Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A) the premier, full-service public relations and marketing firm for the telecommunications industry, announces the launch of its new Events and Webinars division to be spearheaded by Lauren Sauer.  The division will launch its ‘power networking’ event series, with its first event taking place in NYC on April 29^th, 2010.  

Lauren has been hard at work with vendors, structuring the program and identifying key benefits for the telecom industry – particularly through networking, knowledge share and educational opportunities.  In addition to the Events and Webinars, Lauren is also undertaking the development of a newsletter that will specifically target the Telecom industry, providing information about events, publications, announcements and overall industry opportunities. 

 The quarterly “power networking events” will be powered by JS&A’s sister company, DealCenter.  Structured as a three-hour, 200-person event, this networking opportunity will be unlike any other in the industry.  Participants will log into the online meeting system and pre-schedule 20-minute meetings, and arrive on-site, ready for “power networking”.  JS&A will also provide a media match-up for its clients before the event, to further promote its clients’ latest news announcements.

For more information on any of these initiatives, clients or JS&A, please email pr@jaymiescotto.com or go to http://www.jaymiescotto.com/event.php.

TELEHOUSE America held its Q’1 2010 Breakfast on Broadway (BoB) event on February 25^th.  Though there was a snow storm in New York City that day, attendance was terrific.   Three companies presented at the event, including TELEHOUSE America, AboveNet and Digital Edge – each company had strong messages and interesting data to ponder.

TELEHOUSE’s Fred Cannone, the company’s Director of Sales and Marketing, discussed how data center demand is outpacing supply.  There continues to be a limited number of multi-tenant data centers that can accommodate companies looking for cost-effective access to an eco-system of service providers that can offer high bandwidth solutions. 

In 2009, the company announced its interconnection solution through its Ethernet Private Line service, Global InterLink, a service that has the capability of connecting TELEHOUSE’s 37 global data centers while also providing access to other major data center hubs.  This solution provides companies a tremendous amount of benefits, including cloud computing.  TELEHOUSE calls this solution Data Center as a Cloud^TM.(DCaaC).  Their DCaaC solution provides companies with Total Managed Network Services through its data center and colocation footprint through their Internet exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX) as well as global Ethernet private line connectivity and a full suite of Manage-E solutions including on-site support, data back-up solutions, business continuity planning and more.

Key customer examples of the types of companies leveraging the DCaaC solution include Global Financial firms, Post Production houses and Law firms.  Each company requires a unique footprint, but all grounded on similar solutions; Dedicated Data Center Suites, Global Interlink – private line connectivity, Managed Services, IP Transit all in multiple locations across multiple continents.  This is TELEHOUSE’s specialty – a complete Total Solution Provider.

AboveNet’s Doug Turz presented next on high-bandwidth Ethernet trends and solutions.  AboveNet considers anything above 100 Mbps to be high-bandwidth (I say that’s certainly fair).  The company provides solutions to enterprise buildings and data centers serving companies that require bandwidth flexibility, convergence and low latency. 

The company is seeing a push toward more video, which of course uses more bandwidth.  Another trend that AboveNet sees, being a data center neutral provider, is there are more companies than just financial firms concerned with latency.  The healthcare industry is building out their network infrastructures with low latency bandwidth solutions.   Unlike the Financial industry that associates each millisecond with the loss of tens of thousands of dollars, it’s harder to put an actual figure associated with network latency when considering the healthcare industry, but it could certainly lead to a life or death situation.

The final presenting company was Digital Edge.  Digital Edge provided us with a special presentation, given by its client the March of Dimes.  Digital Edge provides consulting and virtualization implementation solutions.  For the March of Dimes, a company that relies on donations and fundraising programs that primarily uses the Internet it was important to be assured 100% uptime, since downtime equals lost donations – lost income and of course the company’s inability to aid the children they support. 

At any given moment the March of Dimes’ network could have up to 13,000 concurrent sessions – per second.   Digital Edge designed its network to ensure uptime – at the same time the company’s design did not fall prey to complete virtualization.  Scalability was a key driver for the design as the number of simultaneous virtual instances could be high – and had high processing requirements. 

