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

Big financial news announced today at the inaugural Telecom Exchange held at NYC’s landmark Cipriani on Wall Street. BATS Global Markets secured low latency access from Hibernia Atlantic connecting its BATS financial Exchanges in the U.S. and Europe to Hibernia’s Global Financial Network (GFN). The GFN not only provides one of the fastest connections to key financial cities and Exchanges, but it also offers 100% secure connectivity to BATS and others with its ‘Hibernia Secure’ failover routing.   Multiple guaranteed route options ensure that clients have the most reliable and secure connectivity to conduct financial trades and transactions.

Financial traders around the world now have the capability to connect into the BATS markets from over 120 key financial cities on the GFN network.  For more information on the Global Financial Network and its industry leading 5 day turn-ups, please read below or visit www.hiberniagfn.com.

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC’S GLOBAL FINANCIAL NETWORK (GFN)

PROVIDES LOW-LATENCY ACCESS TO BATS GLOBAL MARKETS’ U.S. AND EUROPEAN EQUITIES MARKETS

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND – June 29, 2011 - Hibernia Atlantic, the only US-owned, diverse transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces today that its Global Financial Network (GFN) now provides access to the BATS Exchanges in the U.S. and BATS Europe, operated by BATS Global Markets. In the U.S., the BATS Exchanges (BATS BZX Exchange and BATS BYX Exchange) handle approximately 10-11% of all equities trading and BATS Options handles approximately 4% of all equity options trading. BATS Europe operates an FSA-authorised multilateral trading facility (MTF) for pan-European equity securities with approximately 6% pan-European market share and 11% of the FTSE 100.

Hibernia’s GFN can now provide traders from around the world the ability to connect into the BATS markets from anywhere on the GFN network, including over 120 key financial cities with an industry-leading 5-day turn-up. Hibernia is also offering “Hibernia Secure’, a single interface to a secure, reliable and dedicated platform.  ‘Hibernia Secure’ offers multiple route options, providing 100% guaranteed uptime between BATS and other critical trading routes. “We are delighted that Hibernia is committed to working with us to bring their customers seamless, low-latency access to our markets in the U.S. and Europe,” states Chris Isaacson, Chief Operating Officer at BATS Global Markets. “We’re committed to easing frictions in the marketplace for our market participants, so we’re excited when key industry providers such as Hibernia link to our venues and increase connectivity choice for our customers.”

Hibernia’s GFN is a purpose-built, exclusive network for the financial industry, including banks, financial exchanges and trading firms. Specifically designed to meet the demanding performance and reliability requirements of the financial community, the GFN offers access to key metro markets and financial exchanges in North America, UK, Europe and now the Asia Pac-Rim. With over 120 points of presence, Hibernia’s GFN is built upon 24,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable, extending to the world’s key financial cities. Additionally, the company offers an industry-leading 5-day turn-up or the first month free.

“Our innovative GFN enables traders and exchanges to execute trades faster and more efficiently,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic. “Clients can now securely connect to BATS from any point on the GFN, expanding network availability and delivering high performance network services to the global financial community. We are also providing an extra layer of diversity and security; ‘Hibernia Secure’ will automatically re-route traffic to a secondary route of the client’s choice in the unlikely event of signal loss. With multiple route choices in and around London and across the globe, Hibernia’s ultra low latency routes and diverse back-up routes ensure customers receive top quality service at all times.”

To find out more information on the GFN, please contact sales@hiberniaatlantic.com or visit www.hiberniagfn.com.

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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 120 Points of Presence (PoPs) into key capital market cities in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, mainland Europe and the Pacific Rim. Hibernia is building the lowest latency connectivity from New York to London with sub 60 ms RTD called Project Express. For more information, please visit www.hiberniagfn.com.

For Hibernia media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates | +1.866.695.3629

pr@jaymiescotto.com

About BATS:

BATS Global Markets (BATS) is a leading operator of stock and options markets around the globe. BATS operates two stock exchanges in the U.S., the BATS BZX Exchange and BYX Exchange; BATS Options, a U.S. equity options market; and BATS Europe, an FSA-authorised multilateral trading facility in Europe. Each of these marketplaces is powered by BATS’ innovative and proprietary technology that was developed by a dedicated core team of market and technology professionals, catering to the needs of the broker-dealer and trading community. The company is headquartered in the Kansas City, Mo., area with additional offices in New York and London. For more information, visit www.batstrading.com.

BATS … Making Markets Better.

