“Troy Cable”) has successfully deployed Optelian’s MPX-9110 Flexible 100 Gbps Platform in its network. The low-latency 100G architecture is deployed across Optelian’s LightGAIN optical transport and Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) infrastructure. Covering a six-county area that spans the entire southeastern region of Alabama, the Troy Cable network delivers high-capacity fiber-optic transport from the cities of Montgomery to Troy to Dothan, and all markets in between. The build-out was made possible through the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. With Optelian’s solution in place, Troy Cable is able … Continue reading
Chatting with DatacenterDynamics on its
North American Awards 2013
Q&A with Paul Mangles, Awards Manager, DatacenterDynamics Last month, DatacenterDynamics announced the extension of its global awards program to North America. To date, there has been a very positive response to the awards that recognize innovation, leadership and ‘out of the box’ thinking in the data center industry across the North American region. Open to entrants from both the United States and Canada, the awards program features eight categories and will conclude in a gala ceremony to take place in San Francisco on July 12. To gain more of an inside look at the new North American awards, JSA had the … Continue reading
Optelian is one of Ottawa’s Fastest Growing Companies
For the third year in a row, the Ottawa Business Journal has named Optelian to its 2013 list of Fastest Growing Companies. Founded in 2002 by Dave Weymouth and Mike Perry, Optelian supplies advanced optical networking solutions based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology. Some of the world’s largest telecommunications carriers count on Optelian to provide innovative solutions for access, metro, long-haul, campus and data center-interconnect applications. During its 11 years in business, Optelian has expanded significantly, growing all company functions and acquiring the modulation component supplier, Versawave Technologies, in late 2011. Yet one of the secrets to the company’s … Continue reading
Wholesale Carriers to Benefit from Rimhub’s Newly Launched Sales-as-a-Service Offering
New 100% performance-based offering will provide new growth opportunities for wholesale carriers It’s an eventful week for Rimhub, Inc., a leading provider of Outsourced Managed Services for telecoms. After a Monday release announcing the company’s custom applications development service, today the news is out on the launch of its newest managed service offering, Sales-as-a-Service, for wholesale carriers. The 100% performance-based service engagement is designed for wholesale carriers to generate incremental revenues and profits without incurring upfront costs in sales and marketing. The opportunities available include unaddressed customer segments, uncovered territories, additional higher-margin services, and adding interconnects between new buyers and … Continue reading
It’s a Wrap! GlobeNet Completes Construction on New High Capacity Subsea Cable System
The Segment 5 Replacement Links Bermuda and the United States Congratulations to GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi. The company announced today it has completed construction on its new high capacity subsea cable system (Segment 5). Linking Bermuda and the United States, the new subsea cable system has a total design capacity of 30Tb/s. The build was first announced in January 2012 and will provide more than 30 times the previously lit capacity between Bermuda and the United States. (Nice!) Designed to support 150 wavelengths per fiber-pair at 100 Gbps per wavelength, … Continue reading
Cloud & Unified Communications Pioneers Alteva to Sponsor PTW2013
Alteva (previously referred to as WVT Communications Group) (NYSE MKT: ALTV), the parent company of leading cloud communications pioneers, announces today that it is a proud sponsor of Philly Tech Week (PTW2013), April 20-27, Philadelphia PA. PTW2013 is a week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia. The annual week of events is intended to grow the impact of this innovative region through programming focused on technology, collaboration and improving Philadelphia. “Philadelphia is increasingly becoming a hub for innovation, technology and entrepreneurship,” said David Cuthbert, President and Chief Executive Officer at Alteva. “The success and popularity of our Innovation Center is further … 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
Home to the Most Compact 100G Platforms in the Market, PacketLight Networks Introduces the PL-1000TE
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
Global Convergence Solutions (GCS) Announces New Service to Improve Inter-Carrier Peering
Global Convergence Solutions (GCS) has developed a new product, Dynamic Network Inter-Carrier Synch Exchange (dNISE). dNISE will provide carriers with ability to peer directly with the terminating service providers, exchange millions of DNIS codes automatically and route directly to a carriers On-net footprint. This will greatly reduce termination costs and, simultaneously, create new revenue streams for select segment subscriber based service providers who are currently entirely reliant on last mile service providers to receive calls to their subscribers. By leveraging with the GCS Dynamic Route Management (dROM) architecture, dNISE will provide carriers a simple, optimized way to manage voice peering. Specifically, dNISE … Continue reading
