Manhole in the Parking Lot in Portrush, Northern Ireland

June 22, 2009 – Within a fence, encircling a public beach park parking lot, lies an indistinct square manhole that is now home to Northern Ireland’s newest modern fiber optic submarine cable system ‘Project Kelvin.’  On Saturday June 20^th in Portrush, Northern Ireland, Hibernia Atlantic, in a project partially funded by the European Union and as part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment (DETI) for Northern Ireland and the Irish Department of Communications and Natural Resources (DCENR), has brought ashore the most modern fiber optic cable to connect the island of Ireland directly to the rest of Europe and North America.

The cable coming ashore marks the completion of phase I of the Project Kelvin cable construction. 

The day was documented and celebrated by Hibernia Atlantic’s Executive Team, DETI, DCENR, the Coleraine Chamber of Commerce, the Coleraine Council and members of the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB). 

Bjarni Thorvardarson welcomed the crowd of nearly 60 people acknowledging “the significance of this day on Ireland’s future and its future ability to communicate through a modern infrastructure with the rest of the world.” 

Cllr Sandy Gilkinson,  the Mayor of the Coleraine Council, which includes the town of Portrush, agreed and expressed his excitement and hope for future innovation and industry within the Northern Ireland communities.

Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO, Hibernia Atlantic; Cllr Sandy Gilkinson, Mayor, Coleraine Council; Derek Bullock, Vice President of Network Operations, Hibernia Atlantic

Attendees of the event witnessed the cable ship The Sovereign, owned and operated by Global Marine, just off shore as it worked diligently in the bay to finalize and connect the submarine fiber optic cable to land.  Divers on a smaller vessel prepared the shallow waters to bring the cable inland.

Derek Bullock, Vice President of Network Operations for Hibernia Atlantic described the process of laying the cable.  “The sailors aboard The Sovereign assist with the uncoiling of the cable located in the ship’s hull and with precise tension and technical expertise, carefully lay the cable along the ocean floor.  Except in the deepest waters, submarine cables are usually buried in order to avoid the risk of damage due to anchors, trawling gear or tidal movements.  So in more shallow waters, such as these, either a trench is dug or a pipe is drilled out to sea and then the cable is laid into the trench or pulled into the pipe.  One of the most important aspects of installing a submarine cable is to keep in mind that the ocean floor terrain is rocky, hilly and as varied as the dry land we’re standing on. A submarine plough is pulled along the seabed, placing the cable into a trench up to 3 meters deep.  This protects the cable in shallow water – maximizing cable security.”

 Now that phase I is completed, Mr. Thorvardarson described the next phase which begins the dry-land phase of the project that will bring the cable over land via a terrestrial route that will link13 towns throughout the island of Ireland, including: Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Coleraine, Londonderry, Omagh, Portadown, Strabane, Letterkenny, Castleblayney, Dundalk, Drogheda and Monaghan directly to Dublin.  Furthermore, Mr. Thorvardarson added that the Telehouse facility is already in construction.  It will serve as the initial interconnection point for other carriers and network operators to interconnect to the Project Kelvin network within the region.   

Hibernia Atlantic Executive Team with the Project Kelvin Billboard

The weather on the beach was windy, creating choppy conditions on the water and a bit cool, further highlighting the extreme difficulties and unknown conditions that the sailors aboard The Sovereign face on a day-to-day basis as they work to complete the project. 

The event concluded as The Sovereign headed out of port, its work for the day completed.  Ken Peterson, Chairman of the Board of Hibernia Atlantic and the Chief Executive Officer of CVC commented, “from shore to shore, we are bringing cutting-edge communications technology to Northern Ireland and throughout the island.”

SS Sovereign

The Press Release released on June 22, 2009 is below for your convenience:

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC COMPLETES PHASE ONE OF ITS PROJECT KELVIN TRANSATLANTIC  FIBRE OPTIC CABLE BUILD AS SUBMARINE CABLE COMES ASHORE

 THE NEW NETWORK WILL CONNECT NORTHERN IRELAND DIRECTLY TO NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCREASING LOCAL AND GLOBAL COMMERCE OPPORTUNITIES

 SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- JUNE 22, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic  submarine transport cable provider, is proud to announce the completion of phase one of the Project Kelvin cable deployment, directly connecting Northern Ireland to North America. 

As part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade & Investment (DETI) for Northern Ireland and the Irish Department of Communications and Natural Resources (DCENR) the Project Kelvin initiative and Hibernia Atlantic have brought its industry leading, fibre optic submarine cable ashore at Portrush, Northern Ireland this week.  This cable will connect with Hibernia Atlantic’s terrestrial fibre optic ring currently being deployed to 13 towns and cities, including Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Coleraine, Londonderry, Omagh, Portadown, Strabane, Letterkenny, Castleblayney, Dundalk, Drogheda and Monaghan.

By autumn, and well in advance of the projected timetable, the cable system will connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing secure and diverse transAtlantic cable, thereby directly connecting Northern Ireland and the Island of Ireland to North America and Europe.

This Project Kelvin cable build will add additional and much needed capacity to this region to further support both local and global commerce. Local companies are attracted to the high capacity, extremely secure and reliable network.  Businesses can now increase their communications and next-generation Internet service offerings (such as streaming video and video conferencing), as well as increase their access to a larger marketplace of available service providers.

The new network is also attractive to global companies, such as leading financial houses, exchange markets, service providers and media companies, who require fast, low latency bandwidth that avoids traditionally congested routes, such as around the New York and London waterways.

Welcoming this weekend’s operation to bring the new transAtlantic submarine telecommunications cable ashore, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster said “this is a historic milestone for both Northern Ireland and for Project Kelvin. The new cable will connect Northern Ireland, for the first time, directly to North America and greatly improve connectivity with Europe. When combined with the new terrestrial telecommunications infrastructure, currently under construction across Northern Ireland, it will put us at the heart of the global economy.”

The Minister encouraged local companies to take advantage of the new, international cable’s benefits and opportunities.

She continued, “Northern Ireland companies will have access to the same international telecommunications services as found in major cities including London, Amsterdam and New York.  We are now firmly on the world telecoms’ map and I urge Northern Ireland companies to exploit the opportunities this will bring.

“This flagship project is one of a number of actions being taken under the Programme for Government to capitalise on Northern Ireland’s world-class telecommunications infrastructure. 

“In these difficult economic times, telecommunications has an important role to play both in helping our companies continue to compete, and in providing access to new and emerging markets, in preparation for the upturn in the world economy.”

Eamon Ryan, Ireland’s Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources also welcomed the arrival of the cable.

He said “the nature of communications is developing at apace and we must be part of this. Today Ireland links international communications networks.  This will facilitate fast, low-cost and state-of-the-art communications which will allow us to connect and compete internationally. It will help to secure our future economic successes, attract inward investment and create new jobs.

“Ireland is now well established on the world telecoms map and is quickly advancing in terms of ICT, digital and data-intensive industries. 

“Project Kelvin will allow us to take advantage of our westerly European location, to connect quickly and more easily with our North American and European counterparts.  It is good news for local, as well as the wider economy.”

Derek Bullock, Vice President of Network Operations for Hibernia Atlantic stated “the direct, submarine connection between North America and Northern Ireland also guarantees secondary and back-up support, making it a very attractive offering to companies both locally and overseas, who require reliable back-up systems to ensure their critical communications systems are up and running 100% of the time.

“The Project Kelvin initiative will provide further local and global commerce opportunities to Northern Ireland and the Island of Ireland,” continues Fergus Innes, Vice President of Sales in Europe for Hibernia Atlantic.  “The cable running ashore at Portrush is an exciting benchmark and a further indicator that the Hibernia team and the government are working diligently to deliver real benefits for local and international companies seeking bandwidth and security.” 

For a map of the Project Kelvin cable build, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg.

To view the newly-installed billboard announcing the Project Kelvin cable build, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/ProjectKelvinBilboard.jpg.

For more information on Hibernia Atlantic, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

About Hibernia Atlantic:
Hibernia Atlantic is the largest, privately held, diverse transAtlantic  submarine cable transport provider.  Hibernia is a US, wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC).  It is a transAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial cable network that offers over (70) redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network.  Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional Sonet/SDH services.   In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.
 
To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=

For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact Jaymie Scotto & Associates at pr@jaymiescotto.com or Jackie Logan at jackie@carltonbaxter.com.

 About Project Kelvin:

 This project is part financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IVA Cross-border Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body.

Today, Lexent Metro Connect has announced its availability to build customer networks in and around the New York Metro area to meet the low-latency demands of the global financial community, enterprise businesses and carriers. Key highlights of this release include:

• Lexent Metro Connect connects to key NY Metro area data centers, colocation facilities and over 100 Enterprise buildings
• The company designs, constructs, manages, implements its own private dark fiber network.
• Lexent provides custom, build-to-suit, truly carrier-neutral network solutions
• Lexent currently provides some of the lowest latency paths in the market (sub 100 micro-seconds).

