Due to Arbinet’s ability to provide enhanced IP performance across multiple networks, DNS Made Easy, a Tiggee LLC company selected Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange after a trial that proved its capabilities.  Arbinet’s IP Exchange Platform is not new to the market.  It has provided a solid and reliable foundation for optimized Internet solutions since 2004, when it acquired the asset from Band-X which started the platform in 2000.  So that’s 10 years of providing performance enhanced IP transit solutions for a variety of companies including VoIP operators, Regional ISPs, DNS providers (such as DNS Made Easy), hosting providers and more. 

Arbinet’s IP Exchange is based on the company’s proprietary platform that offers customers, through one-connection, access to multiple providers simultaneously.    There are a number of different service options that customers can choose from, depending on their requirements.  One option leverages standard BGP offering IP Transit Multihoming to improve network quality and redundancy.  This service provides customers, one connection, direct access to multiple Tier 1 ISPs networks, with no AS hop, customers can choose meshed or separate BGP sessions per seller. 

IP Transit multihoming by Arbinet is the service that DNS Made Easy selected  to provide its customers with enhanced DNS performance.  The company has improved its response look-up time for its service by 22 ms.  This is a significant improvement which enhances the end-user’s experience.

In addition to IP Transit multihoming, Arbinet also provides both paid peering and opt in free peering with other buyers via the same connection.  Furthermore, Arbinet’s OptimizedIP solutions also significantly improves IP performance when compared to the public Internet.  OptimizedIP provides routing intelligence solutions offering customers one connection with the ability to transit multiple ISPs based on the ISPs’ ability to route the data.  This is ideal for mission-critical applications such as Voice over IP – which requires the highest IP performance. 

Arbinet’s IP Exchange solutions provide many benefits.  To read the announcement with DNS Made Easy please scroll down – for more information about Arbinet’s solutions please email datasales@arbinet.com or visit www.arbinet.com.

DNS Made Easy Selects Arbinet for IP Transit Multi-homing

Subsidiary Firm of Tiggee LLC Opts for Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange for Flexibility, Reliability, and Single Connection to Multiple ISPs

New York, NY – July 14, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [NASDAQ:  ARBX], a leading wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider, announces today that DNS Made Easy, a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC, an Internet service system provider, has connected to Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange for its  Internet transit multi-homing solution.  Arbinet provides DNS Made Easy the ability to easily connect to multiple Tier 1 ISPs in different locations enabling the company to run a more cost-effective and high performance IP ‘any-cast’ network.

Through a single connection to Arbinet’s Layer 2 IP Exchange, DNS Made Easy gains direct access to multiple Tier 1 ISPs without any additional ASN hops and is able to purchase high quality IP Transit at wholesale rates with the flexibility of a short contract term and no minimum commitment.  This connection also enables DNS Made Easy to choose meshed or separate BGP sessions per ISP supplier for redundancy and optimal traffic management and to utilize Arbinet’s online portal, which allows it to add or change suppliers within minutes, eliminating traditionally long ISP provisioning cycles.  DNS Made Easy’s solutions are currently available in Los Angeles, New York and London, with expansion plans to Hong Kong underway.

“After deploying an evaluation connection with Arbinet, we committed to one contract, one cross-connect to gain access to multiple Tier 1 IP backbone providers,” explains Steven Job, President of Tiggee LLC and DNS Made Easy.  “We connected to Arbinet in three locations and plan to expand our connectivity across three continents.   By connecting to Arbinet we have decreased our look-up response time by 22ms and our services were up and running in record time and under budget while gaining access to top quality IP backbone providers at highly competitive rates.  Today we are serving more than one billion queries a day.” 

“DNS Made Easy’s network required multiple connections to providers across a variety of markets,” states Sue Su, Vice President of Data Services at Arbinet. “Our IP Exchange allows DNS Made Easy to start with no bandwidth commitment and saves the cost of connecting to and managing multiple ISP suppliers with a single contract, invoice and network support interface. It offers DNS Made Easy a highly scalable and cost-efficient IP solution to help drive optimal network performance.”

