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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 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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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.

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=

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 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.

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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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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.

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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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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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Once again we enter the New York City holiday season.  Windows of the department stores are decorated; city dwellers and tourists alike line the streets to take a peak.  This is also the time of year when construction on the city streets comes to a screeching halt.   Every year, New York City restricts street and sidewalk construction from November 20^th through January 2, 2010 from 6am until midnight.  This means that any company whether it’s an electrical company or telecommunications provider can only complete its work after midnight until 5:59am in the morning.  This usually causes massive delays on projects – and with the holidays quickly drawing near – could cause anxiety for those requiring communications.  

Lexent Metro Connect, a dark fiber provider in the New York metro market, continues its promise to commit to its usual 30-day installation intervals – even though it is restricted to work during the wee hours of the night.  The company’s announcement below confirms its dedication to continuing construction on the city’s most modern communications assets.

LEXENT METRO CONNECT PROVIDES FAST AND RELIABLE DARK FIBER SERVICES, EVEN THROUGH NEW YORK CITY’S ANNUAL CONSTRUCTION EMBARGO

New York, New York – November, 10 2009 – Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, today announces its continuing commitment to 30-day timelines for dark fiber installations in Manhattan, even during New York City’s annual holiday construction embargo. To improve traffic flow in the city during the busy holiday season, the New York City Department of Transportation restricts street and sidewalk construction from November 20^th through January 2, 2010, from 6 a.m. to midnight.  As a result, Lexent Metro Connect’s trained professionals will often work in the early morning hours to ensure timely dark fiber installations to and from enterprise buildings, financial exchanges and/or data center facilities, while being mindful of the embargo.

Every year, the construction embargo makes it difficult, if not impossible, for other fiber-optic installation firms to begin and complete new installation projects on timely schedules. However, Lexent leverages its own dark fiber network and its force of over 300 service professionals to continue its timely construction throughout the holiday embargo. Lexent also leverages its relationship with its sister company, Hugh O’Kane Electric, a 63-year old construction management veteran. Whereas competitors who rely on third-party contractors will typically require months to build a dark fiber network, Lexent’s workforce needs only thirty days or less, a boon to financial, enterprise and service provider customers whose network installs begin during the winter.

“Lexent Metro Connect owns and maintains its own dark fiber network, a distinct benefit to enterprise customers and telecom operators seeking the lowest latency, scalable and affordable network options and last-mile connectivity,” states Ray La Chance, President of Lexent Metro Connect. “Lexent’s dark fiber delivers virtually unlimited bandwidth in thirty days or less, regardless of the restrictions that commonly hamstring other players in the field.”

The construction embargo does not apply to the state of New Jersey. Lexent’s network expansion into key New Jersey data centers and financial exchanges is continuing on schedule.  The next phase, including further network builds into Secaucus, Newark, Weehawken and North Bergen, will be complete by the first quarter of 2010.  Lexent is strongly committed to continuing the deployment of fiber networks in and around New York’s metropolitan area, despite any obstacles, so as to continue to grow and expand with its customers’ network needs.  For more expansion updates, please visit www.lexent.net/news.php.

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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.

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About Hugh O’Kane Electric:

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. HOK is licensed to provide Electrical services throughout New York and New Jersey.  The company has installed power, lighting, fire alarm, security, data systems, specialty infrastructure systems, and specialty network systems for a wide range of industries and institutions.  The HOK Telecommunications division provides leading-edge design, construction, installation and maintenance of state-of-the-art telecom networks for wire line, fiber optic, and wireless networks. With its staff of electricians and technicians available for immediate response, HOK specializes in high-quality, fast track jobs.  The company’s reputation is built upon attention to detail while meeting clients’ timeframes and budgets.  For more information, please visit www.hokane.com.

