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By cableunion, May 17, 2012 4:48 am

Sidera Networks?(News – Alert) recently announced the availability of low latency connectivity from the New York Metro market to Toronto, Canada and London, England.

Sidera’s high capacity, high availability Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network provides the lowest latency paths between locations, and offers resiliency with at least two different paths into sites. The network is supported by SLAs that offer specific latency.

Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network has the ability to keep traffic within New Jersey or extend into New York, unlike other commercial networks.

Sidera offers a unique benefit to financial services firms: exchanges by enhancing its Xtreme Ultra Low Latency Network internationally.

The company also provides the services to other high bandwidth customers seeking low latency applications, such as electronic trading and real-time content distribution. With the new low latency routes, clients can also get diversity from Sidera’s existing routes to Toronto and London.

“As part of Sidera’s strategic plan to grow our network in ways that complement our existing customers and assets, this addition of low-latency routes to Toronto and London makes perfect sense,” said Clint Heiden?(News – Alert), President, Sidera Networks. “We’re extending our already formidable financial services network cloud, so that customers who plug into Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra Low Latency Network have access to a world of exchanges and financial services players.”

“Sidera is building on its leadership in a market.”

Recently the company announced updates to its Transcom Route, which runs from New York to Washington, DC. It now includes a diverse path to its Ashburn, VA data center fiber ring via Frederick, MD, bypassing downtown Washington, DC. As a result, customers will get a unique and completely diverse path from traditional fiber routes along the I-95 corridor.

Sidera is committed to providing inexpensive, custom solutions coupled with superior industry expertise, service and support.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By cableunion, May 17, 2012 1:34 am

Rosendin Electric’s Network Services Group has considerable experience in offering full service sound and communication for new construction, design build, system integration, and turnkey. With this, Rosendin Electric can be a “single source” contractor for both our customer’s electrical needs and their data and telecommunications requirements.

Recently, the company secured the second phase of a major data center build-out in the Northern Virginia High-Tech Corridor. The company announced that it has subcontracted the work to DPR Construction. DPR Construction will complete the data center design and construction project for an unnamed data colocation service.

Scheduled for completion by October 2012, this second phase of construction consists of five 2 megawatt pods meant for tier 3 data center specifications. Offering another proof point for the company’s strength in data center design/build, this contract improves Rosendin Electric’s presence in the evolving Mid-Atlantic market. Rosendin Electric, a 100 percent employee-owned company, and one of the largest privately held electrical contractors in the United States, has already completed the first phase of the design/build project successfully, the company stated in a press release.

“We’re immensely gratified at the confidence that DPR Construction expresses in Rosendin Electric with the award of this important contract,” said Alan Linder, Division Manager for Rosendin Electric, in a company press release. “We’re eager to move quickly through design and preconstruction and on toward successful delivery of the finished pod this fall.”

Recently, the company promoted Fred Meeske to the position of Corporate Director of Building Information Modeling (BIM) Services. The company has newly created this position and Meeske, in this new position, will look after the company’s efforts with BIM, including establishing standardized best practices across the company and working with third-party software providers. Responsible for a number of complex regional BIM projects, Meeske has been with Rosendin Electric since 2007 serving as preconstruction manager.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 16, 2012 10:39 pm

AiNET is deploying a fiber optic network in downtown Washington, D.C. When the network is finished, D.C.-area businesses and government offices will connect directly with AiNET’s CyberNAP data center.

To document the deployment of the network, AiNET has created the first part in a series of webcasts. Entitled “Placing a Manhole,” the webcast shows the ins and outs of placing a manhole at 30th and K Street in Georgetown. We’ve all seen manhole covers from the top of the street, but few of us have ever seen the concrete handling and encasement work that goes on beneath the asphalt.

The 10,000-mile fiber optic network traversing through the heart of the nation’s capitol will enable virtually unlimited connectivity for crucial government services including Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations. Additionally, both public and private sector enterprises will have access to AiNET’s high-performance cloud storage services.

To provide this connectivity, the AiNET fiber network must traverse historic districts and government facilities in addition to navigating one of the nation’s toughest regulatory environments. For AiNET’s OSP fiber construction team, this job is just another day at the office.

K Street was once called Water Street. It once served as the commercial heart of the original city of Georgetown and is located on the riverfront.

