TELEHOUSE America is in the process of increasing power management capabilities and power capacity at its downtown Manhattan facility, BROADWAY Center - 25 Broadway (25B). Go to story or press release.
- Lead Story: TELEHOUSE & New York City Power Issues - VoIP & SIP-IX BOOT CAMP special Issue - Client Newswire - OCG Dark Fiber to The Teleport to Boost NYC Telecom - IX NEWS eXchange - News///Waves Debuts Executive Insights Next Month - TELEHOUSE Launches After 5@25B - B'kfast On B'way August & September Recap - Industry Waves - News from Around the Globe - Event Calendar
AboveNet ...MaryBeth Nance & Brain Sheehan phoned to say the "agents only" promo goes to the end of the year. Call MB (571) 633-5128 or email her at mnance@above.net or Brian Sheehan (212) 803-5531 or email him at bsheehan@above.net. Also contact Brian about their November 14th – MetroEthernet webinar.
Digital Edge ... TELEHOUSE partner Digital Edge will begin to offer on a wider scale its services dealing client issues involving multiple clustered database servers and SAN storage. This could involve complications precipitating database server problems, such as SAN performance of input/output transactions under high capacity loads, or fiber multi-pathing and cluster failover configuration issues. The list of services includes SAN and fire optic switch firmware upgrades, HBAs driver solutions, multi-path software for server clusters, and server cluster rebuilds enabling dual pathways to SAN fiber switches.
ETT Their September BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY presentation is here.
Juma Technology is now a TELEHOUSE partner. See their September BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY presentation. Juma's VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
Level 3 Their 's VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
NeuStar came directly from VON to co-host September's VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center. Their presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
NexTone Their VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
TAMP ... Randall Terpstra, a pioneer in pandemic incident planning, now leads TAMP's Pandemic Response Planning Practice. More on Randy and TAMP.
Time Warner Telecom Their VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
Xceedium is now a TELEHOUSE partner, which expands each other's business continuity & remote operations management capabilities. See Story and press release ... Also see their BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY presentation now. Their VoIP BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center presentation will be available in the BOOT CAMP special issue.
XO Communications ... Joe Azzinari (Sales Mgr., 212-981-6297, joseph.azzinari@xo.com) reports on his division's "Product Offerings & Referral Program" utilizing its Tier-1 OC-192 Backbone; offering VoIP Origination, VoIP Termination, High-Speed Internet Access (DS-3, Ethernet etc.). Point 2 Point Pvt. Lines; Long Haul Private Lines; Metro Ethernet; Hub & Spoke Configurations; Wholesale Internet Access, PRI Services & Integrated Access; Inbound PRI Services; 2-Way PRI & Digital T1 Services; DS-3 PRI Service; VoIP T1 Packages (Retail), LINK: XO Referral Program: XO's Business Referral program offers rewards for turning customers onto XO services. They cut you a 1-time check equal to 50% of the customer's Monthly Recurring Charge. To sign up go to https://apps.xo.com/referral/ -- select "NY Uptown"; list -- Joe Azzinari-Sales Rep.
The Staten Island Advance's 9/24 Sunday edition ran a front page story about the positive telecom changes in store for The Port Authority of NY & NJ's ‘The Teleport'... OCG's all new dark fiber loop, which offers redundancy, diversity and a Manhattan bypass, is about to impact Staten Island's broadband capacity in a big way... As a result TELEHOUSE Center (7 Teleport) will be in the position to create a new metro New York carrier hotel... Once OCG completes its 2nd fiber path and entry point, TELEHOUSE Center will have four diverse entry points and paths.
Across the Pond AMS-IX - The Amsterdam Internet Exchange AMS-IX's new members LINX - The London Internet Exchange LINX NEWS...Members unite in War against UBM DE-CIX ...for Germany's IX news, view the DE-CIX Newsletter
The Right Coast NYIIX announced double-digit increases in membership (26%) & peak volume traffic (80%) over the 1-year period, 10/2005 to 9/2006. Total membership went from 73 to 92. In the same period peak traffic volume traffic volume went from 10.8Gbps to 19.4Gbps. Trade The News joined the exchange and is immediately available for peering.
The Left Coast LAIIX like sibling NYIIX also saw big increases. The membership grew by 42%, as the member role climbed from 26 to 37. The number of members peering jointly at NYIIX & LAIIX climbed as well. Peak traffic volume saw a 230% gain - 1.0Gbps to 3.3Gbps. Upgrades to high bandwidth helped to fuel both exchanges' traffic volume expansions. LAIIX welcomes Tellurian Networks to the exchange . Tellurian is available for peering via LAIIX and NYIIX as well.