For BATS media inquiries, please contact:

Kelly Bailey or Stacie Fleming

BATS Global Markets

Phone: +44 (0) 207.012.8950 or +1.913.815.7193

Email: comms@batstrading.com

Is your company prepared for Hurricane Season? This time of year Gulf coast companies are preparing their infrastructures, networks, and employees to be ready in the midst of a natural disaster. Companies such as Delta Rigging and Tools (DR&T) look to Data Foundry to help augment business continuity plans and beef up disaster recovery efforts. DR&T chose Data Foundry for its main hub to support its entire corporate network, utilizing colocation space, along with primary and back-up Internet connections. Data Foundry operates 2 premium data centers in the Austin area - located away from the high risk Gulf Coast hurricane zone with easy access on major highways.  So you can not only protect your critical operations, but also get to it quickly and easily if disaster strikes.

By utilizing Data Foundry’s premium data center, colocation and worksite recovery services, enterprises, oil and gas, financial firms and service providers can ensure their critical IT operations remain up and running not matter what may be brewing in the Gulf this season.  Find out more below or visit www.datafoundry.com

DELTA RIGGING AND TOOLS INC. OUTSOURCES ITS CORPORATE

DATA CENTER TO DATA FOUNDRY

Austin, TX – June 22, 2011 – Data Foundry, a leading provider of data center outsourcing and colocation services, announces today that Delta Rigging and Tools, Inc. (DR&T), the largest U.S. provider of industrial lifting products and services, has chosen to outsource its corporate data center to Data Foundry. Delta Rigging and Tools relies on Data Foundry’s secure, carrier-neutral facility to effectively and reliably manage its primary corporate servers.

DR&T offers a complete portfolio of lifting solutions across a wide range of industries including Oil & Gas and Transportation. With their corporate office based in the Houston area, DR&T requires a secure colocation facility located away from the high risk Gulf Coast hurricane zone. Data Foundry’s Austin Data Center is DR&T’s main hub for its entire corporate network, utilizing colocation space, along with primary and back-up Internet connections. Data Foundry’s data centers located in Austin, Texas provide a stable environment due to the region’s low incidence of natural disasters.

“Data Foundry’s strategic location away from the Gulf Coast hurricane zone and its strong reputation in the industry were the deciding factors in our selection,” states Adam Orgeron, IT Manager of Delta Rigging. “The Data Foundry team took the time to listen and provide us with the best, most cost-effective solutions, rather than just trying to make a quick sale. I was confident that we were receiving a true consultation and the level of professionalism was beyond our expectations.”

“Delta Rigging joins a growing trend of Houston-based companies moving their primary production servers to Austin,” states Shane Menking, President and CFO of Data Foundry. “Our Austin facilities provide an ideal location for companies trying to protect their mission-critical operations from a natural disaster.”

Data Foundry has been operating data centers for over 16 years and its Austin facilities include ADC, in operation since 2003, and Texas 1, Data Foundry’s newest data center. Texas 1 offers 12 megawatts of power independently fed from two power substations and a chilled water cooling system that supports any power density.

For more information, please visit www.datafoundry.com, or email sales@datafoundry.com.

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About Data Foundry
Data Foundry provides comprehensive wholesale and retail data center outsourcing, colocation, and disaster recovery services.  The company provides its customers with secure premium facilities for servers and equipment, emergency workspace and carrier-neutral network accessibility, supported by experienced onsite technicians and customer support 24/7/365.  The company supports more than 1,000 enterprise customers across a variety of industries including energy, healthcare and financial services. Founded in 1994, Data Foundry was the first Internet Service Provider in San Antonio and one of the first 50 Internet Service Providers in the United States. Today, Data Foundry operates data centers in Austin and Houston and owns private networks in Austin, Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. For more information, visit www.datafoundry.com or call 1.888.839.2794.

About Delta Rigging & Tools

Delta Rigging & Tools, Inc. (DR&T) is the largest US provider of lifting products and services. DR&T offers a complete portfolio of lifting solutions, including hoists, winches, wire rope, wire and synthetic slings, accessory parts, and hardware as well as testing, inspection, and field services. DR&T serves both domestic and international customers through 14 sales and service facilities and 2 primary distribution centers located around the country. The company provides complete lifting and rigging solutions and support for a diverse range of markets, including Oil & Gas production and distribution, Energy and Power-Generation, Mining, Transportation, Heavy Manufacturing and Construction. For more information please visit: www.deltarigging.com or call 1.877.408.8008.

For Data Foundry media inquiries, please contact pr@datafoundry.com or call 888.839.2794.

Data Foundry is a trademark of Data Foundry, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

For Delta Rigging & Tools media inquiries, please contact Eric Johnson, VP Marketing, at ejohnson@deltarigging.com

Metro|NS is a leading optical network planning, design, construction and maintenance firm with a successful history of serving the financial, service provider, wireless, enterprise and carrier communities.

Delivering the lowest latency and most reliable networks and connections in and around the New York metro area, Metro|NS can assist with any stage of network development.

