What a fantastic year it has been for TELEHOUSE’s newest Manhattan data center facility located in the Chelsea district. A little over one year ago today, TELEHOUSE announced it had acquired 60,000 square feet of data center space at 85 10th Avenue in New York City, and aptly named it TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea.

Since its opening, the state-of-the-art, carrier neutral facility has welcomed a host of major Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers, including Voxel dot Net, AboveNet, Optical Communications Group, Level 3 Communications, and KDDI America, TELEHOUSE America’s sister company. And the list keeps growing. The facility is designed to exceed the demands of companies of all sizes, while providing proximity to local businesses, and access to New York City’s dense telecommunication network.

The acquisition of the “Chelsea” facility at 85 10th Avenue was in direct response to the growing demand for diverse carrier neutral, colocation space in Manhattan. Now, a year later, the demand is still ever pertinent, which is what makes TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea an ideal facility for companies seeking to colocate in the New York metro region.

Why? 

The facility can accommodate up to 600 cabinets and has a 4.15 mVA power capacity.

In keeping with TELEHOUSE standards, the infrastructure provides a best-in-class power supply and distribution system along with redundant cooling. All subsystems are at a minimum N+1 configuration including diesel generators, Uninterruptible Power Supply systems, power distribution, chilled water supply, air conditioning, coupled with a state-of-the-art Building Management System designed to monitor all power and HVAC systems. In addition, customers continue to enjoy 24/7 access to their equipment and space along with first level support (remote hands) service through our Customer Assistance Center (CAC).

Notable features of TELEHOUSE New York Chelsea include:

• 4.15 mVA of power
• Carrier Neutral Facility
• TIER 3 with N + 1 infrastructure
• 24/7 Tech support with “remote hands” service
• Mantrap with Biometric Security
• Managed IT Services available
• 18” Raised Floor
• NYIIX Peering
• Dual Building Risers
• Low monthly cross connect fees

As with TELEHOUSE’s other two “carrier hotel” facilities in the New York market, located at 25 Broadway in Manhattan and 7 Teleport Drive on Staten Island, the 85 10th Avenue data center offers access to the 140+ members of TELEHOUSE’s leading New York Internet Peering Exchange (NYIIX). This combination of three state-of-the-art carrier neutral data centers, all within the New York market, increases customers’ connectivity options in reaching all parts of the globe.

Want more information? VIsit www.telehouse.com , email sales@telehouse.com or simply call 718-355-2559.

Having attended Data Foundry’s recent Texas 1 grand opening celebration, I was amazed at just how beautiful a building this secure and practical could look – on the outside; how design intended for state-of-the-art data center and colocation services could be so inviting. Data centers most often resemble prisons – not a place anyone would want to visit – or work for that matter. Not this data center.

On this night, the night Data Foundry celebrated its Texas 1 grand opening and 17 years serving the telecom and technology sectors, what was on the outside was just as important to the company as what was inside. On this night, Data Foundry treated their guests (me included) as if we somehow had a hand in building Texas 1, as if we were as important (more important) than the building and the technology.

They set up white tents with festive lights out front of Texas 1 – chairs were situated around the entrance and ‘porch area’ giving guests a beautiful view of the natural landscaping incorporating local Texas flora and grasses. It was a cool, breezy evening (so refreshing for Texas – how they managed that will forever be a mystery) – people lingered after the event was closed and relaxed as if this was more a hometown social event. Data Foundry personnel conducted nonstop tours of the facility – not salesy – just genuinely proud of what they’d created and excited to show it off. I couldn’t help but be drawn into the feeling that something very special had been accomplished.  And it has!

Texas 1, the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral data center in the Central Texas region is open for business. The initial phase of the highly anticipated 250,000 SF data center is fully operational and the first customers have begun to move in. Texas 1 offers secure colocation and disaster recovery solutions, including dedicated worksite recovery space. Texas 1’s unique design includes independent and diverse power, water and network feeds with no single point of failure within its power, cooling and network systems. The site’s fully redundant power is fed from two separate substations, a rare feature for data centers, with a dedicated feed enclosed in an end-to-end, concrete encased duct bank.  The chilled water cooling system enables maximum cooling flexibility from standard single cabinet deployments to high density configurations. Even the most complex High Performance Computing (HPC) environments can be properly cooled and supported within Texas 1. With 17 network carriers available, Texas 1 also provides customers a variety of carrier-neutral options for their network solution.

Did I mention that the inside was just as spectacular as the outside?!

