Neutral Tandem Inc., (NASDAQ: TNDM), a leading provider of tandem interconnection services, today announced the participation of ten different strategic service providers in its Ethernet eXchange Charter Customer Program. 
Participants include: RCN Metro Optical Networks, a division of RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), Tinet, PAETEC (NASDAQ: PAET), Deltacom (OTC: ITCD.OB), US Signal, Mosaic NetworX, Wilshire Connection, and ION Holding Co.

Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet eXchange provides Ethernet service providers with a more efficient and simplified method of interconnecting on a one-to-many basis. Utilizing Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet eXchange service solves the complex technical and business challenges traditionally tied to interconnecting to multiple service providers on a one-on-one basis. In addition, Ethernet service providers can virtually connect to multiple access providers in several markets, through a single connection to the Ethernet eXchange.

The Charter Member Program is built upon the principle of a collaborative and interactive Product Development process that engages customers from requirements formulation through service delivery. 
”By assembling a group of market-leading experts from well-respected Ethernet service providers and incorporating their feedback on an ongoing basis, we believe that our Ethernet eXchange will offer innovative functionality that addresses our customers’ needs and priorities,” said Surendra Saboo, Chief Operating Officer of Neutral Tandem, Inc.

Felipe Alvarez, President of RCN Metro, said, “The unique way Neutral Tandem has interconnected its Exchanges in major markets gives us the ability to easily establish Ethernet connections to high demand locations outside our existing footprint.”

“Tinet is honored to be part of Neutral Tandem’s Ethernet eXchange,” stated Paolo Susnik, CEO of Tinet. “Neutral Tandem’s efficient one-on-to-many interconnections will help us further extend our network into more US markets; this is a true value-add to the global carrier community and ultimately the end-users.”

For more information, please visit www.tinet.net or www.neutraltandem.com

On July 21, 2010 at 2pm ET, Fierce Telecom is hosting a webinar on Packet Optical Network Platforms, a carrier round table discussion. Grant Kirkwood, CTO of PacketExchange will be participating in the discussion. He will present on the fact that today, services are fast becoming packet-based.

There are number of factors driving this transition. One certainly is cost. As traffic grows, revenue growth is slowing – which means that operators must find a more cost-effective way to transport more traffic over its network.

With solutions such as Global Community of Internet Networks (CoINs) and Global Enterprise Private networking, PacketExchange has been able to combine MPLS and metro packet otpimizied platforms to provide an advanced long-haul backbone management. It is this packet-based architecture that will be revealed during the webinar on July 21 at 2pm ET. To tune in, go to: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/offer/packet-optical-webinar-series?source=web

For more informatin about PacketExchange visit http://www.packetexchange.net or email info@packetexchange.net

The webinar, free to attend, takes place on Weds July 21st at 2pm EDT. Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent and Fujitsu, this carrier-only round table focuses on how three service providers apply Packet Optical Network Platform devices to fit their next-gen networking needs.

To set the stage, these service providers – including PacketExchange -will provide a short case study on how they are applying PONPs into their networks. These case studies will then be followed by an open round table discussion hosted by Sean Buckley, Senior Editor of Fierce Telecom.

For more information go to: Packet Optical Network Platforms – FierceTelecom  (http://www.fiercetelecom.com/offer/packet-optical-webinar-series?source=web#ixzz0uE6yl3cH)

To subscribe to the webinar series go to: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/signup?sourceform=Viral-Tynt-FierceTelecom-FierceTelecom

For more information about PacketExchange visit: www.packetexchange.net or email info@packetexchange.net

Next week HostingCon, one of the largest conferences for the hosted service provider market will be held at the Austin Convention Center. Data Foundry will be exhibiting at the conference and showcase its data center and disaster recovery solutions along with details on its newest venture, the Data Ranch, a 250,000 sq ft next-generation data center to be completed 2Q2011. This new high tech facility features all of the latest security and redundancy options to serve as primary colocation, as well as back-up and disaster recovery space for Enterprise and Service Providers.  Its premium, customized, flexible space can be dedicated to your company when the need arises. As the hurricane season is upon us Data Foundry’s robust data center solutions are the perfect choice to ensure your critical data and applications are always up and running.

For more information please read the full announcement below:

DATA FOUNDRY ANNOUNCES PARTICIPATION IN HOSTINGCON 2010

Robust Data Center and Disaster Recovery Solutions for

Service Providers and Enterprises to be Showcased

Austin, TX – JULY 15, 2010 - Data Foundry, a leading provider of wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services, today announces its participation in the sixth annual HostingCon conference being held July 19 – 21, 2010 in Austin, Texas. With a focus on providing high quality, secure services, Data Foundry will showcase its full suite of robust data center, Internet, and disaster recovery solutions for the Service Provider and Enterprise markets.

