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.

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

Chances are unless you live in California and speak Spanish, you haven’t heard of Blue Casa Telephone. But if you talk to any of their customers you’re likely to learn a few things. No. 1 – Blue Casa goes beyond simply providing telecommunications services and provides culturally relevant services that meet the unique needs of each of their customers. No. 2 – They do it really well!

One of the ways they accomplish this is through automation, yup, automation – more specifically, billing data process automation. Blue Casa Telephone employs a SaaS based billing tool provided by Contact Telecom (Billing Data Analyzer – BDA) that effectively manages and processes all of Blue Casa’s, billing, usage, and invoice data, in addition to other business-critical revenue and cost assurance analysis and reporting services. The Contact Telecom solution allows Blue Casa to focus on their customers, not paper.

“With tens of thousands residential and business customers and still growing, most of whom are bilingual and a good portion of which participate in the California LifeLine program, Contact Telecom offered Blue Casa a scalable, flexible and comprehensive solution to a particularly complex challenge with respect to our data processing and billing,” states Jeff Compton, CEO of Blue Casa Telephone. The Contact Telecom solution allows the company to maintain its personal touch and positions it to remain profitable in the future

Automation Drives Profitability! (And Customer Service too!)

To learn more about Contact Telecom, visit: http://www.contacttelecom.com/

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.

Sought-after industry Attorney, M. Gavin McCarty has joined Global Capacity as General Counsel. Mr. McCarty joins Global Capacity from Shefsky & Froelich where he is senior counsel in the general corporate law group, and focused on technology, Internet, regulatory, telecommunications and energy law.

Mr. McCarty has over fifteen years of telecommunications experience, having worked on a variety of initiatives including corporate work, mergers & acquisitions, commercial transactions, interconnection agreements, litigation, employment matters, software licensing, cloud computing and compliance issues.  He previously held senior executive positions at Globalcom Inc. and is on the board of directors of RootAxcess, LLC, a hosted computing and storage company that serves enterprise businesses.

To learn more about Gavin McCarty, visit http://globalcapacity.com/news/7. Since its acquisition by Pivotal Group in May 2011, Global Capacity has experienced steady growth. To learn more about its innovative solutions to streamlining the procurement of global access networks, visit http://globalcapacity.com or call 312-673-2400.

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.

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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One Marketplace Access Exchange, an automated exchange platform for pricing, procurement, provisioning, billing and operation of access networks, has achieved a significant milestone. In the past twelve months, the platform has provided over 1.5 million automated quotes to over 80 customers globally.  These quotes represent automated pricing from over 700 global suppliers, and have a monthly recurring value of over $675 million, which equates to an annualized value exceeding $8.1 billion.

This significant milestone comes only two days after Global Capacity announced that Pivotal Group, a leading investment firm, has bought the company and now has strong financial backing for necessary investments, such as evolving the One Marketplace Access Exchange platform. The details of the press release, in its entirety are below:

Global Capacity’s One Marketplace Access Exchange Achieves Significant Milestone

Quote and Order Volumes Growing at Unprecedented Rates

Chicago, IL, USA, May 18, 2011 – Global Capacity, the leading telecommunications information and logistics company, announces that its One Marketplace Access Exchange has achieved a significant milestone with its recent, unprecedented market momentum. In the past twelve months, One Marketplace, an automated exchange platform that connects customers and suppliers and enables efficient pricing, procurement, provisioning, billing and operation of access networks, has provided over 1.5 million automated quotes to over 80 customers globally.  These quotes represent automated pricing from over 700 global suppliers, and have a monthly recurring value of over $675 million, which equates to an annualized value exceeding $8.1 billion.

One Marketplace Access Exchange improves pricing and delivery efficiencies and reduces the costs of access networks globally.  By providing customers a single interface through which to design, price and fulfill multi-vendor, multi-geography access network requirements, One Marketplace dramatically simplifies and accelerates the access network lifecycle for customers.  By providing suppliers direct access to a high volume of qualified customer demand, it reduces the selling, general and administrative expenses of demand generation, while increasing opportunities to deliver high margin, on-net services.

One Marketplace Access Exchange provides customers automated access to customized pricing based on customer-specific requirements.  These requirements include location data, supplier rates, and design and engineering rules that are unique to that customer.  In addition to providing customers automated access to their customized rates, One Marketplace Access Exchange also provides customers competitive market rates from multiple suppliers through the Exchange platform. Over 1,750 orders from 22 customers have been delivered directly over customer interconnections to the One Marketplace Access Exchange.  These orders were delivered via One Marketplace interconnections with 10 different suppliers.