The full press release is below for your review

For Immediate Release:

 LEXENT METRO CONNECT PROVIDES CUSTOM BUILT NETWORK SOLUTIONS TO ENSURE THE LOWEST LATENCY DARK FIBER PATHS

New York, New York – SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 – Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, today announces that its custom, build-to-suit, truly carrier-neutral network solutions provide financial companies, enterprise businesses and carriers the opportunity to construct the shortest distance between two network points, reducing latency and enhancing reliability. This announcement comes on the heels of Lexent’s recent low latency, dark fiber network expansion news into key facilities operated by leading datacenter providers including Equinix, Switch and Data, Telx, Savvis and others, in New Jersey.

Lexent’s solutions leverage its already vast network footprint to analyze and plan custom paths to shorten network distance, which ensures the lowest latency dark fiber routes.  With thousands of fiber miles to choose from, Lexent’s ability to construct custom network paths provides companies that require dark fiber, the ability to transform their communications infrastructure quickly, efficiently and cost effectively. 

Simply shaving a few milliseconds off a dark fiber route can mean the difference between thousands of dollars on each transaction.  Today, Lexent’s metro dark fiber network already provides some of the lowest latency paths available (sub 100 micro-second) interconnecting all of the major New York City carrier hotels and over 100 enterprise buildings to the top New Jersey datacenters. Global banks, financial exchanges and other enterprise clients located within miles of the Lexent  network can choose from existing or custom network solutions to for ultra fast, secure connectivity in, out and throughout the region.

“Lexent is the only truly neutral, open access dark fiber provider in the New York Metro region that can provide a quick to market custom network solution that can shave microseconds across a network’s path,” states Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “Our goal is to provide our customers ‘freedom of choice,’ enabling them to develop customized optical network solutions over a  secure, high-capacity fiber infrastructure that has been route optimized to minimize latency between core regional datacenter facilities .”

In partnership with its sister company, Hugh O’Kane Electric, a leading provider of mission critical electrical and telecommunications infrastructure design, installation and maintenance services, Lexent Metro is able to provide fast, flexible and carrier neutral dark fiber networks, overcoming third party construction issues that often plague other providers in and around New York City and New Jersey.

 ”We have seen a significant increase in financial firms joining our client roster within the past 12 months,” continues Mr. La Chance.  “By utilizing our dark fiber network footprint coupled with our custom solutions, financial companies are able to ensure optimal control over their network security, physical redundancy, bandwidth and latency.” 

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About Lexent Metro Connect

Lexent Metro Connect, LLC provides enterprise customers and service providers in New York City and its surrounding boroughs with state of the art, custom built, dark fiber optic networks. As a leader in the New York Metropolitan area, Lexent is the only fiber provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its entire network with its own in-house engineering, construction and maintenance workforce. Lexent provides its customers with the option to leverage an existing dark fiber network as an extension of their own, or to build a new, dedicated, private fiber network in the City. Lexent also provides direct connectivity to carrier-neutral colocation facilities, enabling Freedom of Choice in pursuing wholesale buying of Network Services. Lexent’s ever-growing network provides diverse connectivity between regional Carrier Hotels, Central Offices, and Enterprise Buildings.  For more information on Lexent Metro Connect, please email info@lexent.net or call 212.981.0700.

About Hugh O’Kane Electric Company, Inc.

HUGH O’KANE ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC (HOK) has been a leading provider of electrical construction and maintenance services to businesses in the Greater New York metropolitan area since 1946. With its staff of experienced engineering professionals and technical experts, HOK offers one-stop shopping for design, value engineering, installation, maintenance, repair and emergency backup.  HOK has provided contracting services for a wide variety of industries and institutions, including telecommunications, financial services and commercial real estate, in and around New York City.  For more information, please visit www.hokane.com.

For media enquiries, please contact:    

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iScroll the new e-book application that lets readers listen, read and learn on the go officially comes to market!

iScroll doesn’t require a device like the Kindle or Amazon Reader – it’s an ebook AND simultaneous audio-book for iPhones and iTouch phones.  It is the first Text Synchronized Audio application for the iPhone and it’s available – Now!

There are a lot of great features and useful tools on iScroll including:

- Bookmarking

- word look-up

- The ability to adjust your font size or background color

Perfect for Avid readers, Moms on the go, Students, Commuters and more!

For more information about iScroll and to read the official press release, please see below:

appSessions Launches iScroll, its New E-Book Application for Smart Phones

A Revolutionary App That Allows Users to Listen, Read and Learn On the Go 

ROCKVILLE, MD – October 1, 2009 - appSessions, a Maryland-based firm that designs and develops innovative applications for smart phones, is proud to announce the release of iScroll^TM. iScroll is an e-book application that provides users a revolutionary new way to listen, read and learn on the go. Not only can you read the text, the text can also be read to you – by the author or an actor, for a true, sensory approach to reading comprehension. 

According to the Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST), supported reading tools can increase a reader’s ability to learn print-related material by up to 38%. With iScroll, a user has the ability to read in a format that fits his/her individual learning style and environment, whether it’s a busy mom listening to a novel while driving, a child who is learning to read for the first time or a college co-ed reviewing course work while on the treadmill. No matter the user, iScroll makes learning easier and more effective, allowing for stronger retention of the material.

“iScroll is a innovative resource for avid readers, moms on the go, or students,” states iScroll Managing Partner, Shawn Yazdani. “It turns your Internet-enabled cell phone into a portable electronic audio book where you can both hear and read popular novels or required school texts. Additionally, iScroll is a more affordable way to read; books can be downloaded directly to smart phones for as low as 99 cents per title.  The screen can be customized to accommodate the reader’s preference, such as increasing the text size, turning on a backlight, or changing the font and color. iScroll is also a great reading or study tool, with word or phrase look-up, bookmarking and the ability to add notes to the margins.  Now learning is customized to suit the individual’s needs.”

To view the complete list of titles now available on iScroll and to quickly download books to your smart phone, please visit www.iscroll.com.

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About iScroll:                                                                                                                     

iScroll is a revolutionary e-book application providing a new way to listen, read and learn on the go.  Not only can you read the text, your text can be read to you, by the author or an actor, for a true, sensory approach to understanding. As part of the patent-pending technology, iScroll makes it easy for you to customize your learning experience, from bookmarking and word look-up, to adjusting your font size or background color.  Visit www.iscroll.com for an online demo or to download texts to your smart phone.

About appSessions:                                                                                    

appSessions is a Maryland-based firm that designs and develops innovative applications for smart phones. The company was founded in August 2008 by two businessmen with a passion for literature, a love of technology and extensive experience in the publishing industry. Today, appSessions embarks on one simple mission: to offer readers the most satisfying and convenient way to experience books.  For more information, please visit www.appsessions.com.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Ilissa Miller or Vanessa Eixman

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

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Tel: +1.866.695.3629

Arbinet announced enhancements to its Wholesale Carrier Service on October 1^st.  The highlights of this service include:

-          Arbinet’s Wholesale Carrier Service offers carriers the ability to interface with Arbinet in a more traditional wholesale manner

-          There are no fees associated with the Arbinet Carrier Service

-          The Carrier Service provides suppliers and buyers access to Code Analysis Tools, Routing Tables, Quoting Systems and other highly developed back-office systems aimed at simplifying the carrier interface experience

-          Arbinet customers already using this service include Telefonica O2 Germany and Russia’s largest international carrier Rostelecom

For the complete press release, please read below:

Arbinet Enhances its Wholesale Carrier Service Interface

Deploys New Back Office System to support Traditional Wholesale Relationships

New Brunswick, NJ, USA – October 1, 2009– Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX], formerly Arbinet-thexchange, a leading wholesale telecommunications service provider that offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic, has introduced new tools into its network that significantly enhance its ability to support customers and suppliers in a traditional wholesale fashion.  Arbinet’s voice termination and origination options also include Private Exchange^SM, an easy, low-risk outsourcing approach, and thexchange™, the industry’s leading Exchange marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.

Arbinet Carriers Services has no fees and features a single invoice.  New tools include a Code Analysis Tool that enables Arbinet to use supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans; a Routing Table Development Tool that utilizes sophisticated blended algorithms to enable Arbinet to generate Routing Tables based on specific quality and pricing requirements; and an integrated Quoting System that enables Arbinet to easily quote rates and buy supply from Carrier Service customers and suppliers.

“Arbinet is an important partner for our wholesale voice business,” said Jochen Mogalle, VP Wholesale at Telefónica O2 Germany.  “With Arbinet’s technology, knowledge of the European Telecom market and its ability to terminate traffic to global carriers, Arbinet has helped Telefónica to realize efficiencies in routing portions of our international voice traffic.  Arbinet also played a role in Telefónica success in increasing voice quality, stability and consistency in its service for its retail customers.”

“Arbinet is an important and strategic partner for our voice termination business,” said Evgeny Sekeryn, Carrier Business and Sales Director at Russian largest international carrier Rostelecom.  “With Arbinet’s proven technology, knowledge of the international telecom market and its ability to terminate traffic to an extensive list of leading and emerging global carriers, Arbinet provided Rostelecom with aggressive pricing, quality control and efficient routing solution for international voice traffic.  The Rostelecom team is optimistic to work with a partner that invests in technology in order to simplify, improve and solve interconnectivity issues. We are sure that their continued investment in new tools and capabilities will continue to help carriers to meet business goals.”   

