NeXXCom Wireless, a full service wireless product and system supplier with high packet microwave and millimeter wave solutions that drive next-generation IP networks, is deploying its state of the art ultra-low latency microwave radio technology. This technology  intends to cut more than 3 milliseconds (mS) from major fiber networks on the financial trading path between Chicago and New Jersey.

The increase in speed is expected to be highly beneficial  for financial trading firms. NeXXCom Wireless’ technology is below 10mS round trip today which is a significant improvement for High Frequency Trading. Sal S. Benti, CEO of NeXXCom Wireless notes “There is no way to accurately measure the effect of the speed increase but it has been estimated that each 1mS improvement can be worth $100 million to a financial trading firm. Our client firms are highly secretive about their trading network strategies and given the amount of profits involved, it’s understandable.”

NeXXCom Wireless has recently joined the Dark Fiber Community and will provide knowledge of wireless technology advancements to community members. Allied Fiber CEO and founder of the Dark Fiber Community, Hunter Newby commented “Fiber and microwave compliment each other in many areas including HFT and mobile backhaul for LTE. I suspect that as trading firms learn more about NeXXCom Wireless’ technology they will begin proliferating these ultra low latency networks around the glove in the not distant future to gain competitive advantage.”

For more information, please visit www.nexxcomwireless.com

TELEHOUSE and parent company KDDI recently launched a new Cloud portfolio, Telecloud, leveraging their state-of-the-art data centers and industry expertise. This private cloud solution offers enterprises a dedicated infrastructure platform to reliably host mission-critical applications.  Leveraging TELEHOUSE’s secure colocation and access to low latency, resilient networks, Telecloud can be deployed quickly and is an efficient approach to on-demand IT delivery.

Mr Tokuji Mitsui, Managing Director of KDDI and Telehouse Europe, stated: “Telecloud is a joint venture between two industry leaders. It marks the next stage in the evolution of Europe’s first purpose-built data centre provider and a step forward for the cloud industry. The data centre is at the heart of a cloud solution making the physical infrastructure the integral role in maintaining the reliability and accessibility of a company’s application. That is why the partnership of Telehouse and KDDI brings a new unique perspective to the cloud market.”

With cloud utilization on the rise, this joint venture is perfectly timed to meet the growing demand as companies look for increased IT flexibility and cost-savings.

Behind every cloud is a critical infrastructure – it takes secure colocation, resilient networking options, 24×7 support, and robust virtual security measures.  Telecloud offers a winning cloud combination.

For more information, please read the full announcement here: http://www.realwire.com/releases/KDDI-and-Telehouse-launch-Telecloud

Hibernia Atlantic announces that Atrato IP Networks has selected Hibernia Atlantic to provide additional capacity on its transatlantic network route, and between major US and European hubs. Atrato, whose customers range from small, privately owned companies to large enterprise firms and ISPs, require high-quality IP transit and direct connections to the world’s largest Internet Exchanges Points (IXPs).

Atrato IP Networks requires additional transatlantic network routes due to a rapid increase in business throughout the US and Europe. Atrato has an extensive network covering all the major points of presence (PoPs) in over 15 countries and connects to over 20 IXPs. Atrato selected Hibernia Atlantic to provide additional network capacity between Ashburn and Chicago; Chicago to New York; London to New York; New York to Ashburn; and London to Amsterdam.

For more information on Hibernia Atlantic, visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

We are witnessing history in the making with Hibernia Atlantic, and Huawei’s, joint completion of the first 100G transatlantic connection between Nova Scotia and England. This marks the highest capacity connection ever transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean, and it lays the foundation for rest of the deployments encompassing key routes. All of this is part of a massive subsea cable build which will eventually encompass over 5500 km of cable and offer ultra-low transatlantic latencies of under 60 MS RT – another first in the industry.

This large-scale deployment was made possible by in part by Huawei’s OptiX product series, which is a next generation, intelligent, Optical Transport Network (OTN) platform scalable to over 6 Tbps of switching capacity.

Hibernia, Huawei, and its subsidiary Huawei Marine, have an extensive history of providing industry firsts including:

• First 40 Gbps across the Atlantic
• First 40 Gbps across a subsea span
• First to offer 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN-PHY capacity across the Atlantic
• With the deployment of Project Express in 2012, the first transatlantic build in over ten years offering  the lowest latency available

To view Hibernia Atlantic’s global network map, please visit http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/HA_StatSheet_0511_000.pdf

For more information, please read the entire announcement here: http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/Hibernia_Atlantic_Huawei_100G_Test_PR_-_FINAL.pdf

GlobeNet is participating at Capacity North America, on October 26^th-27^th in Toronto. Erick Contag, Chief Operating Officer of GlobeNet, will speak on a panel discussing International Connectivity, particularly linking North America to new growth markets in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The panel will take place at 2 PM on October 26^th.