For more information about Arbinet’s IP Solutions, IP Transit multi-homing, IP route optimization, IP Peering and Colocation, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail datasales@arbinet.com.

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally.  With more than 1,100 carriers across the world connected to Arbinet’s 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.  For more information, please visit www.arbinet.com or call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About DNS Made Easy

DNS Made Easy is a subsidiary of Tiggee LLC and is a leader in providing global IP anycast enterprise DNS services. DNS Made Easy launched their DNS services and web management portal in 2002 and has grown to manage hundreds of thousands of customer domains receiving more than 875 million queries per day. DNS Made Easy has a proud history of 100% DNS uptime since launching their DNS service.

More information about DNS Made Easy suite of services is available at www.dnsmadeeasy.com

About Tiggee LLC
Tiggee LLC (tiggee.com) is a privately held company, formed in 1999 to provide innovative internet solutions for businesses. “Putting your business on the Internet is our business.” Tiggee LLC’s subsidiaries include DNS Made Easy (IP anycast enterprise managed DNS services – dnsmadeeasy.com),  VPSit (enterprise virtualization environments – vpsit.com), Host Made Easy (dedicated server hosting and co-location services – hostmadeeasy.com), Top Level DNS (TLD name services – topleveldns.com), Resolving Name Server (resolvingnameserver.com), and Domains Made Easy (domainsmadeeasy.com).

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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 performance, 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 actual results to differ materially from those express or implied in such forward-looking statements.  Please refer to Arbinet’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K  and other periodic and current 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.

ancotel GmbH, a Frankfurt-based operator of one of Europe’s largest (if not thee) interconnection and colocation facility announce the acquisition of LIDARC, the Long Island Data and Recovery Center – a long-Island based colocation and interconnection facility located at 1025 Old Country Road (1025 OCR) in Westbury on Long Island in New York. 

The company will mark the occassion with a press conference, to be held on July 1 at 10am EDT at the facility which will feature ancotel’s management team as well as a varied group of elected officials representing New York State, Nassau County and the town of N. Hempstead on Long Island.    Representatives include Jon Kaiman, the North Hempstead Town Supervisor, Ed Eisenstein the Commissioner/Chief Inforamtion Officer for Nassau County and Joseph J. Galante, the Assistant Comptroller for Intergovernmental & Community Affairs on behalf of the State Comptroller, Thomas D. DiNapoli.

Media and interested parties are encouraged to attend the event on July 1 at 1025 OCR in Westbury, which will be followed by facility site tours and a luncheon in the building’s atrium.  The event will also be available via a live video streaming on the web accessible at http://www.jaymiescotto.com/ancotel.php - the feed will be live starting right before 10am EDT – questions from virtual participants will be taken via the online video portal text/message box.  To participate simply join the conference by going to the website noted above.  For more information about the event, ancotel, the facility and its plans – briefings are available by emailing pr@jaymiescotto.com.

The press release in its entirety is below: 

ancotel  Group Founds New Telehouse at 1025 Old Country Road, Long Island, New York

Facility to be developed into a key interconnection hub for connectivity between North America and Europe

Westbury, NY U.S.A. - June 30, 2010 – Frankfurt-based ancotel GmbH, operators of the largest and most important telecommunications and data network hub in Europe, announces today that it has acquired LIDARC (“Long Island Data and Recovery Center”), a Long Island-based colocation and interconnection facility located at 1025 Old Country Road (‘1025 OCR’), Westbury, NY.  This acquisition marks ancotel’s first foray into the United States’ data center and colocation market.  The company will leverage Long Island’s telecommunications infrastructure to provide invaluable communication opportunities throughout the Long Island and New York metro area to become the preferred gateway to Europe’s number one telehouse. 

