Karissa Campbell
Karissa Campbell
Tuesday, 14 May 2013 15:34
United Fiber & Data Delivers Premier Partner Award to PEG Bandwidth
YORK, Pa. and DALLAS, Texas – May 14, 2013 – United Fiber & Data (UFD) is excited to announce today that PEG Bandwidth has received the company’s first-ever “Premier Partner” award. UFD created the award to recognize and honor those companies that share its partner-driven philosophy that respects each company’s desire and ability to drive positive relationships, deliver solid results and generate strong revenues for each party.
PEG Bandwidth selected the United Fiber & Data network in fall 2012 to help provide cell site backhaul service in hard-to-reach locations. “We’d been looking for a route like this for a long time,” says Rich Ruben, CEO of PEG Bandwidth. “We chose UFD because it offers a unique fiber route that runs through critical but underserved markets where our customer base of wireless carriers does business. This route provides access to cell towers via advanced fiber optics that were previously unavailable.”
United Fiber & Data officially launched on February 28, 2013, announcing a 300+-mile greenfield fiber-optic network that runs between New York City and Ashburn, Virginia. UFD’s network traverses a geographically diverse route through New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, bypassing the traditional I-95 route that most other service providers follow. The UFD network is currently being built from scratch with brand-new and advanced fiber-optic network and data center technology.
“Both our companies share common goals in what we do and how we do it,” confirms Christopher Lodge, President and Chief Operating Officer of UFD. “Our two companies are dedicated to excellent customer service and a unique customer experience. We wanted to recognize this common philosophy with PEG Bandwidth as a way to underscore to our combined customers that working with our companies will deliver benefits that include logical and physical network diversity, high reliability and great service. This is the start of a long-term partnership for us.”
According to the June 2012 Semi-Annual Wireless Industry Survey from CTIA–The Wireless Association, Americans used more than 2.32 trillion cell phone minutes and sent 2.27 trillion text messages since the prior year, showing a 3.2% rise from June 2011. Wireless data usage increased an unprecedented 104% to 633 billion megabytes between June 2011 and June 2012, confirming rapidly growing consumption of data via mobile phones. These trends underscore the need for high-capacity networks that offer scalable and stable connectivity solutions between cell towers and the fiber-optic routes and rings that connect rural and metro areas across the country.
# # #
About United Fiber & Data
Founded in 2009, United Fiber & Data (UFD) offers a complete suite of all-fiber networking and broadband solutions. From Dark Fiber to Ethernet, Wavelengths and Internet Access, UFD’s privately-owned and operated network provides customers with a reliable, low-latency DWDM fiber network. UFD’s network is diverse to single points of failure between New York City and northern Virginia. Enterprise companies, financial institutions, government and carriers can utilize UFD’s unique, diverse fiber routes for fast and secure network connectivity opportunities. For more information, visit www.unitedfd.com.
About
PEG Bandwidth, LLC
PEG Bandwidth provides customized cell site backhaul solutions for wireless operators to support 4th generation (4G) deployments. With offices in Dallas, St. Louis and Philadelphia, PEG Bandwidth delivers complex network solutions across broad geographies utilizing some combination of new fiber builds, available dark fiber, partner fiber networks and licensed, point-to-point microwave. PEG Bandwidth's team of backhaul experts aggregates traffic across these disparate networks to provide a seamless, end-to-end solution from a wireless operator's cell site to its switching facility. The company focuses mainly on lower-tier and rural markets where operators are struggling to find carrier-class, scalable solutions for their backhaul requirements.
For more information, please visit our website at www.PEGBandwidth.com.
Press Contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
866-695-3629
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Published in
Press Releases
Monday, 13 May 2013 13:36
GlobeNet Opens Fastest US – Brazil IP Traffic Route Via Platform Equinix
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — May 13, 2013 — Equinix, Inc . (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced that GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi, has extended its low latency network into Equinix’s MI3 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Boca Raton, Florida. GlobeNet’s expansion into Equinix’s MI3 data center opens the fastest IP traffic route from the United States to Brazil.
Specifically designed to link Latin America with the rest of the world, Equinix’s MI3 facility serves as a carrier-neutral network access point for GlobeNet to connect its low latency, subsea cable route from Equinix’s SP2 facility in São Paulo, Brazil. This new connectivity between North and South America allows network service providers around the world to be able to tap into economic opportunities stemming from emerging commercial centers in Latin America.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Explosive growth in mobile, content delivery, video streaming, tele-presence, social media, and cloud-based data traffic offers tremendous revenue opportunities for high-margin corporate and retail services such as Ethernet and MPLS. To remain competitive, network operators are expanding their infrastructures to meet demand for these new services—and are turning to “retail data centers” that not only offer all the network-to-network connectivity of a telehouse, but also act as aggregation points for concentrations of customers in network-centric industries.
