There are many factors contributing to the increase in inter-company telepresence, such as the current economic state, geopolitics and public health, to name a few. As companies look to reduce travel costs while increasing their global footprint, understanding and implementing an inter-company telepresence is a growing necessity.

The Human Productivity Lab, together with Brockmann & Company, has recently compiled The Inter-Company Telepresence & Video Conferencing Handbook. This handbook is a guide for creating an inter-company telepresence and/or videoconferencing program with partners, vendors, or customers. The handbook discusses the drivers of telepresence, the fundamentals of inter-company telepresence, and the best practices in inter-company telepresence operations.  From operational issues to cultural concerns, the handbook addresses all aspects of inter-company telepresence.

To coincide with the release of this handbook, the Human Productivity Lab will be hosting Developing an Inter-Company Telepresence and Visual Collaboration Program Conference & Working Group on April 22, 2010 in Reston, Virginia. A great supplement to the handbook, the conference will pick up where the handbook left off, providing attendees with more detailed information on how their organization can create an inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing program to cut costs, improve individual and organizational productivity, and accelerate time-to-market advantage.

For more information on the conference, please click here.

For the complete handbook, please click here.                                                     

Original Blog post by Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates.  The blog was posted on January 11, 2010 on Up to the Minute Tech, Vanessa’s blog:

What should you consider when choosing a quality Internet Provider?   High speed is key, but Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks suggests a few more important factors to consider – the provider’s access to content and the quickest route.  How close is your internet provider to the content you want to download?   Kirkwood in a recent article examines the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 Internet backbone providers to explain how an IP provider’s proximity to content and applications makes a huge difference in the overall user experience.

Essentially the more ‘hops’ there are between two points along a network, the higher the latency which affects overall performance. In his article Kirkwood reviews the factors that come into play for providers when routing Internet traffic. There are distinct differences in routing choices and flexibility for a Tier 1 provider versus a Tier 2 provider.

The provider that makes routing choices based on a variety of factors such as performance, flexibility, quality, and redundancy helps to ensure that IP traffic will be routed across the path with the fewest hops (most direct and closest path), which in turn makes for a better user experience.

So how do you know how a Tier 1 provider makes routing choices? Or which Tier 2 network providers route only on price versus quality? You must consider a variety of factors when choosing a provider including quantity and quality of the provider’s global peering relationships; the provider’s ability to provide quality end-to-end solutions; the companies the provider partners with; and you can’t forget the quality of its technical and customer service.

“Mzima Networks,” as stated by Kirkwood, “has focused its business model on creating more efficient peering connections among other Tier 2 providers in order to deliver content and streaming media more efficiently for and between its customers. The company’s goal is to connect to as many networks as it can, in as many locations as possible, in order to bypass the Tier 1 ‘inner circle’ as often as possible. This doesn’t mean that Tier 1 providers are not necessary, because indeed they are – but more often than not, Tier 1s are not the shortest or more efficient route to a destination from a cost and quality stand-point.”

To read the article in its entirety please go to: http://www.techistan.net/2010/01/05/mzimanetworkstier1or2/

Acquisitions are always exciting.  It usually means healthy company, healthy market, new opportunities and interesting vision into the strategies of the companies involved.  In this case, Hibernia Atlantic, the largest privately-held transatlantic submarine cable operator and the operator of the Global Financial Network (GFN) an ultra-low latency network solution designed to meet the needs of the Financial marketplace, announced it has acquired MediaXstream, an International Broadcast and Media Production Service provider.

The announcement brings great opportunities to both companies.  Hibernia Atlantic is now ‘playing’ in the media and broadcast space, enabling major broadcast network operators to deliver content more efficiently around the world.  The MediaXstream solution will continue to leverage its leading high-bandwidth network providers including Hibernia Atlantic – a network that offers 40Gig connectivity between the US & Europe over its divere and secure network.  In addition, the companies together now reach over 92 points of presence, enhancing each network’s reach substantially while continuing to offer attractive rates. 

According to Hibernia Atlantic’s CEO, Bjarni Thorvardarson, who is also CEO of the newly acquired MediaXstream – which becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic, the companies struck the agreement without any third-party advisors.  MediaXstream will add 33 employees to the overall Hibernia organization, nearly doubling the number of employees.   In addition to the employees, Hibernia Atlantic, through its new acquisition, will retain the MediaXstream brand and services in order to support its corporate customers as effectively as possible.  MediaXstream’s management and sales team will continue to support their clients.   The deal was closed on December 11th, 2009 and is an all stock transaction.  Simultaneously, Hibernia Atlantic raised $13.4M to fund further growth of the combined companies.

