Hibernia Atlantic announces that Atrato IP Networks has selected Hibernia Atlantic to provide additional capacity on its transatlantic network route, and between major US and European hubs. Atrato, whose customers range from small, privately owned companies to large enterprise firms and ISPs, require high-quality IP transit and direct connections to the world’s largest Internet Exchanges Points (IXPs).

Atrato IP Networks requires additional transatlantic network routes due to a rapid increase in business throughout the US and Europe. Atrato has an extensive network covering all the major points of presence (PoPs) in over 15 countries and connects to over 20 IXPs. Atrato selected Hibernia Atlantic to provide additional network capacity between Ashburn and Chicago; Chicago to New York; London to New York; New York to Ashburn; and London to Amsterdam.

For more information on Hibernia Atlantic, visit www.hiberniaatlantic.com.

Huawei Marine has signed a construction contract for Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN) Project Express. Huawei Marine recently completed the first phase of the project’s marine survey work and is now commencing the manufacturing of the necessary cables and wet plant for the project.

The Project Express segment of the GFN is scheduled to be ready for service during the summer of 2013. The system will involve a minimum of a 4-fibre pair repeatered submarine cable, providing connectivity between New York and London, initially using 40G technology with upgrades to 100G planned in the future.

The first phase of the system begins with laying a 4600KM cable from Brean in Somerset, United Kingdom to Halifax, Canada. This cable will then connect to Hibernia Atlantic’s current low latency cable, which runs from Halifax to the United States, passing from Lynn, near Boston, and onwards to New York. Project Express will become an essential route on Hibernia Atlantic’s GFN, uniting hundreds of global banks and financial exchanges with a single connection.

For more information on Project Express, visit www.hiberniagfn.com.

Sidera Networks announces the appointment of Clint Heiden as President. Heiden is responsible for all aspects of Sidera’s revenue generation, including sales, marketing, product management and sales engineering. His entrepreneurial approach to business and twenty plus years of telecom and Internet experience make him the perfect addition to Sidera Networks.

Prior to joining Sidera, Heiden served as President at PAETEC, where he led efforts related to the company’s fiber operations and the strategy for retaining and growing its largest accounts. He has also held executive positions at Intellifiber (Cavalier), Cable & Wireless America, Qwest, UUNET and InterCon Systems.

The full press release can be read at http://www.sidera.net/news/press-releases/sidera-networks-names-clint-heiden-as-president

Sidera Networks introduces Low Latency in Every Industry, a white paper that examines the importance of low-latency across education, healthcare, media, government and legal fields. In the past low latency was considered solely important to financial services. Today, 88% of IT decision makers across industries cite low latency as one of the most important qualities of their network.

Low latency has become an area of focus, as customers’ applications require more efficient network connectivity and speed has become a network “must have.” Educational institutions are utilizing high-speed networking solutions to leverage innovative technologies, such as video conferencing, live-streaming, and e-learning platforms. The healthcare industry requires high-speed networks to ensure optimal performance of critical applications for mobile equipment that can vastly improve quality of care. Those in media and government require fast and efficient networks to meet deadlines and gain access to real time information, while the legal industry’s focus is on high capacity networks to ensure uninterrupted access to data at all times.

Low latency requirements for the education, healthcare, media, government and legal industries all depend on the same foundation, the ability to design a network tailored to client’s requirements. To ensure your network is ideally suited to support your business needs and to download the complete white paper, click here. For more information about Sidera Networks, please visit www.sidera.net.

Sidera Networks’ Mary Stanhope, Senior Director of Product and Marketing, discussed the ever expanding low-latency market with Light Reading’s Carol Wilson at this year’s Ethernet Expo.

In her interview, Mary explains that while the financial services industry will always be the leader in low latency, the topic has become important to the education, healthcare, and media industries. For healthcare, the importance is in low latency’s ability to move large amounts of data quickly;for education, it’s about reliable Internet; and for media, it’s about bandwidth and capacity. However, for all of these industries outside of financial services, the importance of low latency boils down to one concept:  performance.

To watch the full video and find out more about low latency across industries, click here.

Sidera Networks’ Mary Stanhope, Senior Director of Products and Marketing, discussed hot technologies at the Wall Street Technology Association’s (WSTA) November seminar. The seminar focused on specialized technologies that promise significant advances for the financial industry.

What hot technology did Mary choose to discuss? Low latency. In her session, “The Competitive Advantage of Low Latency Connectivity,” Mary highlighted low latency as a key requirement for high frequency trading. She also explained how latency networks, such as Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency network, give users a competitive advantage over their competition.