Long Island serves as a key landing point for submarine cables that connect North America to Europe.  Until recently, network infrastructure has often bypassed Long Island to traverse into and through Manhattan. Jason Schafer, Senior Analyst Datacenters for Tier1 Research comments, “Downtown Manhattan has been facing datacenter, power, and real-estate capacity constraints, which is pushing business outwards from downtown to areas such as northern NJ and Long Island.”  In addition, many companies today require diverse routing around New York City as well as lower latency connectivity for critical communications and financial trading applications between Europe, South America and Asia. 

“ancotel is known as one of the most successful companies for telehousing and interconnection services in the world,” states John Reynolds, Managing Director of ancotel USA and former Managing Director of LIDARC.  “The company is committed to its investment on Long Island.  They have plans to transform this facility into a critical meet-me-point for companies, cable operators, carriers, service providers and international companies. This will create jobs in the area and attract an array of industries, such as health care, financial, media and content providers, to Nassau County.  We believe that this facility will be the spark that lights the flame of economic development on Long Island.”

Geography plays an important role in today’s communications age.  With more companies requiring global direct connectivity for voice, data and video traffic, proximity to service providers and applications are increasingly significant.   Data center facilities have become a key ingredient in the success of global enterprise businesses IT infrastructure.   Until ancotel USA’s telehouse opening, Long Island’s data center and colocation market has been overlooked for other geographic locations.  This is why ancotel is committed to establish 1025 Old Country Road in Westbury, NY as the preferred gateway to Europe’s number one telehouse.

“We have been looking at the U.S. data center market for quite some time now,” comments K.-J. Orth, Managing Director of ancotel GmbH and Chief Marketing Officer of ancotel USA, LLC.  “With this acquisition, our proven expertise will enable this facility, located in the most eastern point in the United States, to offer direct interconnectivity to and between trans-Atlantic, Caribbean and Latin American submarine cable systems as well as leading nationwide and global network operators. As a result, ancotel USA will usher in a new dimension of global network interconnection capabilities.”

ancotel will unveil its plans for its colocation and interconnection facility at 1025 Old Country Road, Westbury, New York on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 10:00am EDT at a press conference on-site.  To access the press conference virtually, please click here or go to http://www.jaymiescotto.com/ancotel.php.  For more information about ancotel, please visit www.ancotel.com.  For information about the press conference and to attend in person or virtually, please contact pr@jaymiescotto.com.

About ancotel

ancotel GmbH, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, operates the largest and most significant telecommunications and data hub in Europe. The ancotel group provides international carriers and providers with a central and high-performing marketplace for their broadband and communication services. As an independent company, ancotel is a leading provider of services involving carrier-neutral colocation, telehousing and interconnection. Founded in 1999, ancotel now encompasses almost 400 telecommunications and data carriers. Telephone and Internet providers are linked with one another through the physical and virtual ancotel meet me rooms (mmr), and use them to conduct their operations. In addition to its traditional physical cross-connections using fiber-optic, coaxial and twisted-pair copper cables, ancotel also relies on virtual mmr platforms and managed services. ancotel is headquartered in Frankfurt with branches in London, Hong Kong, New York City and an independent telehouse in Westbury, New York. ancotel’s reference customers include 1&1, Arcor, AT&T, BSO Network Solutions, BT, Cable & Wireless, China Telecom, Colt Technology Services GmbH, DE-CIX, Deutsche Telekom, Elion, France Telecom, Global Crossing, GTS Energis, iBasis, HanseNet, Interoute Germany, Kabel Deutschland, KDDI Corporation, KPN, KT Corporation Korea, LANCK Telecom, Linx Telecommunications, NTT Communications, Plusnet GmbH, RETN, Swisscom, Tata Communications, Telekom Austria, Telecom Italia, Telefonica O2, Telekom Austria, TeliaSonera, TEO Litauen, Türk Telekomunikasyon, Verizon and WiTCOM.