For more information, please visit: www.datafoundry.com

Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber, will participate as a speaker at the upcoming COMPTEL PLUS Fall 2011 Convention & EXPO, October 2-5, 2011, at the Gaylord Palms Hotel and Convention Center in Orlando. Hunter is speaking on a panel as well as at the Light Reading Backhaul Strategies for Competitive Carriers summit. Hunter will speak on Monday, October 3 at 1:30 pm on the panel entitled “Fiber: A Sector Involves” and also on Tuesday, October 4 at 12:05 pm for Light Reading’s “Backhaul Challenges with LTE” discussion.

COMPTEL PLUS Convention & EXPO is a networking event for innovative communications companies and their supplier partners. Light Reading’s Backhaul summit, colocated at the COMPTEL PLUS convention, will serve as a guide for the myriad of choices and decisions backhaul providers must make when planning to serve the 3G and 4G wireless network operators. Allied Fiber looks forward to participating on both panels, as they cover topics of high importance to Allied Fiber, fiber and wireless backhaul.

To schedule a meeting with Allied Fiber while at the conference, email jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on Allied Fiber, please visit www.alliedfiber.com.

Zayo announces today the completion of its network upgrade for the Marietta City Schools (MCS). MCS is a public K-12 school district in Marietta, Georgia serving over 8,000 students with approximately 1,200 employees. The network upgrade provides Marietta City Schools with a high-speed, wide-area, fiber network linking its central administrative office to each remote location with high bandwidth capacity.

Zayo’s cost-effective network upgrade plan based on its long-term partnership and expertise with MCS, will satisfy the district’s growing need for bandwidth. Zayo was also able to ensure security and reliability, as it is one of the few providers in the area that owns its fiber assets and has existing, direct connections to each of the schools. Additionally, Zayo was able to implement an E-Rate compliant fiber network, which will increase capacity by ten times at each site to a full Gigabit.

As a national provider of fiber-based bandwidth infrastructure and network-neutral colocation and interconnection services, Zayo serves wireline and wireless carriers, data centers, internet content and services companies, high bandwidth enterprises as well as federal, state and local government agencies.

For more information about Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

Cross River Fiber, LLC, announces today it will build a dark fiber network to IO NEW JERSEY. IO NEW JERSEY, the latest modular data center from IO, is the largest modular data center in existence.  Cross River Fiber, a New Jersey-based, boutique dark fiber optic and telecommunications solutions provider, designs, constructs and maintains its own independent fiber-optic network infrastructure.

The build is projected to be complete by late Q4 2011. As data center industry continues to experience rapid growth, providing a dark fiber connection into IO NEW JERSEY will be the foundation for further strategic fiber builds. Cross River Fiber’s fully owned and operated fiber optic network, together with IO ANYWHERE®’s modular data center technology platform, provides customers the access and capacity they need to run their networks.

For the complete press release, click here. For more information on Cross River Fiber, visit www.crossriverfiber.com.

Allied Fiber will be presenting on the topic of fiber in the south east this September. Allied Fiber’s first stop will be in Atlanta, GA on September 13 for ATP’s C’mon Baby Light My Fiber panel discussion on building private Fiber Networks. Hunter Newby, Allied Fiber’s CEO will speak at the event. Later in the month, Allied Fiber will be in Orlando, FL for the FTTH Conference from September 26-30 where President & COO, Jason Cohen will present on the topic of FTTH for Smart Grids. Allied Fiber will cover a broad range of how dark fiber plays an intricate role in networks of all sizes.

Currently, Allied Fiber is in the process of building out Phase I of its nation-wide dark fiber system.  Allied Fiber is employing the most advanced fiber optic cables in its multi-duct dark fiber system to meet the ever increasing bandwidth demands for wireless, Video over IP and other advanced technologies thus enabling the development of the Global Broadband Economy for the United States.

To schedule a meeting with Allied Fiber at an upcoming conference, contact jsa_allied@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on Allied Fiber, visit www.alliedfiber.com.

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.

Network planning comes with many questions about equipment and service providers and which routes to choose, the right choices are necessary to make sure your company is ahead of its competitors. Metro Network Services (Metro|NS) provides the answers customers need to design and implement a streamlined, efficient network solution. From design to implementation, Metro|NS is a company customers can rely on.

With experience building and designing large-scale fiber-optics networks, Metro|NS delivers cost-effective, low latency and highly reliable connections in and around the New York metro area in a comprehensive way customers can understand. From Assessment & Advisory to Metro Network Planning & Design, Optical Transport Systems Integration, and Operations & Maintenance Metro|NS provides fully integrated network solutions.

For more information on how Metro|NS can assist with your network planning, visit www.metroNS.com.

Salsgiver, Inc. announces it has joined Allied Fiber’s Dark Fiber Community. Salsgiver provides turnkey fiber construction, lit services, and dark fiber in Western Pennsylvania. As a leading regional competitive communications provider offering a wide variety of fiber optic services, Salsgiver provides cutting edge fiber optic last mile service to residential, business and educational customers in underserved rural areas. Numerous carriers rely on Salsgiver transport and construction services.

