Global Capacity recently announced that Mark Maletz, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School; and Mohsen Moazami, Corporate Vice President, Emerging Markets & Globalization Centre at Cisco, have joined the Company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Maletz and Mr. Moazami will provide strategic guidance to the Company as it continues to execute its innovative business model, leveraging One Marketplace Access Exchange to provide transparency and automation in the global access network market.

“We are extremely fortunate that Mark and Mohsen have agreed to join our Advisory Board,” said F. Francis Najafi, Chairman of the Board of Global Capacity, and CEO of Pivotal Group.  “I have personally known both for many years, and their accomplishments speak for themselves.  We will benefit greatly by having them as part of our team.”

Mark Maletz is a senior fellow at the Harvard Business School. He is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of strategy, leadership development and organizational transformation. Previously, Maletz was a partner at McKinsey & Company and a leader of the firm’s organization practice. He was also a professor at Babson College, where he pioneered experiential approaches to leadership development and the shaping of organizational culture, including work in the area of corporate entrepreneurship. He is a founder of the Center for Research on Corporate Performance; and the chairman of the executive committee of the EastWest Institute, a member of the board of SKIL Group (a Mumbai-based infrastructure development company), and sits on the boards of three entrepreneurial technology businesses.

Mohsen Moazami is a proven leader with extensive experience in business leadership and technology-enabled business transformation.  As vice president of the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), Moazami was responsible for the Emerging Markets (Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Russia, CIS countries, and Africa); and for the Cisco Globalization Centre in Bangalore, India. Moazami was a member of the Senior Leadership Team responsible for Cisco’s strategy, operations and financial results across Emerging Markets.  Moazami was a member of Cisco’s Emerging Countries Council, overseeing Cisco’s investment and operations across all Emerging Markets, including China and India. Moazami is a member of the Investment Advisory Council of the Turkish Prime Minister and served as a member of the Strategy Council of the Global Alliance for ICT and the Development of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA-GAID). Before joining IBSG, Moazami was a vice president/senior partner at Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), in charge of the global e-business practice. Prior to KSA, Moazami founded and oversaw the growth of Stanford Business Systems, an ICT software and consulting firm, later acquired by KSA.

“We are extremely pleased that Mark and Mohsen have agreed to lend their leadership to our efforts at Global Capacity,” said Patrick Shutt, Global Capacity CEO.  “The depth of their experience is truly exceptional, and their advice and guidance will prove invaluable as we continue the growth and evolution of our innovative business model.”

To learn more about Global Capacity and its automated solutions that streamline the procurement of global access networks, visit http://globalcapacity.com

To learn more about the Pivotal Group, visit: http://www.pivotalgroup.com/index.html

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.

Here at JS&A, we take great pride in serving the best of the best in the telecom industry. We are very proud to announce today that we have been appointed by Contact Telecom LLC, a cloud-based SaaS solution provider offering fully automated inventory and invoice validation, auditing and reconciliation services to the telecommunications industry, to direct and implement its public relations and marketing communications strategy and efforts.

“It is with great pleasure that we welcome our newest client, Contact Telecom,” states Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO and Founder of Jaymie Scotto & Associates.  “Contact Telecom is a well-established, integrated solutions provider, offering a unique product that allows carriers the ability to cost effectively and comprehensively manage their invoice and usage data, and facilitate their cost management, revenue assurance and customer initiatives. Contact Telecom offers their clients in the telecom marketplace a competitive edge, particularly when streamlining their billing processes, improving efficiencies and achieving cost savings.”

“We are most pleased to work with JS&A, a dynamic, highly focused public relations firm with considerable background and expertise in delivering strategic branding, design and effective communications to the marketplace,” comments James Buttafuoco, Managing Partner for Contact Telecom. “Our services and solutions are proven to save our clients time and money. And with JSA’s guidance, we can showcase these solutions throughout the industry and help service providers automate their data processing – and drive profitability.”

What’s really cool about Contact Telecom is its flagship service, Billing Data Analyzer (BDA). BDA is an innovative, secure and highly scalable web-based software service platform that allows communication service providers the ability to ‘put their data to work,’ improving the business bottom line in various environments. BDA ensures the AP process is quicker, and 100% accurate, saving companies time and money while increasing control, flexibility and efficiency.

Contact Telecom also has a brand new website, unveiled to the public yesterday, August 17. Check it out here: www.contacttelecom.com.

To read the full media alert announcing Contact Telecom’s hiring of Jaymie Scotto & Associates, visit: http://www.contacttelecom.com/?page_id=663.

From all of us here at JS&A, we’d like to give a big ‘THANK YOU’ to Contact Telecom! We are so excited to work with you.

Join TELEHOUSE America on July 21st at 11 am for the second part of its Peering Webinar Series. Building on the presentation from Peering 101, TELEHOUSE will dive deeper into the technical aspects of Peering.

