NORTH WEST ELECTRONICS WIRELESS TO EXTEND ITS WIRELESS NETWORK UTILIZING HIBERNIA ATLANTIC’S PROJECT KELVIN BUILD

HIGH CAPACITY EXPANSION MEETS GROWING INTERNET DEMAND THROUGHOUT IRELAND

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- May 24, 2010 - Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces today that North West Electronics (NWE), an innovative Internet Service Provider serving the North of Ireland, will expand its wireless network with Hibernia Atlantic’s fiber connectivity for Project Kelvin. As an early adopter in utilizing this high capacity cable, NWE Electronics can now offer wide-scale wireless Internet connectivity across Ireland to meet the growing demands of business customers and end-users.

Specializing in wireless capacity incorporating the very latest WiMAX secure wireless Internet technology, NWE Wireless offers customers affordable Internet connectivity throughout the North of Ireland such as in counties Antrim, Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. With the additional capacity from Hibernia Atlantic, NWE Wireless can now address Internet connectivity needs throughout all of Ireland including Derry, Coleraine, Letterkenny, as well as Dublin. These new locations are connected by Hibernia Atlantic’s newly deployed terrestrial and international link, as financed by the EC INTERREG IVA programme called Project Kelvin.

“Our extensive fixed wireless network serves Ireland communities by providing high quality, secure broadband Internet services to commercial and residential users,” states Scott McClelland of North West Electronics. “By utilizing Hibernia’s new high capacity connectivity, we can now extend our service offering across the Island of Ireland, meeting the demands for quality high speed connectivity.”

“The NWE Wireless expansion is an example of how the Project Kelvin cable system, built to increase business opportunities and to strengthen the economy, offers Ireland a new wealth of capacity,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “Committed to providing secure, high performance connectivity, Hibernia looks forward to further network expansion driving business for the island of Ireland.”

Project Kelvin is an extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment directly connecting the island of Ireland to North America. The initiative is to provide local and global commerce opportunities between the island of Ireland and the rest of the world, offering local and global businesses access to secure, ultra low latency capacity. Businesses can now increase their communications’ speed, performance and next-generation Internet service offerings while also increasing their network security, by avoiding traditionally congested routes such as around the New York and London waterways.

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For a map of Hibernia’s new high-capacity build throughout Ireland, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg

About Hibernia Atlantic:

Hibernia Atlantic is the only American-owned, diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider. Hibernia is a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC). It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 100 redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network. Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit

www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or email melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.

To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
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About North West Electronics Wireless:

Founded in 1991, North West Electronics Wireless is one of the newest and most innovative internet service providers in the North West of Ireland, providing the very latest secure wireless Internet technology across Ireland including areas traditionally overlooked by existing service providers. For more information on North West Electronics Wireless, please visit www.nwewn.com.

About Project Kelvin:

As a joint €30 million initiative between DETI and DCENR partly funded through the EC INTERREG IVA programme, Project Kelvin is providing the island of Ireland with its first direct 40Gigabit network and the ability to directly and securely connect to Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe.

Providing Increased Shared Server Density and Stability to Its Robust Enterprise-Class Hosting Suite

Princeton, NJ, May 26, 2010 – Cloud Linux Inc., an innovative software company dedicated to serving the needs of hosting service providers, announces today that Top Hosting Center, a cloud-hosting provider based in Montreal, Canada, will offer CloudLinux as one of its standard Linux Operating Systems (OS) on its cloud solutions, including its Cloud Sites and Cloud Servers offerings.  CloudLinux was selected by Top Hosting Center because of the increased density and stability that CloudLinux can provide to its cloud hosting offering. As a new CloudLinux partner, Top Hosting marks the ninth service provider partnership within the first 90 days of the CloudLinux launch.

Top Hosting Center’s Cloud Sites package fills the gap between traditional shared hosting and full dedicated server offerings. The Cloud Sites package provides all the benefits of high availability and robust enterprise-class hosting at an affordable price.  By leveraging CloudLinux’s Lightweight Virtual Environment™ (LVE) technology, Top Hosting Center can further deliver increased performance and stability across all of its hosting options.

“Top Hosting Center believes that hosting customers should expect more from their providers – more flexibility, higher performance, and increased stability. By adding CloudLinux to our stack of services, we are demonstrating that strong commitment to our customers,” said Top Hosting Center CEO Eric Vanier.  “We also believe those services should be delivered at an affordable cost which is why CloudLinux is an excellent solution.”