“Arbinet is well-known for its highly automated exchange marketplace that seamlessly manages voice traffic flows between buyers and sellers,” said Dan Powdermaker, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Arbinet.  “We launched Carrier Services earlier this year to support those suppliers and customers that seek a traditional wholesale way of working.  We offer standard contracts, no fees, multiple routing tables and rate lock.  Carrier Services suppliers can reach members of Arbinet’s thexchange and thexchange suppliers can qualify for inclusion in Carrier Services tables.  The new Carrier Services tools that we have developed and deployed will help us to more seamlessly and better serve our customer and supplier base.”

For more information about Arbinet Carrier Services, thexchange™, Private Exchange^sm (PEX) or Arbinet Data Exchange, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com. 

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet Network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities. Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content. For more information, please visit www.arbinet.com , call +1.732.509.9100 or email sales@arbinet.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

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120 Albany Street, 4^th Floor, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901,

phone: +1 732-509-9100, fax: +1 732-509-9101, website: www.arbinet.com.

TELEHOUSE America Announces its Global Data Center and Managed Services at the ITU Telecom World 2009 Conference and Exhibition

 Global Data Center and Managed Services Now Available in Eight Countries

 Staten Island, NY, USA – October 5, 2009– TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, announces today at the ITU Telecom World 2009 global conference and exhibition,  the global availability of TELEHOUSE-branded data centers in 17 cities throughout Asia, North America and Europe.  Companies requiring global data center solutions, connectivity and managed services can now contact global TELEHOUSE team for facility space and power in any of the TELEHOUSE-branded facilities located in France, The United Kingdom, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.  This announcement comes on the heels of TELEHOUSE America’s announcement launching its ubiquitous IP Transit services and the availability of its Global Interlink US-Europe Ethernet connectivity solutions between its major data centers in the United States and Europe. 

TELEHOUSE, a name synonymous with data center, colocation and telecom connection services, is also a leading global brand of managed IT solutions.  With global reach supported by local expertise, this announcement solidifies TELEHOUSE America’s ability to meet the ongoing demand of its customers that require a global Total Solution Provider.  With its growing data center and communication services, TELEHOUSE America can now provide a complete one-stop-shop solution that includes colocation; carrier neutral global connectivity including Ethernet Private Line capabilities and IP Transit; along with global managed services through its suite of Manage-E products and solutions. 

“The ITU Telecom World conference and exhibition is the perfect venue to launch TELEHOUSE America’s ability to provide first-class data centers, network and managed service solutions,” commented Vincent Corley, Sr. Marketing Manager for TELEHOUSE America.  “Our customers, including carriers, service providers, enterprise businesses and financial service companies, often prefer one provider to manage their global IT infrastructure solutions.  TELEHOUSE America has responded by becoming a global Total Solution Provider.”

TELEHOUSE America will present on its global service offerings at booth #4039 at the ITU Telecom World 2009 conference’s commercial showcase.   To schedule a meeting at ITU Geneva with a representative from TELEHOUSE America, please contact pr@jaymiescotto.com.  For more information about TELEHOUSE America, please visit www.telehouse.com or www.Manage-E.com or email sales@telehouse.com. 

About TELEHOUSE America

TELEHOUSE America is the US’s leading provider of dedicated data centers, colocation facilities, international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions.

A stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center services, they provide secure, power-protected environments, where clients house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at Telehouse’s colocation “meet-me-centers” in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other Telehouse customers. Among the many benefits of colocating with Telehouse is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Additionally, through close ties to its sister companies in Europe and Asia, Telehouse can provide continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent businesses around the world. Please visit http://www.Telehouse.com, or contact us at sales@Telehouse.com.

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Bjarni Thorvardarson has been awarded a Golden Bridges Award.  This award is given to individuals that have proven to promote partnerships between North America and Ireland.  In this case, Mr. Thorvardarson’s company, Hibernia Atlantic, was recognized for its new, fiber optic cable project called ‘Project Kelvin’.  With this project, Hibernia Atlantic will be the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that will directly connect the Island of Ireland to North America.

The complete press release is below for your review:

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC’S CEO RECEIVES A GOLDEN BRIDGES AWARD FOR PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA AND IRELAND 

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- October 16, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic,the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, today announces that its company’s CEO, Bjarni K. Thorvardarson, has been awarded a Golden Bridges Award for promoting partnerships between North America and Ireland through its new, fiber optic cable build development, entitled “Project Kelvin”.  Hibernia Atlantic is the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that will directly connect the Island of Ireland to North America.

The award was presented to Mr. Thorvardarson by Valerie Watts, CEO of the Derry City Council during the Irish Echo ‘Gateways to Tomorrow’ Conference in Boston.

“It is an honor to be recognized with a Golden Bridges Award,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson. “And it is privilege to provide local and global businesses access to our secure and ultra low latency capacity to further drive economic development, cooperation and innovative technology.  This award is a testament to the great people of Hibernia working around the clock and I’m proud to accept it on their behalf.”

This historic initiative will add additional and much needed low latency capacity to the Island of Ireland, to further support both local and global companies. Local companies are attracted to the high capacity, extremely secure and reliable network. Businesses can now increase their communications and next-generation Internet service offerings as well as increase their access to a larger marketplace of available service providers. The new network is also attractive to global companies, such as leading financial houses, exchange markets, service providers and media companies, who require fast, low latency bandwidth that avoids traditionally congested routes, such as around the New York and London waterways. 

Hibernia Atlantic recently brought its industry leading fiber optic submarine cable ashore at Portrush, Northern Ireland.  This cable will connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s terrestrial fiber optic ring currently being deployed to 13 towns and cities, including Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Castleblayney, Coleraine, Drogheda, Dundalk, Letterkenny, Londonderry, Monaghan, Omagh, Portadown and Strabane. By the end of this year, the cable system will connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing transatlantic cable, thereby directly connecting Northern Ireland and the Island of Ireland to both North America and Europe.

For a map of the cable build or more on Hibernia Atlantic, please click here or visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg.

It was all over the news ‘National Dark Fiber Network Coming Through South Bend, Indiana.’  Metronet fiber, an ecosystem comprised of infrastructure, end-users and service vendors in South Bend, Indiana has been touting the benefits of Allied Fiber’s dark fiber network, which will run through South Bend, IN in its initial phase. 

Allied Fiber’s network will take advantage of railroad right-of-ways to build direct dark fiber connections to cell towers, data centers, businesses and universities along its way. 

“Basically, we are building the dark fiber structure that most emulates the interstate highway system with on-ramps, off-ramps and rest stops,” explains Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber.

Allied Fiber’s network will run through South Bend’s renovated Union Station, a former railroad depot now used as a carrier hotel.  

For the complete article, please read below:

Press Release
National Dark Fiber Network Coming Through South Bend, Ind.
10.26.09, 6:00 AM ET

BusinessWire – It’s not just the St. Joe Valley Metronet that’s big on the high-speed, dark-fiber optic technology that permits it to transmit massive amounts of data in the blink of an eye.

Soon, a company called Allied Fiber will connect the coasts via a similar system, which allows multiple carriers to “light,” or turn on, the dark fiber and control the waves of light on which the information travels.

The first stage of Allied Fiber’s lightning-fast system will link Chicago and New York.

And it will run right through South Bend’s renovated Union Station. The former railroad depot is a so-called “carrier hotel,” a high-security facility where numerous telecom firms operate and where transcontinental fiber converges and connects.

Metronet plays a vital role in Allied Fiber’s bid to link the coasts, as it too is a high-speed dark fiber network exceeding 50 miles, connecting dozens of South Bend-area businesses, hospitals and colleges.

Mary Jan Hedman, Metronet’s executive director, calls Allied Fiber’s decision to go through Union Station great news for the region.

“Thanks to Allied Fiber’s national fiber-optic network and Metronet’s corresponding local network, St. Joseph County will be an even smarter location for data centers than it was before,” says Hedman.

“Moreover, our low cost of power and general affordability make this area more attractive,” she says.

Allied Fiber’s plans to connect Chicago and New York via dark fiber are just the beginning of plans by Hunter Newby. He is a former executive with Telx, a carrier hotel firm that was created at 60 Hudson Street in New York City.

Newby, considered by some a telecommunications visionary, is now CEO of Manhattan-based Allied Fiber.

Taking advantage of railroad right-of-ways, he plans to eventually run fiber to Seattle, up and down the East and West coasts and to other key locations in the United States and Canada via interconnections to multiple long-haul routes along the way.

The system will make it easy to build direct dark fiber connections to cell towers, data centers, businesses and universities along the way.

“Basically, we are building the dark fiber structure that most emulates the interstate highway system with on-ramps, off-ramps and rest stops,” he explains.

He predicted dark fiber running from Chicago to New York will be turned over to customers in South Bend by summer of 2010.

“If South Bend wants to develop as a high-tech center, this will only help,” Newby says. “Moreover, you’ve already got the ‘local knowledge’ in Metronet. The combination of the two is incredibly powerful.”

The dark fiber model

Why is this vitally important to businesses and other entities?

