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

Moore’s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.  The capabilities of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.[2] All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well.

In a conversation with Global Telecom & Technology, (“GTT”) (OTCBB: GTLT), a leading global network integrator that provides its clients with a broad portfolio of wide-area network solutions, I was reminded that Moore’s law is actually playing itself out within the IP transit and IP transport space.  We have all seen the trends of IP transit price declining.  As a matter of fact, discussions on a variety of LinkedIn Groups cite prices as low as $4 per mbps.  During my days as the Director of IP Services at Band-X, Inc. I couldn’t make a decent profit if I sold transit below $100 per mbps – $4 seems absurd, but it’s not.

The team at Global Telecom & Technology are well aware of the fact that there continues to be applications developed that require more and more bandwidth.  In addition, the growing transition to virtualization and cloud computing is further driving the demand for more bandwidth.  If we take into consideration Moore’s law, the amount of bandwidth required by applications will no doubt continue to grow – if not double approximately every two years or at the blistering rates demanded by applications, or even sooner.  In addition, as the price per Mbps falls (or stabilizes, because seriously how low can it go), the demand for bandwidth increases substantially – in essence balancing out the curve – since the demand for more bandwidth and greater speeds is growing more than the price decline, still making IP transit and IP transport networks successful business models – if managed the right way.

Too many companies have over built too quickly expecting demand to soar at the same rate of its network expansion.  This is where the problems occur in the network space and why measured growth, based on flexibility and options is the key for network operators to succeed.

Global Telecom & Technology, which just acquired WBS Connect, is expanding its company just so.  As a global network integrator, GTT has the benefit of growing its network, on demand, to suit end customer network requirements.  What makes GTT even more special is that it considers all circuits ‘On-Net’ providing full end-to-end SLA’s for its services.  With companies providing managed, secure, reliable and scalable global network connectivity, there should be fewer emerging companies putting their businesses at risk by building what may or may not sell at the rate required to be profitable.

For more information about GTT please visit www.gt-t.net.  For more information about Ilissa Miller, please visit www.jaymiescotto.com.

Original Post by: Vanessa Eixman, Director Business Development for Jaymie Scotto & Associates:

If you are a B2B service provider it is definitely worth a look at the newly formed Tinet, once the international arm of the Tiscali Group. With their aggressive focus on end-to-end connectivity – specifically last-mile Ethernet extension, once a challenge for the B2B sector to not only procure but also deploy and manage, Tinet is making a big splash across the global marketplace. With heavy investment in high capacity IP and Ethernet connectivity Tinet’s service offering is meeting the demands of the B2B sector by providing high availability connections from customer premise to a variety of destinations – whether that be carrier hotels, specific telecom providers or even to other office locations – all of this is available in over 100 points of presence across the globe. Tinet’s entire go-to-market strategy is aimed at providing high-end connectivity directly to regional service providers and system integrators who target the B2B marketplace in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Businesses today demand flexible and reliable connectivity and that is often hard to not only procure and deploy, but also to scale and manage end-to end at a global level. Companies like Tinet are making all of that easier with their global offering of Wholesale IP and global Ethernet delivery services. Service providers are especially interested in Tinet’s Ethernet extension offering as it provides the critical last mile connection essential to companies who require any-to-any connectivity and seamless reconfiguration and growth options. All of this is topped off by the ever-so-crucial service level agreement, also managed end-to-end by Tinet. B2B service providers can’t miss by utilizing Tinet’s customized international portfolio – it’s flexible, simple and reliable.

For the complete article, please continue to read below: http://www.globaltelecomsbusiness.com/Article/2278239/Sectors/25205/Simplicity-flexibility-and-reliability-for-global-IP-connectivity.html

Simplicity, flexibility and reliability for global IP connectivity

20 August 2009 (Global Telecom Business)

Tinet, formerly the international IP wholesale carrier arm of Tiscali Group, continues to grow and now, with the backing of its new financial investor, its international growth ambitions know no bounds. In particular, Tinet’s end-to-end, last-mile Ethernet extension service is attracting high levels of interest among local B2B service providers.

With the explosion in the requirement for network-centric applications, the corporate market requires greater broadband performance and reliability than ever before. This includes the ability to connect globally, with quality service levels that support consistent high-speed network connectivity.

That’s why Tinet, the former carrier arm of Tiscali Group, continues to invest heavily in taking reliable, highly-available IP and Ethernet high-capacity services right into business customers’ premises, via partnerships with local metro Ethernet service providers and systems integrators, globally.

There are three basic needs in the wholesale IP market today. These are support for high and rapidly growing volumes of traffic (scalability); high availability (reliability); and global reach (location, location, location).