Eric Bender of Wilshire Connection tells News///Waves that L.A.'s broadband capabilities continue to improve; thereby offering reach to locations once unavailable.
Look for the debut of a new regualr section in our next newsletter - Executive Insights. It will feature interviews with industry executives. Cogent Communications' president and COO, Reed Harrison, will be our first guest.
NEWS///WAVES will issue a special edition devoted to September's VoIP BOOT CAMP The issue will include pieces on each co-host's presentation and photos of the event. the presentations will also be made available on our website.
TELEHOUSE launched the New York-based After 5@25B in September. The event complements the highly successful BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY seminars begun in '04 and the BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center workshops begun in '05.
The concept was very well received by industry execs. The focus on networking to help facilitate business among clients, partners, NYIIX members, all carriers and ISPs, IT service providers and web hosting companies. Those who cannot make TELEHOUSE's morning events.gave it a 'thumbs up' for scheduling as well.
In May Felipe Alvarez, RCN Business Solutions' president addressed (May 18 presentation) tier 1 mergers' impact on tier 2 carriers and on customer benefits. Alvarez returns in November to appraise RCN's post-merger achievements in operations, product lines, sales, and marketing to name a few..
August & September's seminars looked at trends, remote access control/security, connectivity and services from the US and international view. Global Internetworking touched on trends/changes in communications, "traditional services" pricing, alternative connectivity's demand, and globalization. Xceedium covered new methods of remote operations management and security; highlighting secure remote IT operations' rising importance. ETT insightfully and informatively illustrated international connectivity, installations and managed support issues. Included were variations facing any business seeking footprints in places such as Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Juma Technology focused on trends and US companies thinking global. Strategy should consider local with global in mind. Business, users, and IT drives the market. Convergence is a huge opportunity; SIP changes the playing field. See thier BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY presentations too.
BIRTHDAY WAVES ..... Congrats to birthday boys 'n girls - Wynne Ahern, Victoria DiGiulio, Peggy McGovern and Lou Vullo and Nicole Ingersoll. I could use a chocolate cake, light chocolate filling with a dark choclate icing and lots of cold milk after writing this. Now all, say "CHEEEESE!! .... Lovely.... Congrats again.
FILM REVIEW WAVES ... resident movie critic Tara "Two Thumbs" DeVito is back from enjoying Paris & Rome, its chef's culinary feats, as well as the historic architechture. BUT she returned to a desk sky-high with paperwork. So you movie mavens will have to wait or send in some favorites or reviews of your own. Want to be in print...now's your chance.
PARTY WAVES the NY community came out in force to the first After 5 @25B networking party on 9/27. If you missed it, look out for the next one.
JOB WAVES ... 2 industry exec reruiting firms now will submit active job searches to News///Waves. One recruiter tells News///Waves that the job market in the service provider and financial services IT space over the last 6 months seriously has really been heating up. A "more secure" feeling about business and a strong stock market fuels their expansion of their technical and management ranks. The hottest areas -- VoIP engineering, VMWare, server consolidation and IT Risk Management/Compliance. Here's some open positions: Network Architect @ 100k-120k; VoIP Engineer @ 90k-125k; Technical Support Engineer @ 60k-70k; Network Engineer @ 65K-75K; Avaya Project Manager @ 70K-85K; Avaya Field Techichian @ 45K–55K; Global Project Manager @ 130K+; VoIP Engineer @ 100K+; Sr. Network Engineer @ 110K+; Marketing Communications Manager @ 115K+; Sr. Product Manager @ 125K+; Database Architect @ 180K+.
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Date Location Event Name
Oct. 19 New York WSTA Hot Technologies Conf./Trade Fair
Oct. 20 Nassau NY C.P.E. Long Island Round Table Event
Oct. 24-26 Los Angeles Digital Hollywood Fall 2006
Oct. 30-Nov. 3 Latin Amer. ICANN Meeting TBD, Latin America
Oct 31 - Nov 2 TBD Streaming Media West
Nov. 12-15 Scottsdale 7x24 Exchange
Nov. 13 & 14 Amsterdam CAPACITY EUROPE 2006
Nov. 15 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY (RCN w_F. Alvarez)
Nov. 15 New York WSTA Hot Technologies Conf./Trade Fair
Dec. 8 New York BOOT CAMP@TELEHOUSE Center
(Media-Entertainment & Internet w_IPTV)