Newby says there is a strong need for more dark fiber in this country, in order to keep up with ever-growing data-transfer demands that have resulted from the information revolution over the past two decades.

“There was enough earlier in this decade,” he says. “Not anymore. If there were, people wouldn’t be complaining that they cannot get access. The dark fiber drought impacts wireless, education, government, enterprise as well as carriers of all sizes.”

This understandably is music to the ears of Metronet’s Hedman and Kevin Smith, president and CEO of Union Station/Global Access Point.

Hedman says she is pleased that the Allied Fiber project is based on a dark fiber “model,” which allows different carriers — not just one monopoly carrier — to access the high-speed dark fiber trunk.

“This will stimulate greater competition, and give businesses in our area more choices to access high-speed dark fiber service,” Hedman explained.

“It should also position St. Joseph County as a viable market to provide services because of the low cost, last-mile access created by our firm, the Metronet. As a not-for-profit entity, we were created as a tool to promote growth and attract new business to the area.” The Metronet is an initiative created by Project Future — an economic development organization of St. Joseph County.

Smith, who set up his carrier hotel in Union Station in the late 1980s, praised Newby for his vision of using ultra-fast fiber to connect the coasts and reach other locations throughout the United States, Canada and beyond.

“By going through Union Station, it will give access to our community to use those fibers for conveying digital services,” he says. “For high-tech companies that are considering locating here, this will give a very cost-effective means to go coast to coast and then connect to other low-cost carriers that go abroad.

“This means we will be on the worldwide super-fast hub, many times faster than typical ‘high-speed’ Internet packages for businesses and corporations,” he says. “It will help level the playing field. It’s kind of like having an international airport locate in your backyard.”

Creating a ‘virtualized Chicago’

Smith says he hopes traders and financial companies located in the Cermak Building in downtown Chicago will consider setting up parallel computing facilities at Union Station.

“Cermak, with 1 million square feet of data center, is the dominant player in the financial industry in Chicago,” says Smith, who noted that he has already held discussions with some companies about setting up shop at Union Station.

“I’m working directly with them to get a ‘virtualized Chicago’ based here,” he says. “I’m talking with them right now about being able to put short run fibers to the Union Station.”

Consequently, instead of co-locating in the Chicago suburbs, the opposite direction from New York, they could parallel compute at Union Station and be closer to Wall Street via Allied Fiber.

With Allied Fiber soon to be a player with its state-of-the-art dark fiber, it should make Union Station “very appealing” to Chicago traders and financiers, Smith says.

“This will allow us to touch more robustly all the assets in Chicago, as well as give a broader reach on a global basis for companies based here,” he says. “This is a very big deal.”

SOURCE: St. Joe Valley Metronet

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TELEHOUSE America announces its partnership with Akibia, a leading provider of consulting, integration and support for data center, network and security solutions, who will also present at the company’s next Breakfast on Broadway event to be held November 19^th at 25 Broadway, TELEHOUSE America’s New York City data center facility.   TAMP will also join Akibia to offer attendees insight into High-Availability Disaster Recovery Support and Business Continuity as part of TELEHOUSE America’s positioning as a Total Solution Provider with its Manage-E suite of products and services. 

The full press release is below for your review:

TELEHOUSE America Partners with Akibia to offer its Customers High-Availability                          Disaster Recovery Support

New Service is Just One of TELEHOUSE America’s Manage-E Solutions to be Featured at its‘Breakfast on Broadway’ Event in New York

Staten Island, NY, USA – October 28, 2009– TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges, and  managed IT services along with Akibia, a leading provider of consulting, integration and support for data center, network and security solutions, announce their partnership to offer TELEHOUSE America customers 24/7 high-availability systems’ support for their mission-critical data center needs.

With Akibia, customers of TELEHOUSE America gain access to a 24/7 leading provider of hardware maintenance and operating system support.  Akibia’s services are offered with custom SLAs that cover the leading hardware and software brands including SUN, HP, IBM, Dell, EMC  and others, IT best-in-class logistics and expert field engineering and education services.  Akibia’s multi-vendor systems maintenance services provide a single point of contact for all network, security and data center support needs.  In addition, the company also offers data center relocation services, guaranteeing minimal downtime while optimizing companies’ data center footprints.

TELEHOUSE America continues to leverage best-of-breed partners, such as Akibia, to provide Total Solutions to the global communications marketplace.  “Akibia’s complete data center support services, as well as our consulting, implementation and support on critical network and security solutions is an ideal fit for TELEHOUSE and its customers,” comments Robert Klotz, Vice President of Technology at Akibia.  “Our partnership allows TELEHOUSE to enhance its already robust service offering, providing customers with maximum network uptime, data integrity and greater customer satisfaction.”

“Our vision is to provide the industry, housed within our datacenters and beyond, complete end-to-end managed solutions, which we call Manage-E,” continues Vincent Corley, Sr. Marketing Manager for TELEHOUSE America “The November 19th ‘Breakfast on Broadway’ event at 25 Broadway will clearly communicate multiple components of our managed services portfolio, which continually emphasizes turn-key solutions to aid companies in building solid business planning and practices..”

The ‘Breakfast on Broadway’ event will be held from 8:30am – 11:00am on November 19th at 25 Broadway in New York City.  TELEHOUSE will discuss its Manage-E solutions, providing comprehensive IT Infrastructure and Systems Management.  Akibia will discuss its full life-cycle services, ranging from implementation to on-going system support.  TAMP Systems, one of the few companies worldwide with Certified Business Continuity Vendor (CBCV) certification from the Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI), the world-wide leader for education and certifications in Business Continuity Management (BCM) will discuss several areas of business continuity and disaster recovery planning. 

The ‘Breakfast on Broadway’ event is free to attend, however there is limited space.  To register, please visit: http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?431232 or email Vincent Corley at corley@telehouse.com.

About Akibia, Inc.

Akibia provides innovative IT solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical infrastructure. As an independent advisor, Akibia partners with its customers to deliver solutions that improve the availability and performance of their data center and security infrastructure. Combining expert consulting, integration and support services with world-class customer service, Akibia helps IT organizations maximize the value of their existing infrastructure, while mitigating risk and reducing complexity. Founded as Polaris Service in 1988 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an independent services company with offices throughout the United States and Europe. Contact Akibia at 1-866-4-AKIBIA or www.Akibia.com

About TELEHOUSE America

TELEHOUSE America is the US’s leading provider of dedicated data centers, colocation facilities, international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions.

A stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center services, they provide secure, power-protected environments, where clients house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at Telehouse’s colocation “meet-me-centers” in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other Telehouse customers. Among the many benefits of colocating with Telehouse is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Through Manage-E (http://www.Manage-E.com), TELEHOUSE provides a comprehensive suite of solutions – from help desk and hardware support to managed IT infrastructure, security and compliance services – all delivered by expert consulting and operations teams on a global scale and from one point-of-contact.  Additionally, the global availability of TELEHOUSE-branded data centers in 17 cities throughout Asia, North America and Europe, delivers continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent, IT infrastructure to businesses around the world. Please visit http://www.Telehouse.com, or contact us at sales@Telehouse.com.

 On the heels of Equinix’s announcements about the acquisition of Switch & Data and the number of networks already connected its Metro Ethernet Exchange, the company has now announced its relationship with Lexent Metro Connect, a leading low latency dark fiber network provider in the New York Metro market, which has connected Equinix’s New Jersey data centers to its New York City carrier hotel facilities.

 This is a great announcement for the New York Metro market as Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX®) is one of the industry’s leading platforms for financial companies to access ultra low latency networks to facilitate business across the world.

Lexent’s network connects Equinix’s leading IBX facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey to its strategic carrier hotels located in Manhattan including 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the Americas, 75 Broad Street and 111 Eighth Avenue.  What is great about this announcement is that Equinix’s IBX now has low latency proximity to other carrier hotel facilities within the New York market – clearly one of the largest global markets for financial trading and transactions.

For the complete announcement, please continue to read below: 

LEXENT METRO CONNECT COMPLETES LOW LATENCY DARK FIBER ROUTE BETWEEN EQUINIX NEW JERSEY DATA CENTERS AND NYC CARRIER HOTELS

New York, New York and Foster City, CA – November 4, 2009 – Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Lexent has completed its ultra low latency dark fiber connection between two Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX^®) data centers in Secaucus, NJ and strategic carrier hotels located in Manhattan, including 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the America, 75 Broad Street and 111 Eighth Avenue.

The new dark fiber route follows the shortest distance across the Hudson River, offering the lowest latency fiber path between Manhattan and Equinix’s NY4 and NY2 centers in Secaucus.  With a route latency of less than 100 microseconds, this new link will enable global banks, financial exchanges and other enterprises, located in the 100+ Lexent on-net buildings or along the Lexent fiber optic backbone, to link with the Equinix Financial eXchange community of execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers and technology utilities operating within the NY4 and NY2 centers.  These companies operate at Equinix’s high performance data centers to access the widest choice of low-latency networks and to directly exchange data with strategic partners and customers in close proximity.