“We are extremely pleased with the market response to our One Marketplace Access Exchange platform,” states Patrick Shutt, CEO of Global Capacity.  “The global market for access networks is highly fragmented and inefficient, and as we have stated since we founded this business model in 1997. There is no one supplier that has a ubiquitous footprint.  One Marketplace Access Exchange provides an automated platform that simplifies the process, reducing costs for customers, while simultaneously increasing the demand for high value, on-net services for suppliers.  As more and more customers and suppliers participate in the Exchange, the opportunity to deliver ubiquitous access solutions over a single platform becomes a reality.”

For more information on how to participate in the One Marketplace Access Exchange, visit www.globalcapacity.com, or meet Global Capacity at ITW in Washington, DC May 23-25, 2011.

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.

Making news at the annual Pacific Telecommunicaions Council (PTC) conference in Honolulu is PacketExchange, the next generation Ethernet and IP network service provider with reach across Europe, North America and Asia, as it unveils its cloud computing networking solution – Network Infrastructure-as-a-Service (NIaaS).

PacketExchange’s NIaaS provides enterprise organizations a way to reliably and securely access cloud-hosted applications. At a time when companies are increasingly sourcing their computing requirements from the cloud, whether public or private, the method by which they are accessed becomes ever more-important. As more mission-critical business processes migrate to the cloud, enterprises will demand faster, more secure network access into this infrastructure than the public Internet alone can offer. NIaaS illustrates PacketExchange’s ability to dynamically route data traffic across its converged global private and public IP network infrastructure to provide an optimized solution ideal for cloud-based applications. As well as the enterprise, the solution offers Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies and content providers a secure and reliable way to access, distribute and share information within a cloud-networking environment.  With a focus on premium service delivery, putting network security, visibility and scalability at the forefront, PacketExchange offers companies the ability to choose the best available paths for data by dynamically utilising private and public infrastructures. 

“Our experience in providing private, custom data delivery solutions to businesses that rely on the cloud has allowed us to engineer network solutions that assure the quality of service these applications demand,” comments Grant Kirkwood, CTO of PacketExchange.  “With 100% SLA guarantees across our network, PacketExchange provides a reliable and robust infrastructure that offers the bandwidth flexibility needed to meet the dynamic needs of cloud-based data communications.” 

According to the 451 Group, the cloud computing industry will grow from revenues of $8.7 Billion in 2010 to $16.7 Billion in 2013.  More and more companies will rely on web-based applications and services, which will put an increased burden on networks globally.  By leveraging multiple access technologies across a converged network solution, PacketExchange enables companies to leverage a shared or ‘cloud-based’ infrastructure. In turn, this allows for resources to be provisioned on-demand, creating a high-quality, reliable virtual and scalable network infrastructure. 

Take the Poll

PacketExchange’s Network Infrastructure-as -a -Service solution is used by leading Software-as-as-Services (SaaS) providers and enterprise businesses globally.   Cloud-based applications require a smooth journey to its destination and PacketExchange’s global Ethernet network assures a quality data transport experience.  Hence, network managers and industry experts are asked to weigh in on whether it is the Journey or the Destination that is most important.  To vote Journey or Destination, go to http://packetexchange.net/cpns/is-it-the-journey-or-the-destination/.   

To find out more about PacketExchange’s global Ethernet network delivery solutions visit www.packetexchange.net or email sales@packetexchange.net.

Jaymie Scotto & Associates invites you to take advantage of the early-bird savings until midnight on January 5th for the Telecom One-on-One (T1on1) Power Networking Event colocated with ITEXPO. The event is being held on February 1st, 2010 in Miami, FL.  T1on1 is an industry networking event aimed at bringing buyers and sellers of telecom networks together to conduct business. Register now and receive the early-bird discount, saving you 28% on registration fees.

The Miami event is projected to be the largest T1on1 event to date! T1on1 attracts top thought leaders from companies like: Allied Fiber, Arbinet, CSF Corporation, Deutsche Telekom, DIDXchange, GlobeNet, HyperCube, INOC, Oak Tree IT Consulting, One Source Networks, PacketExchange, PGi, Starview Technology, Telx, Tinet, XKL, and more. To view a complete list of registered attendees please visit, http://telecom1on1-itexpo2011.eventbrite.com.

Once registered, attendees can schedule meetings using our online meeting management system, DealCenter. Request and arrange your meeting schedule before, during and after the event. All meetings occur on-site, in 20-minute intervals, throughout the three-hour event.

Sponsorships are still available; if you are interested in becoming a sponsor of T1on1 please contact events@jaymiescotto.com. View a list of available sponsorships at http://www.jaymiescotto.com/clients/documents/NewJSAEventSponsorship-MiamiFL_001.pdf.

We hope to see you in Miami!