Original Post by: Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates:

If you are a B2B service provider it is definitely worth a look at the newly formed Tinet, once the international arm of the Tiscali Group. With their aggressive focus on end-to-end connectivity – specifically last-mile Ethernet extension, once a challenge for the B2B sector to not only procure but also deploy and manage, Tinet is making a big splash across the global marketplace. With heavy investment in high capacity IP and Ethernet connectivity Tinet’s service offering is meeting the demands of the B2B sector by providing high availability connections from customer premise to a variety of destinations – whether that be carrier hotels, specific telecom providers or even to other office locations – all of this is available in over 100 points of presence across the globe. Tinet’s entire go-to-market strategy is aimed at providing high-end connectivity directly to regional service providers and system integrators who target the B2B marketplace in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Businesses today demand flexible and reliable connectivity and that is often hard to not only procure and deploy, but also to scale and manage end-to end at a global level. Companies like Tinet are making all of that easier with their global offering of Wholesale IP and global Ethernet delivery services. Service providers are especially interested in Tinet’s Ethernet extension offering as it provides the critical last mile connection essential to companies who require any-to-any connectivity and seamless reconfiguration and growth options. All of this is topped off by the ever-so-crucial service level agreement, also managed end-to-end by Tinet. B2B service providers can’t miss by utilizing Tinet’s customized international portfolio – it’s flexible, simple and reliable.

For the complete article, please continue to read below: http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/2278239/Sectors/25205/Simplicity-flexibility-and-reliability-for-global-IP-connectivity.html

Simplicity, flexibility and reliability for global IP connectivity

20 August 2009 (Global Telecom Business)

Tinet, formerly the international IP wholesale carrier arm of Tiscali Group, continues to grow and now, with the backing of its new financial investor, its international growth ambitions know no bounds. In particular, Tinet’s end-to-end, last-mile Ethernet extension service is attracting high levels of interest among local B2B service providers.

With the explosion in the requirement for network-centric applications, the corporate market requires greater broadband performance and reliability than ever before. This includes the ability to connect globally, with quality service levels that support consistent high-speed network connectivity.

That’s why Tinet, the former carrier arm of Tiscali Group, continues to invest heavily in taking reliable, highly-available IP and Ethernet high-capacity services right into business customers’ premises, via partnerships with local metro Ethernet service providers and systems integrators, globally.

There are three basic needs in the wholesale IP market today. These are support for high and rapidly growing volumes of traffic (scalability); high availability (reliability); and global reach (location, location, location).

Today, the global reach of network services is particularly important. Over the last few years, the market has seen significant changes on an international scale. Whereas initially the internet was largely driven by user traffic demands in the US and then western Europe, its influence now touches most corners of the globe, from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to the Asia Pacific region, and from Africa to Latin America, and beyond.

China outpaces the US

There are now more broadband users in China than in the US. And, while five years ago Turkey had just 5,000 broadband users, it has 6 million today. Morocco, too, has grown from a few thousand users to over 2 million, while countries like Brazil and Malaysia are also gradually catching up.

The commitment of national governments to local broadband connectivity is clearly playing a part. It is not only the numbers of users that have grown which is significant, but the intensity of broadband use, too — as increasing percentages of applications are delivered as centralised, online services.

As the world continues to become smaller, and businesses strive to maximise their penetration of international markets, consistent global connectivity becomes a vital facet to their success — particularly as many organisations seek to consolidate and standardise their IT services and data centres, for reasons of cost-efficiency, scalability, flexibility and resiliency.

Single-minded

Since 2002, Tinet, as the independent company is now known, has focused exclusively on wholesale IP and global ethernet delivery services, as a pure-play IP/MPLS wholesale carrier. Having put all its eggs in one basket, the company’s vision and motivation has always been to differentiate its services based on the highest possible service levels, international reach, and competitive price points.

Deliberately, the company offers only four products to the wholesale marketplace: IP transit; last-mile ethernet extension; remote peering services; and ethernet private lines. This means all of Tinet’s focus and investment is in ensuring that these offerings are the best that they can be.

Having avoided introducing a retail arm to its business, Tinet’s entire go-to-market strategy relies upon close partnerships with local and regional service providers and systems integrators serving the business sector.

When, in May this year, Tinet’s sale to BS Private Equity was finalised, this marked a very positive move for the company. Now its majority shareholder, the oldest private equity firm in Italy is fully committed to the company’s success, and will provide sufficient financial investment to enable Tinet to continue to grow its global presence and provide quality services to international customers.

Fast, profitable growth

From a standing start in 2002, Tinet is already one of the top 10 global IP backbone providers by size, with over 500 wholesale customers today. According to market analysts such as Renesys, Tinet is growing faster than the majority of its competitors and – significantly – its revenue is growing profitably, thanks to its unequivocal market focus.