The core technology behind CloudLinux OS is its Lightweight Virtual Environment™ a kernel-level technology that limits the amount of resources (CPU, I/O, memory) available to a group of processes. This ensures that each account on a shared server is allocated enough CPU resources to run efficiently without jeopardizing the other tenants on that server.

With LVE, administrators now have the tools to control the CPU and IO demands of individual tenants, so that a single site cannot slow or take down a whole server.  Compatible with major control panels for easy management and deployment, CloudLinux offers cloud and dedicated server hosting providers with increased server control and stability.

“As Top Hosting is committed to providing unmatched hosting solutions, by deploying CloudLinux across their service suite, they can further deliver high quality services and ensure maximum uptime for their clients,” states Igor Seletskiy, CloudLinux Founder and CEO.  CloudLinux is a cost-effective way to ensure server stability and optimize service providers’ offerings.

For more information, please visit www.cloudlinux.com

About Top Hosting Center

Top Hosting Center is a Montreal, CA company dedicated to changing the web hosting industry. A division of Proweb Consultant, THC offers enterprise class web hosting solutions at the absolute lowest cost to customers. Affordability no longer means “cheap” or undercut services. Top Hosting Center has boldly challenged the web to find a more affordable service with comparable features and quality. THC is privately held and adheres to the Web 2.0 principles of collaboration while providing Web 3.0 support, speed, stability and quality. For more information go to www.tophostingcenter.com

About CloudLinux, Inc.

Founded in Princeton, NJ, CloudLinux is a privately funded company that combines unique expertise in the service provider business with in-depth technical knowledge of hosting, kernel development and open source.

CloudLinux provides hosting companies and datacenters with the only commercially supported Linux operating system (OS) optimized for their needs. The new technology behind CloudLinux has been proven to increase density, stability and performance, helping customers realize reduced operating costs and increased profitability.

To join online discussions and receive news updates you can find CloudLinux on: Twitter and LinkedIn. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudlinux.com.

Hibernia Atlantic Adds Tibus To Its Channel Reseller Program To Further Its Reach in Northern Ireland

This Platinum Level Partnership Extends Hibernia’s Presence

With a Recognized Market Leader

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- May 25, 2010- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces it has selected Tibus, a web and networks services provider as its market partner in Northern Ireland. Hibernia Atlantic’s competitive channel partner program is designed to provide its partners with the latest in connectivity technology and superior support.

Tibus, a subsidiary of UTV Media plc with a wide product portfolio including managed services, hosting, content delivery, digital strategy and web development, reaches a diverse range of customers across many vertical markets throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom. With core services addressing the network needs of both public and private sectors ranging from small to medium enterprise, as well as with multi-national corporations, Tibus also manages the streaming provisions for UTV and a wide range of media clients across the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.

Providing reliable, next-generation services for media, enterprise and wholesale clients, Hibernia’s product suite includes dedicated Ethernet and optical level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths across a redundant and secure transAtlantic footprint. Additionally, with the impending completion of the Project Kelvin cable, Hibernia Atlantic will have further network access into key cities throughout Northern Ireland, connecting local businesses with high capacity to global marketplaces in London, mainland Europe and North America.

“Committed to the success of our channel resellers, the Hibernia team welcomes Tibus to our partner program,” states Fergus Innes, Vice President of Sales, EMEA at Hibernia. “Tibus’ wide market reach throughout Northern Ireland and across the United Kingdom complements Hibernia’s robust network connectivity providing ‘security through diversity’ across this region.”

Andrew Maybin, Network Services Director at Tibus continues “We’re delighted to be selected by Hibernia as their partner in Northern Ireland. This transatlantic fibre connectivity is unique and hugely important in terms of the province’s competiveness in the global marketplace. We’re looking forward to working with companies wishing to invest in Northern Ireland as a location for their digital business. Making fibre optic capacity available to local businesses at an affordable price is equally as exciting to us. We are proud to partner with Hibernia to bring these services to existing and prospective businesses in Northern Ireland”.

For more information on Hibernia’s partner programs, email partners@hiberniaatlantic.com.

