Allied Fiber’s CEO, Hunter Newby is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Kaufman Brothers Annual Investor Conference in New York City on September 7-8. Kaufman Brothers is the country’s largest minority owned and operated investment banking and advisory firm focused on Technology, Media, Telecom (TMT), Green Technology and Healthcare. The conference brings together industry leaders and investors in the telecom and communications sector to discuss the latest trends. Hunter will provide an overview of Allied Fiber’s unique dark fiber network system the company is constructing.

Allied Fiber owns, builds and will operate its own network-neutral, fiber optic cable system, connecting sub-sea landing points, cell towers, data centers, carrier hotels, colocation huts, enterprise buildings, schools and governments with next generation, long-haul and short-haul dark fiber. This necessary dark fiber network, planned to unite along its route the continental United States, is created to address America’s need for more broadband access, wireless backhaul, data center distribution and lower latency communications services.

To schedule a meeting with Allied Fiber at this or other upcoming conferences, contact jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on Allied Fiber, visit www.alliedfiber.com.

Have a job?  Need a job?  Here’s a job for telecom professionals that may intrigue you:

Title: Data Center and Network Sales Account Executive    

Location: North Carolina

Description: Experienced and driven Data Center and Network Sales Account Executive needed for the #1 telecommunications company, as ranked by the 2011 Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in America.   Here’s a chance for a driven, independently motivated individual to directly add to the growth of this dynamic company.  The job entails selling and promoting OSN’s Greensboro, NC data center to Fortune 1000 businesses.  In addition to this data center, the account executive will have an opportunity to sell facilities-based voice and data solutions, leveraging 100’s of global supplier relationships managed and developed by OSN’s experienced leadership team.

Requirements: More than 3 years selling to Fortune 1000 businesses required.  The right candidate will have a  customer-centric and consultative sales approach with strong networking and dynamic interpersonal skills.  Excellent presentation skills are a plus, along with word, excel and power point computer skills.  The company provides unlimited growth opportunities and offers a dynamic learning environment.

To be considered for this position, email: careers@onesourcenetworks.com

Good Luck!

Each year, Kaufman Brothers invites emerging and leading technology companies to participate in its investor conference that focuses on Technology, Media, Telecom (TMT), Green Technology, and Health care sectors.  The 2011 event takes place September 7-8 in New York City.  FiberMedia Group, a managed data center provider with five facilities throughout the New York Metro region and one in Cleveland, OH has been invited to participate on a panel that will address a variety of elements important to investing in the communications and technology sectors.  Michael Bucheit, CEO of FiberMedia, will represent the company to share insights on its SAS70 Type 2 data centers.  The company offers more than 90,000 square feet of colocation and on-demand cloud computing solutions to enterprise businesses.  This is a key differentiator for the company as it provides much needed disaster recovery and business continuity services to companies with a need for a reliable and secure presence in the New York Metro area.

Just this week, the area was hit hard by Hurricane Irene.  Many of FiberMedia’s solutions specifically address the needs of technology, media and telecom companies in the area that could be affected by such natural disasters.  With dual power feeds, redundant carrier-neutral network providers offered, as well as business continuity space consisting of shared desktops, private corporate suites and more, FiberMedia’s solutions are raising the bar for managed data center service providers.

Their motto – enterprise-class services on-demand – perfectly fits the company’s sought after leadership as well.  Bucheit brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the company.  Leading FiberMedia for nearly a year, Michael offers insights from the technology management and finance industries.  His previous experience includes responsibility for corporate development as well as C-Labs at Consonus Technologies.  He also built and managed a $70MM IT services business for GE Capital serving Fortune 1000 clients.  He astutely understands the needs of major corporations and growing businesses and relishes in helping to provide them with solutions that alleviate technology and communication problems.  With on-demand solutions and a diverse footprint in the market, Bucheit and his team of leaders proudly present custom solutions that meet the specific needs of businesses.