New York, NY – June 22, 2010 – QT Talk, a leading smart Voice Over IP calling solutions provider for residential, business and mobile services has been selected by Envios de Valores La Nacional Corporation (‘La Nacional’), a large money remittance company serving more than 50 countries worldwide, to provide its customers with cost effective and efficient international calling solutions. La Nacional will offer QT Talk’s Pure Minutes Plan (‘PurosMinutos’) from its 80 retail store locations in North America.

With over 25 years in the money transmitter industry, La Nacional offers its customers access to its services via more than 20,000 payment points worldwide, 80 retail stores, and over 900 U.S. based agents. In alignment with the company’s plan to unveil international calling solutions as one of its comprehensive service offerings available for purchase in its retail stores, La Nacional will offer QT Talk’s ANI recognition service. Unlike calling cards that require scratch off elaborate passcodes, QT Talk’s ANI recognition service enables International calling from any device – landline or cell phone – without the hassles of additional pass codes. As an added benefit and valued partner to QT Talk, La Nacional customers receive a $3.00 trial for first time users of the PurosMinutos plan to call anywhere in the world.

“QT Talk provides the most cost effective and efficient way for our customers to call their homeland, particularly valuable from our remittance centers to ensure money transfers have been received,” states Alan Friedman, President and CEO of La Nacional. “Our partnership will undoubtedly reinforce La Nacional’s strong presence as a leading global services provider, thanks to QT Talk’s highly competitive calling rates to more than 38 countries worldwide, including Mexico, Pakistan, and the Dominican Republic.”

QT Talk presently offers three calling plans, which include its Pure Minutes plan (typical of traditional calling cards); monthly plans consisting of unlimited North American calling with one international destination (such as the Dominican Republic); or their Global plan, which offers unlimited domestic and international calling to over 38 destinations around the world. The monthly plans are highly affordable, at $29.95 and $34.95 per month respectively. There are no additional fees such as connection fees, taxes or other hidden charges.

“The La Nacional partnership speaks high volumes of QT Talk’s intentions to deliver a cost effective, innovative yet simple product that will allow seamless international retail calling,” states Gary T. Lane, VP of Business Development for QT Talk. “As the leading calling solutions provider for residential and business customers, La Nacional has selected QT Talk to provide its customers a convenient, affordable, far-reaching international calling solution, without any hassles.”

For more information about QT Talk, please email questions@qttalk.com or call +1 212.431.3669.

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About La Nacional:

La Nacional is a large money remittance (money transfers) company, serving more than 70 countries from the United States, and is the number one money transmitter to the Dominican Republic. Ninety-eight percent of their volume is from immigrants. With more than 25 years in the money transmitter industry, 20,000 points of payment worldwide, and 80 retail stores, La Nacional is en route to becoming one of the top 15 money transmitters in the world and surpassing 500+ employees in the next five years.

For more information about La Nacional, please visit http://www.lanacional.com/main.html.

About QT Talk:

QT Talk provides smart VoIP calling solutions for Residential, Business and Mobile Services. The company provides flexible and affordable calling plans delivered through its Hosted VoIP platform, residential IP connectivity, business Internet and Mobile devices, replacing traditional telephone service, international calling plans and calling card programs. QT Talk services can be bought from a number of retail outlets, leading telephony consultants, and directly by contacting 212-461-3669.

For more information, please visit www.qttalk.com.

Just a few weeks ago Arbinet announced that it had signed MegaFon a Russian Mobile Telecom.   This was a significant milestone for the company as it was only in March 2010 that they announced its new premium Mobile Routing Table, with CLI guarantees were available.   To date, the industry interest has been terrific.  So much so that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

 To read more about how Roshan is leveraging the strength and intelligence of the Arbinet platform – please continue reading here: 

Roshan Selects Arbinet International Voice Services

 Partnership with Arbinet enables Roshan to extend its reach and directly interconnect with leading international voice carriers.

