Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you have a tablet? So that’s about 50/60%.

And how many of you here have a laptop? Virtually everybody has at least a laptop and a mobile phone and most of you have a tablet. And you’re using them all? Do you have a problem if you can’t connect all of them to the Wi-Fi at the same time? That’s the problem I have. So for me connectivity is really critical in every device.
 
I also want that everything will be somewhere else and somewhere else for me is what you call the Cloud. I want my storage somewhere else, I don’t want to carry around with me, I don’t want it sitting on hard disks in my office, I want it out there somewhere else in the Cloud.
 
I want my power consumption to be somewhere else, I want it to be sitting in data centres, I want it to be anywhere else but on my battery or in my room heating my room up. And finally, I want all of my applications, all of my software, everything connected working all the time, I want somebody else maintaining it, I don’t want to be my own IT manager.
 
So addicted to connectivity and I want everything like this somewhere else. In other words, what I want is that Ethernet LAN I used to have in the office, do any of you remember this, you used to go in the office and you used to plug into the Ethernet LAN and the servers were working and the software update was done and everything was magic, it never went down.
 
And we got used to it, Ethernet LANs and IT Managers became a part of our lives. And then what happened? We started travelling and we started working from home, we started working from the car and it’s not like anything at LAN anymore. So what we really want is a global Ethernet LAN, that’s really what we want. We want to be able to plug in anywhere, whether it’s in the hotel or if it’s the plan landing and we want to feel like we’re in that office with our LAN, we want a global LAN. And we don’t want to be our own IT Managers, we don’t want to manage the devices and the IP addresses and all that good stuff, we want somebody else to do it, we want a service provider to do it.
 
So my contention is I want a global Ethernet service wherever I am that fits my needs and I dare to say that that’s true not only for individuals but also for businesses, for everybody. Everybody wants that global Ethernet service that they can plug in anywhere that’s as reliable and as fast and as simple as the LAN in their office. So that is what 2.0 is pointing to.
 
It’s not the solution, it’s not the be all and end all, it’s one step along the way to that truly seamless global Ethernet LAN. And it comes in four flavours; it comes in ELine, E-LAN, E-Tree and E-Access. Perhaps they’re terms that you’re less familiar with. You might have heard of point-to-point, multipoint and rooted multipoint wholesale, but really that Ethernet service that you want is encapsulated in everything that the MEF, the Metro Ethernet Forum, defines and promotes and certifies.
 

Phoenix, AZ, May 8, 2012 – Phoenix NAP®, a full service data center, premier infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider and primary network access point (NAP), announces today that Inteliquent™ (Nasdaq: IQNT), a leading provider of global interconnection and interoperability solutions, has been added to the Secured Servers bandwidth blend.

“We are thrilled with the addition of Inteliquent to our bandwidth solution,” states Ian McClarty, President of Phoenix NAP. “As a major global carrier, Inteliquent ’s services will offer improved connectivity for Phoenix NAP Secured Servers clients. First coming into our data center in 2010, we have seen the company grow and are looking forward to expanding our relationship even more in the future.”

A global provider of advanced network solutions, Inteliquent ’s bandwidth services, including IP Transit, provide improved connectivity to Phoenix NAPs Secured Servers clients linking to Europe, and across the globe. As a top 5 global IP carrier, the addition of Inteliquent in the Phoenix NAP data center dramatically increases Phoenix NAP’s clients’ access to locations that are otherwise inaccessible.

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BOCA RATON, FL – April 17, 2012 – GlobeNet, an international wholesale provider of submarine capacity, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Oi, announces today it has received its MEF certification.  This certification process verifies both the compliance and the performance of GlobeNet’s Carrier Ethernet product portfolio.   
 
GlobeNet’s completion of the certification process demonstrates its commitment to delivering standardized services with proven levels of reliability and performance.   The process took several weeks of extensive planning and testing, and concluded with the successful certification of its EPL (Ethernet Private Line), EVPL (Ethernet Virtual Private Line), and E-LAN (Ethernet LAN) services.  The MEF certification is widely recognized and trusted by wholesale buyers and expected to provide a competitive advantage over non-certified services being offered by other providers.

“MEF Certification allows GlobeNet’s Carrier Ethernet portfolio to meet the most stringent industry standards,” states Erick W. Contag, Chief Operating Officer of GlobeNet.  “Through the recent enhancements to our Ethernet services, we have prepared our product line to meet the high level of service availability customers and the MEF require.  GlobeNet’s continuous commitment to meeting customers’ evolving needs while remaining competitive in the marketplace is demonstrated through our MEF compliance and official certification.”

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Welcome to Carrier Ethernet Americas 2012

The Carrier Ethernet market is growing solidly and will continue to do so until 2015. The increasing demand in bandwidth requirements and the need for scalable and low latency solutions is driving this growth. The market is expected to exceed its current value of $20 billion to an astonishing $40.2 billion by 2015. Consequently, Carrier Ethernet technology has emerged as one of the hottest solutions for the telecommunications industry and is the global communications platform of choice for consolidating services onto a common infrastructure. It enables tailored services for consumers, enterprises, and operators alike.

Com os drivers para a Carrier Ethernet variando da tecnologia 4G para exigências de backhaul, existem uma variedade de soluções de Ethernet disponíveis. Micro-ondas, ótica e cobre, oferecem soluções viáveis para diferentes demandas e setores de usuários finais. O evento anual da 3ª Carrier Ethernet Américas irá em 2012 tratar especificamente do caso da Ethernet com ROI, com as vantagens e desafios discutidos através de um formato de conferência participativa e interativa. Como parte de nossa muito bem sucedida série Carrier Ethernet, o evento das Américas irá reunir todo o ecossistema Carrier Ethernet sob um teto e fornecer estudos de casos oportunos, atualizações de tecnologia e de serviços e oportunidades de network sem precedentes.

Barra de Tijuca

Carrier Ethernet is increasingly going beyond the metro, with services offering a national and global reach. This, coupled with increasing competition, presents Service Providers with an array of new challenges. Moreover, deployment strategies differ from market to market with mature and emerging markets having differing needs and requiring different solutions. After the success of the first two editions of Carrier Ethernet Americas, the 2012 event will host both operator and solution provider presentations delivering unique insight into the issues faced across the region and beyond from the emerging and developing markets alike. The event will pull together the entire Carrier Ethernet ecosystem under one roof and provide timely case studies, technology updates and unprecedented networking opportunities.

Novedad para 2012

Los avances logrados en el desarrollo y la adopción de la tecnología Carrier Ethernet desde el evento de 2011 han influido en la producción de la edición de este año. Específicamente, el funcionamiento y la aplicación de Carrier Ethernet con la nube, Carrier Ethernet y LTE, las tendencias mayoristas de Carrier Ethernet, y los desarrollos más recientes en materia de tecnología y arquitectura de redes.

Over 150 people joined us in Rio in 2011 and Carrier Ethernet Americas 2012 looks set to be our biggest event yet. We hope you can join us for the most valuable conference and exhibition for the Ethernet services and networks industries in LATAM.
 
Carrier Ethernet Americas will be simultaneously translated into Spanish, Portuguese and English.
 
A conferência terá tradução simultânea em Português, Espanhol e Inglês
 
La conferencia tendrá traducción simultánea en Portugués, Español e Inglés