For the complete Hibernia Atlantic global network map and service offerings, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

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About Tibus:

Since 1996, Tibus has been helping clients throughout Ireland and the UK do better business by embracing the opportunities brought about by the Internet. Tibus’ core services include web design and development; content management systems; web hosting; and broadband for business. Tibus has been recognized with many awards in the areas of creativity, reliability, service excellence and business solutions, reinforcing its reputation as a pioneer in this industry. For more information on Tibus, please visit www.tibus.com.

About Hibernia Atlantic:

Hibernia Atlantic is the only American-owned, diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth

connectivity provider. Hibernia is a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC). It

is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 100 redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and

mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network. Hibernia provides secure and

diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy

wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale

capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on

Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit

www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.

To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_zxh1XP1E

NEW YORK, NY, USA – May 24, 2010 – UNIFI Communications, a leading US-based international carrier, and Interoute Communications, the owner/operator of Europe’s most advanced fiber network, today announced the signing of an agreement whereby Interoute will provide the landing solution in Italy for Albania’s first competitive undersea fiber optic cable, to be constructed as the first phase of UNIFI’s Balkans-Italy Network (“BIN”) project, which is expected to begin providing service in Albania by 1Q2011. 

Under the agreement, Interoute is responsible for providing the required facilities and support in Italy to allow UNIFI’s undersea cable to land and connect through Italy to major telecommunications Network Access Points (“NAPs”) located in Milan, Italy and Frankfurt, Germany.  Adrian Shatku, President and CEO of UNIFI, explained “We selected Interoute as our landing solution partner because Interoute has a competitive edge in terms of expertise, experience, and Europe’s most advanced network. Thanks to its network connections, Interoute also gives us the flexibility we need for the future, including the ability to connect with other network operators at the Italian cable landing station and throughout Europe.  With this flexibility, UNIFI can market and sell many types of network services, including wholesale Internet transport at up to Gigabit speeds, all types of other bandwidth services, and dark fiber connectivity to Albania from Italy or from other parts of Europe.  Naturally, our network will be built using the state-of-the-art fiber optic and Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (‘DWDM’) technologies, providing virtually unlimited bandwidth capability and much needed diversity for Albania and eventually for the entire Balkan region.” 

According to UNIFI’s plans, the first phase of BIN aims to provide seamless optical connectivity into Tirana, the capital city of Albania, which is some 40 km inland from the 240 km Adriatic Sea crossing.  The next immediate steps for UNIFI will involve finalizing the selection of its undersea cable supplier, and meeting with potential partners that may be interested in modifying the cable configuration to include one or more branching units for expedited future connection of additional cable segments to other countries, such as Montenegro, Greece, or perhaps even Middle Eastern countries across the Mediterranean Sea. 

Also as a part of the first phase, UNIFI plans to establish Albania’s first NAP, which will facilitate interconnections among the country’s telecom operators and ISPs, and is expected to become a major telecommunications hub for the Balkan region.  To address region-wide market needs, UNIFI plans for subsequent phases of BIN to include development of additional terrestrial connectivity into the neighboring countries of Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro.  Such fiber links will stimulate the growth of connectivity into other regional markets, such as Bulgaria and Turkey. 

“As early as next week, UNIFI expects to begin providing more information about the BIN project to potential customers, including pre-construction bandwidth sales incentives for network transport services offerings in Albania,” noted Brian Crawford, Vice President of Business Development for UNIFI. 

Gareth Williams, CEO of Interoute, commented “Interoute is proud to be involved in this significant digital step for Albania and Eastern Europe.  It is a very exciting time for this region with many rapidly growing telecommunications markets.  The extra capacity and resilience provided by this new cable will support new business growth and should encourage investment in Albania and the surrounding countries.” 

About UNIFI Communications

UNIFI COMMUNICATIONS (pronounced “Unify” communications), , headquartered in New York City, USA, is a major international voice carrier and a leading provider of enhanced telecommunication services and solutions.  Service offerings include highly competitive wholesale voice termination services, pre-paid calling services partnerships (co-branding, marketing, and sales of partner services), solutions for enterprise  customers (pure IP phone systems, International SIP trunks, etc.), customized mobile solutions (messaging, roaming, etc.), and network infrastructure development services (satellite, terrestrial, undersea, wireless, etc.).  For more information, visit: www.unificom.com 

