Many challenges face the demanding financial community – fragmentation, Exchange consolidation, high cost of multiple deployments to trading venues – all of these dynamics prove difficult to manage in a rapidly changing environment. When you can’t afford to loose valuable time and money Switch and Data’s GeoReach program coupled with Hibernia’s Global Financial Network (GFN) are something to consider. Recently Hibernia Atlantic expanded its Global Financial Network (GFN) into Switch & Data’s financial EcoCenter in North Bergen, NJ, which is one of the hubs for its GeoReach program, allowing financial firms to consolidate from a central location, more effectively use their resources, as well as offer them the speed to reach regional liquidity providers.

Hibernia’s GFN is a natural fit for the GeoReach program as it was specifically engineered to meet the demanding needs of the high-frequency trading community marked by high performance, low latency, and industry leading rapid deployments – just 5 days from signature to service. The GFN provides secure and redundant dedicated fiber connectivity to not only EcoCenter/GeoReach sites but also to key exchanges, broker dealers, hedge funds, market data providers and global banks – all across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. One single point of connectivity to the GFN can unite multiple facilities in strategic locations all across the global financial community.

Streamline your trading strategy and regain control – check out Hibernia’s GFN.

To read the press release in its entirety, click here.

Without a doubt has dark fiber has many uses in the telecommunications arena, and there are numerous providers out there. Traditionally, owning a dark fiber network could be cost prohibitive and marked by long deployment timeframes. Lexent Metro Connect has cornered the dark fiber market though in the New York / New Jersey metro regions, making it both a realistic and cost-effective option. As the only provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its entire network with in-house engineering and construction teams, Lexent has a distinct advantage over other providers. The ability to ‘own’ every facet of the process allows Lexent to not only lower TCO, but also deliver phenomenal service and reliability to its clients AND do this all within reasonable install timeframes. With their strong relationships with key metro entities and a large in-house construction force Lexent can deploy faster than traditional carriers.

As Lexent has been aggressively expanding its network, such as the recent fiber expansion into Telx at 60 Hudson Street in New York and 300 Boulevard East in New Jersey, there are now even more choices for enterprise, carriers and financial clients. The expansion significantly increased its capacity in order to meet growing demands for direct interconnection, along with storage, replication and data back-up requirements of its clients. With providers such as Lexent low-latency private dark fiber connectivity is now more affordable than ever, and has become a critical component in addressing the varied needs of enterprise and financial firms.

To read the Lexent / Telx expansion release in its entirety please click here.

For more information about Lexent, please click here.

Network Points of Presence (PoP) lists are the bread and butter of any service provider.  It is the tool that enables sales teams to sell, marketing to market and business development, well to fill in the gaps.  In order to get where you need to go, you need to know how to get there and whether or not your network can deliver the service or your partner’s.  Most companies have these fantastic tools, that are updated by product departments called spreadsheets.  Then product marketing (or simply marketing) jazzes them up to make them look good and easy to read for sales to quickly, at a glance decipher whether a deal is ‘on-net’ or not.

Most companies consider their partner networks to be ‘off-net’ which traditionally give them less visibility, control reducing the service levels offered to end-user customers.  Global Telecom & Technology (GTT) is different.  The company has over 800 network partners around the world – all partner networks are considered ‘on-net.’  GTT provides end-to-end Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for of its services.  In addition, the company’s Client Management Database (CMD) allows sales, marketing, business development and even assistants access to a global database of providers, pricing and network solutions in real-time. 

You call GTT requesting a quote – you get it.  What makes the company’s CMD useful is its ability to quickly add any network PoP list into its system and add that to the ‘On-Net’ capabilities of this global network integrator.  What a great channel to get your network’s presence available to the market.   By leveraging a global network integrator with over 750 customers globally and over 10,000 circuits installed – there’s a likely chance that your network would be the next one quoted, signed and installed. 

GTT’s CMD is available for other providers as a resource to get pricing – particularly invaluable in hard to reach areas.  So next time you want to promote your PoP list or get pricing think of Global Telecom & Technology (GTT) and email them right away – info@gt-t.net – you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

TELEHOUSE America’s quarterly Breakfast on Broadway series continues into 2010 with its next event scheduled for Thursday, February 25th at 8:30am at 25 Broadway, home of TELEHOUSE America’s Manhattan-based datacenter and colocation facility. 

The February event will feature two TELEHOUSE partners:

AboveNet who will be addressing high-bandwidth Ethernet trends and solutions

and

Digital Edge who will lead a discussion on virtualization implementations.

Online RSVP’s are accepted (and required): goto:  http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?473220  – Secure your spot today!

(Food, Beverage and Networking Opportunities are Free)

TELEHOUSE America continues to leverage its best-of-breed partners, such as AboveNet and DigitalEdge, to provide Total Solutions to the global communications marketplace.  Please click here for more on TELEHOUSE’s Manage-E Solutions.

Moore’s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.  The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[2] All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well.

In a conversation with Global Telecom & Technology, (“GTT”) (OTCBB: GTLT), a leading global network integrator that provides its clients with a broad portfolio of wide-area network solutions, I was reminded that Moore’s law is actually playing itself out within the IP transit and IP transport space.  We have all seen the trends of IP transit price declining.  As a matter of fact, discussions on a variety of LinkedIn Groups cite prices as low as $4 per mbps.  During my days as the Director of IP Services at Band-X, Inc. I couldn’t make a decent profit if I sold transit below $100 per mbps – $4 seems absurd, but it’s not.

The team at Global Telecom & Technology are well aware of the fact that there continues to be applications developed that require more and more bandwidth.  In addition, the growing transition to virtualization and cloud computing is further driving the demand for more bandwidth.  If we take into consideration Moore’s law, the amount of bandwidth required by applications will no doubt continue to grow – if not double approximately every two years or at the blistering rates demanded by applications, or even sooner.  In addition, as the price per Mbps falls (or stabilizes, because seriously how low can it go), the demand for bandwidth increases substantially – in essence balancing out the curve – since the demand for more bandwidth and greater speeds is growing more than the price decline, still making IP transit and IP transport networks successful business models – if managed the right way.

Too many companies have over built too quickly expecting demand to soar at the same rate of its network expansion.  This is where the problems occur in the network space and why measured growth, based on flexibility and options is the key for network operators to succeed.

Global Telecom & Technology, which just acquired WBS Connect, is expanding its company just so.  As a global network integrator, GTT has the benefit of growing its network, on demand, to suit end customer network requirements.  What makes GTT even more special is that it considers all circuits ‘On-Net’ providing full end-to-end SLA’s for its services.  With companies providing managed, secure, reliable and scalable global network connectivity, there should be fewer emerging companies putting their businesses at risk by building what may or may not sell at the rate required to be profitable.

For more information about GTT please visit www.gt-t.net.  For more information about Ilissa Miller, please visit www.jaymiescotto.com.

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.