HostingCon is the world’s largest gathering of hosted services professionals. The event has a projected attendance of over 1,500 Internet professionals from over 30 countries. Conference attendees will learn about the latest news, trends, ideas and technology affecting their businesses, as well as network with the largest concentration of hosting industry leaders in the United States. Data Foundry will be accessible on the exhibit floor, booth #429 at the Austin Convention Center.

Data Foundry recently announced plans to build its second data center in Austin. The company is scheduled to complete the first 130,000 square foot phase of this next generation 250,000 square foot data center during the second quarter of 2011. This project will be the first-purpose built, carrier neutral colocation facility in Central Texas in more than a decade. This premier facility is being constructed at the Data Ranch, a 40 acre data center park designed to deliver over 100 megawatts of power, independently fed from two separate utility substations. The location allows Data Foundry to provide the highest level of power redundancy, an essential component of a mission-critical data center. Data Foundry’s Disaster Recovery Solutions go beyond providing colocation services and include dedicated worksite recovery seats or office space options for those companies that need work areas 24x7x365 days a year. Its dedicated space concept is ideal for companies that want a flexible and customized solution for implementing disaster recovery plans.

For more information about Data Foundry, please visit www.datafoundry.com. To meet with the company at HostingCon email sales@datafoundry.com or stop by Booth #429. The company will also be hosting an invite-only happy hour Tuesday, July 20^th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Please e-mail or stop by the booth if you are interested in attending.

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About Data Foundry
Data Foundry, founded in 1994, was the first Internet Service Provider in San Antonio and one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. Today, Data Foundry provides comprehensive wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services. The company provides secure premium facilities for servers and equipment, emergency workspace and carrier-neutral network accessibility, supported by experienced onsite technicians and customer support 24x7x365. The company supports more than 1,000 enterprise customers across a variety of industries including food/beverage, energy, healthcare and financial services. The company operates data centers in Austin and Houston and owns private networks in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. For more information go to http://www.datafoundry.com or call 1.800.839.2794.

Data Foundry is a trademark of Data Foundry, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

For media enquiries, please contact: pr@datafoundry.com or call (512) 684.9050.

Check out Igor Seletskiy, CEO and Founder of Cloud Linux, Inc. and his recent interview with Liam Eagle, Editor of The WHIR, the largest news organization and consumer resource dedicated to the web hosting industry. The interview explores the challenges shared hosting providers face in delivering reliable service and optimizing servers for maximum performance and efficiency.

CloudLinux OS was specifically designed for the hosting marketplace to deliver improved performance, control, stability, and security across shared hosting platforms.

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. 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.

For the complete article and interview please Click Here.

You can meet Igor Seletskiy at the upcoming HostingCon conference in Austin, TX at the Austin Convention Center from July 19 – 21, 2010. Mr. Seletskiy will also be presenting on a panel entitled “What Tomorrow Brings” on July 21, 2010 at 3:00 p.m. The panel will be a discussion on technology and trends in the hosting market.

For more information on Cloud Linux please visit: www.cloudlinux.com.

Due to Arbinet’s ability to provide enhanced IP performance across multiple networks, DNS Made Easy, a Tiggee LLC company selected Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange after a trial that proved its capabilities.  Arbinet’s IP Exchange Platform is not new to the market.  It has provided a solid and reliable foundation for optimized Internet solutions since 2004, when it acquired the asset from Band-X which started the platform in 2000.  So that’s 10 years of providing performance enhanced IP transit solutions for a variety of companies including VoIP operators, Regional ISPs, DNS providers (such as DNS Made Easy), hosting providers and more. 

Arbinet’s IP Exchange is based on the company’s proprietary platform that offers customers, through one-connection, access to multiple providers simultaneously.    There are a number of different service options that customers can choose from, depending on their requirements.  One option leverages standard BGP offering IP Transit Multihoming to improve network quality and redundancy.  This service provides customers, one connection, direct access to multiple Tier 1 ISPs networks, with no AS hop, customers can choose meshed or separate BGP sessions per seller. 

IP Transit multihoming by Arbinet is the service that DNS Made Easy selected  to provide its customers with enhanced DNS performance.  The company has improved its response look-up time for its service by 22 ms.  This is a significant improvement which enhances the end-user’s experience.

In addition to IP Transit multihoming, Arbinet also provides both paid peering and opt in free peering with other buyers via the same connection.  Furthermore, Arbinet’s OptimizedIP solutions also significantly improves IP performance when compared to the public Internet.  OptimizedIP provides routing intelligence solutions offering customers one connection with the ability to transit multiple ISPs based on the ISPs’ ability to route the data.  This is ideal for mission-critical applications such as Voice over IP – which requires the highest IP performance. 