About Interoute 

Interoute is the owner/operator of Europe’s most advanced and densely connected voice and data network, encompassing over 55,000 km of lit fiber, 8 Data Centers, 32 purpose-built collocation centers and on-net to another 150 partner Data Centers across the European footprint. Interoute’s full-service next generation network serves international enterprises from a broad range of sectors including aerospace, automotive, finance, pharmaceutical and retail, plus every major European incumbent, as well as the major operators of North America, East and South Asia, governments, universities and research agencies. These organizations find Interoute the ideal partner for hosting content, providing wholesale bandwidth and transit services, corporate connectivity or creating new services. With established operations throughout mainland Europe, in North America and Dubai, Interoute also owns and operates dense city networks throughout Europe’s major business centers. Providing service and support in 15 European languages, Interoute is a key part of Europe’s Digital Supply Chain. The network is future-proofed, endowed with Europe’s largest fiber and duct reserve, and is a leader in the deployment of advanced network technologies, from the ground to the Cloud.  www.interoute.com

Looking for the shortest route between 165 Halsey Street in Newark and 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret? Lexent Metro Connect has some of the shortest dark fiber routes in the NY and NJ metro areas. With over 100 on-net buildings and data centers Lexent’s dark fiber connects key facilities offering not only carriers and Enterprises secure connectivity but also the financial arena. In today’s highly competitive trading markets – the shorter the dark fiber route – the lower the latency which means significant competitive advantages to financial Exchanges and traders.

For more information, please go to www.lexent.net.

LEXENT METRO CONNECT BUILDS AND MAINTAINS SOME OF THE SHORTEST DARK FIBER ROUTES BETWEEN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY

SECURE ROUTES CONNECT KEY FINANCIAL DATA CENTERS AND CARRIER HOTELS IN THE NJ METRO AREA

New York, New York – May 24, 2010 - Lexent Metro Connect, a leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, announces today that its dark fiber routes connecting New York and New Jersey are some of the shortest routes available in the industry. These short routes are a boon for the wholesale carrier and financial sectors that require lowest latency connectivity from financial data centers in New Jersey to leading carrier hotels in and around Manhattan.

Lexent is aggressively deploying dark fiber routes across New Jersey including interconnectivity between 5851 West Side Avenue in North Bergen, 755 Secaucus Road in Secaucus, 165 Halsey Street in Newark, 1400 Federal Boulevard in Carteret and 300 Boulevard East in Weehawken. These routes are part of Lexent’s over 100 on-net enterprise and carrier hotel buildings in and around the New York metro area. Lexent’s diverse footprint also includes two river Bore crossings across the Hudson River into New York City for additional security and maximum route diversity.

In today’s competitive, automated trading markets, milliseconds can mean the difference between securing the best price available or possibly missing a transaction completely. This can translate between the gain and loss of millions of dollars. Lexent’s secure and fast dark fiber connectivity is becoming an essential component to financial entities looking for the best trades possible.

“Our experienced team prides itself with delivering custom solutions, tailored to meet the stringent demands from our clients across the trading industry,” states Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “As financial clients require fast connectivity between their servers and major Exchanges, as well as rapid installations to stay competitive, we’ve engineered our New Jersey network to accommodate their specifications. In today’s fast paced market, our customers need the best possible routes to stay competitive.”

For more information, please visit www.lexent.net.

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About Lexent Metro Connect:

Lexent Metro Connect, LLC offers enterprise customers and service providers in New York City and its surrounding boroughs 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 company that owns, operates, builds and maintains its own dark fiber network in-house. Lexent offers its customers 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 <mailto:info@lexent.net> or call 212.981.0700.

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HIBERNIA MEDIA CONNECTS THE BROADCASTER WITH NEWS AND PROGRAMME SOURCES GLOBALLY, OFFERING DIVERSE, HIGH BANDWIDTH CONNECTIVITY

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- May 24, 2010- Hibernia Media, formerly known as MediaXstream Inc., and a subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, today announces RTÉ, an Irish public service broadcaster, has selected Hibernia Media for high performance, fibre network capacity for international contribution links for its television news services and programmes.

Hibernia Media’s diverse network footprint provides reliability and high capacity to RTÉ’s news coverage and programme making.

As Ireland’s public service broadcaster operating two television channels and four radio channels, publisher of a best-selling magazine and provider of up-to-date news, current affairs, sports and entertainment information via its media website, it’s essential for RTÉ to have high performance network capacity to source programme material for its varied media and news outlets.