The Dark Fiber Community serves as a networking and educational center for those in the optical fiber networking industry. With over 100 members, the community allows for easy exchange of information between industry leaders who are interested in eliminating obstacles for broadband access and in building new infrastructure for cutting-edge fiber optic networks.

For the complete press release, click here. For more information on the Dark Fiber Community, visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.

Allied Fiber CEO, Hunter Newby and Human Productivity Lab President, Howard S. Lichtman attended this year’s Broadband Properties Summit in Dallas, TX. Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA) recently caught up with the two telecom thought-leaders to get their input on the trends in the telepresence industry, the networks needed to support its growth and where the future is heading. For the complete interview, please read below.

JSA: How do you see video collaboration developing in the US versus the rest of the world?
Howard S. Lichtman (HSL): The United States is home to the dominant players in telepresence and visual collaboration end-points and environments (by market share) including: Cisco/TANDBERG, Polycom/HP, Vidyo, LifeSize, Teliris, DVE, AVI-SPL, and TelePresence Tech.  The US leads the world in managed video services and inter-networking telepresence as well with AT&T, Glowpoint, MASERGY, Providea, IVCi, Solutionz, York Telecom, Verizon.  Many of the important non-domestic companies that have significant market share or whom are making inroads with innovative or disruptive products are doing so through the strength of American companies they have acquired or significant staff/offices/sales efforts in the United States.  Examples include: BT (acquired WireOne), Tata, and Vu TelePresence.

JSA: What can high-speed networks do to support telepresence growth?
HSL: The telecom carriers are big supporters because telepresence loads networks and the customers are typically large Fortune 5000 customers that get locked into multi-year contracts and don’t have problems paying the bills. Wall Street loves recurring revenue and the spend on network and managed services is greater than the cost of the equipment.  Probably the #1 thing that the high-speed network providers could do to support the growth of telepresence is peer with each other and support cross-network QoS by matching QoS tags between disparate providers.

JSA: Where do you see the future of video and telepresence heading?
HSL: One of the most interesting dynamics in telepresence is that all the major inputs to realistic telepresence environments are dramatically improving in areas such as: higher resolutions and frame rates, larger screen sizes, brighter LED & DLP projectors and better quality of service on networks.

At the same time the cost of these components is falling.  We see high-end telepresence environments becoming more and more realistic while, at the same time, we see wider adoption and greater utility. By utility we mean that who you can talk to and what content can be reached will grow dramatically.  Telepresence and video exchanges which connect disparate networks at high speeds and quality will continue to grow, improving the ability to reach more and more organizations. At the same time the best effort Internet continues to improve to handle video while next generation video protocols like SVC improves video quality over bumpy networks.  Directory services are simplifying 

On the lower end, we see video becoming ubiquitous in the home through low-cost, high quality appliances, set-top box integration, and more sophisticated and higher quality video phones.  We see mobile devices with more sophisticated video capabilities that have better integration into unified communications solutions at high quality.  The industry is slowly and surely moving towards the ability for any video end-point to communicate with any other end-point.

JSA: How does dark fiber support video collaboration and telepresence?
Hunter Newby (HN): Without dark fiber and the network operators that light it and offer high-speed transport on dedicated links two-way video and telepresence would not work optimally, if at all.

JSA: What demand do you see in video throughout the US?
HN: Video over IP networks of all kinds is growing at an incredible rate. Fiber-based transport networks are being stretched to their maximum and then some to support video over public as well as private IP networks. Video over mobile is a subset of that growth and it has its own challenges. It is dynamic in a wireless sense which requires spectrum, towers and antennas physically fixed in place to deal with demand wherever the demand may be – which is growing and shifting all of the time. Wireless also places a major strain on fiber-based transport for backhaul which is also a fixed-in-place, physical process. Wireless backhaul takes time to build and keeping up with the number of devices being sold and the expectations of the buyers to have everything everywhere always is daunting.

JSA: What type of network support is needed to aid future growth of telepresence in the US?
HN: Telepresence is unique within the video market due to its quality and reliability. These attributes are derived from superior technology and care in the networks used by telepresence providers. It is not basic, full-duplex video. These providers typically use much higher resolution cameras, monitors and codec’s and therefore there is a corresponding need for more transport capacity. The public Internet is usually not an option due to its unreliability unless both sides are on-net to the same ISP backbone and there is a direct city-city fiber path with no other provider’s routers in between. The type of network support required will be logical and methodical investment in new fiber for the local, middle and long portions of the path. Whether by building new, or leasing dark from a provider of fiber, or leasing multiple 10 G’s from those that have their own dark fiber these are the elements in the core that will make telepresence grow and succeed.