What a fantastic year it has been for TELEHOUSE’s newest Manhattan data center facility located in the Chelsea district. A little over one year ago today, TELEHOUSE announced it had acquired 60,000 square feet of data center space at 85 10th Avenue in New York City, and aptly named it TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea.

Since its opening, the state-of-the-art, carrier neutral facility has welcomed a host of major Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers, including Voxel dot Net, AboveNet, Optical Communications Group, Level 3 Communications, and KDDI America, TELEHOUSE America’s sister company. And the list keeps growing. The facility is designed to exceed the demands of companies of all sizes, while providing proximity to local businesses, and access to New York City’s dense telecommunication network.

The acquisition of the “Chelsea” facility at 85 10th Avenue was in direct response to the growing demand for diverse carrier neutral, colocation space in Manhattan. Now, a year later, the demand is still ever pertinent, which is what makes TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea an ideal facility for companies seeking to colocate in the New York metro region.

Why? 

The facility can accommodate up to 600 cabinets and has a 4.15 mVA power capacity.

In keeping with TELEHOUSE standards, the infrastructure provides a best-in-class power supply and distribution system along with redundant cooling. All subsystems are at a minimum N+1 configuration including diesel generators, Uninterruptible Power Supply systems, power distribution, chilled water supply, air conditioning, coupled with a state-of-the-art Building Management System designed to monitor all power and HVAC systems. In addition, customers continue to enjoy 24/7 access to their equipment and space along with first level support (remote hands) service through our Customer Assistance Center (CAC).

Notable features of TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea include:

• 4.15 mVA of power
• Carrier Neutral Facility
• TIER 3 with N + 1 infrastructure
• 24/7 Tech support with “remote hands” service
• Mantrap with Biometric Security
• Managed IT Services available
• 18” Raised Floor
• NYIIX Peering
• Dual Building Risers
• Low monthly cross connect fees

As with TELEHOUSE’s other two “carrier hotel” facilities in the New York market, located at 25 Broadway in Manhattan and 7 Teleport Drive on Staten Island, the 85 10th Avenue data center offers access to the 140+ members of TELEHOUSE’s leading New York Internet Peering Exchange (NYIIX). This combination of three state-of-the-art carrier neutral data centers, all within the New York market, increases customers’ connectivity options in reaching all parts of the globe.

Want more information? VIsit www.telehouse.com , email sales@telehouse.com or simply call 718-355-2559.

Sidera Networks today welcomes its newest channel agent, Interactive Telecom Solutions (ITS) to its nicely expanding channel program.  ITS, a master channel agency that represents many of the world’s largest carriers, is now poised to market Sidera Networks’ services to its clients.

Why Sidera’s channel program? Well, for starters, it providers resellers such as ITS a great opportunity to increase revenue by offering Sidera’s award winning service and solutions to their clients. Sidera’s channel partners leverage Sidera’s robust network of nearly 2,900 on-net locations, and more than 12,500 route miles, to provide businesses with connectivity that positively impacts their bottom line.

Who is ITS?

Established in 2002, ITS has grown to be one of the largest telecommunication master agencies in the tri-state area.  Based in Paramus, New Jersey, ITS is a complete telecommunications management firm with programs designed for customers, agents and business partners.  ITS’ portfolio of service providers enables enterprise customers who require high capacity and low latency solutions to acquire the networking capabilities required to remain competitive. ITS’ target verticals include finance, healthcare and higher education, which is a perfect complement to Sidera Networks.

“Sidera Networks is a natural choice for ITS to work with,” comments Keith Muller, CEO of ITS.  “Sidera has the network solutions, the underlying infrastructure, the support, and capabilities that our clients seek.”

“We are proud to add ITS to our agent program,” adds Clint Heiden, President of Sidera Networks. “Since launching the channel program last year, Sidera has continued to build on its early success by consistently adding high quality agents. With Sidera as its trusted provider, ITS now has access to a full suite of high quality network services, including Ethernet, dark fiber, Internet access, colocation, and more. We look forward to working with ITS.”

For more information about Sidera Networks, visit www.sidera.net or follow Sidera on Twitter @sideranetworks. To learn more about becoming a Sidera Channel Partner, visit http://www.sidera.net/channel-partner-program/apply-to-channel-partner-program.

Zayo’s Fiber-To-The-Tower (FTT) Network has reached another key milestone of 2,000 unique towers on-net. The FTT Network now offers more than 100G in overall bandwidth to over 3,000 tenants, with 46 markets in service and 6 more markets under construction. Throughout its history, Zayo has deployed over 4,000 metro route miles to support its FTT network. Additionally, Zayo is building more than 500 additional towers which will be brought on-net in the near future.

Through their FTT projects, Zayo has been a backhaul supplier for T-Mobile. Of their service experience with Zayo, T-Mobile USA’s Vice President of Technical Systems and Business Operations, Bryan Fleming commented, ”T-Mobile’s overall experience with Zayo on Fiber-To-The-Tower projects has been excellent. Zayo has worked through complex network designs, provided creative solutions and expedited service delivery that helped T-Mobile deliver amazing customer experiences, while providing exceptional service and network reliability.”