The press release, in its entirety is below:

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC ACQUIRES INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST AND MEDIA PRODUCTION SERVICE PROVIDER MEDIAXSTREAM

  SERVING WORLDWIDE MEDIA COMPANIES’ INCREASING DEMAND FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE NETWORK SOLUTIONS 

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- December 15, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, today announces its acquisition of MediaXstream Inc., a leading provider of high quality transport and managed network services for the media production and broadcast industries. MediaXstream is currently operational in 20 major markets in the U.S. and Europe, serving the increasingly growing demand for High Definition video networking and production services by TV and film production, sports, news, mobile content and IPTV. By adding MediaXstream’s high quality transport services to Hibernia’s already robust financial and carrier-focused network, the combined reach, performance and product offering will add significant marketplace opportunities, technological innovation and customer value. Moving forward, MediaXstream will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Hibernia Atlantic.

The newly combined network capabilities are ideal for global media and broadcast companies looking for high performance, security, and local and global connectivity.

“We are combining the strengths and network reach of both companies to respond to the significant growth of the enterprise and media markets,” states Ken Peterson, Chairman of Hibernia Atlantic and CEO of Columbia Ventures Corporation. “We are finding that more and more media companies are migrating to multi-service network infrastructures, and away from satellite, in order to satisfy their production and broadcast requirements. As demand accelerates, customers are making the shift from analog to digital and from standard definition to high definition.  Large enterprises are also adding multi-service network infrastructures capable of supporting high definition video as critical elements of their daily operations.  The combination of MediaXstream with Hibernia’s secure and diverse North American and European network positions the combined company for continued rapid growth.”

Hibernia Atlantic significantly expands the network reach of MediaXstream into more than 10 key European markets while MediaXstream expands Hibernia’s North American network to 17 additional key Points of Presence in 14 new cities in the South and West, including Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Tampa, Miami, Atlanta, Washington DC, Baltimore, San Diego and Las Vegas.

Hibernia’s acquisition of MediaXstream offers customers continued diversity in a range of scalable services, including colocation, interconnection and support. In addition, the acquisition enables Hibernia to offer customers critical monitoring support from its Dublin Network Operations Center (NOC) and MediaXstream’s Television Operating Center (TOC) in Baltimore, MD. “We are excited to be a part of the Hibernia Atlantic family and will bring high quality transport and managed network services to Hibernia’s best-of-breed network services,” states Del Bothof, President of MediaXstream. “Additionally, MediaXstream will benefit greatly from the financial and wholesale strengths of Hibernia. We are excited to extend our customers’ access into Europe and beyond over Hibernia’s fast and secure network. This deal reflects our commitment to our customers to provide the highest quality network service.”

“Operating the largest, national, state-of-the-art optical switching and Dynamic Transport Mode (DTM) network, MediaXstream specializes in transporting flawless digital and High Definition content in its native formats as demanded by TV and film production companies, mobile carriers and other customers who generate and manage media content.  MediaXstream bridges current industry operations with the demands of emerging new technologies, offering transport reliability that meets customers’ needs,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “With this acquisition, Hibernia is expanding our product portfolio to our worldwide customers and leveraging both companies’ network expertise to offer an innovative network choice to media and enterprise customers alike.”

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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 92 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=
 

About MediaXstream, Inc.

MediaXstream provides high quality transport and managed network services for the production and broadcast industries in 20 North American and European markets. Operating the largest national DTM network, we specialize in transporting flawless digital and High Definition content in its native formats as demanded by sports, TV and film production, news, mobile and IPTV. The company has received financial backing from Constellation Ventures and Columbia Ventures Corporation.