Today, the global reach of network services is particularly important. Over the last few years, the market has seen significant changes on an international scale. Whereas initially the internet was largely driven by user traffic demands in the US and then western Europe, its influence now touches most corners of the globe, from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to the Asia Pacific region, and from Africa to Latin America, and beyond.

China outpaces the US

There are now more broadband users in China than in the US. And, while five years ago Turkey had just 5,000 broadband users, it has 6 million today. Morocco, too, has grown from a few thousand users to over 2 million, while countries like Brazil and Malaysia are also gradually catching up.

The commitment of national governments to local broadband connectivity is clearly playing a part. It is not only the numbers of users that have grown which is significant, but the intensity of broadband use, too — as increasing percentages of applications are delivered as centralised, online services.

As the world continues to become smaller, and businesses strive to maximise their penetration of international markets, consistent global connectivity becomes a vital facet to their success — particularly as many organisations seek to consolidate and standardise their IT services and data centres, for reasons of cost-efficiency, scalability, flexibility and resiliency.

Single-minded

Since 2002, Tinet, as the independent company is now known, has focused exclusively on wholesale IP and global ethernet delivery services, as a pure-play IP/MPLS wholesale carrier. Having put all its eggs in one basket, the company’s vision and motivation has always been to differentiate its services based on the highest possible service levels, international reach, and competitive price points.

Deliberately, the company offers only four products to the wholesale marketplace: IP transit; last-mile ethernet extension; remote peering services; and ethernet private lines. This means all of Tinet’s focus and investment is in ensuring that these offerings are the best that they can be.

Having avoided introducing a retail arm to its business, Tinet’s entire go-to-market strategy relies upon close partnerships with local and regional service providers and systems integrators serving the business sector.

When, in May this year, Tinet’s sale to BS Private Equity was finalised, this marked a very positive move for the company. Now its majority shareholder, the oldest private equity firm in Italy is fully committed to the company’s success, and will provide sufficient financial investment to enable Tinet to continue to grow its global presence and provide quality services to international customers.

Fast, profitable growth

From a standing start in 2002, Tinet is already one of the top 10 global IP backbone providers by size, with over 500 wholesale customers today. According to market analysts such as Renesys, Tinet is growing faster than the majority of its competitors and – significantly – its revenue is growing profitably, thanks to its unequivocal market focus.

Today, Tinet has network presence in three continents — Europe, North America and Asia — from which it serves customers across five continents, including Africa and Latin America.

By March 2010, Tinet will have a third network operations centre, in New Jersey, complementing the existing NOCs in Italy and Germany. The American facility will service North and Latin America, taking network management and customer acquisition operations closer to its local customers, while enabling European workloads to be distributed across staggered time zones.

Closing the loop: last-mile ethernet

Tinet has also been investing heavily in its ethernet extension last-mile high-capacity service. Tinet’s ethernet extension is a Layer 2 ethernet transport service between a point of presence and its customers’ premises.

This wholesale service is designed to supply end-to-end ethernet connectivity into international destinations, such as regional service providers that require global networking solutions and provide delivery of international VPN services to their corporate end-users.

This service is achieved by leveraging Tinet’s vast network footprint and through a number of ethernet network to network interconnection agreements that Tinet continues to develop with various access providers worldwide.

Tinet’s ethernet extension service is ideal for regional service providers competing for global VPN business, which face the challenge of procuring international connectivity fast enough, and cost-effectively. Crucially for the end customer, Tinet then takes end-to-end responsibility for the service, with a back-to-back service-level agreement.

Ethernet extension takes off

Tinet spent the whole of 2008 putting in place this service offering and has so far secured more than a dozen interconnect agreements internationally, to buy and sell last-mile ethernet connectivity. The company has already signed up customers in the US and Europe, and is terminating services for others in the Asia Pacific region.

Although the service is still in the early stages, Tinet has seen a significant growth and interest this year. This is because the ethernet solution, which also supports virtual private LAN service, offers customers the combined advantages of dedicated-capacity leased lines and the any-to-any connectivity of IP VPN solutions, with the additional benefit to reconfigure and scale up point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connections quickly and dynamically in a more cost-effective way than traditional technologies.

While international services will always rely on local third parties to provide the last-mile connectivity, Tinet’s end-to-end service level guarantee, and single interface, adds significant value, ensuring the performance and continuity of critical business applications including VoIP, data synchronisation for disaster recovery, and real-time financial transactions.

International IP transit: the foundation of any global business

IP transit is now a basic building block in any internet-based service solution, yet the weight on its shoulders is substantial. The internet has become an unprecedented platform for applications and services, particularly as more and more solutions are moved out into the cloud, or where IT systems are being managed centrally or virtually.