Washington DC, USA – May 24, 2010– Arbinet Corporation [NASDAQ:  ARBX], a leading wholesale voice and data telecommunications service provider, announces today at International Telecoms Week (ITW) that Roshan, the leading GSM cellular service provider in Afghanistan, has contracted to utilize Arbinet’s thexchange™ marketplace to buy and sell international voice communications and PrivateExchange^sm to facilitate direct interconnects between it and correspondent carriers and bi-lateral partners. 

By utilizing Arbinet’s thexchange, Roshan gains access to a platform where more than 1,100 carriers and service providers trade, route, manage and settle voice traffic.  Roshan can source high quality routes that allow it to provide its retail customers with cost-effective international voice services.  It can offer its own routes to the marketplace in an easy and cost-effective manner.  Arbinet’s CreditWatch^sm credit management and settlement technology, which is backed by third-party underwriting, guarantees fast, reliable payments for traffic received. 

With PrivateExchange, Roshan can interconnect directly with corresponding bi-lateral partners over Arbinet’s network.  Arbinet will manage routing, billing and settlements, and provide any necessary TDM or VoIP protocol conversions.  Roshan and its corresponding service provider partners will negotiate pricing and volume commitments directly between themselves.

“Arbinet’s thexchange and PrivateExchange services are a key part of Roshan’s strategy to provide high-quality and reliable telecommunications service to the people of Afghanistan,” states Karim Khoja, chief executive officer, Roshan. “Using Arbinet’s thexchange marketplace to trade traffic gives Roshan access to a majority of global service providers and carriers to buy and sell voice traffic.  By using PrivateExchange, we will be able to easily develop bi-lateral routes and send and receive traffic with designated telecommunications providers.  Both these services enable Roshan to easily and efficiently work with the international marketplace to provide customers with unmatched quality, reliability and value.”

“We are very pleased with Roshan’s selection and utilization of our voice services” states Dan Powdermaker, Arbinet’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing.  “With one interconnect, Roshan gains access to two unique International Voice Services.  In an industry where most operators are looking for new efficiencies when delivering international voice services to their end-users, Arbinet’s PrivateExchange and thexchange services give Roshan high-quality voice access to carriers and service providers across the world with unmatched flexibility.”

Arbinet offers three ways for carriers and service providers to originate and terminate international voice traffic.  PrivateExchange 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.  Arbinet Carrier Services is a standard wholesale service with no fees, a single invoice and rate lock.  It uses supplier codes in its wholesale routing plans.

For more information about Arbinet’s Carrier Services, thexchange™, or PrivateExchange^sm, please visit www.arbinet.com or e-mail sales@arbinet.com. 

About Arbinet

Arbinet is a leading provider of international voice and IP solutions to carriers and service providers globally.  With more than 1,100 carriers across the world connected to Arbinet’s 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.  For more information, please visit www.arbinet.com or call +1.917.320.2000 or email sales@arbinet.com.

About Roshan

Roshan (Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd) is Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, with coverage in over 230 cities and towns and approximately 3.6 million active subscribers. Roshan directly employs more than 1,100 people and provides indirect employment to more than 30,000 people. Since its inception seven years ago, Roshan has invested over $450 million in Afghanistan and is the country’s single largest investor and tax payer. Roshan is deeply committed to Afghanistan’s reconstruction and socio-economic development. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), is a major shareholder of Roshan and promotes private initiatives in building economically sound enterprises in the developing world.  Also owned in part by Monaco Telecom International (MTI) and TeliaSonera, Roshan brings international expertise to Afghanistan and is committed to the highest standards of network quality and coverage for the people of Afghanistan.

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 Arbinet’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K  and other periodic and current 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.

