And the awards just keep coming for One Source Networks (OSN), a managed voice and data solutions provider for the large enterprise market. Today the company announces its position as number 20 in Lead411’s 2011 Technology 200 list. In its second year, the Tech 200 list ranks technology companies with the highest percent of revenue growth from 2008 to 2010. Lead411 calculates revenue growth by percentages vs. dollar growth. With a growth percentage of 586.644%, One Source Networks is the only telecommunications service provider in the top twenty.

One Source Networks attributes its growth to ‘recruiting the best team top to bottom,’ according to Ernest Cunningham, President and CEO of OSN.  OSN’s mission is to collaborate with its customers by listening to their needs and providing technology solutions that directly address their issues without limiting their services to one vendor.  “We not only provide our people with the best tools to service our customers, but our customers also receive improved performance, flexibility and cost savings,” adds Cunningham.

All Tech 200 companies are privately held, U.S. based organizations with at least $500,000 million in revenue in 2010. Finalists are from the following industries: Software, Hardware, Internet, Media, Advertising, Wireless, Telecom, IT Services, eCommerce, or Consulting. As part of the application, participants were given a survey about their marketing spend, funding, ROI and overall outlook. Like, One Source Networks, 60.2% of Tech 200 applicants had never received funding of any kind and that 84% consider themselves profitable.

For more information about One Source Networks and its global voice and data
solutions for Fortune 1000 enterprises, visit www.onesourcenetworks.com or email marketing@onesourcenetworks.com.

To learn more about Lead411, visit the website at http://www.lead411.com/.

Zayo is a finalist in the Colorado Biz Top Company of the Year 2011. As part of being selected as a finalist, Colorado Biz Magazine interviewed Zayo CEO, Dan Caruso. In the video interview, Dan speaks about the rapid growth and increasing need for bandwidth caused by devices such as tablet computers and the move of businesses to cloud computing. Zayo is the behind-the-scenes infrastructure that supports this bandwidth. Dan also discusses Zayo’s involvement with high schools and universities throughout Colorado and the programs Zayo implemented to introduce students to the telecom industry.

Zayo provides bandwidth infrastructure solutions and network-neutral colocation services to carrier, enterprise, school, hospital and government customers. Headquarted in Louisville, Colorado, Zayo provides its services over a fiber network that spans multiple markets and states plus the District of Columbia.

For the complete video, click here. For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

Zayo announces its Chief Financial Officer, Ken desGarennes, will present at the Houlihan Lokey 2011 Technology, Media, Telecom and Gaming Conference taking place October 27, 2011 in New York City at the Grand Hyatt. Ken’s presentation will begin at 2:10pm EST.

As CFO of the Zayo Group, Ken is responsible for stewarding the company’s finances, including financial reporting and analysis, and various strategic initiatives. He has 14 years of experience in technology and communications and was recently recognized by the Denver Business Journal as 2011 CFO of the Year for his work with Zayo.  The conference will focus on opportunities in a dynamic marketplace and is a forum to expand industry contacts and gain insight into successful strategies across industries. Houlihan Lokey’s 2011 Technology, Media, Telecom & Gaming Conference will feature 40 companies presenting overviews of their businesses to prospective financial and strategic partners.

To meet with Zayo at an upcoming conference, email jsa_zayo@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on Zayo, visit www.zayo.com.

FiberMedia Group LLC  has been named a finalist  for the 2011 NJBIZ Business of the Year awards in the Emerging Business of the Year category. The awards, produced by NJBIZ, New Jersey’s premiere business news publication, are presented by EisnerAmper, LLP and sponsored by Sun National Bank, K&L Gates and CIGNA.

NJBIZ’s Business of the Year awards program celebrates New Jersey’s most dynamic businesses and business leaders who share a commitment to professional excellence, business growth and the community. Finalists were selected in six categories:  Business of the Year (1-50 Employees), Business of the Year (51-100 Employees), Business of the Year (100+ Employees), Corporate Citizen of the Year, Executive of the Year and Emerging Business of the Year.

FiberMedia’s enterprise-class resources on demand provide leading managed data center-as-a-service solutions that include colocation (space and power), managed services, cloud networking and virtualization solutions, business continuity and disaster recovery services.  Combined, these services provide the market holistic infrastructure service solutions.

The Business of the Year winners in each category will be announced during a formal awards dinner on December 5, 2011 at the Palace at Somerset Park in Somerset, NJ. For more information on FiberMedia, visit www.fibermedia.net.

Another cool win for Neutral Tandem! Honored for exceptional IP Communications Solutions in the form of an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award 2011 is the company’s new HD Voice Interconnection Service.