For more information on Zayo, please visit www.zayo.com.

In Section 3 of the World Bank’s report on ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Sustainable Rural Poverty Reduction’ statistics are provided on the impact mobile has on rural markets. The research in this report finds that fiber infrastructure directly relates to GDP growth, job creation, productivity, tax revenue as well as social benefits, such as entrepreneurship and job searches, transport and even education, health and disaster relief.  The report outlines the true need and direct measurable benefits of new infrastructure.

The statistics of this report are further supplemented by a recent article in Business Week featuring Alcatel Lucent’s CEO, Ben Verwaayen. The article quotes Verwaayen as saying:

“They (Asia) are building a physical infrastructure that allows people, wherever they are, to participate in the global digital economy. That will give them an enormous advantage in the years to come.”

In essence, Verwaayen states that Asia is ahead of Europe in terms of deploying fiber infrastructure, and therefore has an “enormous advantage in the years to come.” This same statement would be 100% true if the word “Europe” was swapped with “US.” What countries like Asia and Africa realize is that the World Bank report statistics are true, and by building new infrastructure today they are bettering their economies for tomorrow. The US must invest and build fiber infrastructure in the same way to remain a competitive player in the global economy.

Last Wednesday, Sidera Networks and Ciena hosted a webinar about the positive effects technology has on the healthcare industry.
Today’s technology is significantly contributing to improvements in patient care – providing greater access to patient records, higher availability of applications and lower mortality rates in highly wired hospitals.

The “Building Healthcare Networks that Solve Big Data Congestion” webinar provided attendees with insight into the benefits of advanced networks in hospitals along with a real-world example from Elliot Health System, the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire.

Key topics included:

• Is your network keeping up with the demands of new medical applications that can quickly congest your organization’s network with large data files?
• Do your future needs require that you adopt advanced electronic medical record archives or to make more network data available to improve diagnosis and patient care?

Featured speakers included Joseph Kestel, Vice President of Relevant C Business Group, Thomas Fairfield, Elliot Health System’s Manager of Technology, Maura Mahoney, Sidera’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Ray Patalano, Ciena’s Director of Channel Sales.

To view a replay of the webinar, please visit http://media.beaconlive.com/viewitem?bckt=99836. To learn more about Sidera’s services for the healthcare industry visit http://www.sidera.net/industry-solutions/healthcare.

NeXXCom Wireless, a full service wireless product and system supplier with high packet microwave and millimeter wave solutions that drive next-generation IP networks, is deploying its state of the art ultra-low latency microwave radio technology. This technology  intends to cut more than 3 milliseconds (mS) from major fiber networks on the financial trading path between Chicago and New Jersey.

The increase in speed is expected to be highly beneficial  for financial trading firms. NeXXCom Wireless’ technology is below 10mS round trip today which is a significant improvement for High Frequency Trading. Sal S. Benti, CEO of NeXXCom Wireless notes “There is no way to accurately measure the effect of the speed increase but it has been estimated that each 1mS improvement can be worth $100 million to a financial trading firm. Our client firms are highly secretive about their trading network strategies and given the amount of profits involved, it’s understandable.”

NeXXCom Wireless has recently joined the Dark Fiber Community and will provide knowledge of wireless technology advancements to community members. Allied Fiber CEO and founder of the Dark Fiber Community, Hunter Newby commented “Fiber and microwave compliment each other in many areas including HFT and mobile backhaul for LTE. I suspect that as trading firms learn more about NeXXCom Wireless’ technology they will begin proliferating these ultra low latency networks around the glove in the not distant future to gain competitive advantage.”

For more information, please visit www.nexxcomwireless.com

Hibernia’s recent announcement with Huawei shows that Project Express is underway and taking the necessary steps to complete the cable build. The purpose of Project Express will be to connect London to New York, two of the largest exchanges, with the lowest latency. Announced in 2010, Project Express has made significant strides since then. November 2011 brought on the physical survey where ships surveyed the entire proposed route.

The significance of Hibernia’s latest news with Huawei is that manufacturing of the cable is now underway. With the cable manufacturing underway, the next step will be the installation and delivery of service. Project Express will be an essential key route addition to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing Global Financial Network (GFN), by uniting hundreds of financial exchanges and global banks with a single low latency connection.

For more information on Project Express, visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

Zayo will be adding dark fiber to ExteNet Systems Inc.’s open network for a Distributed Network solution. ExteNet designs, builds, owns and operates outdoor and indoor wireless networks for wireless service providers, government agencies, and transportation corridors throughout North America. Zayo will provide a metro dark fiber network in and around Indianapolis preparing ExteNet and its clients for future network growth.

ExteNet will leverage Zayo’s fiber assets to meet the increasing bandwidth demands of its wireless carrier customers. This expansion will also support bandwidth demands anticipated in Indianapolis for upcoming sporting events. With its concentrated metro fiber network within Indiana, Zayo offers capacity and diversity for service providers like ExteNet.