“By utilizing Lexent Metro Connect, the financial community operating within our NY4 and NY2 centers in Secaucus can tap into fast, high-quality dark fiber routes to securely access New York’s carrier hotels,” said Jarrett Appleby, chief marketing officer for Equinix. “This provides them with optimized, low-latency links to New York City’s financial exchanges and other key investment buildings.”

In June, Reuters published a paper called “Addressing the low-latency challenge, Low-latency architecture as a competitive advantage,” in which David Lester, the chief information officer at the London Stock Exchange commented that “the firms that have been happy with a latency of 400 or 500 milliseconds will find that it is just not good enough going forward.”  Lexent’s short fiber path specifically addresses these concerns.  The network was designed to meet the requirements of the growing proximity trading community by offering an ultra-low latency route with high reliability, as the probability of physical fiber faults are decreased due to reduced exposure to potential third-party damage. These low latency connections, measured in milliseconds, translate to tens of thousands of dollars per transaction for traders. 

“Latency is arguably one of the most important factors driving financial firms’ metro network decisions today,” said Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “We have seen a surge in financial firms requesting private dark fiber solutions utilizing shorter optical routes, and with no mid-span equipment.  In response, Lexent has built upon its core regional dark fiber footprint, removing the ‘fiber variable’ and allowing its clients to deploy latency optimized applications unparalleled by comparable carrier solutions”.

Lexent’s low latency New York/New Jersey fiber route is now available. For more information, please email info@lexent.net.                                                         

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About Lexent Metro Connect

Lexent Metro Connect, LLC provides enterprise customers and service providers in New York City and its surrounding boroughs with state of the art, custom built, dark fiber optic networks. As a leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, Lexent is the only fiber provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its own dark fiber network in-house. Lexent provides its customers with the option to leverage an existing dark fiber network as an extension of their own, or to build a new, dedicated, private fiber network in the City. Lexent also provides direct connectivity to carrier-neutral colocation facilities, enabling Freedom of Choice in pursuing wholesale buying of Network Services. Lexent’s ever-growing network provides diverse connectivity between regional Carrier Hotels, Central Offices, and Enterprise Buildings.  For more information on Lexent Metro Connect, please email info@lexent.net or call 212.981.0700.

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world.  Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets.  Equinix operates 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com/investors. We encourage you to check Equinix’s website regularly for the most up-to-date information. 

About Equinix Financial eXchange:

Equinix Financial eXchange is a neutral marketplace consisting of financial markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity for a broad range of market participants. Learn more at: http://financial.equinix.com

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Arbinet announced it has signed the National Carrier for Nicaragua, Enitel, to its Wholesale Carrier Services product.  Arbinet announced the Carrier Services product October 1, 2009.  The new product offers no fees and features a single invoice – allowing customers to negotiate bilateral agreements as they traditionally have.

The Carrier Services solution also offers customers additional services such as a Code Analysis Tool that enables Arbinet to use supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans; a Routing Table Development Tool that utilizes sophisticated blending algorithms to enable Arbinet to generate Routing Tables based on specific quality and pricing requirements; and an integrated Quoting System that enables Arbinet to easily quote rates and buy supply from Carrier Service customers and suppliers.

With Central America one of the fastest growing regions for telecom, Arbinet’s ability to provide services to companies such as Enitel is important to the company to continue to grow.  According to Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Arbinet Carrier Services is an ideal service for companies like ENITEL.  It will enable Arbinet’s customers to terminate their traffic to Nicaragua with high quality standards.  Additionally, Enitel can utilize our Private ExchangeSM service to aggregate existing interconnections and reduce costs and complexity in the management of its its interconnections with its customer’s networks.

For the press release in its entirety, please continue to read here:

National Carrier for Nicaragua, Enitel Connects to Arbinet’s Wholesale Carrier Services

Partnership with Arbinet Enables Enitel (Empresa Nicaragüense de Telecomunicaciones) to Terminate and Originate Calls over the Arbinet Network

New York, NY, USA – November 10, 2009– Arbinet Corporation.[Nasdaq: ARBX], today announces that leading mobile provider and Nicaraguan PTT, Enitel (Empresa Nicaragüense de Telecomunicaciones), will use Arbinet’s new wholesale Carrier Service interface for termination and origination of international calls.  Enitel will benefit from Arbinet’s scale, global reach and sophisticated routing capabilities to deliver high quality, lower cost international calling to its customers in Nicaragua. Arbinet gains reliable, high quality termination capacity in Nicaragua for its retail and wholesale customers.

“We are pleased to welcome Enitel to the Arbinet Network.  Central America is one of the fastest growing regions for telecom usage in the world.  As the only truly integrated Nicaraguan telecom operator with the leading market share in mobile, a nationwide fixed network and the country’s leading cable system, Enitel’s partnership with Arbinet offers benefits to our customers and traffic for our suppliers,” states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.“ Arbinet Carrier Services is an ideal service for companies like ENITEL.  It will enable Arbinet’s customers to terminate their traffic to Nicaragua with high quality standards.  Additionally, Enitel can utilize our Private ExchangeSM service to aggregate existing interconnections and reduce costs and complexity in the management of its its interconnections with its customer´s networks.

“As the leading fixed and mobile telecom carrier in Nicaragua, having the right international voice partner is critical for us to compete in our market and to give our retail customers the high-quality, cost effective international voice service they want,” said Víctor García, Chief of Regulatory and Interconnection of Enitel.

Arbinet Carrier Services has no fees, features a single invoice and uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans. Sophisticated blending algorithms enable Arbinet to generate Routing Tables based on specific quality and pricing requirements. An integrated Quoting System enables Arbinet to easily quote rates and buy supply from Carrier Service customers and suppliers.

 Arbinet’s voice termination and origination options also include Private Exchange, an easy, low-risk outsourcing approach, and thexchange™, the industry’s leading Exchange marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.  For more information about Arbinet’s Carrier Services, thexchange™, Private Exchangesm(PEX) or Arbinet Data Exchange, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com.

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet Network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities. Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content. For more information, please visit www.arbinet,com , call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About Enitel

Enitel is the leading Nicaraguan company in all mobile, fixed, broadband, data and IP services.  Covering Central America, Enitel´s Fiber Optical Network offers voice and data solutions based on SDH, full MPLS and IP.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

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 email: sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com

Dark fiber is all the rage.  It’s the core underlying network that transports communications traffic from one point to another – but dark fiber alone isn’t the solution – it’s the way the fiber is lit that’s the difference.

Allied Fiber is building a new long haul dark fiber network that will eliminate obstacles for broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through new, next generation construction.   The network will have a short-haul dark fiber route as well as a long-haul dark fiber route – directly parallel to one another. 

Allied Fiber Network Key

Since the speed of light can only move so fast, together with ADVA, Allied Fiber is capable of providing one of the fastest routes between New York and Chicago with a roundtrip latency sub 16ms.

Here is an illustration of the low-latency route on Allied Fiber’s dark fiber network, lit with ADVA’s Optical Networking gear:

Allied Fiber and ADVA's Low Latency Route from New York to Chicago

Allied Fiber's Solution to Mobile Backhaul

Finally, Allied Fiber illustrates the solution that its network will bring to Middle Mile Network operators.

Allied Fiber's Solution for Middle Mile Network Operators

ADVA’s Optical Networking gear cuts packet transport time in half.  For Financial companies it provides faster trades, since very millisecond counts.  For High Performance Computing (HPC), interconnected clusters can increase throughput and for Enterprise businesses, faster transfers and backups equal more productivity. 

Allied Fiber’s network, coupled with Carrier-Class Ethernet (CCE) can provide converged network solutions, enhanced network performance and can support enforceable stringent SLAs.  For more information about this solution, please visit www.advaoptical.com or www.alliedfiber.com or email info@alliedfiber.com.

Number portability has encouraged competition in mobile markets by allowing subscribers to keep their numbers when they change service providers. However, global number portability requires intelligence beyond the code system to route and rate calls correctly. Misrouted calls can incur transit penalties, increase termination costs and degrade call quality.

Try Arbinet’s Global Number Portability Correction service for FREE!

To take advantage of this limited time offer, please contact Arbinet’s dedicated GNPC team – Steve Heap or Jim Guy at gnpc@arbinet.com.

For more information about Arbinet and its Voice services and IP Solutions, please visit www.arbinet.com

Acquisitions are always exciting.  It usually means healthy company, healthy market, new opportunities and interesting vision into the strategies of the companies involved.  In this case, Hibernia Atlantic, the largest privately-held transatlantic submarine cable operator and the operator of the Global Financial Network (GFN) an ultra-low latency network solution designed to meet the needs of the Financial marketplace, announced it has acquired MediaXstream, an International Broadcast and Media Production Service provider.

The announcement brings great opportunities to both companies.  Hibernia Atlantic is now ‘playing’ in the media and broadcast space, enabling major broadcast network operators to deliver content more efficiently around the world.  The MediaXstream solution will continue to leverage its leading high-bandwidth network providers including Hibernia Atlantic – a network that offers 40Gig connectivity between the US & Europe over its divere and secure network.  In addition, the companies together now reach over 92 points of presence, enhancing each network’s reach substantially while continuing to offer attractive rates. 