Did you miss Mary’s discussion on low latency at the WSTA “Hot Technologies” seminar? Click here to download the full presentation on low latency in the financial industry.

XKL, LLC. Founder and CEO, Len Bosack will present the Visionary Keynote address at the 4^th Dark Fibre International Convention taking place November 29-30 in London. The Dark Fibre Convention is designed to deliver insight into growth occurring in the dark fiber sector with presentations, case studies and a wide range of national and international networking opportunities. In addition to presenting the Visionary Keynote, XKL is also a key sponsor of the event.

The international conference will assess a wide range of issues including the increased fiber deployment occurring at metro, rural and national levels and the funding mechanisms supporting those types of builds. Attendees of the Dark Fibre Convention will examine customer segments and geographic areas offering new growth opportunities in emerging markets, including Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Africa. XKL looks forward to participating at the event again this year as the convention sets the stage for the latest discussions in the dark fiber industry.

To schedule a meeting with XKL while at the event, email pr@jaymiescotto.com. For more information on XKL, visit www.xkl.com.

If I told you I could quickly run an analysis of the total square feet of your house and subsequently show you a finished basement you never knew existed, would you let me? What if I then told you that I could rent that finished basement (remember, a second ago you didn’t know it existed), and you could buy a new car, new boat or (snore) put it in your kid’s college fund. How would that sound? Sounds good, right? Of course it does – unless the new space would ultimately serve as quarters for the mother-in-law – but let’s not conjure thoughts of new space in the dog house.

It’s called Optimization, and although there aren’t any optimization tools that can uncover unrealized excess square footage in your house (at least not that I’m aware of), this scenario exists in the telecom universe.

Global Capacity has integrated its industry-leading network optimization analysis tools into its One Marketplace Access Exchange platform. The customized algorithms offer Global Capacity the ability to optimize networks, identifying excess capacity that can be offered through the One Marketplace Access Exchange, meeting market demand exceeding 150,000 quotes a month.

By utilizing the automated optimization algorithms powered by the One Marketplace Access Exchange, Global Capacity is able to help companies identify more efficient network solutions for off-net access services.  Specifically, Global Capacity can execute network optimization analyses that identify opportunities to reduce costs through network novation opportunities, as well as by identifying excess capacity that can be sold back into the market via the One Marketplace Access Exchange. By novating non-strategic off-net network assets to Global Capacity, customers can reduce costs while simplifying operations, enabling them to re-focus efforts on maximizing on-net services and other core competencies to better serve their customers. By identifying excess capacity within existing network inventories and loading it into One Marketplace Access Exchange, customers are able to monetize assets they have already paid for. This excess capacity, which is typically stranded and represents a sunk cost to the customer, can be sold into the market based on customer demand currently running through the One Marketplace Access Exchange, increasing revenue while effectively reducing the cost of that capacity.

“One Marketplace Access Exchange was designed and built to improve efficiency, while streamlining and optimizing the pricing, procurement and provisioning of access network services,” states Patrick Shutt, Global Capacity CEO. “By incorporating our network optimization capabilities into the One Marketplace Access Exchange platform our customers now have the ability to pull back the covers and realize untapped capacity, and convert that capacity back to the market, priced more competitively. This revenue is directly attributable to EBITDA,”

Global Capacity provides network operators the unique ability to strategically interconnect to the One Marketplace Access Exchange in order to take advantage of automated marketplace rates for access networks.  This unique dynamic enables customers to grow revenue by identifying unused capacity, while dramatically improving EBITDA performance through lower operating expenses and leveraging the value of unrealized network capacity.

Click here to learn more about Global Capacity’s Optimization solution: http://www.globalcapacity.com/news/13

Sidera Networks is participating in the Wall Street Technology Association’s (WSTA) “Hot Technologies” seminar. The seminar takes place in New York City tomorrow, November 15, and will focus on specialized technologies that promise significant advances for the financial industry.

Mary Stanhope, Sidera’s Senior Director of Product and Marketing, is presenting a session titled, “The Competitive Advantage of Low Latency Connectivity.” The session will discuss low latency as a key requirement for high frequency trading, its competitive advantage, and how it is achieved. During the session Mary will also discuss Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency network, which many financial institutions depend on for ultra low-latency connectivity.

The WSTA is a not-for-profit educational organization that focuses on technologies, operational approaches, and business issues for the global financial community. The WSTA offers a platform to meet the unique informational needs of IT and networking professionals in the financial community through seminars, roundtables, panel discussions, showcases, social events, and a quarterly educational Ticker Magazine.