Today, Tinet has network presence in three continents — Europe, North America and Asia — from which it serves customers across five continents, including Africa and Latin America.

By March 2010, Tinet will have a third network operations centre, in New Jersey, complementing the existing NOCs in Italy and Germany. The American facility will service North and Latin America, taking network management and customer acquisition operations closer to its local customers, while enabling European workloads to be distributed across staggered time zones.

Closing the loop: last-mile ethernet

Tinet has also been investing heavily in its ethernet extension last-mile high-capacity service. Tinet’s ethernet extension is a Layer 2 ethernet transport service between a point of presence and its customers’ premises.

This wholesale service is designed to supply end-to-end ethernet connectivity into international destinations, such as regional service providers that require global networking solutions and provide delivery of international VPN services to their corporate end-users.

This service is achieved by leveraging Tinet’s vast network footprint and through a number of ethernet network to network interconnection agreements that Tinet continues to develop with various access providers worldwide.

Tinet’s ethernet extension service is ideal for regional service providers competing for global VPN business, which face the challenge of procuring international connectivity fast enough, and cost-effectively. Crucially for the end customer, Tinet then takes end-to-end responsibility for the service, with a back-to-back service-level agreement.

Ethernet extension takes off

Tinet spent the whole of 2008 putting in place this service offering and has so far secured more than a dozen interconnect agreements internationally, to buy and sell last-mile ethernet connectivity. The company has already signed up customers in the US and Europe, and is terminating services for others in the Asia Pacific region.

Although the service is still in the early stages, Tinet has seen a significant growth and interest this year. This is because the ethernet solution, which also supports virtual private LAN service, offers customers the combined advantages of dedicated-capacity leased lines and the any-to-any connectivity of IP VPN solutions, with the additional benefit to reconfigure and scale up point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connections quickly and dynamically in a more cost-effective way than traditional technologies.

While international services will always rely on local third parties to provide the last-mile connectivity, Tinet’s end-to-end service level guarantee, and single interface, adds significant value, ensuring the performance and continuity of critical business applications including VoIP, data synchronisation for disaster recovery, and real-time financial transactions.

International IP transit: the foundation of any global business

IP transit is now a basic building block in any internet-based service solution, yet the weight on its shoulders is substantial. The internet has become an unprecedented platform for applications and services, particularly as more and more solutions are moved out into the cloud, or where IT systems are being managed centrally or virtually.

The result is that more or less everything vital to a company is now being run over IP, demanding consistent speed, quality, availability, latency and overall stability.

Tinet’s service in this context, while highly sophisticated in what it is able to deliver, is very simple. Delivering high performance international connectivity is an extremely challenging task in its own right, which is why Tinet has always pursued extreme specialisation on IP and ethernet connectivity as a way to reduce complexity and deliver consistent performance.

Simplicity, flexibility

It is Tinet’s simplicity and focus which defines the company. This goes right down through the layers of its organisation.

“Our network is based 100% on best-of-breed Juniper devices, for example,” notes Maurizio Binello, Tinet’s chief technology officer. “This means every node is identical from a service and support perspective — from Miami and Montreal to Singapore, Bucharest and London. This ensures that our infrastructure is straightforward to manage and maintain, and therefore that our service is both very high quality but also very cost-effective to run.

“What’s more, our simplicity and relatively small size as an international carrier means we are thoroughly customer-centric, and can shortcut standard processes if we need to, to ensure our customers get what they need,” he adds. By contrast, much larger carriers with thousands of staff and multiple operations tend to be more process-orientated, which can cause frustration for customers when flexibility is required.

The global imperative

While global economic headaches continue to cause pain to the international business community, demand for efficient, reliable, high-capacity IP and ethernet services can only grow, as organisations reassess the way they operate and look for additional flexibility and cost-efficiency in their approach to IT and applications management and enhanced remote collaboration.

Being globally dynamic is also vital to business competitiveness, now that the world at large has become the playing field.

To address this effectively, organisations need access to carriers and service providers with a robust international capability, who can deliver quality and performance on a truly global level.

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In this podcast New Paradigm Research Group (NPRG) analyst Stephen Hernan talks with Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks, and Terry Koosed, President of Bel Air Internet. Be sure to join us as we discuss how these two carriers have collaborated to deploy an all-wireless voice, data, and video bundle to both the residential and business customer segments – and how this might represent the next big threat to the incumbent carriers and cable MSOs.