To find out more about FiberMedia, visit www.fibermedia.net.   To meet with Michael Bucheit at the Kaufman Brothers’ conference next week, email jsa_fibermedia@jaymiescotto.com.

While Hurricane Irene pummeled the East Coast, businesses and residences throughout the New York Metro area braced for the worst.  Many were affected indeed.  Reading an article about Mamaroneck, a town in Lower Westchester, just 32 miles north of Manhattan, 40% of its village was affected by her wrath. Flooding, wide-spread power outages, and downed trees were the bulk of her affects.  The good news, businesses that rely on FiberMedia’s data centers, located throughout the New York Metro area, were kept 100% secure.  

Data centers are a business’s technology and telecommunications foundation, selecting the right partner – before a crisis – is the best way to secure one of your businesses most coveted asset – its data.  FiberMedia’s facilities throughout Northern New Jersey, lower Manhattan, Brooklyn and Westchester all reported no customer incidents and 100% up-time during and after Hurricane Irene’s visit to the area.  Targeted as a prime area for destruction, FiberMedia’s facilities proved to be a safe haven for data, equipment and business operations.

FiberMedia reports that its business continuity center in Westchester has extra seats – for more information on how you can protect your business and assure your workers stay productive after a destructive event, visit www.fibermedia.net.

This blog post was re-published from an original post located at Telecom News Now.

I live in Chesterton, Indiana (Great open air market, no movie theater, etc.), not exactly the most metropolitan of places, but there are 4 David’s Bridal stores within 100 miles of my house – which suggests that either the Greater Chicagoland area is a hot-bed for brides or David’s has got a healthy footprint. The fact is, David’s Bridal has more than 300 storefront locations throughout the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. So when the company that serves this many brides-in-waiting went looking for telecommunications services, they meant business!

David’s Bridal sought a solution that could augment its existing MPLS network, and provide the company with reliable, cost-effective backup connectivity that could support real-time applications such as VoIP, its centrally hosted wedding system, and credit card authorizations.  With a footprint that spans 49 states, the company also required expanded coverage of its voice network, additional Internet bandwidth, and increased reliability and quality of service – guaranteed across its entire retail footprint. See? Business! It’s no wonder then, that David’s looked to One Source Networks to meet these critical requirements.

“The stakes are high in the wedding business and having high speed access to our central wedding system and full access to all VoIP lines for inbound and outbound calls are two things that are non-negotiable.  Though our network outages were infrequent, our secondary network performed subpar, and as our bandwidth needs increased, we knew we had to find an alternative solution.   My challenge to the team was to implement a backup network that offered transparent connectivity for about the same cost as our current backup environment,” states Caryn Furtaw, CIO for David’s Bridal.

After a thorough review of David’s Bridal’s needs, One Source Networks recommended a turn-key  solution that would provide a converged voice and data networking service with wireless Evolution-Data-Optimized (EVDO) to provide network diversity and last mile local loop redundancy for its stores.  OSN also implemented a feature that allowed David’s Bridal to expand its use of SIP trunking by offering additional DID coverage for its stores while providing additional cost savings. OSN’s solution was not only unique, but offered the most ubiquitous coverage at the best rates.

You could call it – the perfect marriage!

To more about the David’s Bridal – One Source Networks solution, visit:
http://www.onesourcenetworks.com/news/OSN_DavidsBridal_PR_FINAL_8_25_11.pdf

To learn more about One Source Networks, visit. www.onesourcenetworks.com

Chances are unless you live in California and speak Spanish, you haven’t heard of Blue Casa Telephone. But if you talk to any of their customers you’re likely to learn a few things. No. 1 – Blue Casa goes beyond simply providing telecommunications services and provides culturally relevant services that meet the unique needs of each of their customers. No. 2 – They do it really well!

One of the ways they accomplish this is through automation, yup, automation – more specifically, billing data process automation. Blue Casa Telephone employs a SaaS based billing tool provided by Contact Telecom (Billing Data Analyzer – BDA) that effectively manages and processes all of Blue Casa’s, billing, usage, and invoice data, in addition to other business-critical revenue and cost assurance analysis and reporting services. The Contact Telecom solution allows Blue Casa to focus on their customers, not paper.