First launched in August 2011, Neutral Tandem’s HD Voice Interconnection Service is a straightforward service aimed at providing carriers and service providers, poised to launch wideband calling services, the ability to efficiently route HD Voice calls between competitive carriers and hosted Voice Application Providers.

“With the advancements in HD Voice technology, and the recent launch of our HD Voice Interconnect platform, we are pleased to receive TMC’s 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY
Excellence Award,” said Surendra Saboo, President and COO of Neutral Tandem. “It serves as a great recognition of Neutral Tandem’s innovation in high-definition voice routing and performance.”

“Taking risks to advance IP Communications technology and provide real solutions has earned Neutral Tandem recognition from the editors of INTERNET TELEPHONY and an INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award. The company’s HD Voice Interconnect service is a new cutting edge solution,” stated Erik Linask, Group Editorial Director of  INTERNET TELEPHONY. 

The 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the October 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com. For
more information, please visit www.tmcnet.com.

To learn more about Neutral Tandem and its award-winning services, please visit http://www.neutraltandem.com.

One Source Networks (OSN) announces it has been named a recipient of the of the 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award presented by INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine for its Enterprise VoIP solutions. As a publication of TMC, a global, integrated media company, INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine is a leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries.

One Source Networks employs VoIP technologies that provide mobility and enhance the efficiency and productivity of global organizations while leveraging public and private cloud-based infrastructure. The company’s VoIP solutions, including SIP Trunking and Virtual PBX, enable businesses to deploy cost-effective and reliable voice solutions that work in conjunction with existing traditional telephony solutions. OSN’s platform is entirely SIP based and supports HD Voice, which in turn increases call quality up to five times over traditional PSTN lines. This technology, coupled with OSN’s global reach enables companies to save money while increasing the productivity of their workforce.

The 2011 INTERNET TELEPHONY Excellence Award winners are published in the October 2011 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, www.itmag.com. For more information on One Source Networks, visit www.onesourcenetworks.com.

One Source Networks (OSN) announces it has achieved first place on the Austin Business Journal’s Fast 50 list. This list recognizes the fastest growing private companies in Central Texas, ranking Austin-area companies based on compounded annual average sales growth over three years. As an active member of the Austin community, OSN is pleased to be included among this list of industry leaders.

One Source Networks provides managed voice and data network solutions by combining its own fully redundant global network infrastructure with over 150 best of breed global network providers to create custom solutions for corporate network requirements. Leveraging its cloud-based Voice over IP (VoIP) and multimedia services, OSN offers professionally engineered solutions to meet business` communications needs. OSN designs holistic, converged networks that offer flexibility and reliability that serve the needs of today while anticipating the needs of tomorrow.

For more information on One Source Networks, visit www.onesourcenetworks.com.

Congratulations, Sidera Networks! For the fifth year in a row, the premier provider of fiber optic-based networks has earned multiple Best-in-Class Metro Wholesale Carrier Excellence Awards from ATLANTIC-ACM.  Sidera received top-scores among CLEC/Cable/Fiber providers, this year for Billing, Sales Representatives and Data Value.

ATLANTIC-ACM’s annual Metro Carrier Report Card series is an industry-wide study that enables wholesale customers to provide feedback on multiple carriers. Since 1995, the ATLANTIC-ACM Report Card series has been the telecom industry’s principal source of carrier performance benchmarking information. The awards were presented at a ceremony held during the COMPTEL Plus Fall 2011 Convention and Expo in Orlando, FL.

The full list of award winners can be viewed here. To learn more about Sidera Networks, visit www.Sidera.net.

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

Video content is king. With the rise in demand of quality video content it’s no wonder that OnlineVideo.net has started its own search for the best video content among small, medium and large businesses. Earlier this year the call for submissions garnered a tremendous number of responses and now it’s down to the wire.

Neutral Tandem, a leading provider of voice, data and video interconnection services worldwide, has placed as a “Large Business Finalist” in the Onlinevideo.net contest with the Ethercloud video. Ethercloud is a new product from Neutral Tandem that delivers end-to-end global Ethernet solutions. EtherCloud interconnects diverse networks, simplifies the delivery of Ethernet and VPLS services on a global basis and removes the hurdles required to interconnect networks across a global footprint. 

Onlinevideo.net’s panel of judges is now reviewing and rating videos based on the following criteria: storytelling and messaging, technical quality, use of social media, search optimization, and overall site integration. Neutral Tandem is one of three remaining finalists in the “Large Business” category. Winners will be announced on June 13.

View the video here and to learn more about Ethercloud, please visit http://www.neutraltandem.com/prodServices/ethercloud.htm