The webinar will examine the ways of connecting to TELEHOUSE’s Peering Exchange, how to maximize peering and share traffic, and how TELEHOUSE’s equipment can offer new, advanced services beyond the standard Peering Exchange. Featured speakers include Akio Sugeno, VP of Internet Engineering and Operations and Fred Cannone, Director of Sales.

Register now to secure your participation in the second part of TELEHOUSE’s Peering Webinar Series. For more information please email, elizabeth.mustacchio@telehouse.com.

Nowadays babies cry if they don’t have mommy’s cell phone in hand while elementary school kids are surpassing their parents with computer knowledge. The speed this is all occurring is faster than you can say gigabyte. According to a report by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and the Sesame Workshop, two education non-profit organizations, nearly 80 percent of American children between the ages of 0 and 5 use the Internet on at least a weekly basis. Children ages 8 to 10 are exposed to an 8 hours of media a day (!), through television, video games and the Internet.

This is where Web Wise Kids and Jaymie Scotto and Associates (JS&A) come in. Web Wise Kids (WWK) is a national non-profit organization that has provided today’s e-generation valuable lessons for over 10 years by using unique computer games with fun, interactive simulations based on real-life criminal cases. Key educational tools and safety effort for kids and teens include: cyber bullying, sexting, predators and more. WWK programs have reached more than ten million children and thousands of parents nationwide in conjunction with school systems, law enforcement, and community-based youth organizations.

Understanding the importance of this, JS&A works with the non-profit organization on a pro bono agreement, as the PR firm believes strongly in Web Wise Kids’ mission to provide more education on online safety for children, teachers and parents. JS&A provides Web Wise Kids with strategic marketing and public relations support, including writing and distributing press releases, media outreach, collaboration for creative fundraising and support with online platforms and video to help promote Web Wise Kids’ programs.

This summer and fall, Web Wise Kids will have many exciting announcements to share. Stay tuned for future updates!

For more information on Web Wise Kids, visit www.webwisekids.org. Follow Web Wise Kids on Twitter at @webwisekids, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/webwisekids or YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/webwisekids. To donate to Web Wise Kids, http://www.webwisekids.org/donate.

For more information about Jaymie Scotto & Associates visit, www.jaymiescotto.com. Follow JS&A on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JaymieScottoandAssociates, LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/jaymie-scotto-&-associates, and Twitter via JS&A’s industry blog, Telecom News Now http://twitter.com/#!/TNNTelecomNews.

MegaPath, the largest, privately-held, end-to-end, facilities-based data, VoIP and security technologies provider, has selected Global Capacity’s One Marketplace Access Exchange platform, an intelligent quoting platform that provides fast and accurate delivery of competitive market rates.

Since choosing One Marketplace Access Exchange, MegaPath has automated its quote processes while gaining visibility to pricing available from its existing suppliers, as well as from a global marketplace of competitive providers.

One Marketplace Access Exchange is a robust quoting tool that increases MegaPath’s customer response time, automates the process and provides seamless fulfillment of orders placed with One Marketplace suppliers. The tool is supplier neutral, and allows competitive bids from a marketplace of providers, including MegaPath’s existing supplier relationships.

The entire release can be viewed at http://globalcapacity.com/news/5. To learn more about Global Capacity and its One Marketplace Access Exchange, visit http://www.globalcapacity.com/onemarketplace.

PTGi ICS has joined the Telx Ethernet Exchange to simplify access for its Metro New York customers. This interconnection will leverage the facility-neutral Ethernet Exchange to enable fast and cost-effective access to PTGi’s data services platform. As a long standing customer of Telx, the Ethernet Exchange is an additional way for customers in the New York metro area to reach PTGi’s data services platform as well as thexchange^SM to buy and sell VoIP termination.

Interconnecting at the Telx Ethernet Exchange eliminates the need for a local loop, and provides PTGi with connectivity from 60 Hudson Street, 111 8^th Avenue and Clifton, NJ. PTGi delivers innovative voice and IP solutions that assist communications companies in creating efficient and valuable global interconnections. Through the Telx Ethernet Exchange, PTGi can distribute their product set while offering greater connectivity to customers in the New York Metro area that require secure, flexible and cost-effective Internet and Voice over IP services.

To learn more about PTGi ICS and its voice and data services, visit www.ptgi.com/ics.

Global Capacity announces the launch of Lattis™ Global a proprietary, automated on-line tariff quoting system for the telecom industry. Building on the foundation of Lattis, which has been providing tariff pricing and quoting solutions to the US market for over 20 years, Lattis Global provides real time access to Global Capacity’s extensive database. The system contains nearly 2,000 distinct tariffs from 43 carriers in 35 countries. Lattis Global extends its legacy of success by bringing its Local Area Transport on-line quoting system to 35 countries worldwide.