For more information on MediaXstream, please visit: http://mediaxstream.tv/

Grant Kirkwood, CTO & Founder of Mzima Networks discusses Ethernet Private Line (EPL) services and the deployment of the latest technology:  Ciena’s PBB-TE (www.mzima.net)

TELEHOUSE America’s NYIIX Internet Peering Exchange Becomes the Largest and Longest Running Public Peering Point in the New York Market

Linked with TELEHOUSE America’s Los Angeles Exchange LAIIX, TELEHOUSE Peering Offers Service Providers a Global Interlink for IX Interconnection

Staten Island, NY, USA – November 18, 2009– TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges and managed IT services, announces that its New York International Internet Exchange public peering platform (NYIIX) remains the longest running and largest public Internet exchange point in the New York metropolitan market.  Since its inception in 1996, the NYIIX has been a vital public IP interconnection point for global carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprise businesses within New York.  NYIIX is headquartered at 25 Broadway, TELEHOUSE America’s Broadway Center, and provides redundant and diverse direct interconnectivity to and from the 60 Hudson Street and 111 Eighth Avenue carrier hotel facilities.

The NYIIX platform continues to be updated to meet the growing technology requirements of the industry and currently operates Brocade RX series switches.   The platform supports IPv4 and IPv6 peering connections and offers standard bilateral peering exchange as well as multilateral peering arrangements.  In addition, NYIIX offers private peering over VLAN – enabling secure private peering or direct bandwidth over the NYIIX. As of October 2009, the NYIIX peering platform has over 120 members and handles over 80 Gbps of traffic, making it the largest public Internet exchange in the New York Metro Market.

In addition to NYIIX, TELEHOUSE America also operates the Los Angeles International Internet Exchange (LAIIX).  Launched in 2000, the LAIIX provides public peering interconnectivity via its Layer-2 switch offering connectivity to multiple transit providers.  In Los Angeles, the LAIIX provides optimal primary and secondary IP traffic routing options with direct route server access, ensuring highly advanced peering among multiple simultaneous network routes. As one of the oldest private peering points in the Los Angeles market, LAIIX serves as a key IP peering gateway to the Asia-Pacific region.

With the announcement of TELEHOUSE America’s Global Interlink services in 2008, the company interconnected its NYIIX and LAIIX platforms and has also made both peering exchanges accessible from any of the 12 Interlink PoPs throughout the world.  Global Interlink provides seamless redundant and diverse Ethernet private line connections between multiple carrier hotels throughout the US and Europe.

“With over 120 active members on NYIIX and over 55 members on LAIIX, TELEHOUSE America provides robust public peering connectivity solutions among the most prominent network operators in the industry,” commented Akio Sugeno, Sr. Director Business Development, Internet Engineering & Operations for TELEHOUSE America and the founder of both  NYIIX and LAIIX.  “We are excited to witness the continued growth of our Internet Exchange platforms in both New York and Los Angeles and look forward to extending the NYIIX to 7 Teleport, TELEHOUSE’s Teleport Center on Staten Island in the coming months.”

Connectivity to the NYIIX and LAIIX is currently available from major carrier hotel facilities throughout the US and Europe, for more information about TELEHOUSE America’s public peering solutions and its complete total solutions for data center solutions, colocation, infrastructure management and global communications services, please visit www.telehouse.com or email sales@telehouse.com. 

About TELEHOUSE America

TELEHOUSE America is the US’s leading provider of dedicated data centers, colocation facilities, international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions.

A stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center services, they provide secure, power-protected environments, where clients house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at Telehouse’s colocation “meet-me-centers” in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other Telehouse customers. Among the many benefits of colocating with Telehouse is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Through Manage-E (http://www.Manage-E.com), TELEHOUSE provides a comprehensive suite of solutions – from help desk and hardware support to managed IT infrastructure, security and compliance services – all delivered by expert consulting and operations teams on a global scale and from one point-of-contact.  Additionally, the global availability of TELEHOUSE-branded data centers in 17 cities throughout Asia, North America and Europe, delivers continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent, IT infrastructure to businesses around the world. Please visit http://www.Telehouse.com, or contact us at sales@Telehouse.com.

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Arbinet announced it has signed the National Carrier for Nicaragua, Enitel, to its Wholesale Carrier Services product.  Arbinet announced the Carrier Services product October 1, 2009.  The new product offers no fees and features a single invoice – allowing customers to negotiate bilateral agreements as they traditionally have.

The Carrier Services solution also offers customers additional services such as a Code Analysis Tool that enables Arbinet to use supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans; a Routing Table Development Tool that utilizes sophisticated blending algorithms to enable Arbinet to generate Routing Tables based on specific quality and pricing requirements; and an integrated Quoting System that enables Arbinet to easily quote rates and buy supply from Carrier Service customers and suppliers.