The result is that more or less everything vital to a company is now being run over IP, demanding consistent speed, quality, availability, latency and overall stability.

Tinet’s service in this context, while highly sophisticated in what it is able to deliver, is very simple. Delivering high performance international connectivity is an extremely challenging task in its own right, which is why Tinet has always pursued extreme specialisation on IP and ethernet connectivity as a way to reduce complexity and deliver consistent performance.

Simplicity, flexibility

It is Tinet’s simplicity and focus which defines the company. This goes right down through the layers of its organisation.

“Our network is based 100% on best-of-breed Juniper devices, for example,” notes Maurizio Binello, Tinet’s chief technology officer. “This means every node is identical from a service and support perspective — from Miami and Montreal to Singapore, Bucharest and London. This ensures that our infrastructure is straightforward to manage and maintain, and therefore that our service is both very high quality but also very cost-effective to run.

“What’s more, our simplicity and relatively small size as an international carrier means we are thoroughly customer-centric, and can shortcut standard processes if we need to, to ensure our customers get what they need,” he adds. By contrast, much larger carriers with thousands of staff and multiple operations tend to be more process-orientated, which can cause frustration for customers when flexibility is required.

The global imperative

While global economic headaches continue to cause pain to the international business community, demand for efficient, reliable, high-capacity IP and ethernet services can only grow, as organisations reassess the way they operate and look for additional flexibility and cost-efficiency in their approach to IT and applications management and enhanced remote collaboration.

Being globally dynamic is also vital to business competitiveness, now that the world at large has become the playing field.

To address this effectively, organisations need access to carriers and service providers with a robust international capability, who can deliver quality and performance on a truly global level.

For Tinet media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

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866.695.3629

Mzima Networks has added NetDNA to its extensive list of clients.  NetDNA, a high performance global content delivery network, has selected Mzima Networks as its primary service provider to deliver its high-performance content.  Key highlights include:

-          NetDNA will use Mzima’s 10 Gigabit backbone with over 1 Tbps of transit capacity and global peering capabilities

-          Mzima’s network reaches 90 countries an dover 500 global peering partners

-          Mzima’s network latency is 10-20 milliseconds from most of the United States, providing optimized performance

-          NetDNA is also leveraging Mzima’s intelligent best-path routing with a route analysis system that monitors packet loss and latency

For more information, please read the press release in its entirety below:  

  NetDNA™ SELECTS MZIMA NETWORKS TO FURTHER DRIVE HIGH PERFORMANCE CONTENT DELIVERY GLOBALLY WITH SPEED AND EFFICIENCY

 Los Angeles, CA – October 7, 2009 – Mzima Networks, the world’s premier high-performance Network Service Provider, and NetDNA, a leading Los Angeles-based content delivery network that accelerates content and websites through very fast and geographic strategically placed data centers throughout the world, today announce that NetDNA has selected Mzima’s low-latency, 10 Gigabit backbone with over 1 Tbps of transit capacity and global peering capabilities to deliver NetDNA’s high-performance, reliable content quickly and efficiently.

In examining each stage of its content delivery process, NetDNA identified key metrics to process and maximize speed and efficiency over its network, one of which included the need to install a system of computers, networked together across the Internet in order to transparently forward content closer to end users. After carefully evaluating major backbone providers, NetDNA found Mzima to be the logical partner for the task.

“Mzima is the best built and most optimized backbone network for the delivery of content to broadband users,” states Chris Ueland, President of NetDNA. “Mzima’s ten NetDNA locations connect to an array of global broadband users, reaching over 90 countries and over 500 global peering partners. Mzima meets and surpasses NetDNA’s core network requirements, specifically speed and availability.”

“Within ten of Mzima’s network locations, NetDNA has successfully deployed its global edge cloud solutions, leveraging the vast connectivity and proximity to Mzima’s network,” continues Grant Kirkwood, CTO of Mzima Networks.  “With Mzima’s network, latency is 10-20 milliseconds from most of the United States and NetDNA’s customers’ content is rapidly delivered to end users, optimizing performance by loading files from the nearest geographic location. Mzima provides NetDNA with intelligent best-path routing with a route analysis system that monitors packet loss and latency.  We also provide routing policies to ensure optimal performance across our backbone.”

For more information on Mzima Network, please visit www.mzima.net. For more information on NetDNA, please visit www.netdna.com.