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email: sales@arbinet.com or datasales@arbinet.com

The Internet was started as a research networking tool to assist researchers and educators to get access to current data and collaborate on programs to collect data from disparate locations and still have the ability to share the information in near real-time.  As such, the Internet continues to be a highly valuable tool for a wide-variety of research firms and educational instituations.   One of today’s greatest examples of how research networks use the Internet is through the Internet2 initiative.  Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70 leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. Our organization is governed by an executive Board of Trustees and strategic councils consisting of leaders who represent our broad membership.

With Tinet’s announcement that it has been selected by NORDUnet, a joint collaboration by the five Nordic National Research and Educational Networks, the significance of this announcement is put into perspective.  Tinet’s network will be used to interconnect Nordic and Global Research and Educational Networks – providing an important link for research and education within the Nordic region.  

What makes Tinet an idea partner for Nordic is their ability to deliver both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity.  Tinet is one of the leading global IPv6 backbone providers, consistently ranked among the top 10 most well-connected global carriers by third party research institutions such as Fixed Orbit and Renesys. 

The announcement, in its entirety is below for further review.  It provides more detail on the Nordic research and education groups that rely on this new connection:

NORDUNET SELECTS TINET’S ROBUST IPV6 IP TRANSIT SERVICES

TO FURTHER INTERCONNECT NORDIC AND GLOBAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL NETWORKS

MILAN, ITALY – May 24, 2010 – Tinet, formerly the carrier arm of Tiscali Group, the only global carrier exclusively committed to the IP and Ethernet wholesale market, and NORDUnet, a joint collaboration by the five Nordic National Research and Education Networks, announce today, NORDUnet’s selection of Tinet’s IP-Flow IP Transit service in Copenhagen, Denmark for high speed IP Transit service. 

The multi year deal provides NORDUnet additional capacity for its Nordic research and educational networks interconnecting the regional and global networks. The service delivers both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity to NORDUnet, continuing Tinet’s strong presence in the Research and Education vertical as well as in the Nordic Region.

NORDUnet is the Nordic infrastructure for research and education and includes the Forskningsnettet network in Denmark, the Funet network in Finland, the RHnet network in Iceland, the Uninett network in Norway and the SUNET network in Sweden.  NORDUnet offers world-class, high- speed Internet access and high bandwidth connectivity throughout this region. Its IPv4 and Ipv6 production networks interconnect the Nordic research community to the rest of the world.

“Maintaining an innovative role in global communications is important to NORDUnet as we strive to collaborate with the world’s research and economic communities,” states Jørgen Qvist, Chief Network Operating Officer of NORDUnet.  “We chose to deploy Tinet’s IP Transit service to help us further deliver highly available network services, supporting our global efforts.”  NORDUnet requires secure and robust network connections to peer effectively with all regions of the globe.

“Tinet has been rated the top IPv6 network globally by an independent analyst firm,” continues Paolo Gambini, Chief Marketing Officer of Tinet. “We see the ability to serve the NORDUnet research network as another testament of our strategy of exclusively delivering high capacity IP and Ethernet services over an ever expanding geographic reach that reflects the fast changing Internet footprint. We look forward to further enhancing NORDUnet’s robust connectivity with Tinet’s highly available and scalable IP services.”

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

Introducing QT Globe:

No one would argue that the Internet has transformed the way people communicate. Since its inception in the ’70’s its impact and capabilities have touched our lives, our businesses and in essence made the world smaller.  Services such as Voice Over IP (VoIP) enabling voice communications, along with the explosion of music, video streaming, and multi-media applications across the Internet have set the stage for amazing possibilities going forward.  With the same spirit of innovation that started the Internet, coupled with technology leaders who constantly push the envelope – the possibilities are limitless.

Companies like QT Globe  are enabling technology innovation to further expand access, reach and services across the Internet. With its Internet access, VoIP, private networking and data transport services QT Globe transacts more than 800,000 minutes a day across its networks.  