The Hibernia Media network provides RTÉ with secure connectivity from major media hubs throughout Europe and the United States via its northern transAtlantic low latency route; this routing is vital to the delivery of high quality video and streaming feeds. By leveraging Hibernia Atlantic’s Ireland network, which connects Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland directly to Europe and North America, RTÉ is able to link its Dublin broadcasting center to the European Parliament in Brussels, as well as to the BT Tower in London, along with high capacity connections from global media and broadcasting entities such as the BBC. The added capacity also connects RTÉ’s Dublin facility securely across the Atlantic to Washington, D.C. where it connects to major United States’ news feeds.

“We are honored to be selected by RTÉ as their high bandwidth, international contribution network connectivity provider,” states Del Bothof, President of Hibernia Media. “Global media production and broadcast entities demand high performance, and our diverse network backbone offers RTÉ high availability routes to source media services from Europe and the United States. And notably, the contract with RTÉ with RTE also extends Hibernia Media’s footprint further into Europe, offering more global connections and network diversity.”

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About Hibernia Media:

Operating in 20 European and North American markets Hibernia Media represents the largest, national, state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) network. With a full range of services including high capacity dark fiber connectivity, as well as transport of flawless digital and High Definition content in its native formats, Hibernia Media is positioned to offer high quality, secure services to TV and film production companies, sports, news, and mobile content, IPTV and other customers who generate and manage multi-media content. For more information, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/cdn.html

About Hibernia Atlantic (the parent company of Hibernia Media):
Hibernia Atlantic is the only American-owned, diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider.  Hibernia is a subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC).  It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial fiber network that offers over 100 redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network.  Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.

To view Hibernia’s brief communication video please click here

For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

+1.866.695.3629

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Just a few weeks ago Arbinet announced that it had signed MegaFon a Russian Mobile Telecom.   This was a significant milestone for the company as it was only in March 2010 that they announced its new premium Mobile Routing Table, with CLI guarantees were available.   To date, the industry interest has been terrific.  So much so that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

 To read more about how Roshan is leveraging the strength and intelligence of the Arbinet platform – please continue reading here: 

Roshan Selects Arbinet International Voice Services

 Partnership with Arbinet enables Roshan to extend its reach and directly interconnect with leading international voice carriers.

Washington DC, USA – May 24, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [NASDAQ:  ARBX], a leading wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider, announces today at International Telecoms Week (ITW) that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

By utilizing Arbinet’s thexchange, Roshan gains access to a platform where more than 1,100 carriers and service providers trade, route, manage and settle voice traffic.  Roshan can source high quality routes that allow it to provide its retail customers with cost-effective international voice services.  It can offer its own routes to the marketplace in an easy and cost-effective manner.  Arbinet’s CreditWatch^sm credit management and settlement technology, which is backed by third-party underwriting, guarantees fast, reliable payments for traffic received. 

With PrivateExchange, Roshan can interconnect directly with corresponding bi-lateral partners over Arbinet’s network.  Arbinet will manage routing, billing and settlements, and provide any necessary TDM or VoIP protocol conversions.  Roshan and its corresponding service provider partners will negotiate pricing and volume commitments directly between themselves.

“Arbinet’s thexchange and PrivateExchange services are a key part of Roshan’s strategy to provide high-quality and reliable telecommunications service to the people of Afghanistan,” states Karim Khoja, chief executive officer, Roshan. “Using Arbinet’s thexchange marketplace to trade traffic gives Roshan access to a majority of global service providers and carriers to buy and sell voice traffic.  By using PrivateExchange, we will be able to easily develop bi-lateral routes and send and receive traffic with designated telecommunications providers.  Both these services enable Roshan to easily and efficiently work with the international marketplace to provide customers with unmatched quality, reliability and value.”

“We are very pleased with Roshan’s selection and utilization of our voice services” states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  “With one interconnect, Roshan gains access to two unique International Voice Services.  In an industry where most operators are looking for new efficiencies when delivering international voice services to their end-users, Arbinet’s PrivateExchange and thexchange services give Roshan high-quality voice access to carriers and service providers across the world with unmatched flexibility.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic.  PrivateExchange is an easy to use, low-risk outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects.  thexchange is the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.  Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale service with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock.  It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans.