TELEHOUSE America Announces its Global Data Center and Managed Services at the ITU Telecom World 2009 Conference and Exhibition

 Global Data Center and Managed Services Now Available in Eight Countries

 Staten Island, NY, USA – October 5, 2009– TELEHOUSE America (www.telehouse.com), the United States’ leading provider of dedicated data centers, international Internet exchanges, and managed IT services, announces today at the ITU Telecom World 2009 global conference and exhibition,  the global availability of TELEHOUSE-branded data centers in 17 cities throughout Asia, North America and Europe.  Companies requiring global data center solutions, connectivity and managed services can now contact global TELEHOUSE team for facility space and power in any of the TELEHOUSE-branded facilities located in France, The United Kingdom, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.  This announcement comes on the heels of TELEHOUSE America’s announcement launching its ubiquitous IP Transit services and the availability of its Global Interlink US-Europe Ethernet connectivity solutions between its major data centers in the United States and Europe. 

TELEHOUSE, a name synonymous with data center, colocation and telecom connection services, is also a leading global brand of managed IT solutions.  With global reach supported by local expertise, this announcement solidifies TELEHOUSE America’s ability to meet the ongoing demand of its customers that require a global Total Solution Provider.  With its growing data center and communication services, TELEHOUSE America can now provide a complete one-stop-shop solution that includes colocation; carrier neutral global connectivity including Ethernet Private Line capabilities and IP Transit; along with global managed services through its suite of Manage-E products and solutions. 

“The ITU Telecom World conference and exhibition is the perfect venue to launch TELEHOUSE America’s ability to provide first-class data centers, network and managed service solutions,” commented Vincent Corley, Sr. Marketing Manager for TELEHOUSE America.  “Our customers, including carriers, service providers, enterprise businesses and financial service companies, often prefer one provider to manage their global IT infrastructure solutions.  TELEHOUSE America has responded by becoming a global Total Solution Provider.”

TELEHOUSE America will present on its global service offerings at booth #4039 at the ITU Telecom World 2009 conference’s commercial showcase.   To schedule a meeting at ITU Geneva with a representative from TELEHOUSE America, please contact pr@jaymiescotto.com.  For more information about TELEHOUSE America, please visit www.telehouse.com or www.Manage-E.com or email sales@telehouse.com. 

About TELEHOUSE America

TELEHOUSE America is the US’s leading provider of dedicated data centers, colocation facilities, international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions.

A stable and trusted pioneer of carrier-neutral data center services, they provide secure, power-protected environments, where clients house and operate their telecommunications and network resources. Companies from a wide range of industries locate their mission critical equipment at Telehouse’s colocation “meet-me-centers” in New York and California; taking advantage of the potential business opportunities that exist from other Telehouse customers. Among the many benefits of colocating with Telehouse is the ability to connect to state-of-the-art peering exchanges in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Additionally, through close ties to its sister companies in Europe and Asia, Telehouse can provide continuous, cost-effective operation of network-dependent businesses around the world. Please visit http://www.Telehouse.com, or contact us at sales@Telehouse.com.

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Tinet Selects Cariden MATE^TM for Network Planning

Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group and the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market, today announced that they have selected Cariden as a strategic partner for network discovery, simulation, planning and optimisation solutions.

“With global customers and an extensive network of over 100 POPs, the Tinet backbone requires the highest levels of service, with the flexibility to support our customers’ increasing bandwidth demands. Cariden MATE helps us to efficiently plan and operate our network, ensuring we can meet our customer’s stringent requirements, whilst staying flexible to changes in traffic demands, and making the most effective use of our network capacity”, states Maurizio Binello, Chief Operating Officer of Tinet.

“Tinet is recognised as a progressive global IP and Ethernet carrier with a reputation for delivering high quality of service to their customers. We are privileged to support Tinet with the Cariden MATE product suite, helping them to design and manage their network to meet their customers’ service level requirements efficiently”, continues John Evans, Director of Technology and Operations for Cariden in EMEA.

About Tinet

Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, is the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market. With network presence and customers in EMEA, Americas and APAC, Tinet provides global IP Transit and Ethernet connectivity to Carriers, Service and Content Providers worldwide, within 7 working days. The carrier guarantees customers proactive management of SLAs and protection from dDoS attacks.

Established in 2002, Tinet’s unique business model, based on focus and simplicity, assures the delivery of the highest standard of service. Tinet has grown to become one of the top 10 global IPv4 backbones and the number one IPv6 network worldwide.

For more information on Tinet, please visit www.tinet.net.

About Cariden

Cariden Technologies, Inc. is a network management software company founded in 2001. Cariden provides critical network design, planning and automation tools with the mission of simplifying IP and MPLS network operations. Cariden is a consistently profitable company with customers around the world, including eight of the twelve Tier-1 ISPs, some of the largest IP / MPLS Service Providers in North America and Europe, together with select enterprises. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Cariden has offices and resellers around the world.

