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.

BTI Systems Introduces Ultra Low Latency Transponder with 20 Nanosecond Transit Time

Dual 10G Transponder Sets the Benchmark for Speed when Time Equals Money

OTTAWA, June 14, 2010 // As others tout speeds in milliseconds and microseconds, BTI Systems is raising the bar for 10G networks, setting the benchmark for ultra low latency route performance with 20 nanosecond transit time in network deployments. The ability to transmit information in nanoseconds meets the needs of service providers and enterprises where ultra low latency connectivity is required to maintain a competitive advantage. Businesses including financial firms conducting direct access trades on the Electronic Communications Network, high-frequency trading applications, and cloud networks running delay-sensitive applications are built on speed of transactions.

Available today, the Low Latency Dual 10G Transponder is optimized to ensure rapid system processing and transparent transmission for 10GE, 10G Fibre Channel and wavelength services. Validated through customer network testing, BTI Systems Low Latency 10G Dual Transponder adds a mere 20-30 nanosecond delay in transmission. This value is equivalent to 6 meters of fiber cable, adding virtually no latency into the network. The 10G DTPR-L, along with EDFA amplifiers and FBG Dispersion Compensation Modules provides an optimized, engineered approach to low latency networking for campus, metro and regional applications. This portfolio capability enables network and service providers to address a diverse range of applications for on-demand services for communications, securing business-critical information, and collaborating with partners and content suppliers.

“In today’s competitive financial marketplace, speed matters. Reducing latency by mere microseconds can provide measurable advantages to traders and financial firms,” states Robert McMann, VP of Provisioning and Procurement for Hibernia Atlantic. “Hibernia’s Global Financial Network was specifically designed to deliver low latency, secure connectivity which is critical to the financial marketplace. Rapid transaction response is crucial and the ability of a network to handle equipment latency at nanosecond rates translates into millions of dollars for our customers.”

“Our design philosophy is to create industry-leading platforms providing high operational value that are simple to deploy,” said Robert Keys, chief architect, Optical, BTI Systems. “In part, this means a no-nonsense design tuned for rapid transmission. The 10G transponder solution epitomizes this approach and that translates directly into customer profitability.”

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About BTI Systems:

BTI Systems redefines service delivery with its packet-optical service platforms that help over 200 service provider and enterprise customers converge, transition and connect Ethernet, video and wireless data services in their metropolitan networks. The BTI Systems portfolio consists of the BTI 7000 Series packet optical networking platform, the BTI 700 Series Carrier Ethernet access portfolio, and the proNX Management Suite offering element, network, service management and strategic planning capabilities. BTI Systems has 180 employees at its headquarters in Ottawa and throughout its regional offices in Boston, Belfast and China. For more information, visit www.btisystems.com.

About Hibernia Atlantic’s GFN:

Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN) is a financial exchange connectivity division of Hibernia Atlantic, the Trans-Atlantic, high-bandwidth, connectivity provider. Built on over 24,000 kilometers of network, GFN connects the world’s largest exchanges’ datacenters to its direct participants through secure and diverse dedicated, high bandwidth, ultra low-latency Ethernet and optical-level service from 1-GigE, 10-GigE, LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. Utilizing the Hibernia Atlantic diverse and secure backbone, GFN offers world-leading broker dealers, hedge funds, market data providers and other financial firms over 100 Points of Presence (PoPs) into key capital market cities in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Ireland and mainland Europe. For more information, please visit www.hiberniagfn.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=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=

For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

+1.866.695.3629

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At today’s New York-New Belfast Conference, held at the Ritz Carlton New York in downtown NYC Bjarni Thorvardarson, the CEO of Hibernia Atlantic, spoke on the “The Compelling Proposition of Belfast” panel, sponsored by Northern Ireland Bureau.  Highlighting the strengths of Northern Ireland Mr. Thorvardarson also discussed the importance of the Project Kelvin infrastructure, an extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployed by Hibernia Atlantic which directly connects Northern Ireland to North America.

“Hibernia Atlantic has been promoting the fibre optic cable throughout the island of Ireland,” stated Mr. Thorvardarson. “This has resulted in the recent announcement of Tibus, a subsidiary of UTV Media plc, as a partner for marketing and supporting the first ever fibre optic cable capacity to come directly into Northern Ireland directly from the USA. Other announcements have included, RTE selecting Hibernia Media, a subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic, for high performance, fibre network capacity for international contribution links for its television news services and programmes. Locally, North West Electronics has expanded its wireless network with Hibernia Altantic’s fibre connectivity for Project Kelvin. So there are all sorts of interesting and wonderful things taking place because of Kelvin.”

