Jaymie Scotto & Associates invites you to take advantage of the early-bird savings until midnight on January 5th for the Telecom One-on-One (T1on1) Power Networking Event colocated with ITEXPO. The event is being held on February 1st, 2010 in Miami, FL.  T1on1 is an industry networking event aimed at bringing buyers and sellers of telecom networks together to conduct business. Register now and receive the early-bird discount, saving you 28% on registration fees.

The Miami event is projected to be the largest T1on1 event to date! T1on1 attracts top thought leaders from companies like: Allied Fiber, Arbinet, CSF Corporation, Deutsche Telekom, DIDXchange, GlobeNet, HyperCube, INOC, Oak Tree IT Consulting, One Source Networks, PacketExchange, PGi, Starview Technology, Telx, Tinet, XKL, and more. To view a complete list of registered attendees please visit, http://telecom1on1-itexpo2011.eventbrite.com.

Once registered, attendees can schedule meetings using our online meeting management system, DealCenter. Request and arrange your meeting schedule before, during and after the event. All meetings occur on-site, in 20-minute intervals, throughout the three-hour event.

Sponsorships are still available; if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of T1on1 please contact events@jaymiescotto.com. View a list of available sponsorships at http://www.jaymiescotto.com/clients/documents/NewJSAEventSponsorship-MiamiFL_001.pdf.

We hope to see you in Miami!

Each morning I am grateful.  I wake up, float over to my desk to tackle the cornucopia of news that celebrates the successes of our clients and the greater telecom industry.   I usually try to carve out a moment or two to eat some breakfast before harvesting the parade of emails.

Its more than a tradition at JS&A to share the news and all of its trimmings, so this Thanksgiving we dedicate this November 22^nd blog to our family of committed clients – the JS&A colony that includes; Allied Fiber, Arbinet, Data Foundry, GlobeNet, Hibernia Atlantic, Lexent, Neutral Tandem, One Source, PacketExchange, TELEHOUSE America, Tinet, XKL.

This Autumn’s Telecom News Begins Now.

Voice traffic on Thankgsiving Thursday picks up – we all know this.  With the news of Primus’ acquisition of Arbinet for a Stock-for-Stock transaction, the company will be well dressed to win the Turkey Trot as it will be better positioned to compete globally, with plentiful quality voice routesl. 

With the markets closed, Global financial firms and exchanges that utilize Hibernia Atlantic’s GFN for TransAtlantic Low Latency Routes, including the FXCM Holding’s, a global online trading solutions that leverage Tinet’s IP Transit backbone, will be well rested as they gather to watch American football to celebrate the holiday.

 I bet the Native Americans and Pilgrims serving  dinner at Plymouth Plantation couldn’t fathom the complexities associated with global communications – and now companies like Allied Fiber, that is building a dark fiber network around America,  illustrates how  container data center  solutions can better serve the markets need.  According to Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber and a true colonist of modern day telecommunications, you can stuff(ing) a container data center along a dark fiber route, literally on a farm(er) in the middle of nowhere, and carve out your own piece of the interconnection pie, directly on that route – basting in the ability to quickly and efficiently light the network ballooning data traffic into cyber-land.  Could container data centers gobble up the big facilities?  It’s a different ball game.  The data center space is like a casserole, full of big players and the giblets too, there’s enough for everyone to have a piece of the pie.

Now if the Mayflower had gone the other way, it could have found the ground where Tinet and GBI will interconnect their networks.  These companies are no Turkeys.   On the heels of the completion of Tinet’s network integration with Neutral Tandem, who acquired the company just this Fall, GBI (Gulf Bridge International) and Tinet announced that they will team up in EMEA where GBI will provide capacity on its network connecting Europe to the Gulf region and Asia, and Tinet will interconnect GBI’s network in Europe to offer services through its global footprint (and the sweet dessert of the deal is that GBI can leverage Neutral Tandem/Tinet’s Ethernet Exchange).  

After leaving Telstra International, Gina Nomellini didn’t turn into a pumpkin afterall.  She landed at One Source Networks as their new Chief Marketing Officer.   Winning the large end of the wishbone, Gina has reunited with her former colleagues from Broadwing / Level 3 – this is not an acorn move at all. 