On June 25, 2009 Rich Tehrani, President of TMC interviewed Joe Hilt, VP Sales & Marketing for Hibernia Atlantic in the TMCNet newsroom at the Telx CBX.

Joe Hilt introduces Hibernia Atlantic – a diverse transatlantic cable system providing complete diverse backhaul system on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.  The cable provides true diversity from other sub-sea cable systems.

 In 2009 – the company made two-key announcements:

First – a  new transatlantic and terrestrial system to Northern Ireland dubbed ‘Project Kelvin’.  Its goal is to enhance connectivity to this underdeveloped area.

Second – the Global Financial Network  (GFN) – basically a financial Extranet.  A network specifically designed to meet the needs of the Global Financial Community.  As of June 2009, the company had 31 exchange points and offers 5-day turn-up from any point on its network.   

According to Joe Hilt, the company will be looking to add new Points of Presence (POPs) within it’s network space (Chicago to Frankfurt) to delivery end-to-end services.

To view the complete video interview, which takes only a few minutes – please visit: http://www.tmcnet.com/tmc/videos/default.aspx?vid=1231

For more information about Hibernia Atlantic and the company’s Global Financial Network services – please visit:  www.hiberniagfn.com or www.hiberniaatlantic.com

 Arbinet isn’t just a global wholesale voice provider, the company offers leading IP solutions to the marketplace, providing efficiencies for companies that need bandwidth.  The solution provides the most flexible, non-committed service offering in the marketplace – while gaining access to multiple leading Tier 1 and Tier 2 backbones – simultaneously.

Basically, customers connect to the Arbinet platform with one connection (read:  one cross-connect fee).  This connection brings them into the Arbinet platform, patented technology that optimizes and improves IP transit delivery over the Internet.   Customers can choose to no committment (just billed on burst traffic) or minimal committments as low as 1Mbps and as high as 1Gbps.  Customers choose from 3 different products – depending on their requirements:

• OptimizedIP - Arbinet automatically routes traffic over the best route to the best provider on the platform.  This service measures quality on packet loss, jitter and round-trip delay (latency)  out-performing traditional BGP routing solutions.
• PrimeIP – which provides a one-stop-shop connection to multiple suppliers, allowing buyers flexibility to change among providers to guarantee the best quality for their IP transit solutions.
• SelectIP – comparable to a traditional paid-peering solution for IP Transit buyers.  Again, one connection – one bill – and flexible committments.

The Arbinet IP Solution (no additional AS hop)

The press release issued on October 29th touts the enhancements to the company’s OptimizedIP solution.      OtpmizedIP V2 uses a sophisticated algorithm to test packets across providers’ networks every 15 minutes.  In addition, the service is also available as turnkey software solution that can be deployed in any IP network that requires enhanced performance (without having to interconnect to the Arbient IP Solutions platform).

Arbinet IP Solutions Enhances its OptimizedIP^sm Service

OptimizedIP V2 Provides Efficient Optimized Routing Solutions for Internet Traffic

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, USA, LONDON and HONG KONG –  October 29, 2009– Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX], a leading global provider of innovative voice and IP solutions for buying and selling telecommunications capacity, today announces the release of OptimizedIP^sm V2, an intelligent Layer 2 IP route optimization service that provides enhanced Internet multi-homing.  Through its patented software technology, OptimizedIP V2 offers buyers connectivity to multiple Tier-1 Internet service providers (ISP) via a single connection.  The service provides buyers with a single routing table of aggregated Internet backbones.  Without adding any additional network hops, the solution optimizes network performance by selecting the best route from among multiple providers, solving performance issues associated with traditional BGP and best effort public Internet routing. The service optimizes Internet data delivery to meet the high quality standards required by performance critical applications such as VoIP, gaming and live video.