The CyberNAP data center was just recently built in Glen Burnie, Maryland, and is located near a block of government offices in Fort Meade. Both the NSA and the Department of Defense have operational facilities at Fort Meade that can be serviced by AiNET’s new data center. CyberNAP has the capacity to house up to 10,000 cabinets within its 300,000 square feet of space. The former department store was a three-story facility with 20-foot ceilings capable of supporting heavy floor loads.

The multi-floor layout houses different compartments depending on the level of security required. For instance, enterprise-level customers may have lower security requirements than high-security government enterprises.

“With Cybernet, we will be doing high density power as our standard offering,” said AiNET president Deepak Jain. “A number of our customers are federal agencies, and they’re focused on new standards and protocols for the federal data center consolidation. This includes SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility) customers with the need for shielded spaces and separation from other customers.”

AiNET expects its colocation center and its fiber optic network to be competitive for its customers. “There are lots of folks in the data center industry who probably don’t understand federal procurement as well as they need to for the data center consolidation initiative,” Jain told DataCentersKnowledge.com. “We are savvy about contracts and acquisition strategy, and can document our costs to ease the pressure on their budgets.”

Edited by Rich Steeves

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By cableunion, May 16, 2012 6:07 pm

100 Gigabit Ethernet is a high-speed computer network standard developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE?(News – Alert)). The technology allows users to send Ethernet frames at 100 gigabits per second on various 25 Gbit/s lanes. Some years ago, the fastest published Ethernet standard was 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

Exploring the markets for 100 Gigabit Ethernet, Columbus Networks has partnered with Xtera Communications?(News – Alert) to bring 100G to the Pan-American Caribbean region. The company has added 100G to its existing high-capacity optical network in Panama.

The upgraded facilitates new income opportunities in an inexpensive manner in catering to the increased requirements from emerging cloud services, data center operations and other high-capacity content distribution services. Xtera’s Nu-Wave Optima provides the industry’s most advanced 100G solution that is available today for multiple optical networking applications, and the company was the first and only 100G equipment in the field since the second half of 2011 with soft-decision Forward Error Correction (FEC), the company stated in a press release.

“The global build-out of data centers, coupled with rapid deployment of cloud based services, are driving renewed demand for ever higher fixed and burst rate connections and emphasis on high availability through redundancy,” said Peter Collins, Chief Technology Officer at Columbus Networks. “Our goal is to proactively prepare our networks with the right technology to efficiently address both todays, and tomorrow’s evolving business needs.”

Recently, the company selected Elemental Technologies to use the encoding of content for its new multiscreen video services. The enhanced services, due to be introduced in September, will offer the region’s cable subscribers with unmatched access to live television and on-demand video on various connected viewing devices. The win is the most recent for Elemental as it improves its business into the service provider market and follows last year’s announcements with Comcast?(News – Alert)?and Avail-TVN.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 16, 2012 4:07 pm

Zayo Group is in the process of implementing a low latency route between Seattle and Chicago. As compared to the existing route, this low latency service is expected to offer a decreased material latency to the Financial, Content and Carrier customers.

The best industry latency is offered by the current Zayo service between Seattle and Chicago. Latency will be further enhanced with the modified service, which will decrease the distance of the route by nearly 100 route miles. The system, which is expected to be available in Q3 ’12, will be developed as a fast route, with add/drop points being confined to nearly four locations; thereby further decreasing the latency. As compared to the existing available services, a 5-15 percent drop in latency is predicted by Zayo.

In a release, Dan Caruso?(News – Alert), president and CEO of Zayo, said, “Seattle to Chicago is a strategically important route for many of our customers, and these customers are seeking lower-latency options. Traffic from Asia terminates in Seattle, and many of the nation’s largest data centers are located in northern Oregon and central Washington.”

A native 100G system, which can be scaled to four terabytes, will be used to implement the Wavelength system. The current system, which offers add/drop points in several markets between Chicago, IL and Seattle, WA will however not be discontinued by Zayo.

Matt Erickson, president of Zayo Fiber Solutions, said, “For the foreseeable future, Zayo will have ample lit capacity to serve its customers. Looking forward, we anticipate that some of our customers will desire a Dark Fiber solution given the unique attributes of this route. We have begun dialogue with these customers to plan an overbuild, though we will hold off construction until sufficient customer contracts are in place.”