With Central America one of the fastest growing regions for telecom, Arbinet’s ability to provide services to companies such as Enitel is important to the company to continue to grow.  According to Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Arbinet Carrier Services is an ideal service for companies like ENITEL.  It will enable Arbinet’s customers to terminate their traffic to Nicaragua with high quality standards.  Additionally, Enitel can utilize our Private ExchangeSM service to aggregate existing interconnections and reduce costs and complexity in the management of its its interconnections with its customer’s networks.

For the press release in its entirety, please continue to read here:

National Carrier for Nicaragua, Enitel Connects to Arbinet’s Wholesale Carrier Services

Partnership with Arbinet Enables Enitel (Empresa Nicaragüense de Telecomunicaciones) to Terminate and Originate Calls over the Arbinet Network

New York, NY, USA – November 10, 2009– Arbinet Corporation.[Nasdaq: ARBX], today announces that leading mobile provider and Nicaraguan PTT, Enitel (Empresa Nicaragüense de Telecomunicaciones), will use Arbinet’s new wholesale Carrier Service interface for termination and origination of international calls.  Enitel will benefit from Arbinet’s scale, global reach and sophisticated routing capabilities to deliver high quality, lower cost international calling to its customers in Nicaragua. Arbinet gains reliable, high quality termination capacity in Nicaragua for its retail and wholesale customers.

“We are pleased to welcome Enitel to the Arbinet Network.  Central America is one of the fastest growing regions for telecom usage in the world.  As the only truly integrated Nicaraguan telecom operator with the leading market share in mobile, a nationwide fixed network and the country’s leading cable system, Enitel’s partnership with Arbinet offers benefits to our customers and traffic for our suppliers,” states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.“ Arbinet Carrier Services is an ideal service for companies like ENITEL.  It will enable Arbinet’s customers to terminate their traffic to Nicaragua with high quality standards.  Additionally, Enitel can utilize our Private ExchangeSM service to aggregate existing interconnections and reduce costs and complexity in the management of its its interconnections with its customer´s networks.

“As the leading fixed and mobile telecom carrier in Nicaragua, having the right international voice partner is critical for us to compete in our market and to give our retail customers the high-quality, cost effective international voice service they want,” said Víctor García, Chief of Regulatory and Interconnection of Enitel.

Arbinet Carrier Services has no fees, features a single invoice and uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans. Sophisticated blending algorithms enable Arbinet to generate Routing Tables based on specific quality and pricing requirements. An integrated Quoting System enables Arbinet to easily quote rates and buy supply from Carrier Service customers and suppliers.

 Arbinet’s voice termination and origination options also include Private Exchange, an easy, low-risk outsourcing approach, and thexchange™, the industry’s leading Exchange marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.  For more information about Arbinet’s Carrier Services, thexchange™, Private Exchangesm(PEX) or Arbinet Data Exchange, 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 1100 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. For more information, please visit www.arbinet,com , call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About Enitel

Enitel is the leading Nicaraguan company in all mobile, fixed, broadband, data and IP services.  Covering Central America, Enitel´s Fiber Optical Network offers voice and data solutions based on SDH, full MPLS and IP.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain 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. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially. 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. 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.

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 Arbinet Global Sales Headquarters

75 Broad Street, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10004

 phone: +1 917.320.2000, fax: +1 917.320.1880, website: www.arbinet.com.

 email: sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com

In this podcast New Paradigm Research Group (NPRG) analyst Stephen Hernan talks with Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks, and Terry Koosed, President of Bel Air Internet. Be sure to join us as we discuss how these two carriers have collaborated to deploy an all-wireless voice, data, and video bundle to both the residential and business customer segments – and how this might represent the next big threat to the incumbent carriers and cable MSOs.

 On the heels of Equinix’s announcements about the acquisition of Switch & Data and the number of networks already connected its Metro Ethernet Exchange, the company has now announced its relationship with Lexent Metro Connect, a leading low latency dark fiber network provider in the New York Metro market, which has connected Equinix’s New Jersey data centers to its New York City carrier hotel facilities.

 This is a great announcement for the New York Metro market as Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX®) is one of the industry’s leading platforms for financial companies to access ultra low latency networks to facilitate business across the world.