For more information about Arbinet’s Carrier Services, thexchange™, or PrivateExchange^sm, 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 1,100 carriers across the world connected to Arbinet’s 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 or call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About Roshan

Roshan (Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd) is Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, with coverage in over 230 cities and towns and approximately 3.6 million active subscribers. Roshan directly employs more than 1,100 people and provides indirect employment to more than 30,000 people. Since its inception seven years ago, Roshan has invested over $450 million in Afghanistan and is the country’s single largest investor and tax payer. Roshan is deeply committed to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and socio-economic development. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a major shareholder of Roshan and promotes private initiatives in building economically sound enterprises in the developing world.  Also owned in part by Monaco Telecom International (MTI) and TeliaSonera, Roshan brings international expertise to Afghanistan and is committed to the highest standards of network quality and coverage for the people of Afghanistan.

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Allied Fiber is Constructing a Nationwide, Network-Neutral, Dark Fiber Cable System Linking U.S. Subsea Landing Points, Major Data Centers, Colocation Interconnection Facilities, Rural Networks and Wireless Towers to Meet Increasing Market Demand

Construction Underway to Complete the 1300 Route-Mile Phase 1 Component of the 11,548 Route-Mile, Six-Phase Plan Ringing the United States

NEW YORK, New York (May 24th, 2010) – Allied Fiber announces today that the Company has executed definitive agreements with financial partners and several major railroads and right-of-way owners, including Norfolk Southern Railway, to build a new, network-neutral, high-count dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower integrated system. Construction of the first phase linking New York, NY, Chicago, IL and Ashburn, VA is already underway and will cost approximately US$140 million.

Allied Fiber is addressing the need for increasing national broadband demand by providing much needed access to new dark fiber, colocation facilities and fiber-fed wireless towers on a network-neutral, open-access basis throughout the United States. The user community for these physical-layer services ranges from and includes submarine cable systems, large international and domestic wireline and wireless carriers and network operators to small rural carriers, cooperatives and cable television companies.

According to TeleGeography, trans-Atlantic bandwidth demand has grown at a compounded annual growth rate of 47 percent between 2004 and 2009.  It is expected to continue growing strongly from 2010 to 2015, with total demand for capacity nearly doubling every two years.  Furthermore, In-Stat research indicates that 90,000 Gbps of capacity in the last mile of the backhaul network will be needed by the end of 2013 to support the world’s cellular and WiMAX networks.

“We created this system to address the numerous backhaul and capacity issues that exist in the marketplace today,” states Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber. “We appreciate all of the insight and support we have received from the industry and look forward to delivering our network-neutral, dark fiber, colocation and wireless tower access services to all that need it.”

Allied Fiber has implemented a new, multi-duct design for intermediate access to the long-haul fiber duct through a parallel short-haul fiber duct all along the route. This enables all points between the major cities, including wireless towers and rural networks, to gain access to the dark fiber. In addition, the Allied Fiber neutral colocation facilities, located approximately every 60 miles along the route, accommodate and encourage a multi-tenant interconnection environment integrated with fiber that does not yet exist in the United States on this scale.

“The name Allied Fiber was chosen to signify a new type of all-access, physical layer network,” continues Rory J. Cutaia, Executive Chairman of Allied Fiber. “This network specifically manages competing systems in a common, carrier-neutral infrastructure offering ownership and management of individual fiber pairs.”

The first phase of the system will provide a combined 648 dark fibers, nineteen 700+ sq ft colocation facilities and 300 tower sites all integrated into one system from one provider, creating a new standard for interconnection. With planned, direct connections to the submarine cable systems linking the Atlantic, Caribbean, Latin American and Pacific cables, Allied Fiber will also provide express routing of traffic through the United States on the latest and most advanced fiber types available. Building new, shortest path, physical duct and fiber routes combined with modern fiber will result in lower latencies as well as higher capacities to be achieved between these points.

Allied Fiber has selected Michels Communications, a division of Michels Corporation, Henkels & McCoy, Inc. and Adesta, LLC to construct and install various portions of the system. The entire Phase One deployment is scheduled to be completed by fourth quarter of 2010.

“All our fiber and colocation construction projects are rapidly progressing, thanks to the teamwork we have with our outstanding contractors and strategic partners who are committed to building a world-class network,” continues Jason Cohen, Allied Fiber President & COO.