Cariden’s flagship software suite, MATE^TM, provides a comprehensive but flexible traffic management solution that includes discovery, visualization, monitoring, simulation and what-if analysis, capacity planning, traffic engineering and network optimisation. MATE is unique in its ability to provide an integrated solution across engineering, planning and operations organizations and is now considered a standard tool for managing IP/MPLS networks.

For more information on Cariden or MATE, please visit www.cariden.com.

It’s big news when you’re the first to offer a big pipe.

A fellow Telecom blogger, Rob Powell who writes the Telecom Ramblings blog, covered the recent announcement by Hibernia Atlantic’s 40 Gbps capability over its transAtlantic network. It is a significant announcement in that Hibernia Atlantic has now established itself as the fastest undersea cable connecting North America and Europe and the first transatlantic provider to offer a 40 Gbps network across the Atlantic.

With the growing needs of Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IPTV demands and requirements from enterprise businesses and financial companies to transact business more quickly, it is this type of speed that will enable the quality to do so – more efficiently.

Read more about it from:

• SubTel Forum: Hibernia Atlantic is the First Transport Provider to Offer Native 40 GPBS Wavelength Capacity Across the Atlantic for Commercial Use

• Light Reading: Hibernia Offers Cross-Atlantic 40G

For additional information, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com. The full text of the original press release is also posted below.

HIBERNIA ATLANTIC IS THE FIRST TRANSPORT PROVIDER TO OFFER NATIVE 40 GBPS WAVELENGTH CAPACITY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC FOR COMMERCIAL USE

SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND- August 13, 2009- Hibernia Atlantic, the only diverse transAtlantic submarine transport cable provider, today announces the company is now the first to offer native, 40 Gbps wavelength (WL) capacity across the Atlantic Ocean, without the need for external equipment. By deploying the latest 40G network technology, Hibernia has increased the potential capacity of the Atlantic system to 10.16Tb/s.

Hibernia Atlantic’s first-to-market offering is in response to its North American customers’ demand for greater bandwidth capacity, stemming from the precipitous rise in deployment of next-generation services, such as streaming video, IP multimedia and web conferencing. Additionally, financial exchanges and media houses need secure and high-performance capacity to ensure they are meeting their industries’ critical network requirements.

“Hibernia Atlantic is pleased to offer its clients this new, native 40 Gbps (WL) technology across the Atlantic,” states Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO for Hibernia Atlantic. “This latest achievement displays Hibernia’s continued commitment to deploy the most advanced, innovative capacity upgrades for commercial use across the Hibernia cable system. This offering provides global investment banks, CDNs, broadcasters, international PTTs and ISPs in need of high-bandwidth a better network solution. With increased capacity, on a reliable network at wholesale prices, companies can continue to deploy streaming video and other next-generation applications and services over the Hibernia Atlantic network, with confidence and ease.”

“The ability to offer Hibernia Atlantic’s customers native 40 Gbps connectivity across the Atlantic is a great advance in network efficiency, providing customers additional capacity to communicate over Hibernia’s diverse and secure cable route,” continues Eric Gutshall, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Hibernia. “This new subsea advancement is another example of Hibernia Atlantic’s commitment to providing the highest levels of network performance, innovation and customer satisfaction to the market, in record-breaking time.”

For Hibernia’s global network map, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

About Hibernia Atlantic:
Hibernia Atlantic is the largest, privately held, diverse transAtlantic submarine cable transport provider.  Hibernia is a US, wholly-owned subsidiary of Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC).  It is a TransAtlantic submarine cable and terrestrial cable network that offers over (70) redundant network Points of Presence (PoPs) throughout Canada, US, UK and mainland Europe on over 24,000 kilometers of network.  Hibernia provides secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet and optical-level service up to GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services.   In addition, Hibernia offers wholesale capacity prices, unparalleled support, flexibility and service. For more information on Hibernia Atlantic’s cutting-edge network or to view their corporate video, please visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

For Hibernia Atlantic business inquiries, please contact Melissa Butler at 908-988-1990 or melissa.butler@hiberniaatlantic.com.

To view Hibernia’s corporate overview video, please click here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xVMLEfFrk&eurl=

For Hibernia Atlantic media inquiries, please contact:

Jaymie Scotto & Associates

+1.866.695.3629

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Jaymie Scotto & Associates

Carlton Baxter Communications (CBC) and Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A) announce today an alliance offering transAtlantic PR solutions between the US, Ireland and the UK. CBC works across a range of corporate and consumer clients in a variety of markets. JS&A works exclusively in the telecoms and technology information industries. Both companies feel this alliance comes at a great time providing media access for companies in the US looking to get further exposure in the UK and Ireland.