Disaster did strike our beloved voyagers, but if it were up to Data Foundry, they would have gracefully developed a solution to mitigate their risks.  As a matter of fact the Houston Pilots recognized Data Foundry for Its comprehensive disaster recovery solutions, grateful for their commitment to keeping their mission-critical port management and shipping operations up and running.

I still need Black Friday and Cyber Monday to integrate into the news, so I’ll give a hardy shout out and congratulations to JS&A clients that won the coveted Capacity Wholesale awards – and if this wasn’t the stuffing, cornbread, cranberries and the gravy, I don’t know what is:

Allied Fiber – the Capacity Judges Award

Hibernia Atlantic – Best Market Innovation Services Award

GlobeNet – Best Latin American Wholesale Offering

So there you have it!  Our heartfelt thanks to our clients and our gracious appreciation for entrusting us with getting the good word out about what you do and how you do it day in and day out.  Now it’s time to head to Macy’s!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Our List of Thanksgiving Words:

acorns, America, Autumn, Bake, balloon, baste, Black Friday, Carve, casserole, Celebrate, Colonist, Colony, cornbread, cornucopia, Cranberries, Cyber Monday, Dessert, Eat, Fall, Family, Farmer, Feast, Festive, float, Football, Gather, giblets, Gobble, Grace, Grateful, gravy, Harvest, Holiday, Indians /Native Americans, Macy’s, Mayflower, November, Parade, Pie, Pilgrims, Plentiful, Plymouth Plantation, Pumpkin, serve, Stuffing, Tackle, Team, Thanks, Thanksgiving, Thursday, Tradition, Travel, traffic, Trimmings, Turkey, Turkey Trot, Wishbone, Well Dressed

Arbinet provides buyers and sellers with multiple options to meet all business needs. Rather than shopping in a specialized store, which only carries one brand or service, Arbinet’s network of suppliers gives shoppers the ability to view multiple companies and brands. You are no longer required to settle for the one available service; with Arbinet, you can search through their extensive network of providers to find the company which best fits your needs.

Arbinet is the company who brings buyers and sellers of voice and IP communications capacity and content together. It provides international voice services to retail, mobile, wholesale, prepaid and VoIP providers in addition to offering high performance access to the global Internet for service providers, carriers, ISPs, hosting companies, VoIP providers and more. With more than 1,100 customers and suppliers on its voice platform, Arbinet has the ability to offer termination to over 1,400 destinations worldwide. 

 Arbinet offers three services to manage international voice:

• thexchange^SM  thexchange offers companies one connection to access a complete marketplace, anonymously, where buyers and suppliers trade, route, manage and settle international voice traffic.
• Carrier Services  Carrier Services offers a modified approach to the traditional wholesale process.  This solution customizes routing plans based upon each customer’s specific needs for price, quality and feature capability.   All managed and processed through the Arbinet state-of-the-art platform offering one connection to multiple carriers.
• PrivateExchange^SM   PrivateExchange simplifies carrier management by controlling multiple direct routes via a single interconnect. Members can connect to other Arbinet members, customers or suppliers and immediately begin exchanging traffic – you negotiate your routes together.

In addition to voice services, Arbinet provides settlement services, Global Number Portability Correction and OptimizedIP.

Arbinet’s voice and data solutions empower global carriers and service providers to create more efficient and cost-effective global interconnections.

Arbinet’s Points of Presence (PoPs) in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong, with dedicated sales teams operating in North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific assist in creating these global interconnections. 

For more information about Arbinet please visit www.arbinet.com or email sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com.

Written by: Caitlin O’Hagan, Account Manager at Jaymie Scotto & Associates

Contributed by Karissa Campbell of JS&A

MegaFon, the first and only carrier to launch its own network in all regions of Russia, has chosen Arbinet’s PrivateExchange to improve global interconnect efficiencies for its voice termination.    An outsourcing solution that enables retail service providers and carriers to aggregate multiple voice interconnections into a single TDM or VoIP interconnect with Arbinet, PrivateExchange is a strategic part of MegaFon’s action plan for developing the mobile telecom operator’s “international footprint.”

Using PEX to build virtual direct routes to its international correspondent carriers, MegaFon can improve port utilization and network efficiency.