As Digital Edge put it ‘you need a strategy.’  Companies need to know what to virtualize versus not and to understand the security associated with any network architecture.  When working with high performance solutions that require precise tuning, virtualization is not the answer.   In addition – if you require high security for your applications and services, virtualization will not suffice.

Digital Edge’s years of experience has indentified holes in a variety of software solutions developed by MicroSoft, Zen, VMware and more.  To have a company like Digital Edge consulting, designing and implementing your network solutions will certainly guarantee efficiency for the data you are transmitting.

For more information about these companies or to view their presentations, please click on these links.

TELEHOUSE America:  Data Center Market & TELEHOUSE Advantage

AboveNet: Low Latency Data Center Connectivity Bandwidth Flexibility

Digital Edge: The Intelligence Behind The Technology

Esat Sezer, the CIO of Coca-Cola Enterprises was recently interviewed by Meet The Boss TV.  More than just a ’shelf replenishment company,’ the company has over 70,000 employees of which over 50% are mobile.  Esat had quite a few challenges to overcome in order to transition the business and implement technology to support the company’s mobility and transportation leveraging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). 

Coca-Cola is one of the largest global companies, and with more than 50% of its workforce mobile the company had quite a few challenges to overcome.  Imagine tracking employees, locations, equipment, deliveries, replenishment, and more.  It is this day and age that enables a global company of this nature know what they have and how they can deliver it.  Technology, communications, telecommunications, IP solutions, applications and more are the embodiment of a successful business enablement strategy.

To watch the complete interview, please click here or on the photo capture below.

March 2, 2010 Arbinet introduced its new Premium Mobile Routing Table which provides CLI guarantees.  This is a strategic move for the company, one they’ve been looking to make with the right person on board.  In January, the company tapped Brian Troesch to head up Product.  Brian’s experience in developing and implementing premium mobile routing has been touted – his legacy is currently living on at Belgacom ICS.

The Premium Mobile Routing Table is available for use by Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers.  There are a number of different levels of service available on ACS, Premium Mobile is the highest quality routing table, designed for both fixed and mobile operators whose retail customers require advanced features and need the highest quality voice termination available.

Another new feature with this announcement is ACS’s new Customer Based Routing^sm option.  This provides customers the ability to select different grades of service for each destination on a route-by-route basis over a single trunk group.  This is flexibility at its best for global voice termination solutions.  Most wholesale carriers know where the bulk of their traffic is going and which routes they need to improve upon.  ACS Customer Based Routing offers the absolute flexibility that small, medium and large carriers require.

For more information about the announcement, please continue to read the press release, issued at 8am local time in Singapore, London and the US (EST).  Or visit www.arbinet.com

Arbinet Introduces Premium Mobile Routing Table with CLI Guarantee

Direct Mobile Termination to more than 250 Networks

New York, NY, USA – March 2, 2010 – Arbinet Corporation [Nasdaq: ARBX] announces today that it has introduced a new Premium Mobile routing table for use by Arbinet Carrier Service (ACS) customers*. Premium Mobile is the highest quality routing table available on the ACS platform. Premium Mobile is designed for both fixed and mobile operators whose retail customers require advanced features and need the highest quality voice termination available.  Arbinet Carrier Services features multiple levels of quality and Customer Based Routing^sm where a customer can select from varied grades of service for each destination on a route-by-route basis over a single trunk group.

Key features and benefits of Arbinet’s Premium Mobile termination include:

• Direct termination to more than 250 Fixed and Mobile network operators
• Guaranteed Caller Line Identity (CLI) transmission and delivery to terminating network suppliers
• Support for Mobile Subscriber Roaming Number (MSRN) ranges
• Release code management
• Mobile Number Portability (MNP) & Local  Number Portability (LNP) support using the Arbinet Global Number Portability platform
• Proactive testing & monitoring of Answer Seizure Ratio (ASR), Average Length of Call (ALOC) & Call Completion Ratio (CCR)
• 24×7 Multi-lingual premium Customer Care support
• On-line Trouble Reporting
• On-line Traffic Management & Quality of Service (QoS) Reporting
• Prepaid support

Arbinet has been offering Premium Mobile routes since late 2009.  CLI delivery and MSRN support enable operators to deliver a higher quality experience to their customers and to increase revenues through higher ARPU and reduced churn.