According to Hibernia Atlantic’s CEO, Bjarni Thorvardarson, who is also CEO of the newly acquired MediaXstream – which becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic, the companies struck the agreement without any third-party advisors.  MediaXstream will add 33 employees to the overall Hibernia organization, nearly doubling the number of employees.   In addition to the employees, Hibernia Atlantic, through its new acquisition, will retain the MediaXstream brand and services in order to support its corporate customers as effectively as possible.  MediaXstream’s management and sales team will continue to support their clients.   The deal was closed on December 11th, 2009 and is an all stock transaction.  Simultaneously, Hibernia Atlantic raised $13.4M to fund further growth of the combined companies.

The press release, in its entirety is below:

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC ACQUIRES INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST AND MEDIA PRODUCTION SERVICE PROVIDER MEDIAXSTREAM

  SERVING WORLDWIDE MEDIA COMPANIES’ INCREASING DEMAND FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORK SOLUTIONS 

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- December 15, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, today announces its acquisition of MediaXstream Inc., a leading provider of high quality transport and managed network services for the media production and broadcast industries. MediaXstream is currently operational in 20 major markets in the U.S. and Europe, serving the increasingly growing demand for High Definition video networking and production services by TV and film production, sports, news, mobile content and IPTV. By adding MediaXstream’s high quality transport services to Hibernia’s already robust financial and carrier-focused network, the combined reach, performance and product offering will add significant marketplace opportunities, technological innovation and customer value. Moving forward, MediaXstream will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic.

The newly combined network capabilities are ideal for global media and broadcast companies looking for high performance, security, and local and global connectivity.

“We are combining the strengths and network reach of both companies to respond to the significant growth of the enterprise and media markets,” states Ken Peterson, Chairman of Hibernia Atlantic and CEO of Columbia Ventures Corporation. “We are finding that more and more media companies are migrating to multi-service network infrastructures, and away from satellite, in order to satisfy their production and broadcast requirements. As demand accelerates, customers are making the shift from analog to digital and from standard definition to high definition.  Large enterprises are also adding multi-service network infrastructures capable of supporting high definition video as critical elements of their daily operations.  The combination of MediaXstream with Hibernia’s secure and diverse North American and European network positions the combined company for continued rapid growth.”

Hibernia Atlantic significantly expands the network reach of MediaXstream into more than 10 key European markets while MediaXstream expands Hibernia’s North American network to 17 additional key Points of Presence in 14 new cities in the South and West, including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, San Diego and Las Vegas.

Hibernia’s acquisition of MediaXstream offers customers continued diversity in a range of scalable services, including colocation, interconnection and support. In addition, the acquisition enables Hibernia to offer customers critical monitoring support from its Dublin Network Operations Center (NOC) and MediaXstream’s Television Operating Center (TOC) in Baltimore, MD. “We are excited to be a part of the Hibernia Atlantic family and will bring high quality transport and managed network services to Hibernia’s best-of-breed network services,” states Del Bothof, President of MediaXstream. “Additionally, MediaXstream will benefit greatly from the financial and wholesale strengths of Hibernia. We are excited to extend our customers’ access into Europe and beyond over Hibernia’s fast and secure network. This deal reflects our commitment to our customers to provide the highest quality network service.”

“Operating the largest, national, state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) network, MediaXstream specializes in transporting flawless digital and High Definition content in its native formats as demanded by TV and film production companies, mobile carriers and other customers who generate and manage media content.  MediaXstream bridges current industry operations with the demands of emerging new technologies, offering transport reliability that meets customers’ needs,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “With this acquisition, Hibernia is expanding our product portfolio to our worldwide customers and leveraging both companies’ network expertise to offer an innovative network choice to media and enterprise customers alike.”

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About Hibernia Atlantic:
Hibernia Atlantic is the only American-owned, diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider.  Hibernia is a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC).  It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 92 redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network.  Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.
 
To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=

About MediaXstream, Inc.

MediaXstream provides high quality transport and managed network services for the production and broadcast industries in 20 North American and European markets. Operating the largest national DTM network, we specialize in transporting flawless digital and High Definition content in its native formats as demanded by sports, TV and film production, news, mobile and IPTV. The company has received financial backing from Constellation Ventures and Columbia Ventures Corporation.

For more information on MediaXstream, please visit: http://mediaxstream.tv/

TELEHOUSE America has freed up space and power in both of its New York data center facilities.  Their Broadway Center,  located at 25 Broadway in Manhattan and 7 Teleport on Staten Island are now available for new technology tenants including Financial trading firms, enterprise businesses, carriers, ISPs and more.  This is an interesting announcement for TELEHOUSE as space and power, specifically at 25 Broadway, has been hard to come by.  With the new space and power, companies can gain access to TELEHOUSE’s low-latency connectivity between its facilities and to the major Wall Street firms due to its close proximity to the NYSE and other key financial trading facilities downtown.  In addition, carriers and ISPs gain access to Manhattan’s leading public peering exchange – the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX). 

For the complete press release, please continue to read below:

 TELEHOUSE America Announces Availability of Additional   Power and Colocation in Key New York Market

Staten Island and New York, NY, USA – December 22, 2009– TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges and managed IT services, announces it has reserved colocation space and power in its New York data center facilities, located at 25 Broadway, New York, NY and at 7 Teleport Staten Island, NY, for clients seeking access to multiple service providers offering low-latency connectivity solutions.  This space and power availability is essential, not only to clients that require low-latency colocation solutions, but to those seeking access to the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX).  This comes on the heels of TELEHOUSE America’s announcement that its New York Internet Exchange (NYIIX) recently became the most heavily trafficked public Internet exchange point in the city.

With this space and power available at its 25 Broadway and 7 Teleport facilities, TELEHOUSE America can accommodate a wide selection of verticals including financial service organizations, gaming companies, Voice over IP (VoIP) providers, Internet Service Providers and digital content providers.   Both carrier-neutral sites are rich with redundant and diverse interconnection options, as well as interconnectivity to other key New York Metro carrier hotels such as 60 Hudson Street and 111 Eighth Avenue. 

TELEHOUSE America’s New York facilities offer a wide variety of data center and connectivity options and solutions to global and regional organizations.  By offering direct access to the NYIIX public peering platform, Internet Service Providers gain a strategic public IP interconnection point, which boasts over 120 peers exchanging traffic at peak rates over 80 Gbps.  TELEHOUSE America’s additional services include its portfolio of Manage-E solutions that ensure 24/7 network support, from help desk to comprehensive IT Infrastructure Management.

In addition, TELEHOUSE’s New York data centers offer several interconnection options, including IP Transit, providing direct Internet connectivity as low as 1 mbps, in addition to Global Interlink, connecting customers across the Atlantic Ocean via VLAN Ethernet. The Global Interlink Ethernet solution is available between TELEHOUSE America’s data centers at 25 Broadway and 7 Teleport, Staten Island in New York and 626 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and Telehouse Europe’s data center facilities at Coriander Avenue in The Docklands, London (both North and East), 137 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris and 1, rue Pablo Picasso in Magny-les-Hameaux, France.  In addition, access to the Global Interlink US-Europe Ethernet network is also available from and between Equinix’s facilities in Chicago, IL and Ashburn, VA as well as Switch and Data facilities located in Palo Alto, CA and Dallas, TX.

“With the rapid growth of Internet-related applications and services, many different companies, not just traditional communication providers, require reliable colocation with critical access and network services that TELEHOUSE America now offers,” comments Akio Sugeno, Sr. Director Business Development, Internet Engineering & Operations for TELEHOUSE America. “The additional space and power within our New York facilities, along with robust peering via NYIIX, can meet the growing security and technology requirements for service providers and enterprise businesses essential for today’s global marketplace.”

For more information about TELEHOUSE America’s dedicated data center and colocation solutions and its total solutions for business continuity, disaster recovery, infrastructure management and global communications services, please visit www.telehouse.com or email sales@telehouse.com. 

About TELEHOUSE America

TELEHOUSE America is the US’s leading provider of dedicated data centers, colocation facilities, international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions.

A stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center services, they provide secure, power-protected environments, where clients house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at Telehouse’s colocation “meet-me-centers” in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other Telehouse customers. Among the many benefits of collocating with Telehouse is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Through Manage-E (http://www.Manage-E.com), TELEHOUSE provides a comprehensive suite of solutions – from help desk and hardware support to managed IT infrastructure, security and compliance services – all delivered by expert consulting and operations teams on a global scale and from one point-of-contact.  Additionally, the global availability of TELEHOUSE-branded data centers in 17 cities throughout North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, delivers continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent, IT infrastructure to businesses around the world. Please visit http://www.Telehouse.com, or contact us at Sales@telehouse.com.

Just as 2009 closed, 2010 begins with a bang!   It was only a few weeks ago that Global Telecom & Technology closed its acquisition of WBS Connect and now it jumps into 2010 with a new acquisition target – this time it’s certain assets of Global Capacity, a Chicago-based company.  This deal provides GTT with an additional revenue stream of up to $25 million annually as they buy over 100 customers for up to $8 million in cash. 