GlobeNet is a proven leader in assessing demand drivers and anticipating future growth between North and South America.  The company offers carriers and service providers its low latency wholesale capacity with network availability in excess of 99.99%.  GlobeNet delivers reliable, secure, bandwidth to support carriers and augment their networks throughout the Americas, including targeting new and emerging markets such as Manaus, the capital of the sate of Amazonas in Brazil. GlobeNet is proud to participate at Capacity’s North America conference and join a panel with other telecom thought leaders presenting on the latest opportunities and trends in a variety of  marketplaces.

To schedule a meeting with GlobeNet at Capacity North America, please contact marketing@globenet.net. For more information on GlobeNet, please visit www.globenet.net.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact Telecom LLC, announces the winner of its drawing held at the recent National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA) Finance & Accounting Conference in Chicago. Always a hot item at events and tradeshows, the iPad 2 was awarded to M. O’Neal Miller, Chief Executive Financial Operations for Horry Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (HTC). As an exclusive sponsor of the event, Contact Telecom showcased its Billing Data Analyzer (BDA), a scalable, Software-as-a-Service based business assurance platform.

Designed to automate, manage, and process billing and invoice data, BDA has proven to be a crucial time- and money-saving tool for carriers and telecommunication service providers.

Contact Telecom’s suite of services includes Reader+, which quickly integrates carrier invoices across an easy to use web interface; Cost Assurance, a tool that allows carriers to proactively uncover incorrect charges and recoup expenses; and Margin Assurance, which helps determine profitability.

“Financial and operations executives such as Mr. O’Neal Miller are approaching Contact Telecom every day, to learn about new solutions for business assurance,” comments James Buttafuoco, Managing Partner for Contact Telecom. “It’s critical for companies to arm themselves with proper tools so that revenue and cost assurance analysis can be conducted quickly and accurately, further ensuring profitability.”

For more information about Contact Telecom and how to automate data processing, please visit www.ContactTelecom.com.

Maura Mahoney, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Sidera Networks sums it up nicely in a recent article for Corp! Magazine – Low Latency is no longer solely imperative to the financial services industry, it is an area of focus for companies across a variety of industries. With the increase of cloud adoption and bandwidth-intensive applications, businesses are utilizing innovative operations that require more efficient network connectivity. Just as minimizing delays in transactions and increasing data speed are critical to success, performance delays can lead to costly outcomes.

_Low latency networks’ real time connectivity is ideal for businesses operating in today’s deadline-driven society. The connectivity facilitates more efficient collaboration between employees, customers, staff, students, and enterprises, saving time and money. For example, low-latency networks are a critical component to providing superior quality care in the healthcare industry. Real time connectivity allows for faster assessments, diagnoses, and collaboration between doctors and nurses.

Speed has become a network must have across industries. Low latency requirements and networks should be tailored to individual clients’ needs. To ensure that your network is suited to support your business’ needs consider the following:

Application performance on high-speed networks can be enhanced by combining low latency and high capacity.

1. High-speed networks act as the ideal platform for applications, such as video-conferencing, rich content, live-streaming media, and access to real-time information.
2. Improve the reliability and accessibility of your cloud-based Web applications via a low latency network.
3. The real-time connectivity provided by a low latency network is ideal for deadline-driven environments.
4. Low latency networks allow for more efficient collaboration, saving time and money.

To read the full release, please click here. For more information on Sidera Networks visit www.sidera.net.

Advanced IP technologies –  including SIP and Unified Communications – are key factors in providing enterprises the opportunity to efficiently and cost-effectively deploy a workforce across town, or across the globe.  As leaders in the advancement of mobility solutions, One Source Networks and Sonus will discuss the realities of today’s IP-based solutions and examine the key enablers of the VoIP movement for the enterprise market.

The webinar will take place on August 24^th at 1:00pm EST. Featured speakers include Jeff Betteker, COO of One Source Networks and Mykola Konrad, Director of Enterprise Product Management from Sonus Networks.

Register now to secure your participation. For more information please email, jsa_osn@jaymiescotto.com or visit www.onesourcenetworks.com.

Hibernia Atlantic further expands its diverse and reliable network into North West England.  Its transatlantic capacity now 
connects into UK Grid’s data center located in Manchester, UK. This high capacity network offers cost-effective, reliable and innovative network infrastructure for mission critical operations. Supporting the demand from this high growth area, Hibernia’s diverse and secure connectivity offers varied options for growing local and international clients.

UK Grid’s Machester One & Synergy House data center is a premium N+1 facility with over 75K of square feet.

“Hibernia Atlantic’s secure and diverse, high capacity connectivity, especially in and around the British Isles, makes them a natural partner to support our growing local, regional and international client base,” states Rob Garbutt, CEO for UK Grid. “With Hibernia Atlantic, our clients can further deliver cost-effective and highly reliable network services to support mission critical applications and IT requirements – all backed by industry leading SLAs.  We also have a direct and secure link between England, mainland Europe and North America, allowing our clients the necessary reach and flexibility necessary in today’s global economy.”

To read the press release in its entirety, please visit: http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com/documents/Hibernia_Atlantic-UK_Grid_PR-FINAL.pdf