Last Wednesday, Sidera Networks and Ciena hosted a webinar about the positive effects technology has on the healthcare industry.
Today’s technology is significantly contributing to improvements in patient care – providing greater access to patient records, higher availability of applications and lower mortality rates in highly wired hospitals.

The “Building Healthcare Networks that Solve Big Data Congestion” webinar provided attendees with insight into the benefits of advanced networks in hospitals along with a real-world example from Elliot Health System, the largest provider of comprehensive healthcare services in Southern New Hampshire.

Key topics included:

• Is your network keeping up with the demands of new medical applications that can quickly congest your organization’s network with large data files?
• Do your future needs require that you adopt advanced electronic medical record archives or to make more network data available to improve diagnosis and patient care?

Featured speakers included Joseph Kestel, Vice President of Relevant C Business Group, Thomas Fairfield, Elliot Health System’s Manager of Technology, Maura Mahoney, Sidera’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development and Ray Patalano, Ciena’s Director of Channel Sales.

To view a replay of the webinar, please visit http://media.beaconlive.com/viewitem?bckt=99836. To learn more about Sidera’s services for the healthcare industry visit http://www.sidera.net/industry-solutions/healthcare.

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

Hibernia’s recent announcement with Huawei shows that Project Express is underway and taking the necessary steps to complete the cable build. The purpose of Project Express will be to connect London to New York, two of the largest exchanges, with the lowest latency. Announced in 2010, Project Express has made significant strides since then. November 2011 brought on the physical survey where ships surveyed the entire proposed route.

The significance of Hibernia’s latest news with Huawei is that manufacturing of the cable is now underway. With the cable manufacturing underway, the next step will be the installation and delivery of service. Project Express will be an essential key route addition to Hibernia Atlantic’s existing Global Financial Network (GFN), by uniting hundreds of financial exchanges and global banks with a single low latency connection.

For more information on Project Express, visit www.hiberniaatlantic.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

NeXXCom Wireless announces it has joined Allied Fiber’s Dark Fiber Community. NeXXCom is a broadband wireless equipment and systems business with technology leadership in system latency and expertise in building ultra broadband networks where latency performance is critical.

NeXXCom’s radio technology delivers the industry’s lowest latency, highest capacity carrier class radio system, which is essential to high performance, broadband wireless networks. NeXXCom provides fixed ultra broadband IP wireless transmission equipment up to 1000Mb/s optimized for video, latency, jitter and ease of integration along with system design, integration and implementation services.

For further information on NeXXCom’s high frequency ultra low latency solutions, click here.

For more information, visit http://dark-fiber.tmcnet.com.

GlobeNet and TE SubCom have commenced construction for the replacement of Segment 5 of GlobeNet’s high performance subsea cable system. This new subsea cable will provide more than 30 times the current capacity between Bermuda and the United States and is planned for completion in the first quarter of 2013.

The new segment will be approximately 1,350 km in length and is designed to support 150 wavelengths per fiber-pair at 100 Gbps per wavelength, giving the 2-fiber-pair system a total design capacity of 30 Terabits per second. It has the largest cross-sectional capacity per fiber pair of any system built or contracted to date.

Originally installed by TE SubCom in 1997, GlobeNet’s Segment 5 lands in St. David’s, Bermuda and Tuckerton, New Jersey. The replacement project includes the supply of new TE SubCom Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE), which allows transmission of multiple high-quality, high-bandwidth optical signals over ultra-long distances. To prepare for the upgrade, a marine route survey was completed in November 2011.

For more information, visit www.globenet.net.

Lightower Fiber Networks will attend PTC 2012 on January 15-18, 2012 at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, Hawaii. Attendees can meet with members of the Lightower team to discuss the latest network growth and recent 100G services announcement.

Lightower continues to aggressively expand its network in the Northeast while also maintaining a leadership position in new network technologies.  Last week, Lightower became the first metro fiber provider to roll out 100G services in the Northeast, including 40 Gb and 100 Gb Ethernet as well as 100 Gb wavelengths.  In 2011, Lightower introduced their Ultra-Low Latency Network which serves the financial industry in the New York City and New Jersey region.  Lightower has acquired six other companies in the Northeast over the past 3 years and has now established itself as the premier metro fiber and bandwidth provider between Boston and New York City and New Jersey.

For more information on Lightower, visit www.lightower.com.

Huawei Marine has signed a construction contract for Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN) Project Express. Huawei Marine recently completed the first phase of the project’s marine survey work and is now commencing the manufacturing of the necessary cables and wet plant for the project.

The Project Express segment of the GFN is scheduled to be ready for service during the summer of 2013. The system will involve a minimum of a 4-fibre pair repeatered submarine cable, providing connectivity between New York and London, initially using 40G technology with upgrades to 100G planned in the future.

The first phase of the system begins with laying a 4600KM cable from Brean in Somerset, United Kingdom to Halifax, Canada. This cable will then connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s current low latency cable, which runs from Halifax to the United States, passing from Lynn, near Boston, and onwards to New York. Project Express will become an essential route on Hibernia Atlantic’s GFN, uniting hundreds of global banks and financial exchanges with a single connection.

For more information on Project Express, visit www.hiberniagfn.com.

Sidera Networks announces the appointment of Clint Heiden as President. Heiden is responsible for all aspects of Sidera’s revenue generation, including sales, marketing, product management and sales engineering. His entrepreneurial approach to business and twenty plus years of telecom and Internet experience make him the perfect addition to Sidera Networks.

Prior to joining Sidera, Heiden served as President at PAETEC, where he led efforts related to the company’s fiber operations and the strategy for retaining and growing its largest accounts. He has also held executive positions at Intellifiber (Cavalier), Cable & Wireless America, Qwest, UUNET and InterCon Systems.

The full press release can be read at http://www.sidera.net/news/press-releases/sidera-networks-names-clint-heiden-as-president

Sidera Networks introduces Low Latency in Every Industry, a white paper that examines the importance of low-latency across education, healthcare, media, government and legal fields. In the past low latency was considered solely important to financial services. Today, 88% of IT decision makers across industries cite low latency as one of the most important qualities of their network.

Low latency has become an area of focus, as customers’ applications require more efficient network connectivity and speed has become a network “must have.” Educational institutions are utilizing high-speed networking solutions to leverage innovative technologies, such as video conferencing, live-streaming, and e-learning platforms. The healthcare industry requires high-speed networks to ensure optimal performance of critical applications for mobile equipment that can vastly improve quality of care. Those in media and government require fast and efficient networks to meet deadlines and gain access to real time information, while the legal industry’s focus is on high capacity networks to ensure uninterrupted access to data at all times.

Low latency requirements for the education, healthcare, media, government and legal industries all depend on the same foundation, the ability to design a network tailored to client’s requirements. To ensure your network is ideally suited to support your business needs and to download the complete white paper, click here. For more information about Sidera Networks, please visit www.sidera.net.