This is a great way for a company to immediately increase its revenue, profitably, while staying true to its strategy of rapidly scaling its business.  What’s interesting about this acquisition is that many of the customers to be acquired are already existing customers of GTT.  No doubt this familiarity will help retain customers through the transition. 

Of course the deal is predicated on proper customer and supplier consent as well as approval by the Federal Communications Commission as GTT is publicly traded – OTCBB: GTLT.  With this news, just five calendar days into the New Year, I anticipate 2010 will be a truly exciting year for the Telecommunications sector.

 Please continue reading for the full press release:

GLOBAL TELECOM & TECHNOLOGY TO ACQUIRE ASSETS FROM GLOBAL CAPACITY 

Company Further Advances Strategy to Scale Business   

McLean, VA, January 5, 2010 — Global Telecom & Technology, Inc. (“GTT”) (OTCBB: GTLT), a leading global network integrator that provides its clients with a broad portfolio of wide-area network, IP transit and mobility services, today announces it has signed an agreement to acquire certain customers and assets from Chicago-based Global Capacity.

Under the terms of the agreement, GTT will pay up to $8 million in cash for contracts with over 100 data transport customers generating up to $25 million in annualized revenue.  GTT expects the transaction to close in the first quarter of 2010, subject to customer and other supplier consents and approval by the Federal Communications Commission.

Structured as a simple transfer of customer contract agreements, this asset acquisition complements GTT’s existing business as many of the affected customers are also existing customers of GTT.  GTT expects to rapidly integrate these customers into its proprietary operational platform through its Circuit Management Database (CMD), resulting in virtually no service interruptions, minimal incremental support costs, and high quality service assurance for customers.

“Following on the heels of the acquisition of WBS Connect, the addition of Global Capacity’s customer base advances GTT’s strategy to rapidly scale our global telecom business.  With this transaction, we will further leverage our unique intellectual capital and enhance our established reputation for providing reliable telecom services to our global customer base,” said Rick Calder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Telecom & Technology.

“This is another significant step forward in building cash flow through prudent M&A activity,” said Eric Swank, Chief Financial Officer of GTT.  “This acquisition provides a great opportunity to leverage our CMD platform, by essentially porting the new circuits into our business, expanding our adjusted EBITDA in the process by layering on contract revenue from a very similar customer base.  Due to these synergies, we expect the transaction to be immediately accretive.”

This is the second acquisition in less than 60 days for GTT.  The company closed its acquisition of WBS Connect on December 16, 2009.  The WBS Connect acquisition provides GTT the opportunity to expand its portfolio of IP transit and Ethernet services, and adds over 60 points of presence in major metro markets throughout North America, Asia and Europe.

About Global Telecom & Technology

GTT is a global network integrator providing a broad portfolio of Wide-Area Network (WAN), IP transit and  mobility services. With over 800 supplier relationships worldwide, GTT combines multiple networks and technologies such as traditional OC-x, MPLS and Ethernet, to deliver cost-effective solutions specifically designed for each client’s unique requirements. GTT enhances its client performance through its proprietary Content Management Database (CMD), providing customers with an integrated support system for all of its services.  GTT is committed to providing comprehensive solutions, project management and 24×7 global operations support. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, GTT now has offices in Denver, London and Dusseldorf, and provides services to more than 700 enterprise, government, and carrier clients in over 80 countries worldwide. For more information visit the GTT website at www.gt-t.net.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This release may contain “forward-looking statements” or other information related to the company’s future growth, expenditures, personnel, product and service enhancements and deployments, strategy or other materials GTT releases to the public or files with the United States Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”). You should consult any further disclosures on related subjects in our annual reports on Form 10-K, our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC. Such forward-looking statements are and will be subject to many risks, uncertainties and factors relating to our operations and the business environment that may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results. Additional information concerning these and other important factors can be found under the heading “Risk Factors” in GTT’s annual reports on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Statements in this release should be evaluated in light of these important factors.

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GigaBeam offers fixed wireless communications equipment as well as design and implementation services of fixed wireless networks.  Through its flagship product, the GI-CORE, the company can provide Gigabit Ethernet (1.25 gbps duplex) payloads.  The company also offers a range of options from 10 mbps to 1,000 mbps, in spectra from 2 to 90 GHz including licensed and unlicensed, point-to-point and point-to-multi-point configurations, mesh and WI-Max. 

Allied Fiber on the other hand provides dark fiber through its ‘All-Access Network.’  The first phase of the network provides the shortest path between New York and Chicago as well as Ashburn, VA.   Currently under construction, the first phase is expected to be completed in the late summer of 2010. 

The complementing networks illustrate the ease of interconnetivity between Allied’s Dark Fiber Network and GigaBeam’s Broadband Wireless Network from a number of tower’s along the route.  This interconnectivity solution illustrates the ease of use between dark fiber networks and broadband wireless networks, solving backhaul connectivity issues along its path.  Below is an illustration of the interconnetivity between Gigabeam’s network – highlighting its key products Gi-CORE, Gi-MAX, Gi-LINX and Gi-FLEX.

By utilizing the appropriate wireless technology proper design practices, a hybrid network comprised of GigaBeam Broadband Wireless Solutions and Allied’s Dark Fiber Network will create a viable backhaul and middle mile infrastructure which will extend the reach of broadband whether in an urban/suburban setting or in a rural environment.

For more information about Allied Fiber and its ‘All-Access’ Dark Fiber Network – visit www.alliedfiber.com

Renesys^®, a leading provider of objective, critical intelligence on the worldwide state of the Internet continues to rank the global IP backbones by the number of customers on its network.  The 2009 findings illustrate Tinet’s position among the top 10 global providers – ahead of such key players including China Telecom, Qwest and Cogent.

Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP/MPLS wholesale market.
With network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC, Tinet provides global IP Transit and Ethernet connectivity to Carriers, Service and Content Providers worldwide, within 7 working days.

Tinet continues to find market traction leveraging its unique business model, based on focus and simplicity to assure the delivery of the highest standard of service. Now well positioned in the top 10 global IP backbones, Tinet’s focus on global wholesale IP and Ethernet solutions is clearly paying off. 

In Earl Zmijewski’s blog, posted on December 31, 2009, this Renesys Analyst writes about the Top Global IP Backbone’s in 2009 aptly titled ‘A Baker’s Dozen in 2009.’  The rankings here position Tinet as the 10th largest global backbone.  This graph clearly illustrates Tinet’s growing success and how it leads the pack rearing ahead as a market leader:

For more information about Tinet, visit www.tinet.net

There are many factors contributing to the increase in inter-company telepresence, such as the current economic state, geopolitics and public health, to name a few. As companies look to reduce travel costs while increasing their global footprint, understanding and implementing an inter-company telepresence is a growing necessity.

The Human Productivity Lab, together with Brockmann & Company, has recently compiled The Inter-Company Telepresence & Video Conferencing Handbook. This handbook is a guide for creating an inter-company telepresence and/or videoconferencing program with partners, vendors, or customers. The handbook discusses the drivers of telepresence, the fundamentals of inter-company telepresence, and the best practices in inter-company telepresence operations.  From operational issues to cultural concerns, the handbook addresses all aspects of inter-company telepresence.

To coincide with the release of this handbook, the Human Productivity Lab will be hosting Developing an Inter-Company Telepresence and Visual Collaboration Program Conference & Working Group on April 22, 2010 in Reston, Virginia. A great supplement to the handbook, the conference will pick up where the handbook left off, providing attendees with more detailed information on how their organization can create an inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing program to cut costs, improve individual and organizational productivity, and accelerate time-to-market advantage.

For more information on the conference, please click here.

For the complete handbook, please click here.                                                     

Jaymie Scotto & Associates invites our fellow telecom community to join together and contribute to the relief efforts for the Haitian earthquake victims and families. On January 12, a massive earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince. Officials fear that there are over 100,00 dead and many more are injured and homeless. With so many people in need of help, we believe that as a united community, our industry can make a difference.

The American Red Cross is asking for financial contributions to get the necessary resources to the devastated areas. To help those efforts, JS&A has created The Telecom Haiti Relief Fund to collect donations directly for the American Red Cross. Your gift will help the American Red Cross deliver supplies and water, as well as rescue and recovery efforts.

With your donation of $10 or more, we will add your company logo to our participating company roster on our webpages, emails, blogs and and upcoming press release.

Participating companies and individuals currently include:

Hibernia Atlantic

Together we can make a difference.

To make a donation, please click here.

Once the form has been completed, please email your transaction summary to pr@jaymiescotto.com. We will immediately include you as a participating company.

We look forward to illustrating that when we act as one, united industry, we can truly make a difference.

For more information please contact:pr@jaymiescotto.com

Original Blog post by Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates.  The blog was posted on January 11, 2010 on Up to the Minute Tech, Vanessa’s blog:

What should you consider when choosing a quality Internet Provider?   High speed is key, but Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks suggests a few more important factors to consider – the provider’s access to content and the quickest route.  How close is your internet provider to the content you want to download?   Kirkwood in a recent article examines the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 Internet backbone providers to explain how an IP provider’s proximity to content and applications makes a huge difference in the overall user experience.