CBC and JS&A’s common mission, to provide client’s with the highest- level of media outreach, rings true in this alliance.

Carlton Baxter, Managing Director of Carlton Baxter Communications

About Carlton Baxter, the Managing Director of Carlton Baxter Communications (CBC)

Carlton Baxter is a former award winning journalist who reported from all over the world as a business editor and who as a PR professional, understands what makes a good story.  Carlton has extensive media and business contacts throughout Ireland, North and South, and has worked for companies of all sizes, from small SMEs to large international bluechips.  

About Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO & Founder of Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A)

Jaymie Scotto Cutaia hails from journalism where she received an Emmy-award while at MSNBC for her coverage of the terror attacks on September 11^th.  Today, Jaymie heads up JS&A, a PR firm dedicated to advancing the telecommunications community.   Jaymie brings to her role a deep understanding of how news is processed, superb writing skills and extensive experience working for and with a variety of global telecommunications and IT companies that include; Telx, Tinet, Arbinet, Hibernia Atlantic, appSessions, Lexent Metro and more.

For more information, please read the press release below, included in its entirety:

 NY PR Firm Crowns Year with TransAtlantic Alliance

Belfast and New York, NY  – July 30, 2009- Carlton Baxter Communications (CBC)               and New York-based public relations and marketing company Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A) have created an alliance to offer transAtlantic PR solutions between the USA and the UK and Ireland.

JS&A works exclusively in the telecoms and technology information industries while CBC work across a range of corporate and consumer clients in various markets and sectors.

“This relationship is great news for US technology companies wishing to enter the Irish and UK markets and for businesses here, especially those in IT and telecoms, who need to build a presence in the United States,” said Carlton Baxter, managing director of Carlton Baxter Communications which is part of the AV Browne Group.

He added; “During these challenging times when companies are seeking a competitive edge in their chosen markets, we can today offer UK and Ireland-based clients a foothold in the United States where JS&A are recognised as the leader in marketing and public relations solutions for telcos and technology information companies.

“These remain fast growing sectors globally and this new alliance, committed to delivering quantifiable results, will cut the time to market recognition and speed up the development of commercial relationships.”

Emmy-award winning Jaymie Scotto Cutaia, CEO of JS&A, said; “It is our pleasure to work with Carlton Baxter’s team of PR professionals, ensuring the best possible coverage, on both sides of the pond.  We have a roster of North American firms who require additional exposure in the UK, and indeed globally, and by partnering with CBC, we can ensure our clients qualified, quantified and professional PR campaigns.

“CBC and JS&A share the same common mission: to provide our clients with the highest-level of media outreach, education and branding to targeted marketplaces.  Our business is to grow our clients’ business.”

Both companies believe there has never been a better time providing media access on both sides of the Atlantic with companies working harder in the on-going downturn to penetrate new markets and maintain and grow their presence.

Telx’s CBX held in New York City on June 25^th, 2009 features a pressroom, moderated by Jaymie Scotto, for participants to make industry announcements. TMCNet, the largest website community and publisher dedicated to the latest communications and technology news, has just posted the complete video of the CBX pressroom. The following video features announcements from industry leaders, including Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JS&A) clients Mzima and Lexent.  Speaking for Mzima is CTO, Grant Kirkwood and for Lexent Metro Connect, Ray LaChance, President & CEO for the company.  The following video was also streamed live at the event on JustinTV.

The Telx CBX 2009 Press Room

Mzima Networks, a JS&A client, announced that it has deployed Ciena’s PBB-TE technology for its Ethernet services.

Grant Kirkwood Presents at the CBX 2009 Press Room

Lexent Metro Connect announced that it has extended its New York Metro Dark Fiber Network into New Jersey.

Ray LaChance, CEO of Lexent Metro Connect Presents at the CBX2009

For more information about Mzima Networks or Lexent Metro Connect please contact Jaymie Scotto & Associates or email pr@jaymiescotto.com.

On the heels of its announcement with Akamai, KIT digital announced highlighted successes from the first half of 2009.

