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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TELEHOUSE America:  Data Center Market & TELEHOUSE Advantage

AboveNet: Low Latency Data Center Connectivity Bandwidth Flexibility

Digital Edge: The Intelligence Behind The Technology

In the wake of the earthquake that has devastated CHILE, QT Talk, a VoIP calling solutions provider is offering $5.00 of free calls to CHILE for anyone who needs to reach friends, families and loved ones in the region.

To take advantage of this offer simply Text CHILE to 64842 – an access number will be provided.

QT Talk provides an alternative solution to traditional calling cards -without the cards.  Using ANI recognition, the company provides uers the ability to make local and International calls from their landline or cell phone without the use of a pin. 

The company’s website www.purosminutos.com or www.pureminutes.com provides more information about the service.

The original announcement is below:

QT TALK OFFERS FREE CALLING TO CHILE IN RESPONSE TO EARTHQUAKE

 Text CHILE to 64842 to Receive Free Calls

New York, NY – March 4, 2010 – QT Talk a VoIP calling solutions provider announces today that in response to the recent Chilean earthquake, it is offering $5.00 in free calling to Chile in order to help friends and relatives connect with their loved ones.

“Our core goal at QT Talk is to connect communities,” states Gary Lane, VP of Sales and Business Development at QT Talk.  “We were devastated to hear about this catastrophe that has plagued the people of Chile, and immediately wanted to offer our assistance to provide this service, for free, to anyone who needs to call Chile.”

QT Talk’s PurosMinutos, a flexible international calling solution designed to save customers time and money, provides easy international calling capabilities from any phone, including cell phones. With no hidden fees, commitments, expiration dates, or the need to change carriers, PurosMinutos allows customers to place calls without the hassle of cards or PINs. By simply dialing its toll free number from any landline or cell phone, PurosMinutos enables customers to make important calls at reduced rates.

To take advantage of this offer, please text CHILE to 64842 and instantly receive $5.00 to call anyone in Chile.

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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 or visit www.PurosMinutos.com. 

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

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

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

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

Arbinet Introduces Premium Mobile Routing Table with CLI Guarantee

Direct Mobile Termination to more than 250 Networks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About Arbinet

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

Forward-Looking Statements

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

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

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

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

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

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

Many challenges face the demanding financial community – fragmentation, Exchange consolidation, high cost of multiple deployments to trading venues – all of these dynamics prove difficult to manage in a rapidly changing environment. When you can’t afford to loose valuable time and money Switch and Data’s GeoReach program coupled with Hibernia’s Global Financial Network (GFN) are something to consider. Recently Hibernia Atlantic expanded its Global Financial Network (GFN) into Switch & Data’s financial EcoCenter in North Bergen, NJ, which is one of the hubs for its GeoReach program, allowing financial firms to consolidate from a central location, more effectively use their resources, as well as offer them the speed to reach regional liquidity providers.

Hibernia’s GFN is a natural fit for the GeoReach program as it was specifically engineered to meet the demanding needs of the high-frequency trading community marked by high performance, low latency, and industry leading rapid deployments – just 5 days from signature to service. The GFN provides secure and redundant dedicated fiber connectivity to not only EcoCenter/GeoReach sites but also to key exchanges, broker dealers, hedge funds, market data providers and global banks – all across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. One single point of connectivity to the GFN can unite multiple facilities in strategic locations all across the global financial community.

Streamline your trading strategy and regain control – check out Hibernia’s GFN.

To read the press release in its entirety, click here.

Network Points of Presence (PoP) lists are the bread and butter of any service provider.  It is the tool that enables sales teams to sell, marketing to market and business development, well to fill in the gaps.  In order to get where you need to go, you need to know how to get there and whether or not your network can deliver the service or your partner’s.  Most companies have these fantastic tools, that are updated by product departments called spreadsheets.  Then product marketing (or simply marketing) jazzes them up to make them look good and easy to read for sales to quickly, at a glance decipher whether a deal is ‘on-net’ or not.

Most companies consider their partner networks to be ‘off-net’ which traditionally give them less visibility, control reducing the service levels offered to end-user customers.  Global Telecom & Technology (GTT) is different.  The company has over 800 network partners around the world – all partner networks are considered ‘on-net.’  GTT provides end-to-end Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for of its services.  In addition, the company’s Client Management Database (CMD) allows sales, marketing, business development and even assistants access to a global database of providers, pricing and network solutions in real-time. 

You call GTT requesting a quote – you get it.  What makes the company’s CMD useful is its ability to quickly add any network PoP list into its system and add that to the ‘On-Net’ capabilities of this global network integrator.  What a great channel to get your network’s presence available to the market.   By leveraging a global network integrator with over 750 customers globally and over 10,000 circuits installed – there’s a likely chance that your network would be the next one quoted, signed and installed. 

GTT’s CMD is available for other providers as a resource to get pricing – particularly invaluable in hard to reach areas.  So next time you want to promote your PoP list or get pricing think of Global Telecom & Technology (GTT) and email them right away – info@gt-t.net – you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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

The February event will feature two TELEHOUSE partners:

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

and

Digital Edge who will lead a discussion on virtualization implementations.

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

(Food, Beverage and Networking Opportunities are Free)

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

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.