“I also spoke at the New York – New Belfast Conference this week in New York City, which showcased various aspects of Northern Ireland, and provided businesses the opportunity to learn from best practice,” commented Mr. Thorvardarson. “This was a great opportunity to discuss how important the Kelvin infrastructure is when businesses are making a decision to locate in Northern Ireland.”

For more information please visit: www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

Catch the latest industry news from the Customer Business Exchange (CBX) event! CBX is being hosted by Telx today in NYC at the Marriott Marquis. As an invitation only networking event, the CBX is designed to help grow and drive new business with hundreds of companies participating.

Over 15 companies also participated in special news announcements this morning including:
Lexent Metro Connect, Logicworks, FiberLight, Rainbow Broadband, Tinet, Hosting.com, Global Telecom & Technology, Optimum Lightpath, EKU Solutions, EDPNET, IDC Global, GCS, and Rubicon Professional Services.

With the CBX Press Room moderated by Jaymie Scotto & Associates and sponsored by Marketwire, on-site media included:  GlobalVision, Data Center Knowledge, TMCNet, Dow Jones, NewTeeVee, Tier 1 Research, The 451 Group, The TABB Group, and NJ Biz. There were also Virtual Media participants including: Telecom Ramblings, Light Reading, Atlantic ACM, and A-Team Group.

Headlines from the day…….

Optimum Lightpath Connects To Key Telx Facilities To Meet Increasing Low Latency Demands Of Financial Services Sector - Extends Advanced, Ethernet-Based Communication Services To Telx’s Clifton, New Jersey Colocation and Interconnection Facility To Meet Need For Speed And Route Diversity In New York City and Northern New Jersey

TELX PLANS TO JOIN WITH NEUTRAL TANDEM TO EXPAND NEW ETHERNET EXCHANGE NETWORK SERVICES TO 21 KEY U.S. LOCATIONS -Carrier Neutral Interconnection Leaders Will Connect Key Ethernet Exchange Sites to Help Service Providers Extend Their Networks

TELX ETHERNET EXCHANGE ENABLES FASTER SPEED TO MARKET AND EXTENDS NETWORK REACH FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS -Telx Utilizes Its Industry-Leading Service Provider Ecosystem and Collaboration with Cisco to Deliver Ethernet Virtual Interconnections in Key U.S. Markets

GCS launches Dynamic On-Demand – A SaaS Version of its market leading Route & Rate Management Solution

RUBICON PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DELIVERS ENERGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR CRITICAL FACILITIES - Rubicon Enables Telx to Identify Demand Response Revenue While Reducing Costs Across all Phases of the Critical Facility Deployment

LEXENT METRO CONNECT PLANS EXPANSION OF ITS DARK FIBER NETWORK INTO TELX’S CLIFTON, NJ COLOCATION FACILITY – A BOON FOR FINANCIAL NETWORKS, ALSO COLOCATED IN CLIFTON, WHO REQUIRE LOWEST LATENCY CONNECTIONS FOR HIGH CAPACITY TRADING IN AND AROUND CITY

RAINBOW BROADBAND AND BUSINESS ONLY BROADBAND FORM PARTNERSHIP -Strategic Partnership Will Greatly Enhance Companies’ Wireless Broadband Network Offerings to Enterprise and Government Customers in NYC and Chicago Markets

EKU Solutions, LLC Selects Global Telecom & Technology to Expand Its U.S. Network

EDPnet – Building bridges between the USA, Europe and Russia

Pacific Controls Energy Services Command Control Centre Serves Clients Globally - enabling the monitoring and management of their assets, carrying out continuous Commissioning, Measurement & Verification of their Carbon Footprint and converting them into Carbon Financial Instruments, in real time.

Hosting.com Selects Tinet’s VPLS Solutions to Provide Disaster Recovery and Redundancy for its Cloud Computing Solutions

IDC Global Announces MPLS + Dedicated DSL Broadband Network Service -MPLS + DSL = Low Cost Private Network with QoS

Logicworks Launches “The Compliant Cloud” - The First Cloud-Computing Service Capable of Enterprise-Level Security and Compliance

LEXENT METRO CONNECT PLANS EXPANSION OF ITS DARK FIBER NETWORK INTO TELX’S CLIFTON, NJ COLOCATION FACILITY

A BOON FOR FINANCIAL NETWORKS, ALSO COLOCATED IN CLIFTON, WHO REQUIRE LOWEST LATENCY CONNECTIONS FOR HIGH CAPACITY TRADING IN AND AROUND THE CITY

New York, New York – June 3, 2010 – Lexent Metro Connect, a leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area, announces today its plans to extend its dark fiber network into the Telx facility at 100 Delawanna Avenue in Clifton New Jersey. As Lexent’s sixth New Jersey colocation center, 100 Delawanna will expand upon Lexent’s growing latency sensitive fiber routes built between New York and the major colocation facilities hosting financial exchanges in Northern New Jersey.