From its wholesale division of Medcom, serving the needs of global carriers to its retail division, QT Talk , focused on consumer and business communications – QT Globe strives to deliver high quality end user experiences when using the Internet.  For more information and to find out how to utilize the very best in Internet innovation, please email us at: ir@qtglobe.com or visit us at: www.qtglobe.com .

Voice Over IP (VoIP) services have grown exponentially in recent years and are slated to increase even more throughout the next decade. What is driving this growth? Mainly the inherent benefits to the technology itself:

• Dramatically decreases the cost of communications
• Flexibility to adapt with new technologies like WiFi and 3G
• Feature rich service sets that enhance the user’s experience

Still not convinced that VoIP is for you?  QT Talk’s PrePaid Calling Solution (without the card), PUREMinutes, is offering trials of its international VoIP network services – for free.  This service allows callers to use the service and see for themselves how the quality of VoIP is just as good as traditional telephony services.

By using the PUREMinutes service from companies like QT Talk, the retail division of QT Globe, users can also save money – up to 70% off traditional international carrier rates.

In today’s economy – free international calling PLUS savings of up to 70% – it’s certainly worth a try.  For a limited time only, and as part of the company’s promotion as they attend the International Telecoms Week (ITW) meetings May 24-26, 2010 in Washington DC,  QT Talk is offering $10 Free Calls – simply text QT to 64842  from you mobile phone – then call family, friends and clients – globally, today.

Check them out there or also www.qttalk.com and www.pureminutes.com.  For information email info@qttalk.com.

*QT Talk was Voted Best VoIP provider by Voip Review and  a 5 star rating by MyVoipProvider.com

With ITW 2010 just two weeks away, I’m sure you are scheduling meetings with the fierce veracity of the business you will be doing at this leading global event for the wholesale telecom industry.  The Marriott Wardman Park will be a flurry with men and women in suits doing deals.  But in order to do deals – you need to know the companies that you can do business with.  Here are six companies that you may want to consider meeting:

Allied Fiber -spearheading the US Nation’s first long-haul dark fiber network system in over 10 years, this company is building a next-generation dark fiber network that will circumvent the United States providing access to all types of communication companies including carriers, service provides, mobile operators, microwave operators and more.  Allied Fiber is changing the way that networks are built in the US.  It is ‘America’s All Access Network’ bridging the communications gap between the middle mile and local mile together with International submarine cable systems – coast-to-coast.  Simply search for ‘Allied Fiber’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Arbinet- No longer just the voice exchange that was launched in the late ’90’s – in the past year+ the company has transformed itself into a leading service provider and partner enabling companies, large and small, to leverage its world class infrastructure to achieve greater ROI on global termination of international voice minutes.  Connecting customers now companies have the control they require, with the intelligence to support them – without the traditionally heavy operating expenses.  You will want to find out about their premium voice services, carrier services, private exchange, mobile routes and developing products that will help you get the most out of your minute margins.  Oh – and their Data Exchange and IP solutions are cool too.  Simply search for ‘Arbinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Hibernia Atlantic- The company has transformed substantially in the past year.  It’s Project Kelvin – submarine cable system connecting Northern Ireland to North America and Europe is now live.  The company also acquired MediaXstream in December 2009 bringing them into the media space.  The company has re-branded this group to Hibernia Media.  With services ideal for the financial industry - Hibernia’s Global Financial Network, for the streaming media/content industry – Hibernia Media and its wholesale carrier services via its leading transatlantic network, this is a company you will want to get to know – again.  Simply search for ‘Hibernia’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

Lexent Metro Connect- want to provide custom services and solutions in the New York Metro market?  Then this is the company you need to know.  Lexent Metro Connect constructs and operates its own dark fiber network throughout the NY Metro market.  It has the ability to build and design custom solutions ensuring the lowest latency through the shortest path.  Simply search for ‘Lexent’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

PacketExchange - This company has been quietly building an enhanced value global IP and Ethernet network based on its vast peering relationships and solutions.  In February 2010 the company acquired Mzima Networks, a provider of layer-2 Ethernet solutions throughout the US with reach to Asia and Europe.  With PacketExchange’s roots in Europe, the combined company has the ability to provide end-to-end bandwidth solutions to meet any growing network demand.  Simply search for ‘PacketExchange’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.

