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.

Sidera Networks’ Mary Stanhope, Senior Director of Products and Marketing, discussed hot technologies at the Wall Street Technology Association’s (WSTA) November seminar. The seminar focused on specialized technologies that promise significant advances for the financial industry.

What hot technology did Mary choose to discuss? Low latency. In her session, “The Competitive Advantage of Low Latency Connectivity,” Mary highlighted low latency as a key requirement for high frequency trading. She also explained how latency networks, such as Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency network, give users a competitive advantage over their competition.

Did you miss Mary’s discussion on low latency at the WSTA “Hot Technologies” seminar? Click here to download the full presentation on low latency in the financial industry.

Sidera Networks is participating in the Wall Street Technology Association’s (WSTA) “Hot Technologies” seminar. The seminar takes place in New York City tomorrow, November 15, and will focus on specialized technologies that promise significant advances for the financial industry.

Mary Stanhope, Sidera’s Senior Director of Product and Marketing, is presenting a session titled, “The Competitive Advantage of Low Latency Connectivity.” The session will discuss low latency as a key requirement for high frequency trading, its competitive advantage, and how it is achieved. During the session Mary will also discuss Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency network, which many financial institutions depend on for ultra low-latency connectivity.

The WSTA is a not-for-profit educational organization that focuses on technologies, operational approaches, and business issues for the global financial community. The WSTA offers a platform to meet the unique informational needs of IT and networking professionals in the financial community through seminars, roundtables, panel discussions, showcases, social events, and a quarterly educational Ticker Magazine.

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

Mary Stanhope, Senior Director of Product and Marketing for Sidera Networks is set to present at Light Reading’s 12^th annual Ethernet Expo. Ethernet expo is the must attend event for those in the Carrier Ethernet Market and takes place on November 8^th and 9^th in New York City.

Ms. Stanhope is presenting on the panel titled, “Enterprise Services – Low-Latency Soltuionts for Financial & Other Verticals.” The panel will explore low-latency Ethernet solutions designed to meet the needs of financial trading firms, exchanges, and investment banks. The speakers aim to highlight the use of more direct fiber routes and cutting-edge electronics to provide low-latency solutions within and between key metro markets, such as the next-generation metro area transport technology utilized by Sidera. 

Light Reading’s Ethernet events have a reputation for  assembling the best speakers and delivering the most     up-to-date analyses of the latest trends in the Carrier Ethernet Market. Dozens of experts including service providers, suppliers and analysts explore the hottest trends in Ethernet and map out where Ethernet will take us in the coming decade.  Its mission is to provide the most comprehensive, informative coverage of the Ethernet Revolution.

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.