States Konstantin Solodukhin, MegaFon’s Deputy General Director for Fixed Line Business Development and Interconnection. “It was our strategic decision to focus on interconnection with incumbent carriers and find an integrated solution for the rest of international voice wholesale. Arbinet’s PrivateExchange allows us to use less company resources on handling those interconnections as well as to keep independence in choosing partners for traffic exchange and focus on negotiating better rates and achieving better quality for our customer calls.”

Read full press release here.

LEAD411, an innovative news and research firm, recently announced the winners of its New York City Hot 125 Awards. By closely following the fastest moving techy companies, LEAD411 narrowed down a list of 750 companies to the top 125. Companies had to meet certain criteria to be considered for the award including:

• Had to be located with the NYC metro area
• Must be in either the Software, Wireless, Internet or Media Industry
• 100% increase in revenues over the past 3 years
• $5M+ in funding in the past 2 years
• 2X traffic gains to their website in the past 12 months
• Over 1M unique website visitors a month

We are pleased to report that both Hibernia Atlantic and PacketExchange were chosen for this notable award.

For more information about Hibernia Atlantic: www.hiberniaatlantic.com

For more information about PacketExchange: www.packetexchange.net

The entire Top 125 list including more details about the award and winners can be found at http://www.lead411.com/topneworkcompanies.html.

Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX] has deployed Customer Based Routing in its network, providing Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers the ability to select multiple levels of quality on one trunk group. 

This solution provides customers the ability, through one interconnection to Arbinet, to choose differenet levels of quality for their global voice termination traffic to better suit its specific customer requirements.  By offering multiple grades of service over one trunk group, Arbinet’s customers can select premium mobile termination solutions, which offer guaranteed CLI as well as its premium service which provides global quality voice termination solutions.    This provides customers the flexiblity to choose from the highest quality of services for specific routes as well as route traffic across more aggressively priced routes all on a single trunk group. 

This service comes on the heels of the company’s announcement launching its Mobile CLI Premium service – which provides the highest quality mobile voice termination solutions with guaranteed Customer Line Identification (CLI).  Today, Arbinet provides its customers with access to a multitude of voice termination routes from its more than 1,100 suppliers. 

To read the release in its entirety, please continue to read below:

Arbinet Deploys Customer Based Routing in Network

Arbinet Carrier Service Customer can Select Multiple Levels of Quality on One Trunk Group

Nashville, TN, USA – March  15, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX], announces today at Comptel’s Spring 2010 Conference and Exposition that it has introduced into its network a new level of routing flexibility for its Arbinet Carrier Services (ACS) customers.  Customer Based Routing^sm enables a service provider or carrier customer to select from multiple grades of service for each destination over a single trunk group.  A carrier can select routes with guaranteed CLI delivery and Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number (MSRN) support from Arbinet’s Premium Mobile routing table for destinations where its customers need the highest quality of service with advanced features.  On the same trunk group, it can choose more aggressively priced routes from Arbinet Quality or Value routing tables for destinations where cost is the most important attribute in route selection.  And if it needs CLI delivery, but not MSRN support, it can select routes from Arbinet’s Premium table. 

 “We set as a goal for ourselves in 2009, to leverage the technology at the core of our voice network and increase the flexibility with which we work with the marketplace,” said Dan Powdermaker, Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing.  “We launched Carrier Services, a traditional wholesale way of working with customers and suppliers.  Utilizing supply from the more than 1,100 service providers and network operators that are connected to Arbinet’s network, ACS offers a number of grades of service ranging from an aggressively priced wholesale table to a recently announced Premium Mobile table with direct termination to more than 250 fixed and mobile network operators and guaranteed Caller Line Identity (CLI) transmission and delivery to terminating network suppliers.  Customer Based Routing is the latest innovation to be deployed in our network.  It enables our sales team to customize routing for each customer based on the customer’s unique needs.”

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

For more information about Arbinet please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com. 

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1,100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet 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.

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 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 Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other 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.

Arbinet Names Brian Troesch as Senior Vice President for Product and Business Development

New York, NEW YORK USA– January 7, 2009– Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX], a leading provider of telecommunications services to fixed and mobile operators, announces today that it has named Brian Troesch as Senior Vice President for Product and Business Development.  Brian is responsible for guiding Arbinet’s Voice and Mobile product direction.  Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate voice traffic across its network:  thexchange™, the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications; Carrier Services, a traditional wholesale model; and Private Exchange^sm (PEX), an easy, low-risk outsourcing approach. All three services are supported by Arbinet’s intelligent routing and call query solutions.