“With tens of thousands residential and business customers and still growing, most of whom are bilingual and a good portion of which participate in the California LifeLine program, Contact Telecom offered Blue Casa a scalable, flexible and comprehensive solution to a particularly complex challenge with respect to our data processing and billing,” states Jeff Compton, CEO of Blue Casa Telephone. The Contact Telecom solution allows the company to maintain its personal touch and positions it to remain profitable in the future

Automation Drives Profitability! (And Customer Service too!)

To learn more about Contact Telecom, visit: http://www.contacttelecom.com/

Debris covers the isle at the Miller's Mart food store in Mineral, VA after 5.8 quake hit the area.

As we march solemnly towards the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and as Hurricane Irene threatens the entire East Coast of the US, today we experienced a rare, 5.8-magnitude earthquake in Virginia, shutting down a nearby nuclear power plant this afternoon and sending out seismic waves felt by millions from Georgia to New England.  The unusual quake forced many people to evacuate office buildings, such as in DC and NYC, though no major damage or injuries have been reported. Perhaps most notable is that a quake this strong has not occurred in this area since 1897.  Notable too is the reach of the quake.  As the underlying bedrock is largely a solid sheet, earthquake waves traveled as far north as Canada.

So what does this new “rattle” mean for telecom?  According to CNN, “a surge in calls by cell phone users after the event affected service in many areas”.   But beyond this, what about the physical networks that our communications depend upon each day?  What about the networks that first responders and financial institutions and hospitals rely on?  Do we have physical cable security in the event of natural or manmade catastrophe?  Are we preparing today for the worst case scenerios of tomorrow?

Perhaps it is poignant to revisit the words of  Rob Powell of Telecom Ramblings from April 2009:

It is common knowledge that there are major communication hubs throughout the United States where global, national, regional and local networks converge to interconnect with one another.  One of the real concerns should be coming from customers who perhaps should be assured their connections are traversed along protected rings that provide redundancy should there be a cable break, to ensure all communications are re-routed.

“Hibernia Atlantic has been preaching about this threat for years, warning the implications of a catastrophic network failure and its impact on national security, the banking/finance systems, communication and broadcast systems,” commented Eric Gutshall, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Hibernia Atlantic.  Mr. Gutshall continues that “Hibernia also stated that there even needs to be national security for submarine cables and Cable Landing Stations, as well as terrestrial infrastructure in major communication hubs.  Our cable is purposely built outside of major metropolitan areas such as New York and London to provide more security as required by our customers.”

According to the company, Hibernia Atlantic has engaged with the Department of Homeland Security to request they view Hibernia Atlantic’s submarine cable system and cable stations as critical infrastructure due to the high-volume of Financial, communication, broadcast, Government and Internet traffic that is handled by the company.

Hibernia Atlantic has designed its network with ‘Security and Diversity’ in mind from day one, knowing full well that a cut of its subsea cable could impact a wide-variety of business communications around the world.   In fact, Mr. Gutshall has presented on the choke points and communication arteries connecting Cable Landing Stations to the metropolitan areas, to the Federal Reserve and 40 key and top members of the financial community.

Recently the company has also launched its new product, ‘Hibernia Secure’, for the financial community on its Global Financial Network (GFN).  To ensure safer and faster trading, ‘Hibernia Secure’ offers one failover route that avoids common, congested corridors, such as the waterways around New York and London, in case of regional failure.  ’Hibernia Secure’ will automatically re-route GFN traffic to the client’s secondary route choice in the unlikely event of signal loss.  Service will then be re-routed back to the primary or faster route as soon as that route becomes available.

Hibernia Atlantic has been a leader in communicating these issues to both network operators and customers, reiterating the importance of knowing what network services you use and what features make it resilient.  Hibernia has also been a leader in delivering more secure network choices and solutions.  It’s no wonder the company’s tagline is  ‘Security through Diversity.”