Lexent’s network connects Equinix’s leading IBX facilities in Secaucus, New Jersey to its strategic carrier hotels located in Manhattan including 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the Americas, 75 Broad Street and 111 Eighth Avenue.  What is great about this announcement is that Equinix’s IBX now has low latency proximity to other carrier hotel facilities within the New York market – clearly one of the largest global markets for financial trading and transactions.

For the complete announcement, please continue to read below: 

LEXENT METRO CONNECT COMPLETES LOW LATENCY DARK FIBER ROUTE BETWEEN EQUINIX NEW JERSEY DATA CENTERS AND NYC CARRIER HOTELS

New York, New York and Foster City, CA – November 4, 2009 – Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Lexent has completed its ultra low latency dark fiber connection between two Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX^®) data centers in Secaucus, NJ and strategic carrier hotels located in Manhattan, including 60 Hudson Street, 32 Avenue of the America, 75 Broad Street and 111 Eighth Avenue.

The new dark fiber route follows the shortest distance across the Hudson River, offering the lowest latency fiber path between Manhattan and Equinix’s NY4 and NY2 centers in Secaucus.  With a route latency of less than 100 microseconds, this new link will enable global banks, financial exchanges and other enterprises, located in the 100+ Lexent on-net buildings or along the Lexent fiber optic backbone, to link with the Equinix Financial eXchange community of execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers and technology utilities operating within the NY4 and NY2 centers.  These companies operate at Equinix’s high performance data centers to access the widest choice of low-latency networks and to directly exchange data with strategic partners and customers in close proximity.

“By utilizing Lexent Metro Connect, the financial community operating within our NY4 and NY2 centers in Secaucus can tap into fast, high-quality dark fiber routes to securely access New York’s carrier hotels,” said Jarrett Appleby, chief marketing officer for Equinix. “This provides them with optimized, low-latency links to New York City’s financial exchanges and other key investment buildings.”

In June, Reuters published a paper called “Addressing the low-latency challenge, Low-latency architecture as a competitive advantage,” in which David Lester, the chief information officer at the London Stock Exchange commented that “the firms that have been happy with a latency of 400 or 500 milliseconds will find that it is just not good enough going forward.”  Lexent’s short fiber path specifically addresses these concerns.  The network was designed to meet the requirements of the growing proximity trading community by offering an ultra-low latency route with high reliability, as the probability of physical fiber faults are decreased due to reduced exposure to potential third-party damage. These low latency connections, measured in milliseconds, translate to tens of thousands of dollars per transaction for traders. 

“Latency is arguably one of the most important factors driving financial firms’ metro network decisions today,” said Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “We have seen a surge in financial firms requesting private dark fiber solutions utilizing shorter optical routes, and with no mid-span equipment.  In response, Lexent has built upon its core regional dark fiber footprint, removing the ‘fiber variable’ and allowing its clients to deploy latency optimized applications unparalleled by comparable carrier solutions”.

Lexent’s low latency New York/New Jersey fiber route is now available. For more information, please email info@lexent.net.                                                         

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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.

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world.  Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix’s insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets.  Equinix operates 45 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor relations page of its website located at www.equinix.com/investors. We encourage you to check Equinix’s website regularly for the most up-to-date information. 

About Equinix Financial eXchange:

Equinix Financial eXchange is a neutral marketplace consisting of financial markets participants including execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology providers and financial networks; that locate servers and infrastructure within Equinix data centers in order to support highly reliable, low latency connectivity for a broad range of market participants. Learn more at: http://financial.equinix.com

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Joan Powell

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(650) 513-7098

Bjarni Thorvardarson has been awarded a Golden Bridges Award.  This award is given to individuals that have proven to promote partnerships between North America and Ireland.  In this case, Mr. Thorvardarson’s company, Hibernia Atlantic, was recognized for its new, fiber optic cable project called ‘Project Kelvin’.  With this project, Hibernia Atlantic will be the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that will directly connect the Island of Ireland to North America.

The complete press release is below for your review:

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC’S CEO RECEIVES A GOLDEN BRIDGES AWARD FOR PROMOTING PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA AND IRELAND 

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- October 16, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic,the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, today announces that its company’s CEO, Bjarni K. Thorvardarson, has been awarded a Golden Bridges Award for promoting partnerships between North America and Ireland through its new, fiber optic cable build development, entitled “Project Kelvin”.  Hibernia Atlantic is the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that will directly connect the Island of Ireland to North America.