Arbinet’s IP Exchange solutions provide many benefits.  To read the announcement with DNS Made Easy please scroll down – for more information about Arbinet’s solutions please email datasales@arbinet.com or visit www.arbinet.com.

DNS Made Easy Selects Arbinet for IP Transit Multi-homing

Subsidiary Firm of Tiggee LLC Opts for Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange for Flexibility, Reliability, and Single Connection to Multiple ISPs

New York, NY – July 14, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [NASDAQ:  ARBX], a leading wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider, announces today that DNS Made Easy, a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC, an Internet service system provider, has connected to Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange for its  Internet transit multi-homing solution.  Arbinet provides DNS Made Easy the ability to easily connect to multiple Tier 1 ISPs in different locations enabling the company to run a more cost-effective and high performance IP ‘any-cast’ network.

Through a single connection to Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange, DNS Made Easy gains direct access to multiple Tier 1 ISPs without any additional ASN hops and is able to purchase high quality IP Transit at wholesale rates with the flexibility of a short contract term and no minimum commitment.  This connection also enables DNS Made Easy to choose meshed or separate BGP sessions per ISP supplier for redundancy and optimal traffic management and to utilize Arbinet’s online portal, which allows it to add or change suppliers within minutes, eliminating traditionally long ISP provisioning cycles.  DNS Made Easy’s solutions are currently available in Los Angeles, New York and London, with expansion plans to Hong Kong underway.

“After deploying an evaluation connection with Arbinet, we committed to one contract, one cross-connect to gain access to multiple Tier 1 IP backbone providers,” explains Steven Job, President of Tiggee LLC and DNS Made Easy.  “We connected to Arbinet in three locations and plan to expand our connectivity across three continents.   By connecting to Arbinet we have decreased our look-up response time by 22ms and our services were up and running in record time and under budget while gaining access to top quality IP backbone providers at highly competitive rates.  Today we are serving more than one billion queries a day.” 

“DNS Made Easy’s network required multiple connections to providers across a variety of markets,” states Sue Su, Vice President of Data Services at Arbinet. “Our IP Exchange allows DNS Made Easy to start with no bandwidth commitment and saves the cost of connecting to and managing multiple ISP suppliers with a single contract, invoice and network support interface. It offers DNS Made Easy a highly scalable and cost-efficient IP solution to help drive optimal network performance.”

For more information about Arbinet’s IP Solutions, IP Transit multi-homing, IP route optimization, IP Peering and Colocation, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail datasales@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 DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC and is a leader in providing global IP anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy launched their DNS services and web management portal in 2002 and has grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving more than 875 million queries per day. DNS Made Easy has a proud history of 100% DNS uptime since launching their DNS service.

More information about DNS Made Easy suite of services is available at www.dnsmadeeasy.com

About Tiggee LLC
Tiggee LLC (tiggee.com) is a privately held company, formed in 1999 to provide innovative internet solutions for businesses. “Putting your business on the Internet is our business.” Tiggee LLC’s subsidiaries include DNS Made Easy (IP anycast enterprise managed DNS services – dnsmadeeasy.com),  VPSit (enterprise virtualization environments – vpsit.com), Host Made Easy (dedicated server hosting and co-location services – hostmadeeasy.com), Top Level DNS (TLD name services – topleveldns.com), Resolving Name Server (resolvingnameserver.com), and Domains Made Easy (domainsmadeeasy.com).

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service performance, developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results.  Such forward-looking statements may be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as: “believes,” expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “confident,” “work to,” “seeks,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy.  Various risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements.  Please refer to Arbinet’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K  and other periodic and current filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the risks and uncertainties that Arbinet faces.  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.

The Internet Society of New York (ISOC-NY) will be hosting a presentation session for industry thought leaders, to be held tomorrow evening, July 14, at 7:00 pm at NYU. Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber will lead this session with a presentation on Internet Protocol and Net Neutrality.

Since their May 24th Announcement Press Release, Allied Fiber has participated in multiple discussions and media interviews to further educate communities about Allied Fiber’s mission and the benefits of a new dark fiber network.

The Internet Society of New York promotes local initiatives which will maximize the societal benefits the Internet can bring to the New York area and assures the beneficial, open evolution of the global Internet. To learn more about Allied Fiber, please visit www.alliedfiber.com. For more information on the Internet Society of New York, please visit www.isoc-ny.org.

On July 14, 2010 at 2pm, Fierce Markets’ webinar series: Packet Optical Networking Platforms, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent kicks off with a convesation discussing the different approaches to implementing Packet Optical Networking Platforms.  On board for the discussion will be Michael Kennedy of Network Strategy Partners, Ian Campbell of Arbinet and Jim Jones of Alcatel-Lucent.