- Roughly 75 percent of all network traffic emanating from Latin America is coming into the United States via Miami. Globally, MI3 has the sixth highest Internet capacity and is a key hub location for domestic and international traffic routes. As a result, Equinix and its Brazilian subsidiary ALOG are perfectly positioned to serve high-bandwidth events, such as the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
- According to a 2013 Submarine Telecoms Forum report, growth in activated submarine capacity has been extremely high, with a compound annual growth rate of 54 percent over the last five years. Equinix is laying the foundation for cable operators like GlobeNet to establish an express highway between the United States and Brazil, while leveraging Platform Equinix™ and its ecosystem of key supply chain customers and partners.
- The North America-South America capacity market is heavily dependent on three privately owned geographic ring networks, one of which is GlobeNet. With numerous telecommunications carrier facilities, fiber loops, international cable landings and multiple power grids, MI3 is an ideal location for GlobeNet to meet the connectivity demands of wholesale and network service providers and other Internet-related businesses looking to expand their business.
- GlobeNet owns and operates over 22,500 kilometers of subsea cable network specifically engineered for the shortest, lowest latency routes. Built upon advanced Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) technology, GlobeNet’s carrier class network is leveraged by wholesale providers and carriers around the World.
- Equinix is seeing strong demand from customers looking to leverage MI3 for fast access to Latin America. MI3 offers a number of benefits to customers, including direct connectivity to the leading Latin American network operators for reduced latency, and close proximity for serving Latin American markets while maintaining infrastructure within the US. Customers that are deploying at MI3 include, Allied Fiber, Cogent Communications, Fiberlight, Inteliquent, Neutrona Networks, Lightower Fiber Networks and tw telecom.
Quotes
- Erick Contag, Chief Operating Officer, GlobeNet:
“In response to the demand GlobeNet is seeing for high capacity, low latency connectivity throughout the Americas, we made a strategic decision to deploy in MI3. As a major international hub for network traffic, M13 offers GlobeNet customers direct access to high performance networks in which to extend existing networks or expand into new markets.”
- Jim Poole, general manager, Global Networks & Mobility at Equinix:
“Fueled by the convergence of telecommunications infrastructures, MI3 is becoming a popular connectivity hub for global carriers, Internet service providers and other Internet-related businesses and organizations. We are thrilled to have GlobeNet expand into MI3, opening up a new bilateral submarine connectivity opportunity for major network providers.”
About GlobeNet
GlobeNet provides International capacity between North and South America over a dual ring-protected submarine cable system serving Brazil, Bermuda, Colombia, the U.S.A., and Venezuela. Covering a distance of more than 22,500 kilometers, this sophisticated submarine cable network system is fully redundant and offers the lowest latency available between the Americas. The network links cable landing stations in Tuckerton, NJ and Boca Raton, FL, USA, with cable landing stations in Fortaleza (CE) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, St. David’s, Bermuda as well as Maiquetía (Caracas) Venezuela. GlobeNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brazilian full-service telecommunications provider Oi.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects more than 4,000 companies directly to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Today, businesses leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 31 strategic markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix’s recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
#####
Press Contacts:
Equinix Media Contacts
Melissa Neumann
+1 (650) 598-6098
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
GolinHarris for Equinix, Inc.
Liam Rose
+1 (415) 318-4380
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
GlobeNet Media Contact
+1 (866) 695-3629
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Published in
Press Releases
Monday, 13 May 2013 13:23
Hibernia Networks Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary
SUMMIT, NJ & DUBLIN, IRELAND – MAY 13, 2013 – Hibernia Networks, a provider of global capacity services, announces its 10-year anniversary as a high capacity and resilient connectivity network provider. To celebrate this major milestone, Hibernia Networks’ executive team is onsite at International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2013 and will be available to meet with clients and partners to discuss customized solutions utilizing Hibernia’s award-winning network services. Hibernia Networks was founded in 2003, by Ken Peterson through the purchase of a transatlantic submarine cable from 360networks.
Over the past decade, Hibernia has grown into a network with 172 unique Points of Presence (PoPs) in 24 countries and across 27,000 kilometers of fiber. Hibernia Networks serves wholesale, enterprise, financial and media customers with unparalleled support, flexibility and service. Hibernia caters to specific market needs by delivering top-level service backed by a secure, diverse network. Customers have grown to rely on Hibernia to provide the latest network technologies in many regions around the globe.
“It is our pleasure to celebrate Hibernia’s 10th anniversary,” states Ken Peterson, CEO of Columbia Corporate Ventures. “Our history is deeply rooted in establishing the necessary network connections our clients demand. As we look to the next ten years, our philosophy will remain the same, to offer the best service that is built on our robust network - all while maintaining the utmost level of security.”