Brian has more than fourteen years management experience in international telecommunications and mobile data services.  He most recently served as Vice President, Americas Region, for Belgacom ICS, S.A. where he was responsible for developing and implementing a market strategy that led to the four-fold growth of the region’s wholesale fixed and mobile voice business.  Brian previously served as Director of Business and Network Development for Edge2Net, Inc., a global VoIP and switched telephony service provider where he managed international business development and global VoIP network deployment.  He has also held various positions in sales and development at BellSouth Long Distance, Pacific Gateway Exchange and U.S. Long Distance.

“Brian brings to the Arbinet leadership team a history of providing innovative voice and data solutions to fixed, and mobile carriers and service providers,” states Shawn O’Donnell, President and CEO of Arbinet.   “He has a strong understanding of the telecommunications marketplace and of emerging technologies such as VoIP, IPX, Roaming Exchange and Signaling Services.  His experience will help Arbinet continue to evolve its product and service portfolio to meet the needs of the market.”

For more information about Arbinet visit www.arbinet.com

Originally posted on December 21, 2009 by the Wireless Blog on Sys-con, written by John Savageau

Defining Business Dynamics of Broadband Communications — Hunter Newby is on a mission. A mission to tear down the shroud of confusion preventing Americans from being wired into global communications at the same level as our neighbors in Asia or Europe. It is all about delivering broadband communications to every addressable device or person wired into the global communications matrix. Hunter, CEO of Allied Fiber, is on a mission to build and deliver high capacity utility fiber optic infrastructure around the United States, connecting every possible carrier hotel, metro fiber provider, wireless tower, and international cable landing station into a nation-wide, neutral communications resource that will push the United States to achieve our economic, social, and academic goals.

To read the full article click here:  http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/1226994

LEXENT METRO CONNECT NAMES WALTER CANNON AS DIRECTOR OF ENTERPRISE SALES

 New York, New York – DECEMBER 1, 2009 - Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, announces today that it has named Walter Cannon as Director of Enterprise Sales.  Known for his expertise in the enterprise marketplace, Cannon is responsible for leveraging his vast technology sales experience to further grow Lexent’s core dark fiber business.  Lexent’s focus is in building ultra low latency routes within the New York and New Jersey metro areas to serve its financial, enterprise business and carrier clients.

With more than twenty years experience in technology sales and executive management, Walter has held numerous senior level sales and management positions within IT, technology, and equipment companies.  Prior to joining Lexent, Cannon was Vice President for TCG SecureZone where his experience in IT security and software helped establish strategic relationships with business and enterprise clients.  Prior to TCG, Cannon was Managing Director of F1 Group where he was instrumental in implementing a Device Remediation Program and meeting the company’s sales goals.  His creativity and ‘solutions selling’ background resonates with the enterprise marketplace to formulate cost-effective solutions in solving business issues.

Walter Cannon, Directof of Enterprise Sales for Lexent Metro Connect

“We are excited to announce the appointment of Walter Cannon to the Lexent sales team,” states Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect.    ” Lexent is committed to providing first class dark fiber solutions to its financial, enterprise, mobile and carrier customers in the New York metro area. Walter’s enterprise expertise is another added benefit as we further develop low latency networks in and around the city.”  Leveraging its state-of-the-art dark fiber, Lexent provides cost-effective, flexible network solutions by building, operating and maintaining networks with its own in-house workforce.  For more information, please visit www.lexent.net.

Number portability has encouraged competition in mobile markets by allowing subscribers to keep their numbers when they change service providers. However, global number portability requires intelligence beyond the code system to route and rate calls correctly. Misrouted calls can incur transit penalties, increase termination costs and degrade call quality.

Try Arbinet’s Global Number Portability Correction service for FREE!

To take advantage of this limited time offer, please contact Arbinet’s dedicated GNPC team – Steve Heap or Jim Guy at gnpc@arbinet.com.

For more information about Arbinet and its Voice services and IP Solutions, please visit www.arbinet.com