To learn more, please visit www.MetroNS.com or to follow the discussion on Twitter, click HERE

Read the latest blog by their CTO, Doug Haluza, below:

COHERENT OPTICS

As the need for speed took fiber optic transmission beyond 10 Gbps per channel, long-range optical transponders have moved beyond the Morse code-like on-off keying (OOK) used in fiber optic communications for decades. More sophisticated modulation and demodulation schemes are commonly used in modern wireless equipment where radio frequency bandwidth is scarce, but had not been widely applied to optical transmission where bandwidth is more plentiful. For example, a 50 MHz channel bandwidth is relatively wide-band for licensed microwave radio, while 50 GHz channel spacing in DWDM optical transmission is relatively common.

OOK is cheap and works well on standard single-mode fiber up to speeds around 10 Gbps, providing little commercial demand for more efficient optical modulation to this point. At 10 Gbps, fiber impairments like dispersion come into play, and fiber characterization testing and dispersion compensation are needed to ensure reliable operation. At higher data rates dispersion sensitivity increases, and more dispersion compensation is required. Quadrupling the data rate using the same modulation would require sixteen times the dispersion compensation. 40 Gbps optics would not be as widely deployed if network operators had to re-engineer their DWDM networks again, as was the case when moving from 2.5 to 10 Gbps.

Coherent optical receivers had been a hot topic of research in the 1970s and 1980s when system reach was limited by signal attenuation in the fiber. A coherent receiver is less noisy and can reliably detect a weaker signal, thereby extending the distance between network elements. Once optical amplifiers were developed, they became the preferred solution to the attenuation problem, and work on coherent optics was largely abandoned.

To read the rest of the blog, please click HERE or visit http://www.metrons.com/blog

Hibernia Atlantic just announced its now bundling its 100% uptime guarantee with ‘Hibernia Secure’ on its fastest Global Financial Network (GFN) routes connecting Chicago, London, Frankfurt, New York, and London. Now service providers, financial firms and enterprise companies can securely connect to Hibernia’s GFN and rest assured their trades and transactions are fast, reliable and safe.

Dedicated to securely connecting the financial industry, including banks, financial exchanges and trading firms, Hibernia’s GFN has a resilient, reliable, dedicated platform, ‘Hibernia Secure’, to ensure safer and faster trading. With service available from 10 Mbps to 1 Gpbs, ‘Hibernia Secure’ offers one single interface with multiple route options, providing 100% guaranteed uptime between critical trading routes.

All of this coupled with Hibernia’s industry-leading 5-day turn-up or 1 month free, gives clients increased speed, and reach to key financial cities around the globe.

For more information, please visit www.hiberniagfn.com

Hibernia Atlantic’s ‘Hibernia Secure’ Service Now Offers Guaranteed 100% Availability on Its Fastest Lit Connections between Chicago, Toronto, New York Metro, London and Frankfurt

SUMMIT, N.J. & DUBLIN– Hibernia Atlantic, the only US-owned, diverse transatlantic high bandwidth connectivity provider, announces today it will bundle its industry leading 100% uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA) with Hibernia Secure on its lowest latency lit capacity between key U.S. and European financial cities. The ‘Hibernia Secure’ service adds dedicated network protection across its low latency failover routes on Hibernia’s Global Financial Network (GFN) and adds an additional layer of protection for financial firms’ critical communications.

“GFN’s customers now have, with one single connection, access to multiple low latency network routes between key financial cities such as New York and Chicago and the peace of mind that comes with our improved SLA.”

Hibernia Secure, like Hibernia’s standard GFN service, also offers industry-leading, rapid 5-day installations, from signature to service, or will receive one month of free service guaranteed. Secure was created to meet the demands of the financial community asking for dedicated network protection over low latency failover routes between Chicago, Toronto, New York Metro, London and Frankfurt. Additionally, for a limited time, Hibernia Secure customers will be given 1 and 2 months of free service on 12 and 24-month term contracts, respectively.

“GFN’s customers now have, with one single connection, access to multiple low latency network routes between key financial cities such as New York and Chicago and the peace of mind that comes with our improved SLA,” states Eric Gutshall, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Hibernia Atlantic. “This in turn strengthens GFN’s speed and delivery to other highly sought-after financial cities, and provides a true competitive advantage for financial firms and high frequency traders globally.”

To view the GFN network map, please visit: http://www.hiberniagfn.com/documents/GFN_StatSheet_0211.pdf

To find out more information on the GFN and Hibernia Secure, please contact sales@hiberniaatlantic.com or visit www.hiberniagfn.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 120 Points of Presence (PoPs) into key capital market cities in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Ireland, mainland Europe and the Pacific Rim. Hibernia is building the lowest latency connectivity from New York to London with sub 60 ms RTD called Project Express. For more information, please visit www.hiberniagfn.com.