The new 432-count, long haul cable coupled with the 216-count, short-haul cable will be a composite of Single-Mode (SMF) and Non-Zero Dispersion Shifted (NZDSF) fibers. By having a high-fiber count and being network-neutral, Allied Fiber is able to offer dark fiber and at lower unit costs.

The Company is currently accepting customer agreements for fiber and colocation in the system, evidencing the strong demand for Allied Fiber’s all-access integrated interconnection facility network.

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Conference Call

Allied Fiber will host a live video conference call for recipients to answer questions on this announcement at 8:00AM Eastern Time on Wednesday, May 26^th. 

To participate in the video-conference, please email Ilissa Miller at ilissa@jaymiescotto.com.  Directions for the conference call, either by video or just audio, will be sent to you directly.

About Allied Fiber
Allied Fiber was created to address America’s need to eliminate obstacles for broadband access, wireless backhaul and lower latency through new, next generation long haul dark fiber and an open access philosophy. The Allied Fiber team is comprised of experts in the fields of communications, network construction and finance.  They are dedicated to building and providing access to an abundant supply of dark fiber in areas where it is most needed. The first phase of new duct and fiber construction will be between New York, NY, Ashburn, VA and Chicago, IL. For more information, please visit www.alliedfiber.com.

The Internet was started as a research networking tool to assist researchers and educators to get access to current data and collaborate on programs to collect data from disparate locations and still have the ability to share the information in near real-time.  As such, the Internet continues to be a highly valuable tool for a wide-variety of research firms and educational instituations.   One of today’s greatest examples of how research networks use the Internet is through the Internet2 initiative.  Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70 leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. Our organization is governed by an executive Board of Trustees and strategic councils consisting of leaders who represent our broad membership.

With Tinet’s announcement that it has been selected by NORDUnet, a joint collaboration by the five Nordic National Research and Educational Networks, the significance of this announcement is put into perspective.  Tinet’s network will be used to interconnect Nordic and Global Research and Educational Networks – providing an important link for research and education within the Nordic region.  

What makes Tinet an idea partner for Nordic is their ability to deliver both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity.  Tinet is one of the leading global IPv6 backbone providers, consistently ranked among the top 10 most well-connected global carriers by third party research institutions such as Fixed Orbit and Renesys. 

The announcement, in its entirety is below for further review.  It provides more detail on the Nordic research and education groups that rely on this new connection:

NORDUNET SELECTS TINET’S ROBUST IPV6 IP TRANSIT SERVICES

TO FURTHER INTERCONNECT NORDIC AND GLOBAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKS

MILAN, ITALY – May 24, 2010 – Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market, and NORDUnet, a joint collaboration by the five Nordic National Research and Education Networks, announce today, NORDUnet’s selection of Tinet’s IP-Flow IP Transit service in Copenhagen, Denmark for high speed IP Transit service. 

The multi year deal provides NORDUnet additional capacity for its Nordic research and educational networks interconnecting the regional and global networks. The service delivers both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity to NORDUnet, continuing Tinet’s strong presence in the Research and Education vertical as well as in the Nordic Region.

NORDUnet is the Nordic infrastructure for research and education and includes the Forskningsnettet network in Denmark, the Funet network in Finland, the RHnet network in Iceland, the Uninett network in Norway and the SUNET network in Sweden.  NORDUnet offers world-class, high- speed Internet access and high bandwidth connectivity throughout this region. Its IPv4 and Ipv6 production networks interconnect the Nordic research community to the rest of the world.

“Maintaining an innovative role in global communications is important to NORDUnet as we strive to collaborate with the world’s research and economic communities,” states Jørgen Qvist, Chief Network Operating Officer of NORDUnet.  “We chose to deploy Tinet’s IP Transit service to help us further deliver highly available network services, supporting our global efforts.”  NORDUnet requires secure and robust network connections to peer effectively with all regions of the globe.

“Tinet has been rated the top IPv6 network globally by an independent analyst firm,” continues Paolo Gambini, Chief Marketing Officer of Tinet. “We see the ability to serve the NORDUnet research network as another testament of our strategy of exclusively delivering high capacity IP and Ethernet services over an ever expanding geographic reach that reflects the fast changing Internet footprint. We look forward to further enhancing NORDUnet’s robust connectivity with Tinet’s highly available and scalable IP services.”

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

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