The free webinar takes place on July 14, 2010 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT.  To register go to: http://www.fiercetelecom.com/offer/packet-optical-webinar-series?source=web

With the online retail sector set to grow, security experts PayPal are leading the charge against the fraudsters.

A new report released today has revealed that more than 15,000 people have become victims of fraud in the first six months of 2010. The report, which focuses on UK consumers, was compiled by Action Fraud – the national fraud reporting centre – and reveals that the amount of money people had been tricked out of ranged from just GBP£6 to more than GBP£1m.

However, the issue of just how secure online shopping is has long been debated. In 2008, for instance, a report by security consultancy firm SecureTest investigated 100 UK websites, only to discover that many did not meet industry standards. Now though, new technologies and pioneering innovations are working to ensure that standards are met and consumers can shop online securely and safely.

At the heart of such innovation is PayPal, the secure online payment method that allows users to pay or get paid quickly and easily without sharing any financial information. “Payments is a very complicated business,” explains Scott Thompson, President of PayPal in a recent interview with executive channel MeetTheBoss.tv. “As a consumer you probably look at it and say ‘Wow, this is easy; it works all the time; it works exactly as I expect it to,’ but when you’re down inside the business and trying to understand how you build products, how you move transactions around, how you clear and settle things around the world, it’s very, very complicated.”

What’s more, with all signs indicating that the online retail is expected grow exponentially for the retail sector, at least according to the second annual PayPal Online Retail Report released last month, PayPal’s innovate technology is set to become even more critical in the fight against fraud.

“The last two and a half years have indicated to me that the opportunities for PayPal are enormous,” adds Thompson. “So as president, as general manager for this business, what you have to do is to take a step back and ask the question: ‘what do our customers need? What do they want from us? What do they expect from us and then how are we going allocate our capital to best serve those customers?’”

To find out more about how PayPal is securing the online retailer sector, please go to MeetTheBoss.tv

As of the 1^st July the new European Cap, which was introduced to cut the cost of using a mobile phone abroad, has now came into effect. Telecoms executives from across Europe were keen to discuss the implementations of the new bill and an ever growing ‘customer is king ‘attitude at the NGT EU summit which concluded last week.

The bill enforced by the EU has not come soon enough with some customers receiving bills of up to £27,000 for using mobile broadband abroad.  The cap can be increased or decreased by the consumer again backing the idea that relationship with the customer is key to success in the telecoms industry.  The new EU rules will also cut the costs of making and receiving calls around Europe, just in time for the holiday season and allow free access to voicemail.  The new EU rules were met with little resistance by the Telecoms committee who have been aware that such steps would be taken to protect the consumer sooner rather than later.

A new maximum charge will be 32p minute, down from 35p and will apply to  calls made while travelling within the European Union. Mobile phone operators are now obliged to place a €50 (£41.50) cap on all data roaming charges, unless specifically requested not to do so by the customer. The charge for receiving calls while abroad has also been cut, to a maximum of 12.5p per minute, down from 15.5p.

The executives who make the NGT EU committee met at Lake Geneva, Switzerland where Paul Excell the Chief Customer Innovation Officer, BT opened discussions. Paul is responsible for ensuring that Innovation and Technology business generates £1 billion over the next three years at BT, he offered his insight to representatives such as Bouygues Telecom - Yves Caseau, EVP Services & Innovation, Belgacom - Stijn Vander Plaetse, VP Innovation, Tiscali - Salvatore Pulvirenti, CIO and Vodafone - Paul Wybrow, Group Technical Director while speaking  out about the 7 c’s of communication.  Communication is Key and the telecoms industry knows this better than anybody. 

“When your communication is important — that is, when you want it to be remembered — you need to think carefully and design it to resonate with your intended audience.” Paul Excell – BT

The 7 c’s which consist of context, i.e. is the situation fully understood, and are we asking the right questions.  Content, do you have a single definable goal.  Components, break down projects into their specifics. Cuts, remove the sections that don’t work and get to the point.  Composition, how do you want to deliver your message.  Contrast, find the differences and use it to highlight your point, change triggers the attention of others and finally consistency, make sure your message is maintained.

“The 7 c’s can improve your communication, they  lay out a simple sequence which can help you start broadly and work your way down to specifics of a particular problem or project eventually coming up with a solution for the customer .” NGT EU committee member

It is to the benefit of every business to understand and communicate with the customer but how this happens makes the difference between a success or the miscommunication of your message.  The Roaming charges for European customers are but another example where companies did not communicate to the customer.  It seems at last lessons are being learnt.

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