Essentially the more ‘hops’ there are between two points along a network, the higher the latency which affects overall performance. In his article Kirkwood reviews the factors that come into play for providers when routing Internet traffic. There are distinct differences in routing choices and flexibility for a Tier 1 provider versus a Tier 2 provider.

The provider that makes routing choices based on a variety of factors such as performance, flexibility, quality, and redundancy helps to ensure that IP traffic will be routed across the path with the fewest hops (most direct and closest path), which in turn makes for a better user experience.

So how do you know how a Tier 1 provider makes routing choices? Or which Tier 2 network providers route only on price versus quality? You must consider a variety of factors when choosing a provider including quantity and quality of the provider’s global peering relationships; the provider’s ability to provide quality end-to-end solutions; the companies the provider partners with; and you can’t forget the quality of its technical and customer service.

“Mzima Networks,” as stated by Kirkwood, “has focused its business model on creating more efficient peering connections among other Tier 2 providers in order to deliver content and streaming media more efficiently for and between its customers. The company’s goal is to connect to as many networks as it can, in as many locations as possible, in order to bypass the Tier 1 ‘inner circle’ as often as possible. This doesn’t mean that Tier 1 providers are not necessary, because indeed they are – but more often than not, Tier 1s are not the shortest or more efficient route to a destination from a cost and quality stand-point.”

To read the article in its entirety please go to: http://www.techistan.net/2010/01/05/mzimanetworkstier1or2/

Originally posted by Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates on her blog ‘Up to the Minute Tech’

Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic

Recently Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic was interviewed by John Savageau offering his insights on global communications. By sharing his thoughts on where Hibernia Atlantic has been and where it is going you can get a glimpse at what drives this telecom visionary, as well as where technology is headed. With rapid company growth exceeding 80% in some recent years, Hibernia Atlantic is led by one of the industry greats.

By focusing on the big bandwidth sector, Hibernia Atlantic is poised for continued profitability and growth in years to come. As a capacity provider laser focused on the long-haul wholesale capacity market, a service provider offering ultra-low latency circuits to the financial sector, and now addressing the media sector with its recent acquisition of MediaXstream – Hibernia Atlantic is able to address the key communication areas needed in the globalization of business.

To read the interview in its entirety please go to: http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/1234792

For more ‘Up to the Minute Tech’ news go here: http://vanessaeixman.wordpress.com/

An interesting and educational read if you missed the original post on TMCNet.  I have included part of it here with a link back to the complete post.  This was written by Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber and was originally published on January 10, 2010:

AT&T declared the PSTN and POTS a relic of the past in this announcement and asked the FCC for a timeline to shut-down.

This is ironic for several reasons

1. In the 2003 Triennial Review the FCC gave the RBOC’s Broadband Relief in return for allowing the CLEC’s to still have access to UNE.

2. As FCC Chairman Martin stated

“This relief will enable AT&T to have the flexibility to further deploy its broadband services and fiber facilities without overly burdensome regulations,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement. “The relief afforded to AT&T is consistent with and similar to the relief provided in Commission decisions regarding broadband services, packet switching and fiber facilities.”

3. This allowed AT&T and the other ROBC’s to invest in fiber and not have to share it with thier competitors. They have all invested in fiber, fiber-to-the-home specifically, in the names of U-verse and FiOS.

4. A few months later the RBOC’s took away UNE anyway

Go here to read the rest of the post: http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-peering/2010/01/att-declares-pstn-a-relic—it-already-was.html

TelServ NJ, an independent telecommunications consulting firm announced it has procured high quality voice and data network services for Kay Burger Management, a franchisee of Burger King.  Kay Burger owns and operates 13 Burger King Restaurants and three Dunkin Donuts shops across New Jersey and the New York Metro Area.  The company wanted a cost effective, streamlined communications solution to include daily credit card transactions across its 16 locations.  TelServ delivered! 

For the complete announcement continue to read here:

KAY BURGER MANAGEMENT SELECTS TELSERV TO PROCURE HIGH QUALITY VOICE AND DATA NETWORK SERVICES

 MONTVALE, NJ – January 11, 2009 – TelServ NJ, LLC, an independent, telecommunications consulting firm offering tailor-made solutions for business communication needs, and Kay Burger Management, LLC,a franchisee of Burger King Corporation, announce today that Kay Burger Management selects TelServ to manage its voice and data connectivity throughout the tri-state area. 

Headquartered in North Bergen, New Jersey, Kay Burger Management, LLC, owns and operates thirteen Burger King Restaurants and three Dunkin Donuts shops across the New Jersey and New York metro area.  Leveraging TelServ’s industry expertise in working with a wide variety of carriers and telecom providers, Kay Burger Management   selects TelServ to deploy and support a cost effective, streamlined communications solution.   This solution includes a Tier 1 DSL connectivity to handle the company’s daily credit card transactions as well as a comprehensive voice communications plan across all of its sixteen store locations. 

“As we are committed to serving our customers the highest quality food and beverages at affordable prices, it is important that we maintain cost-effective back-office operations,” states Robert Johnsen, Senior Partner for Kay Burger.  “We need a telecom package that delivers high performance services in an economical way.”

TelServ has a solid reputation for offering firms competitive and cost effective pricing by leveraging volume discounts across its carrier relationships.  As a one-stop resource for business communications, TelServ provides a comprehensive offering including local, long distance, data and Internet services at wholesale prices.

“TelServ is our go-to resource for reliable connectivity solutions, which is an essential component for each of our 16 stores, providing us with critical bandwidth to securely process daily credit card transactions,” continues Mr. Johnsen. “TelServ’s responsiveness and ease of doing business has further simplified our overall management of our communications infrastructure.”

“Our ability to source a wide variety of voice and data services across multiple carriers simplifies the entire procurement process for our clients,” states Michael Gallucci, CEO and Founder of TelServ.  “We are pleased to deliver secure connectivity to further drive Kay Burger’s retail business on a daily basis.”

From competitive pricing to assistance with implementation processes and facilitating diversity and redundancy plans, TelServ simplifies the procurement process to meet critical client deadlines and to stay within communication budgets.

For more information about TelServ, please email info@telservgroup.com, call 201-391-4800 or visit www.telservgroup.com.

Here’s the JS&A ‘Top 10 in 2010′ List of Hot Marketing Tips.  Take a look and let us know your thoughts, predictions and trends for marketing this year as well.

10.  Content is King: We are no longer in Kansas Toto.  You can’t just write around the topic anymore.  Say it precisely, say it again and get out.  Make sure it’s relevant or folks won’t read.  There’s a very low tolerance these days for anything but real.  BTW: this will drive your site retention, SEO, media pickup etc.  So really, keep it real.

9.  Marketing Means Experience: Think Apple, Amazon and Starbucks.  All these brands understand that users/viewers want an experience, not just a product.  Understand your buyers, including their emotional drivers, and make sure your product or service offers it.  In a trying economy, the experience you provide can be that key differentiator for why you succeed.

8. Customer Service: This point goes hand-in-hand with “experience.”  If you don’t do it well, don’t do it at all.  If that means only having 3 products vs. 5, then only have 3.  And customer service should be a top consideration of every member of your company, including your receptionists, technicians and A/P representatives.

7. Tell A Story: No one wants to hear a company ringing its own bell anymore.  Give us customer testimonials and case studies, preferably in video.  Give us the reasons why.  The days of just stating “we are the best” are over, thank goodness.

6. The Community Wins: With blog comments, facebook posts, and YouTube dumps, to name just a few, there are more ways than ever to hear from the buyer/community-at-large.   2010 will be the year companies have to listen and should respond… or risk having no control over messaging hitting the marketplace.

5. Not So Personal Anymore: As we are all jumping online for our latest tweets or LinkedIn posts, be careful of your “personal” posts– as personal is not so personal anymore, especially when your CEO and mother-in-law are your latest “followers” and “friends”.

4. The More Minds the Better: Sharing is a key word this decade.  Online Apps, such as Google Apps, YouSendIt, Skype and Webex, are helping companies, large and small, embrace collaboration.  Even QuickBooks is providing secure access for financial employees and external accounting services.  

3. Cell Phone Heaven: Yes, everyone has an iPhone or Android and smartphone apps are all the rage.  But with services like Foursquare hot on the market, it won’t be long before every restaurant you hit or store you step into has a rating and review site and coupons and discounts are being pushed to you.  GPS has never looked creepier.  From a marketing standpoint, yay.

2. Personal Touch: Having said all this, the personal touch still goes a long way.  A hand-written thank you note, a meeting in-person,  a handshake still speaks volumes, perhaps even moreso, in this high-tech crazy world.

1. Listen and Listen More: The last tip is an “oldie but goodie”.  My father used to tell me that the smartest person in the room is usually the quietest.  He might have been trying to keep me quiet for more than 2 seconds, but it always stuck with me.  Most interviews, prospect meetings and even blogs are better when you first listen to others, then speak/write.  It leads to a more productive, targeted conversation.  Ideally it answers a few questions that were on the table.

So without further adieu, please leave your top tip or trend.  Looking forward to reading your posts.

Jaymie Scotto Cutaia