For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

This article was originally posted at InternetServiceProviders.org

If you’re reading this, chances are that you’ve at least heard of SOPA. Detractors have compared the bill to censorship policies in countries such as China, Iran and Syria; the grassroots effort to stop it have been massive. Administrators from some of the largest sites in the world have publicly opposed the measure for many reasons, one of which is that inadvertent violations could sound the death knell for a website. Here are ten of the reasons why violating SOPA could be so easy that a site would be unaware until it was too late.  Fortunately, the SOPA bill is delayed/shelved in Congress right now but it’s still important to remember the impact it could have some day.

1. Vague Language – Though House supporters have claimed that SOPA is designed to protect the intellectual property of Americans from foreign profiteers that illegally distribute content in exchange for advertising and membership revenue, the vague wording of the bill makes it difficult to understand exactly what constitutes a violation and certainly doesn’t offer immunity to inadvertently-offending American sites.
2. User-Submitted Content – If a site allows any sort of user-submitted content to be posted as part of their business model, they could very easily find themselves in violation of the Stop Online Piracy Act. Under the current language of the proposed law, the owner of the site that hosts the content, the user that posts a link to the content and the website that allows the user to submit that link could all potentially be charged with violating the bill.
3. The “Friend-of-a-Friend” Effect – Do you remember when you were a kid, and the friend of a friend did something that got you all in trouble? Maybe you weren’t directly involved, and maybe you didn’t even like that person very much, but your mom still said that you were “guilty by association.” Under SOPA, the same principal applies: even if a link to legitimate and legal content housed on another site is shared, the site that posts the link could be punished if the hosting site is found to house illegal content as well.
4. The Comments Section – One of the quickest ways to lose faith in humanity and the education system is to take a look at the comments section of a YouTube video or comedy article; comments are almost universally inflammatory and poorly spelled, but that’s still legal. Should SOPA pass and one trolling user posts copyrighted material in the comments section, the site would be in violation and could face blacklisting, blocking of revenue and DNS blocking.
5. Banner Ads – Aside from being an irritating part of web-surfing, banner ads are arguably the lifeblood of the internet. Those blinking, shouting, IQ-test-offering bits of space pay for the hosting and maintenance of your favorite sites. Depending on how those ads are distributed, the site admins usually have little to no control over their content. Foreign companies can (and do) use protected images in these sites, which could lead to SOPA complaints for the site that hosts the ad.
6. Fair Use – Copying material that is copyrighted for “transformative” purposes, such as creating a parody, is called “fair use,” and has a precedent of use as a legal defense against infringement claims. SOPA would effectively end the practice of fair use, as investigation of claims isn’t required in the current wording of the bill. Hosting currently-allowed fair use images or content could lead to violation charges.
7. Housing a Discussion Forum – Many websites dedicated to a niche interest or subject also house a forum for users to discussed this shared interest. SOPA would make it almost impossible for sites to allow forums, due to the violating content that many users have in their signatures and avatars. Even if those users never shared a single illegal download link, the site could still be in violation from those avatars and signature panels.
8. VPN Violations – Because the SOPA wording allows culpability to be extended to anyone aiding someone who posts copyrighted material, a web-based company that uses a virtual private network could find themselves facing allegations in the event that another network user shares illegal content.
9. Search Engine Results – Part of SOPA’s line of defense against piracy is to require the blocking of offending sites from search engine results. Should a site that hosts such content slip through the cracks of a search engine site, that search engine could be held liable for violations.
10. Open Source Software – For every expensive piece of software available, there’s a perfectly legal, user-built open source version. Created by users for users, the open source format is one of the great accomplishments made possible by worldwide networking. Companies like Mozilla, whose Firefox browser allows open source plug-ins, have already come under fire for permitting the creation and use of plug-ins that would allow access to sites wrongfully blocked in the event that SOPA passes.

Though there is no question that piracy is a problem that affects the entertainment industry to the tune of millions, SOPA is not the solution. While supporters pay lip-service to the idea of protecting American interests, the bill could potentially crush the internet as a viable source of start-ups and entrepreneurial spirit. The inherent riskiness of any web-based venture in a post-SOPA America would discourage investors from putting money into these ventures.

Zayo has completed the deployment of an Ethernet network for U.S. Electrodynamics, Inc. (USEI) to its Brewster, Washington Teleport facility. USEI delivers its satellite communications services from its satellite uplink facility in Brewster. It provides services for broadcast, government, telecommunications, and enterprise customers.

Growing bandwidth requirements from satellite-delivered content requires uplink facilities like USEI’s to be tied to national fiber networks. Zayo’s Ethernet services are available across its 44,000 mile network. Deployment of Zayo’s Ethernet services at USEI’s Brewster Teleport and the expansion of terrestrial service allows for USEI’s remote station to be available to anyone on-net to Zayo’s network footprint.

For more information on Zayo, please visit www.zayo.com