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.  Simply search for ‘Tinet’ in the DealCenter to request a meeting.-

Of course these are my recommendations – there are many others to meet with as well.  You can download a list of all companies and attendees through the DealCenter – this way you can plan your meetings more effectively and ensure you get deals done.   And if you’re not going to ITW (a. you will be missed, b. still time to plan) you can request a meeting with these companies directly by visiting their websites.  Hope to see you in DC – May 24-26, 2010!  

Need help?  Want more information about ITW or these companies?  email: support@deal-center.com

We are just two weeks away from the wholesale International telecom industries largest and most attended annual event – International Telecoms Week – held annually in Washington D.C.  The anticipation of convening with over 4,000 attendees to meet, greet and do deals, is now in top planning mode.  Each day more and more attendees register, more meetings are planned in the ITW DealCenter and orders for catering, restaurant reservations, evening functions are in full swing. 

To make ITW 2010 an efficient event for you and your company, you must plan ahead extensively.    Companies liked Allied Fiber have secured a meeting room at the host hotel -the Marriott Wardman Park - in order to meet and greet potential customers and partners to educate them about their dark fiber network that is currently under construction.  Other companies like Hibernia Atlantic are ensuring they have all of their company attendees registered, catering services ordered, cups in for their coffee hour – which they will be hosting outside of the exhibit hall on Tuesday, May 25th starting at 10am. 

Other companies have been communicating and planning internally for months to ensure their sales and executive teams have all of the necessary information they need to make this years event even better than last year.    Some companies prepare profiles of all of the companies they are meeting with to ensure they know what they do, how they do it and plan efficiently for productive meetings.  Other companies communicate policies and procedures to ensure sales people have relevant meetings planned, either through the DealCenter - an online system to request meetings with other event attendees, or directly with contacts that they have been wooing… maybe for years.

Sponsors of the event host meetings, round tables, cocktail parties and luncheons.  This year – NEW FOR 2010 – there is an official opening reception that is scheduled for Sunday, May 23 with a special VIP speaker – a not to miss event indeed.  This event, for instance is sponsored by Rogers.  Arbinet, another sponsor of the event, will again be hosting companies meetings in its meeting room, Wilson A, located on the Mezzanine Level. 

There is no doubt ITW2010 will generate an extraordinary amount of business for attending companies.    For more information about ITW 2010, please visit:  www.internationaltelecomsweek.com or email clarie.russell@capacitymedia.com.

A special thanks to all ITW 2010 Sponsors!

Contributed by Karissa Campbell of JS&A

MegaFon, the first and only carrier to launch its own network in all regions of Russia, has chosen Arbinet’s PrivateExchange to improve global interconnect efficiencies for its voice termination.    An outsourcing solution that enables retail service providers and carriers to aggregate multiple voice interconnections into a single TDM or VoIP interconnect with Arbinet, PrivateExchange is a strategic part of MegaFon’s action plan for developing the mobile telecom operator’s “international footprint.”

Using PEX to build virtual direct routes to its international correspondent carriers, MegaFon can improve port utilization and network efficiency.

States Konstantin Solodukhin, MegaFon’s Deputy General Director for Fixed Line Business Development and Interconnection. “It was our strategic decision to focus on interconnection with incumbent carriers and find an integrated solution for the rest of international voice wholesale. Arbinet’s PrivateExchange allows us to use less company resources on handling those interconnections as well as to keep independence in choosing partners for traffic exchange and focus on negotiating better rates and achieving better quality for our customer calls.”

Read full press release here.