“Hibernia’s scope of services has evolved over the years to create and deploy flexible and next-generation solutions for our customers,” continues Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO of Hibernia Networks. “Through this evolution, we have honed in on providing core services to the wholesale, financial and media communities. With this focus, we are able to unite hundreds of key interconnectivity points around the world and continue to grow strategically in markets we see have opportunities for strong success.”
As an industry leader, Hibernia has been first to the market with technologies that advance their network capabilities. Hibernia completed the first
100 Gbps transatlantic trial on cable from Nova Scotia to England, and continues to advance its low latency routes for its financial customers.
Other notable Hibernia achievements include:
- First to offer native 40 Gbps across the Atlantic for commercial use
- First to offer 40 Gbps over a subsea span between US and Canada
- First to offer 10 Gbps Ethernet LAN-PHY capacity across the Atlantic
- Completion of the deployment of Project Kelvin, a contract awarded by the European Union, bringing direct international connectivity into the northwest region of Ireland as well as a fiber-rich fiber ring into 12 cities in Northern Ireland and connecting them via a new submarine link to North America and Europe
Hibernia’s wholesale services provide secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level services, including GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. In addition, its purpose-built, fiber-based network serving the financial services community unites hundreds of global banks and financial exchanges with low latency connectivity. The company also expanded its network into Asia in 2011 to support growing demand from financial, wholesale and enterprise communities.
Through the acquisitions of MediaXstream and of the Media Connect assets from TeliaSonera, Hibernia’s media network is one of the largest and most extensive 100% QoS, fiber-based DTM Video Transport Networks in the world. Hibernia’s media services are dedicated to flawless delivery of video signals over fiber, supporting media companies across the globe with over 150 media connection points.
With award-winning services, Hibernia has been recognized over the years for its technological leadership. Hibernia's low latency financial network has been recognized three years in a row as one of TMCNet's Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award Winners.
In addition, in 2009 the company’s CEO, Bjarni K.
Thorvardarson, was awarded a Golden
Bridges Award for promoting partnerships between North America and Ireland through its new, fiber optic cable build development, entitled “Project Kelvin”. Hibernia is the only extensive submarine and terrestrial cable deployment that directly connects the Island of Ireland to North America.
For more information on Hibernia’s cutting-edge network services and to view its global network map, visit www.hibernianetworks.com.
#####
About Hibernia Networks:
Hibernia Networks owns and operates a global network connecting North America, Europe and Asia. Hibernia offers 172 network Points of Presence (PoPs) on over 27,000 kilometers of fiber.
Hibernia Networks serves wholesale, financial and media customers with unparalleled support, flexibility and service. Hibernia’s wholesale services provide secure and diverse dedicated Ethernet, DTM and optical-level services, including GigE, 10G and LanPhy wavelengths and traditional SONET/SDH services. Hibernia’s financial services unite hundreds of global banks and financial exchanges with low latency connectivity. Hibernia’s media services are dedicated to flawless delivery of video signals over fiber, supporting media companies across the globe with over 150 media connection points. Hibernia Networks is owned by Columbia Ventures Corporation and funds managed by Constellation Growth Capital.
For more information on Hibernia’s cutting-edge network and services, please visit www.hibernianetworks.com.
For Hibernia Networks media inquiries, please contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
+1.866.695.3629
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Published in
Press Releases
Monday, 13 May 2013 12:58
DE-CIX Completes 100G Optical Layer Build for New Flagship Apollon Platform
Frankfurt, Germany – May 13, 2013 – DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange operator headquartered in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), announces today the completion of the optical backbone of its new flagshipDE-CIX Apollon platform. Deployed in four supernodes and three feeder sites across the city of Frankfurt, the new optical layer now delivers a total capacity of 12Tbps across its mesh-network topology. This optical platform is the foundation of DE-CIX’s new switching platform, which is currently being deployed and is expected to be ready for service in September 2013.
Upon deployment of the full 100Gbps capability at the core and at the edge of its Ethernet interconnection platform, DE-CIX Apollon will have over three hundred 100 Gigabit ports across its entire optical network, making it one of the largest metro networks in the world.
The completion of the optical backbone now provides DE-CIX Apollon enhanced reliability and scalability, enabling customers to directly leverage an expanded portfolio of advanced services that will be available in early 2014.
The advanced optical transport infrastructure is built on the ADVA FSP 3000 platform, with 100G Metro and Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) capability. The ADVA 100G Metro solution features 4x28Gbps direct-detection technology, providing DE-CIX Apollon a highly efficient use of space, power and spectral efficiency, as well as lower costs than most other metro solutions.