BAM! And just like that, One Source Networks (OSN) is recognized by Inc. Magazine in its 30^th annual list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. More affectionately known as – The Inc. 500, OSN is recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US. And not simply “one of,” but sitting at an impressive #9! OSN is the fastest growing private telecommunications service provider – In -The – Country!   And if that wasn’t enough, OSN placed #1 in its category – it is the fastest growing Telecommunications provider on the list.

The Inc. 500 list represents the most comprehensive look at the most important segment of the economy—America’s independent entrepreneurs. Companies such as Microsoft, Vizio, Oracle, and many other well-known names gained early exposure as members of the Inc. 500. Sooo, yeah, pretty good company there.

OSN is a facilities-based carrier agnostic telecommunications provider predominantly serving fortune 1000 enterprise customers. The company attributes its growth to its dedication to providing the highest quality services while adhering to a customer-centric philosophy that runs throughout the company.

That’s what they say; here’s what their customers are saying!
http://www.onesourcenetworks.com/case-studies. While you’re at it, check out another award recently won by OSN.

For more information about One Source Networks, visit: www.onesourcenetworks.com

To meet the ongoing market demand for its One Marketplace Access Exchange, Global Capacity has appointed Greg Hough to drive strategy of the platform.   Since May, when the company announced the uptake and growth of the platform, One Marketplace Access Exchange continues to exceed market expectations.  Many network operators struggle to price, provision and install last mile circuits due to cost, lack of reach, inability to source, etc.  This platform solves that problem, providing users visibility into the market based on price, location, and ability to deliver, providing a <60 second turn-around time for an accurate price quote.

The One Marketplace Access Exchange is a more streamlined solution to accurately price, buy, provision and track order implementation of global access circuits.  It is also a channel for providers to offer their on-net access capabilities to a demand driven marketplace.

Read the full release here. To learn more about Global Capacity and its innovative solutions to streamlining the procurement of global access networks, visit http://globalcapacity.com/ or call 312-673-2400.

Here at JS&A, we take great pride in serving the best of the best in the telecom industry. We are very proud to announce today that we have been appointed by Contact Telecom LLC, a cloud-based SaaS solution provider offering fully automated inventory and invoice validation, auditing and reconciliation services to the telecommunications industry, to direct and implement its public relations and marketing communications strategy and efforts.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome our newest client, Contact Telecom,” states Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO and Founder of Jaymie Scotto & Associates.  “Contact Telecom is a well-established, integrated solutions provider, offering a unique product that allows carriers the ability to cost effectively and comprehensively manage their invoice and usage data, and facilitate their cost management, revenue assurance and customer initiatives. Contact Telecom offers their clients in the telecom marketplace a competitive edge, particularly when streamlining their billing processes, improving efficiencies and achieving cost savings.”

“We are most pleased to work with JS&A, a dynamic, highly focused public relations firm with considerable background and expertise in delivering strategic branding, design and effective communications to the marketplace,” comments James Buttafuoco, Managing Partner for Contact Telecom. “Our services and solutions are proven to save our clients time and money. And with JSA’s guidance, we can showcase these solutions throughout the industry and help service providers automate their data processing – and drive profitability.”

What’s really cool about Contact Telecom is its flagship service, Billing Data Analyzer (BDA). BDA is an innovative, secure and highly scalable web-based software service platform that allows communication service providers the ability to ‘put their data to work,’ improving the business bottom line in various environments. BDA ensures the AP process is quicker, and 100% accurate, saving companies time and money while increasing control, flexibility and efficiency.

Contact Telecom also has a brand new website, unveiled to the public yesterday, August 17. Check it out here: www.contacttelecom.com.

To read the full media alert announcing Contact Telecom’s hiring of Jaymie Scotto & Associates, visit: http://www.contacttelecom.com/?page_id=663.

From all of us here at JS&A, we’d like to give a big ‘THANK YOU’ to Contact Telecom! We are so excited to work with you.