“At Digicel we take every effort to ensure the highest possible quality of service for our mobile subscribers and inbound roamers. Having access to high quality voice services with direct fixed and mobile termination, CLI delivery, and MSRN support helps to meet these increasingly complex demands. Arbinet’s new Premium Mobile CLI solution provides us with the type of quality routing and voice termination required by our customers,” commented Mario Rojas, Director Carrier Services at leading Caribbean and Central American mobile operator Digicel Group.

“In 2009, Arbinet increased the flexibility with which it works with the marketplace. We launched ACS, a traditional wholesale way of working with customers and suppliers. ACS features standard rate sheets, utilizes supplier codes and has no fees,” said Brian Troesch, Sr. Vice President, Product & Business Development. “We made a concerted effort to drive away low-quality traffic from the network through the deployment of False Answer Supervision (FAS) identification protocols and technology. And we worked hard to identify the high quality direct termination routes from our 1100+ suppliers. With the addition of our Premium Mobile service, retail fixed and mobile operators now have a new choice to route their highest quality traffic flows.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic. Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale interface with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock. It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans. PrivateExchange^sm is an easy to use, low-risk outsourcing approach that enables service providers to create virtual direct routes and aggregate existing interconnects. thexchange™ is the industry’s leading marketplace for buying and selling voice communications.

For more information about Arbinet please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com.

[1] All underlying CLI routes used in Arbinet’s Premium Mobile table are available on thexchange.

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally. With more than 1100 carriers across the world connected to the Arbinet Network, Arbinet combines global scale with sophisticated platform intelligence, call routing and industry leading credit management and settlement capabilities. Customers and suppliers include many leading fixed line, mobile, wholesale and VoIP carriers as well as calling card, ISPs and content providers around the world who buy and sell voice and IP telecommunications capacity and content.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, including forward-looking statements regarding anticipated future revenues, growth, capital expenditures, management’s future expansion plans, expected product and service developments or enhancements, discussions of strategy, and future operating results. Such forward-looking statements may be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as: “believes,” expects,” “intends,” “may,” “will,” “should”” “confident,” “work to,” “seeks,” or “anticipates,” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, or by discussions of strategy. Various risks and uncertainties may cause Arbinet’s actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements. Please refer to Part I, Item 1A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 16, 2009, and other filings that have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a description of the risks and uncertainties that Arbinet faces. Arbinet assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, and such statements are current only as of the date they are made.

CoreSite, a Carlyle Company that offers wholesale data centers, colocation and peering solutions to the global marketplace, has recently published its first quarter of 2010 customer and prospect newsletter.   The newsletter featured some interesting industry perspectives from such notable industry folks as Rich Miller, the Editor of Data Center Knowledge, Barry X Lynn, the Chairman and CEO of 3Tera who wrote about the differences between virtualization and cloud computing, Mark Fishburn of CENX and Hunter Newby, the CEO of Allied Fiber.

Hunter Newby, whose team ‘invented’ the carrier interconnection model in the late ’90s and early 2000, shared his insite on the Broadband Stimulus asking ‘Can It Really Be Done for $7.2 Billion?’  Since the first round of funding was awarded around February 16^th, the majority of the 1,400 applicants were not awarded grants or loans totaling $4.2 billion.  With the first round of funding completed, Mr. Newby observed that there is no clear plan as to how the Nation will address the issue of high-speed broadband access for all.  

Newby goes on to explain the major issues associated with the Broadband Stimulus package and how the federal government is attacking the problem.  It’s an interesting read – with more to come from Newby on the topic for sure. 