“With this robust 100G optical backbone now in place, DE-CIX sets the stage for delivery of advanced services and a rich feature-set for our customers, who demand only the best in performance, reliability and scalability,” states Harald A. Summa, CEO for DE-CIX. “DE-CIX has experienced 50-100% increases in traffic each year for the past 15 years, and we expect this trend to continue. Because of this, we’ve built this future-proof platform that can be easily upgraded when the time is right to further extend advanced, high-performance capabilities to our clients.”
Offering a full portfolio of Ethernet-based interconnection services up to multiple 100 Gigabit ports, DE-CIX Apollon is a carrier-neutral exchange in which carriers and service providers around the world can connect to over 500 networks from fifty countries.
The optical backbone deployment began in December 2012 and was completed this month. The next phase of the DE-CIX Apollon platform deployment will begin now and encompass the migration to Alcatel-Lucent’s Core Router 7950 XRS, which will support world-leading port density of up to eighty 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis and advanced edge functionality and performance.
For more information about DE-CIX and DE-CIX Apollon, please visit http://apollon.de-cix.net.
###
About DE-CIX
Founded in 1995, DE-CIX in Frankfurt is the leading operator of Ethernet-based carrier and ISP interconnection worldwide. DE-CIX facilitates the exchange of IP traffic between networks through a distributed, failsafe and scalable infrastructure in various metro markets across Germany and in the Middle East. This includes broadband networks, hosting providers, content providers and cloud computing players. More than 500 ISPs from over 50 countries use DE-CIX to handle a large fraction of their Internet traffic and make DE-CIX the world’s largest interconnection facility that supports peering. DE-CIX’s customer base includes the world’s leading players, such as 1&1, Akamai, China Telecom, Facebook, Google and Telefonica.
The company began its international growth with the takeover in 2012 of the operations of UAE-IX in Dubai, UAE, the country’s first carrier-neutral interconnection and peering platform. DE-CIX is a wholly owned subsidiary of eco e.V., the world’s largest Internet industry association. Further information is available at: www.de-cix.net.
For DE-CIX Media Inquiries, please contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
+1 (201) 839-0177 x3
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Published in
Press Releases
Tagged under
Monday, 22 April 2013 16:56
GlobeNet Completes Construction of Bermuda-US (Segment 5) Replacement
BOCA RATON, FL – April 22, 2013 – GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi, announces today it has completed construction on its new high capacity subsea cable system (Segment 5). The new subsea cable system has a total design capacity of 30Tb/s and links Bermuda and the United States. The build was first announced in January 2012 and will provide more than 30 times the previously lit capacity between Bermuda and the United States.
Designed to support 150 wavelengths per fiber-pair at 100 Gbps per wavelength, the new segment is approximately 1,350 km in length and lands in St. David’s, Bermuda and Tuckerton, New Jersey. As an integral part of GlobeNet’s dual-ring subsea cable system, Segment 5 has the largest cross-sectional capacity per fiber pair of any system built or contracted to date.
The Segment 5 system includes the use of TE SubCom Submarine Line Terminating Equipment (SLTE), which allows transmission of multiple high-quality, high-bandwidth optical signals over ultra-long distances.
“Latin America has seen explosive demand for high-speed bandwidth to support the wide adoption of video, gaming, and online data services over the past few years,” states Erick W. Contag, Chief Operating Officer of GlobeNet. “Always focused on providing the highest quality and most reliable services, this Segment 5 replacement further enables GlobeNet to deliver the latest in technology to its wholesale and carrier clients.”
With over 22,500 km of fiber optic cable, GlobeNet designs its entire network with the lowest latency and delivers subsea network availability measured in excess of 99.99%. Its current product portfolio includes International Private Line (IPL), Wavelength, Carrier Ethernet and IP Transit services. For more information on GlobeNet’s services, please visit http://www.globenet.net.
About GlobeNet
GlobeNet provides International capacity between North and South America over a dual ring-protected submarine cable system serving Bermuda, Brazil, Colombia, the U.S.A., and Venezuela. Covering a distance of more than 22,500 kilometers, this sophisticated submarine cable network system is fully redundant and offers the lowest latency available between the Americas. The network links cable landing stations in Tuckerton, NJ and Boca Raton, FL, USA, with cable landing stations in Fortaleza (CE) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, St. David’s, Bermuda as well as Maiquetía (Caracas) Venezuela. GlobeNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Brazilian full-service telecommunications provider Oi (that acquired Brasil Telecom in 2009 ).
For more information, visit www.globenet.net.
For GlobeNet media inquiries, please contact:
Jaymie Scotto & Associates
+1.866.695.3629
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Published in
Press Releases