Increased demand for high quality Internet access continues to grow as more critical applications rely on Internet Protocol (IP) technology.  Traditional BGP provides routing based on the shortest AS path and ignores congestion and key quality metrics such as latency, packet loss and jitter. OptimizedIP V2 addresses these issues by utilizing sophisticated algorithmic configurations to route traffic over the Internet.  The service works by determining test IP addresses for networks from the global BGP routing tables and uses Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) to ping packets to these test addresses.  The results are then analyzed by the OptimizedIP system as often as every 15 minutes.  Routing is prioritized based on lowest packet loss, round trip delay and jitter.  This process occurs for each individual query ensuring that no matter where the packets need to go, they will get to the destination on the optimal and most efficient path.  With only one connection, one routing table and no additional ASN hops, OptimizedIP provides streamlined and optimized Internet service with simultaneous access to multiple suppliers.

 “Although IP transit is largely commoditized, our service and test results prove that not all networks are designed equally, and not all networks provide optimal paths for reliably delivering sensitive data,” commented Sue Su, Vice President of Arbinet Data Services. “Even the best ISP cannot control the entire path to the end host because it depends on its peering and customer networks.  OptimizedIP adds value to our customers’ IP service offerings and helps them to differentiate their services, improve network redundancy, performance and profitability.”

OptimizedIP V2 is also available as a turnkey software solution which can be deployed in any IP network that requires enhanced routing performance. It saves the hassles and cost of in-house manual routing manipulation and engineered optimization.  ISPs and providers of mission critical applications anywhere in the world can take advantage of Arbinet’s intelligent technology to optimize routing among their existing ISP suppliers and offer premium Internet services to their end customers.  The service offers enhanced intelligent tools developed for in-depth network routing analysis and testing.

OptimizedIP is one of three IP solution products offered by Arbinet. Other products include PrimeIP^sm, which provides one-stop IP transit supplier management and SelectIP^sm, an efficient peering solution that offers flexible access to on-net routes of multiple networks via one connection.  All Arbinet’s IP Solutions feature a single interconnect, contract, invoice and support interface, and provides access to multiple suppliers and direct peers without incurring an additional ASN hop.  Arbinet’s IP Solutions are available in Europe, North America and Asia.  The company is offering all new customers who sign up before December 31, 2009 a free trial for a limited time.  For more information please email datasales@arbinet.com or visit www.arbinet.com.

In September 2009, TeleGeography, a trusted source for information and research about the global telecommunications industry, released findings from its Global Internet Geography report published August 2009.   According to the report, though the world has been in a recession since 2008, the international Internet market has not experienced the same effects.

According to TeleGeography, Internet traffic grew 74 percent in 2009, up from 55 percent in 2008.  On the other hand, companies were conservative on network upgrades which caused overcrowded networks and less reliability for some parts of the world.  Compared to the growth of Internet traffic, International Internet bandwidth grew only 64 percent, a slight increase in network utilization – clearly impacting Internet quality.

 It’s hard to put these numbers in context, so let’s take a look at Tinet, formerly the International arm of Tiscali Group.  Tinet is a specialist wholesale provider of global IP Transit and Ethernet Transport solutions.  It happens to be the only pure-play specialist in this market, which makes them a good candidate to review.

According to Tinet, the company has seen steady growth in 2009.  In May, the company was acquired by B.S. Private Equity, one of Italy’s largest private equity firms that is committed to growing the company.  As a testament to the research TeleGeography published, Tinet has experienced growth on its network in the past year.  Just recently, in August 2009, the company announced an expansion of its operations in North America.  The company states that in the previous quarter, the company added 25 long haul backbone circuits across the U.S. and opened three additional network Points of Presence (PoPs) in Newark, New Jersey; Dallas, Texas and Denver, Colorado.

Due to the company’s growth, especially in serving its customers in North America, Tinet announced that it has begun to implement a third Network Operations Center (NOC) in New Jersey, which is scheduled to be completed in 2010.

A staggering figure published by TeleGeography is that global carriers added 9.4 Tbps of new international capacity in 2009 – more than the total capacity of all international Internet links in existence in 2007.

Tinet continues to focus on expanding its network, offering only global IP Transit and Ethernet Transport solutions.  The company provides migration plans and assists its customers and prospects in migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 technology.  They are flexible, customer service oriented and willing to expand, even in tough times, to meet the market demand and assure quality on its backbone network.  That’s a clear message indeed.

For more information about TeleGeography and its report please go to: http://www.telegeography.com/products/gig/index.php

For more information about Tinet’s global IP and Ethernet backbone, its services in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, please visit www.tinet.net.