KIT digital is a leading global provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based video management technologies, announced key customer wins in Europe, Middle East, Asia (EMEA); The Americas and in the Asia-Pacific regions.  Companies highlighted include: 

• MSN Europe, one of the leading online portals, engaged KIT digital to provision high quality, repurposed and localized IP video content, using KIT digital’s content localization facility in Cairo;  
• PMT Video, a major IP video initiative in the Russian marketplace, selected the KIT VX digital asset management system to provide a new service for the Russian consumer: video-on-demand in the home with targeted content and advertising on an open-network IPTV set-top-box;
• The municipal government of a leading European capital city engaged KIT digital to use IP video led elements to promote tourism, including 3D cinema, computer games, and themed kiosks. The deployment has already received the Gloria Musaealis award for digitalization;
• Multimedialne Centrum Bratislava selected KIT VX as the basis for a special multimedia classroom roll-out, utilizing IP video, audio, graphics, internet and traditional broadcast in the learning process.
• Sky Racing, a division of Tabcorp (one of the world’s largest publicly listed gaming companies), chose KIT digital to deliver live and on-demand racing channels via the Internet, through a custom interface;
• Yellow^TM, a division of Sensis and Asia’s largest classified and business listing publisher, selected the KIT VX platform to ingest, filter and curate UGC video listings across the many thousands of Yellow advertisers;
• A major private health insurance brand selected KIT digital for an online video solution;
• Leading Australian tourism operator Spirit of Tasmania appointed KIT digital to manage future online and mobile video marketing applications through its KIT VX asset management system.
• Citadel Broadcasting, the second-largest radio network in the USA, chose the KIT VX digital asset management module for its network of over 220 sites for a further two years, citing the suitability of the KIT VX platform for multi-point publishing as a key differentiator;
• blinkx, the leading online video search engine, engaged with KIT digital in a major partnership. The deal allows KIT digital to access the blinkx technology and offer it to clients as part of the KIT VX platform. In turn, blinkx uses KIT VX as a technology backbone for the management and delivery of IP video;
• Mio.tv, a new video-led web portal for the Hispanic community in the U.S., engaged KIT digital to develop a strategy and treatments that facilitated a number of different video-viewing experiences, along with social networking interactions aligned to the video experience;
• The New York Post reappointed KIT digital as a video technology partner for an additional two years, citing KIT digital’s product development roadmap, and opportunities for customization of the solution as key competitive differentiators.

For the full details of the announcement, please see the press release below:

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

KIT digital Reports on Recent Client Wins

New Clients and Client Extensions in Media, Telecom, Financial Services, Gaming and Government through First Half of 2009

DUBAI – July 7, 2009 - KIT digital, Inc. (OTCBB: KDGL), a leading global provider of Internet Protocol (IP)-based video management technologies, has continued its strong organic growth by adding a number of globally recognized brands to its customer list in the first half of 2009. 

The company has expanded its client reach in each of its three regional coverage areas (EMEA, Asia-Pacific and the Americas) with the addition of brands like PMT and MSN (EMEA), Tabcorp (Asia-Pacific) and Citadel Broadcasting (the Americas). The new business includes deployments across a variety of industry verticals and consumer “screens” (browser, mobile handset, IPTV-enabled television set), demonstrating the company’s device-agnostic approach and the breadth of functionality available through the KIT VX Video Management Platform.

“The last six months have firmly established KIT digital as the leading global provider of IP-based video technologies for the large enterprise,” said Gavin Campion, president of KIT digital. “We have competed head-to-head with competing platforms and internally built solutions, and also advanced KIT VX as part of a greenfield solution for monetizing IP-based video. Across a wide range of verticals-media and entertainment, classifieds, gaming, financial, telecommunications and government-we continue to be the IP video platform of choice for sophisticated companies operating in multiple geographies and network environments.”

The KIT VX end-to-end technology platform helps corporations and governments leverage video content and video-based marketing online, on mobile devices and on Internet-enabled television sets. KIT VX is also used for corporate video deployments, helping clients save money by deploying IP video solutions in lieu of traditional satellite or closed-circuit systems in areas like corporate communications, information kiosks, human resources and training, and security/surveillance. 

Selected new client wins during the first half of 2009, where in many instances KIT digital was selected in a competitive RFP process, include:

Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)

• MSN Europe, one of the leading online portals, engaged KIT digital to provision high quality, repurposed and localized IP video content, using KIT digital’s content localization facility in Cairo;
• PMT Video, a major IP video initiative in the Russian marketplace, selected the KIT VX digital asset management system to provide a new service for the Russian consumer: video-on-demand in the home with targeted content and advertising on an open-network IPTV set-top-box;
• The municipal government of a leading European capital city engaged KIT digital to use IP video led elements to promote tourism, including 3D cinema, computer games, and themed kiosks. The deployment has already received the Gloria Musaealis award for digitalization;
• Multimedialne Centrum Bratislava selected KIT VX as the basis for a special multimedia classroom roll-out, utilizing IP video, audio, graphics, internet and traditional broadcast in the learning process.
• Yellow^TM, a division of Sensis and Asia’s largest classified and business listing publisher, selected the KIT VX platform to ingest, filter and curate UGC video listings across the many thousands of Yellow advertisers;
• A major private health insurance brand selected KIT digital for an online video solution;
• Leading Australian tourism operator Spirit of Tasmania appointed KIT digital to manage future online and mobile video marketing applications through its KIT VX asset management system.