Telx, one of the largest and fastest-growing domestic interconnection and colocation data center operators, offers Lexent direct and secure access to hundreds of other financial and service provider networks, also colocated in Clifton. Telx customers can then utilize Lexent’s fast, secure and flexible dark fiber solutions to ensure low latency routing to other financial exchanges and trading houses in and around New York metro area and Northern New Jersey.

“Telx provides a managed, network-neutral, secure colocation environment and Lexent provides the flexible and shortest, dark fiber routes,” states William Kolman, Executive Vice President of Sales for Telx. “As financial executives continue to increase their need for low latency, partnering with companies like Lexent offers our customers superior network performance that provides a competitive edge on the trading floor.”

In addition, Lexent announces today its plans to extend the New Jersey latency sensitive dark fiber network further south, with dark fiber builds into Carteret and Piscataway. These locations host additional data centers with a high concentration of financial networks present. Lexent’s continued network extension in New Jersey is further evidence of the rising demand from financial companies, trading houses and exchanges for secure, dark fiber routes with shortest distances available to and from the City. These strategic dark fiber network builds to Carteret and Piscataway, along with the Telx Clifton expansion, further demonstrate Lexent’s commitment to providing financial clients in the New Jersey area flexible, and robust network options.

“Lexent has always been committed to providing cutting edge network options for our customers. The need for fast connectivity in the financial community has continued to drive our New Jersey Network expansion in the first half of 2010. It’s our goal to provide the right connections at fast speeds to our customers concerned with latency,” continues Ray La Chance, CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “With direct access into Telx’s Clifton facility, the financial networks colocated there will be able to connect to hundreds of carriers, business exchanges and enterprises, with a single cross-connect, for fast, dark fiber access into key financial hubs.”

With over 25 years of experience in providing world class, dark fiber networks to the New York metro area, Lexent’s veteran team of engineers and technical support adhere to the highest industry standards in designing and deploying network footprints. Built with reliability and diversity, Lexent’s networks ensure maximum network resiliency for financial, carrier and enterprise clients.

This is the fifth time Lexent has selected Telx as its interconnection and data center operator; Lexent also has network presence in the following Telx facilities: the 9^th floor of 60 Hudson Street; the 8^th floor of 111 Eighth Avenue; the 15^th floor of 111 Eighth Avenue and the 1^st floor of 300 Boulevard East, Weehawken. For the complete list of Lexent’s carrier hotel and colocation Points of Presence, please visit www.lexent.net/list.php. This list is in addition to the 100+ financial and commercial buildings already part of the Lexent dark fiber footprint.

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About Lexent Metro Connect:

Lexent Metro Connect, LLC provides enterprise customers and service providers in New York City and its surrounding boroughs with 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 provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its own dark fiber network in-house. Lexent provides its customers with 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 or call 212.981.0700.

For Lexent Metro Connect media enquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

pr@jaymiescotto.com

866.695.3629

About Telx:
Telx is a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets.  With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 800 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=

For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

+1.866.695.3629

pr@jaymiescotto.com

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.

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.

For Lexent Metro Connect media enquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

pr@jaymiescotto.com

866.695.3629

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.

With ITW 2010 just two weeks away, I’m sure you are scheduling meetings with the fierce veracity of the business you will be doing at this leading global event for the wholesale telecom industry.  The Marriott Wardman Park will be a flurry with men and women in suits doing deals.  But in order to do deals – you need to know the companies that you can do business with.  Here are six companies that you may want to consider meeting:

Allied Fiber -spearheading the US Nation’s first long-haul dark fiber network system in over 10 years, this company is building a next-generation dark fiber network that will circumvent the United States providing access to all types of communication companies including carriers, service provides, mobile operators, microwave operators and more.  Allied Fiber is changing the way that networks are built in the US.  It is ‘America’s All Access Network’ bridging the communications gap between the middle mile and local mile together with International submarine cable systems – coast-to-coast.  Simply search for ‘Allied Fiber’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Arbinet- No longer just the voice exchange that was launched in the late ’90’s – in the past year+ the company has transformed itself into a leading service provider and partner enabling companies, large and small, to leverage its world class infrastructure to achieve greater ROI on global termination of international voice minutes.  Connecting customers now companies have the control they require, with the intelligence to support them – without the traditionally heavy operating expenses.  You will want to find out about their premium voice services, carrier services, private exchange, mobile routes and developing products that will help you get the most out of your minute margins.  Oh – and their Data Exchange and IP solutions are cool too.  Simply search for ‘Arbinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Hibernia Atlantic- The company has transformed substantially in the past year.  It’s Project Kelvin – submarine cable system connecting Northern Ireland to North America and Europe is now live.  The company also acquired MediaXstream in December 2009 bringing them into the media space.  The company has re-branded this group to Hibernia Media.  With services ideal for the financial industry - Hibernia’s Global Financial Network, for the streaming media/content industry – Hibernia Media and its wholesale carrier services via its leading transatlantic network, this is a company you will want to get to know – again.  Simply search for ‘Hibernia’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Lexent Metro Connect- want to provide custom services and solutions in the New York Metro market?  Then this is the company you need to know.  Lexent Metro Connect constructs and operates its own dark fiber network throughout the NY Metro market.  It has the ability to build and design custom solutions ensuring the lowest latency through the shortest path.  Simply search for ‘Lexent’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

PacketExchange - This company has been quietly building an enhanced value global IP and Ethernet network based on its vast peering relationships and solutions.  In February 2010 the company acquired Mzima Networks, a provider of layer-2 Ethernet solutions throughout the US with reach to Asia and Europe.  With PacketExchange’s roots in Europe, the combined company has the ability to provide end-to-end bandwidth solutions to meet any growing network demand.  Simply search for ‘PacketExchange’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Tinet Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market. With network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC, Tinet provides global IP Transit and Ethernet connectivity to Carriers, Service and Content Providers worldwide, within 7 working days. The carrier guarantees customers proactive management of SLAs and protection from dDoS attacks.  Simply search for ‘Tinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.-

Of course these are my recommendations – there are many others to meet with as well.  You can download a list of all companies and attendees through the DealCenter – this way you can plan your meetings more effectively and ensure you get deals done.   And if you’re not going to ITW (a. you will be missed, b. still time to plan) you can request a meeting with these companies directly by visiting their websites.  Hope to see you in DC – May 24-26, 2010!  

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We are just two weeks away from the wholesale International telecom industries largest and most attended annual event – International Telecoms Week – held annually in Washington D.C.  The anticipation of convening with over 4,000 attendees to meet, greet and do deals, is now in top planning mode.  Each day more and more attendees register, more meetings are planned in the ITW DealCenter and orders for catering, restaurant reservations, evening functions are in full swing. 

To make ITW 2010 an efficient event for you and your company, you must plan ahead extensively.    Companies liked Allied Fiber have secured a meeting room at the host hotel -the Marriott Wardman Park - in order to meet and greet potential customers and partners to educate them about their dark fiber network that is currently under construction.  Other companies like Hibernia Atlantic are ensuring they have all of their company attendees registered, catering services ordered, cups in for their coffee hour – which they will be hosting outside of the exhibit hall on Tuesday, May 25th starting at 10am. 

Other companies have been communicating and planning internally for months to ensure their sales and executive teams have all of the necessary information they need to make this years event even better than last year.    Some companies prepare profiles of all of the companies they are meeting with to ensure they know what they do, how they do it and plan efficiently for productive meetings.  Other companies communicate policies and procedures to ensure sales people have relevant meetings planned, either through the DealCenter - an online system to request meetings with other event attendees, or directly with contacts that they have been wooing… maybe for years.

Sponsors of the event host meetings, round tables, cocktail parties and luncheons.  This year – NEW FOR 2010 – there is an official opening reception that is scheduled for Sunday, May 23 with a special VIP speaker – a not to miss event indeed.  This event, for instance is sponsored by Rogers.  Arbinet, another sponsor of the event, will again be hosting companies meetings in its meeting room, Wilson A, located on the Mezzanine Level. 

There is no doubt ITW2010 will generate an extraordinary amount of business for attending companies.    For more information about ITW 2010, please visit:  www.internationaltelecomsweek.com or email clarie.russell@capacitymedia.com.

A special thanks to all ITW 2010 Sponsors!