As the CEO of Allied Fiber, he has set out to build the nation’s first and only carrier neutral dark fiber network to provide interconnectivity solutions between wireline and wireless providers.  It is with the careful planning of Allied Fiber’s network and business that provides Newby with his keen observations of the nation’s broadband stimulus initiatives. 

Time will certainly tell how the Government awards its funds as we all watch on – trying to solve the enigmatic  approach to the process.

TELEHOUSE America’s quarterly Breakfast on Broadway series continues into 2010 with its next event scheduled for Thursday, February 25th at 8:30am at 25 Broadway, home of TELEHOUSE America’s Manhattan-based datacenter and colocation facility. 

The February event will feature two TELEHOUSE partners:

AboveNet who will be addressing high-bandwidth Ethernet trends and solutions

and

Digital Edge who will lead a discussion on virtualization implementations.

Online RSVP’s are accepted (and required): goto:  http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?473220  – Secure your spot today!

(Food, Beverage and Networking Opportunities are Free)

TELEHOUSE America continues to leverage its best-of-breed partners, such as AboveNet and DigitalEdge, to provide Total Solutions to the global communications marketplace.  Please click here for more on TELEHOUSE’s Manage-E Solutions.

Original Blog post by Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates.  The blog was posted on January 11, 2010 on Up to the Minute Tech, Vanessa’s blog:

What should you consider when choosing a quality Internet Provider?   High speed is key, but Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks suggests a few more important factors to consider – the provider’s access to content and the quickest route.  How close is your internet provider to the content you want to download?   Kirkwood in a recent article examines the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 Internet backbone providers to explain how an IP provider’s proximity to content and applications makes a huge difference in the overall user experience.

Essentially the more ‘hops’ there are between two points along a network, the higher the latency which affects overall performance. In his article Kirkwood reviews the factors that come into play for providers when routing Internet traffic. There are distinct differences in routing choices and flexibility for a Tier 1 provider versus a Tier 2 provider.

The provider that makes routing choices based on a variety of factors such as performance, flexibility, quality, and redundancy helps to ensure that IP traffic will be routed across the path with the fewest hops (most direct and closest path), which in turn makes for a better user experience.

So how do you know how a Tier 1 provider makes routing choices? Or which Tier 2 network providers route only on price versus quality? You must consider a variety of factors when choosing a provider including quantity and quality of the provider’s global peering relationships; the provider’s ability to provide quality end-to-end solutions; the companies the provider partners with; and you can’t forget the quality of its technical and customer service.

“Mzima Networks,” as stated by Kirkwood, “has focused its business model on creating more efficient peering connections among other Tier 2 providers in order to deliver content and streaming media more efficiently for and between its customers. The company’s goal is to connect to as many networks as it can, in as many locations as possible, in order to bypass the Tier 1 ‘inner circle’ as often as possible. This doesn’t mean that Tier 1 providers are not necessary, because indeed they are – but more often than not, Tier 1s are not the shortest or more efficient route to a destination from a cost and quality stand-point.”

To read the article in its entirety please go to: http://www.techistan.net/2010/01/05/mzimanetworkstier1or2/

Originally posted by Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates on her blog ‘Up to the Minute Tech’

Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic

Recently Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Atlantic was interviewed by John Savageau offering his insights on global communications. By sharing his thoughts on where Hibernia Atlantic has been and where it is going you can get a glimpse at what drives this telecom visionary, as well as where technology is headed. With rapid company growth exceeding 80% in some recent years, Hibernia Atlantic is led by one of the industry greats.

By focusing on the big bandwidth sector, Hibernia Atlantic is poised for continued profitability and growth in years to come. As a capacity provider laser focused on the long-haul wholesale capacity market, a service provider offering ultra-low latency circuits to the financial sector, and now addressing the media sector with its recent acquisition of MediaXstream – Hibernia Atlantic is able to address the key communication areas needed in the globalization of business.