To learn more about Global Capacity and Lattis Global, visit www.GlobalCapacity.com or meet with Global Capacity at ITW in Washington, DC on May 23-25, 2011 at Balcony B, Mezzanine Level.

The details of the press release, in its entirety are below:

Global Capacity Launches Lattis^TM Global

On-line Tariff Quote Tool Provides Telecommunications Coverage in 35 Countries

Chicago, IL, USA, May 23, 2011 – Global Capacity, the world’s leading telecommunications information and logistics company, announces the launch of Lattis Global, a proprietary, automated on-line tariff quoting system for the telecom industry.  Lattis Global builds on the foundation of Lattis^TM, which has been providing tariff pricing and quoting solutions to the US market for over 20 years.  With more than 100 customers, Lattis has become the de facto standard database to source US-based Inter and Intra-local access price quotes.  Lattis Global extends its legacy of success by bringing its Local Area Transport on-line quoting system to 35 countries worldwide.

Lattis Global provides customers with automated, real time access to Global Capacity’s extensive database of global telecommunication locations, suppliers and pricing data, providing the capability to generate accurate, up-to-date price quotes based on telecommunications tariffs for Leased Line and Ethernet services. Lattis Global contains nearly 2,000 distinct tariffs from 43 carriers in 35 countries.  The system also contains over 10 million discrete points of geographic and telecommunication location data, a critical component in establishing a validated address, which is a fundamental element of calculating an accurate tariff quote.  Pricing information is obtained through Global Capacity’s web-enabled database offering; users have the ability to quickly and consistently develop quotations, store results for current and historical reference and create reports from a single, centralized source.  By automating the process to generate an accurate tariff quote, Lattis Global dramatically reduces the time, effort and cost of quote management, providing a boost in efficiency for back-office operations of carriers, integrators and service providers around the world.

“Having an accurate understanding of tariff rates is the foundation of access pricing in the global market,“ states Patrick Shutt, CEO of Global Capacity.  “Quickly and accurately calculating the accurate tariff rate allows organizations to correctly apply negotiated discounts, enabling them to realize the benefit of specificrates they have negotiated with preferred suppliers. Lattis Global provides customers a one-stop shop for accurate tariff pricing in 35 countries around the world, eliminating the need for multiple systems and cumbersome manual processes.  Lattis Global helps reduce back office costs for customers, while automating and improving the accuracy and efficiency of the quoting process, enabling correct market pricing.”

To secure a free trial of Lattis Global or for more information, visit www.globalcapacity.com.  Additionally, meet with Global Capacity at ITW in Washington, DC on May 23-25, 2011 at Balcony B, Mezzanine Level.

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About Global Capacity

Global Capacity is a telecommunications information and logistics company that improves the efficiency and reduces the cost of access networks globally.  Through its One Marketplace Access Exchange, the Company brings together customers and suppliers in an automated platform that provides ubiquitous access network solutions.  Global Capacity delivers its innovative solutions to Purpose-Built Integrators, Telecommunication Carriers, and Enterprise Customers globally.   Global Capacity is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with additional offices in Waltham, MA, Glastonbury, CT, Manchester, U.K., and Lisbon, Portugal.  For more information, please visit www.globalcapacity.com or contact the Company at 312-673-2400.

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ASHBURN, VIRGINIA – May 10, 2011– Telepresence Options, the leading publishing firm and website covering telepresence and effective visual collaboration, has announced the launch of Telepresence Options Magazine. The new periodical covers the revolution in telepresence conferencing, telepresence robotics and high-definition visual collaboration which is restructuring work, impacting business travel / airline profitability, and enhancing interaction of friends and families separated by distance.

The first issue of the magazine covers telepresence end-points and environments and is available in both hard copy and a digital edition.

Articles include:

• What is Telepresence?
• Understanding the Telepresence Marketplace: Endpoints & Environments
• Robotic Telepresence: A Primer & Tale of the Tape
• The ROI of Telepresence in a World of Economic & Geopolitical Uncertainty
• Creating Telepresence Environments: A Design Guide

Subscription is free and provides instant access to the digital edition at www.TelepresenceOptions.com/magazine The next issue which will be published in fall of 2011 will cover: Video Network Infrastructure, Managed Services, Internetworking, Security, and Exchange

About Telepresence Options

The Telepresence Options website at www.TelepresenceOptions.com is the #1 website in the world covering telepresence and effective visual collaboration with over 25,000+ unique visitors per month from 165+ countries. The Telepresence Options Telegraph newsletter has almost 5,000 subscribers and is the most widely read periodical in the world focused exclusively on telepresence and effective visual collaboration.