The Americas

• Citadel Broadcasting, the second-largest radio network in the USA, chose the KIT VX digital asset management module for its network of over 220 sites for a further two years, citing the suitability of the KIT VX platform for multi-point publishing as a key differentiator;
• blinkx, the leading online video search engine, engaged with KIT digital in a major partnership. The deal allows KIT digital to access the blinkx technology and offer it to clients as part of the KIT VX platform. In turn, blinkx uses KIT VX as a technology backbone for the management and delivery of IP video;
• Mio.tv, a new video-led web portal for the Hispanic community in the U.S., engaged KIT digital to develop a strategy and treatments that facilitated a number of different video-viewing experiences, along with social networking interactions aligned to the video experience;
• The New York Post reappointed KIT digital as a video technology partner for an additional two years, citing KIT digital’s product development roadmap, and opportunities for customization of the solution as key competitive differentiators.

 KIT digital has continuously expanded the functionality of its KIT VX Video Management Platform through new releases, integrating new features and product modules that have been brought to market as a result of meeting client-driven needs as well as through strategic acquisitions. As a standard practice, the company does not capitalize research and development-which management believes provides for greater transparency in financial reporting and accountability. At times, the company may choose to terminate certain client contracts it deems unprofitable or inappropriately draining company resources.

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, chairman and CEO of KIT digital, commented: “In addition to client and revenue expansion, the first half of 2009 has been dedicated to ongoing improvement of our KIT VX platform and integration of functionality gleaned from prior acquisitions. We believe that the IP video platform market is beginning to differentiate along several vectors-like ‘3-screen’ capability, asset management versus video player focus, geographical coverage, enterprise versus SME focus, etc.”

“We remain committed to serving the IP video needs of the global enterprise,” continued Isaza Tuzman, “which can be highly complex, span multiple physical and network geographies, and require online, mobile and IPTV-based asset management. Our ‘industrial-grade’ digital asset management system and multi-point publishing capability support this go-to-market strategy, while providing for less competitive pressure and higher margins.”

About the KIT VX Video Management Platform

The KIT VX Video Management Platform allow clients to easily capture, manage, and monetize digital video assets, and deliver them via the Web, mobile networks and IPTV-enabled set-top boxes. KIT VX centralizes video asset management, and allows for multiple users within client organizations to have different access rights to content to help ensure appropriate distribution, promotion and creation of content. The platform includes a robust content management system (CMS) for managing large amounts of text, documents, images, audio and video-or elements of the platform can be integrated with existing content management systems via the platform’s advanced application programming interfaces (APIs) that include a number of pre-built, modular extensions. KIT VX is now offered with Akamai Technologies’ IP video solutions, providing unparalleled IP-based content management, storage and delivery.

About KIT digital

KIT digital is a leading, global provider of on-demand content management solutions for managing IP-based video assets. Through its end-to-end software platform, KIT VX, KIT digital works closely with consumer brands, content providers and telcos to economize on costs and maximize the value of video content via the Internet, mobile networks and IPTV set-top boxes. The KIT VX platform allows clients to ingest, manage, distribute and publish digital video content, build online/mobile communities and integrate advertising. KIT offers businesses a full range of interactive marketing solutions and KIT clients can access approximately 80 KIT-syndicated channels and 40,000 KIT-syndicated videos. KIT digital clients include Associated Press, Disney-ABC, General Motors, IMG, Kmart, Nasdaq, News Corp, RCS, Telefonica and Verizon. KIT digital has principal offices in Dubai, Melbourne (Australia), Prague, Toronto and London. For additional information, please visit www.kitd.com.

KIT Forward-Looking Statement

This press release contains certain “forward-looking statements” related to the businesses of KIT digital, Inc. which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “expects” or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including uncertainties relating to product development and commercialization, the ability to obtain or maintain patent and other proprietary intellectual property protection, market acceptance, future capital requirements, regulatory actions or delays, competition in general and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are or will be described in greater detail in our public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. KIT digital is not under obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. 

KIT digital Media Contact:  

Daniel Goodfellow                                

Tel. +1-646-873-3086    

daniel@kitd.com  

KIT digital Investor Relations Contact:

Matt Glover     

Liolios Group, Inc.

Tel. +1-949-574-3860 

info@liolios.com

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