To read the interview in its entirety please go to: http://wireless.sys-con.com/node/1234792

For more ‘Up to the Minute Tech’ news go here: http://vanessaeixman.wordpress.com/

An interesting and educational read if you missed the original post on TMCNet.  I have included part of it here with a link back to the complete post.  This was written by Hunter Newby, CEO of Allied Fiber and was originally published on January 10, 2010:

AT&T declared the PSTN and POTS a relic of the past in this announcement and asked the FCC for a timeline to shut-down.

This is ironic for several reasons

1. In the 2003 Triennial Review the FCC gave the RBOC’s Broadband Relief in return for allowing the CLEC’s to still have access to UNE.

2. As FCC Chairman Martin stated

“This relief will enable AT&T to have the flexibility to further deploy its broadband services and fiber facilities without overly burdensome regulations,” FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said in a statement. “The relief afforded to AT&T is consistent with and similar to the relief provided in Commission decisions regarding broadband services, packet switching and fiber facilities.”

3. This allowed AT&T and the other ROBC’s to invest in fiber and not have to share it with thier competitors. They have all invested in fiber, fiber-to-the-home specifically, in the names of U-verse and FiOS.

4. A few months later the RBOC’s took away UNE anyway

Go here to read the rest of the post: http://blog.tmcnet.com/voip-peering/2010/01/att-declares-pstn-a-relic—it-already-was.html

TelServ NJ, an independent telecommunications consulting firm announced it has procured high quality voice and data network services for Kay Burger Management, a franchisee of Burger King.  Kay Burger owns and operates 13 Burger King Restaurants and three Dunkin Donuts shops across New Jersey and the New York Metro Area.  The company wanted a cost effective, streamlined communications solution to include daily credit card transactions across its 16 locations.  TelServ delivered! 

For the complete announcement continue to read here:

KAY BURGER MANAGEMENT SELECTS TELSERV TO PROCURE HIGH QUALITY VOICE AND DATA NETWORK SERVICES

 MONTVALE, NJ – January 11, 2009 – TelServ NJ, LLC, an independent, telecommunications consulting firm offering tailor-made solutions for business communication needs, and Kay Burger Management, LLC,a franchisee of Burger King Corporation, announce today that Kay Burger Management selects TelServ to manage its voice and data connectivity throughout the tri-state area. 

Headquartered in North Bergen, New Jersey, Kay Burger Management, LLC, owns and operates thirteen Burger King Restaurants and three Dunkin Donuts shops across the New Jersey and New York metro area.  Leveraging TelServ’s industry expertise in working with a wide variety of carriers and telecom providers, Kay Burger Management   selects TelServ to deploy and support a cost effective, streamlined communications solution.   This solution includes a Tier 1 DSL connectivity to handle the company’s daily credit card transactions as well as a comprehensive voice communications plan across all of its sixteen store locations. 

“As we are committed to serving our customers the highest quality food and beverages at affordable prices, it is important that we maintain cost-effective back-office operations,” states Robert Johnsen, Senior Partner for Kay Burger.  “We need a telecom package that delivers high performance services in an economical way.”

TelServ has a solid reputation for offering firms competitive and cost effective pricing by leveraging volume discounts across its carrier relationships.  As a one-stop resource for business communications, TelServ provides a comprehensive offering including local, long distance, data and Internet services at wholesale prices.

“TelServ is our go-to resource for reliable connectivity solutions, which is an essential component for each of our 16 stores, providing us with critical bandwidth to securely process daily credit card transactions,” continues Mr. Johnsen. “TelServ’s responsiveness and ease of doing business has further simplified our overall management of our communications infrastructure.”

“Our ability to source a wide variety of voice and data services across multiple carriers simplifies the entire procurement process for our clients,” states Michael Gallucci, CEO and Founder of TelServ.  “We are pleased to deliver secure connectivity to further drive Kay Burger’s retail business on a daily basis.”

From competitive pricing to assistance with implementation processes and facilitating diversity and redundancy plans, TelServ simplifies the procurement process to meet critical client deadlines and to stay within communication budgets.

For more information about TelServ, please email info@telservgroup.com, call 201-391-4800 or visit www.telservgroup.com.