The award was presented to Mr. Thorvardarson by Valerie Watts, CEO of the Derry City Council during the Irish Echo ‘Gateways to Tomorrow’ Conference in Boston.

“It is an honor to be recognized with a Golden Bridges Award,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson. “And it is privilege to provide local and global businesses access to our secure and ultra low latency capacity to further drive economic development, cooperation and innovative technology.  This award is a testament to the great people of Hibernia working around the clock and I’m proud to accept it on their behalf.”

This historic initiative will add additional and much needed low latency capacity to the Island of Ireland, to further support both local and global companies. Local companies are attracted to the high capacity, extremely secure and reliable network. Businesses can now increase their communications and next-generation Internet service offerings as well as increase their access to a larger marketplace of available service providers. The new network is also attractive to global companies, such as leading financial houses, exchange markets, service providers and media companies, who require fast, low latency bandwidth that avoids traditionally congested routes, such as around the New York and London waterways. 

Hibernia Atlantic recently brought its industry leading fiber optic submarine cable ashore at Portrush, Northern Ireland.  This cable will connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s terrestrial fiber optic ring currently being deployed to 13 towns and cities, including Armagh, Ballymena, Belfast, Castleblayney, Coleraine, Drogheda, Dundalk, Letterkenny, Londonderry, Monaghan, Omagh, Portadown and Strabane. By the end of this year, the cable system will connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing transatlantic cable, thereby directly connecting Northern Ireland and the Island of Ireland to both North America and Europe.

For a map of the cable build or more on Hibernia Atlantic, please click here or visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/images/NIrelandMaps5-09_000.jpg.

Mzima Networks has added NetDNA to its extensive list of clients.  NetDNA, a high performance global content delivery network, has selected Mzima Networks as its primary service provider to deliver its high-performance content.  Key highlights include:

-          NetDNA will use Mzima’s 10 Gigabit backbone with over 1 Tbps of transit capacity and global peering capabilities

-          Mzima’s network reaches 90 countries an dover 500 global peering partners

-          Mzima’s network latency is 10-20 milliseconds from most of the United States, providing optimized performance

-          NetDNA is also leveraging Mzima’s intelligent best-path routing with a route analysis system that monitors packet loss and latency

For more information, please read the press release in its entirety below:  

  NetDNA™ SELECTS MZIMA NETWORKS TO FURTHER DRIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE CONTENT DELIVERY GLOBALLY WITH SPEED AND EFFICIENCY

 Los Angeles, CA – October 7, 2009 – Mzima Networks, the world’s premier high-performance Network Service Provider, and NetDNA, a leading Los Angeles-based content delivery network that accelerates content and websites through very fast and geographic strategically placed data centers throughout the world, today announce that NetDNA has selected Mzima’s low-latency, 10 Gigabit backbone with over 1 Tbps of transit capacity and global peering capabilities to deliver NetDNA’s high-performance, reliable content quickly and efficiently.

In examining each stage of its content delivery process, NetDNA identified key metrics to process and maximize speed and efficiency over its network, one of which included the need to install a system of computers, networked together across the Internet in order to transparently forward content closer to end users. After carefully evaluating major backbone providers, NetDNA found Mzima to be the logical partner for the task.

“Mzima is the best built and most optimized backbone network for the delivery of content to broadband users,” states Chris Ueland, President of NetDNA. “Mzima’s ten NetDNA locations connect to an array of global broadband users, reaching over 90 countries and over 500 global peering partners. Mzima meets and surpasses NetDNA’s core network requirements, specifically speed and availability.”

“Within ten of Mzima’s network locations, NetDNA has successfully deployed its global edge cloud solutions, leveraging the vast connectivity and proximity to Mzima’s network,” continues Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks.  “With Mzima’s network, latency is 10-20 milliseconds from most of the United States and NetDNA’s customers’ content is rapidly delivered to end users, optimizing performance by loading files from the nearest geographic location. Mzima provides NetDNA with intelligent best-path routing with a route analysis system that monitors packet loss and latency.  We also provide routing policies to ensure optimal performance across our backbone.”

For more information on Mzima Network, please visit www.mzima.net. For more information on NetDNA, please visit www.netdna.com.