Dark Fiber customers on this route are also expected to be served by Zayo. In order to offer Dark Fiber service, Zayo will have to overbuild several sections of the route. By the year end, depending on the demand for Dark Fiber service, Zayo is expected to start the engineering, design and permitting. Zayo expects the construction work to start by spring next year.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 16, 2012 12:06 pm

TELE Greenland, Eastlink and Hibernia Atlantic?(News – Alert) plan to work together to modify the existing Icelandic route by offering a shorter and more direct path connecting New York and Landeyajasandur, Iceland.

The new low latency high bandwidth connection is expected to lower the current latency by over 10ms round trip, and by a distance of 1100 kilometers, according to company officials.

Network affiliates of Greenland Connect Cable, operated by TELE Greenland – the sole telecommunications service provider in Greenland – owned and operated in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia by Eastlink, a key telecommunications provider in Canada, and the facilities of Hibernia Atlantic from Halifax to New York, will be used for this purpose.

Greenland Connect is a submarine cable system across the Atlantic Ocean, which provides commercial transmission services between London, U.K. and Halifax, Nova Scotia via Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland.

It also provides telecom services to Greenland – from Nuuk, Greenland to Newfoundland and to Iceland.

The modified Icelandic route of Greenland Connect from Landeyajasandur, Iceland to Milton, Newfoundland via Nuuk will be achieved with the help of Eastlink’s existing high capacity fiber network that links Milton, Newfoundland to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hibernia Atlantic operates over 24,000 kilometers of advanced fiber optic network across North America and Europe and has the engineering experience to ensure the new cable build linking Iceland to the United States will offer the latest in technology.

“The research we develop together with TELE Greenland and Eastlink will help us determine the most efficient and reliable route for optimal latency,” said?Bjarni Thorvardarson, CEO at Hibernia Atlantic.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By admin, May 16, 2012 7:09 am

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Cables for next generation nuclear power plants! Habiatron radiation tolerant cables by Habia Cable is a range of high performance, halogen free, low smoke and toxicity, thin wall and small dimension LOCA Class 1E safety cables qualified to 60 years service life according to IEEE 383:1974 (IEEE 383:2003 qualification pending) to the toughest LOCA profiles issued.

In addition Habia also provide a range of high performance thin wall, small dimension non-LOCA cables as well as special cables.

We have been supplying the nuclear industry for more than 25 years and have manufacturing facilities in Europe and in China and are ISO 9001/14000 certified.

For more info, please visit habia.com.

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Source: Habia Cable

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By admin, May 16, 2012 3:34 am

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Tonga Cable Limited’s new undersea cable connection with Fiji will strengthen communications and bring advanced broadband services to Tonga’s residents and visitors

Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) has been selected by Tonga Cable Limited to deliver an undersea cable link between the Kingdom of Tonga and its neighbor Fiji, bringing to the Tongan islands broadband services such as streaming video and high-speed Internet access to residents and tourists alike.

The 837-km link with Fiji will provide Tonga with access to the Southern Cross Cable, the main trans-Pacific link between Australia and the United States. It will significantly boost connectivity and substantially increase the availability of broadband services for Tonga’s 100,000 residents and help spur economic growth.

Robert Bolouri, Managing Director of Tonga Cable Limited said: “This cable link with Fiji will create a gateway to the global economy and community, and we are confident that it will provide great benefits to Tonga’s citizens and the many visitors we welcome each year. With the help of Alcatel-Lucent, we will be able to bring a much broader range of communications services to people throughout the country”.

Philippe Dumont, President of Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks said: “We are pleased to be able to play a role in strengthening Tonga’s connections with the rest of the world.? This new link will further expand connectivity throughout the Pacific Islands to drive digital inclusion.”

Under the agreement, Alcatel-Lucent will deploy its advanced submarine optical solution based on the OALC-5 cables, repeaters and the 1620 Light Manager (LM) submarine line terminal – which can accommodate 10G/40G/100G wavelengths in the same platform. The installation will be performed by Alcatel-Lucent’s Ile de R? cable ship, which is based in the region and is specialized for laying and maintenance operations.

About Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)

The long-trusted partner of service providers, enterprises and governments around the world, Alcatel-Lucent is a leading innovator in the field of networking and communications technology, products and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world’s foremost research centers, responsible for breakthroughs that have shaped the networking and communications industry. Alcatel-Lucent was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 2012 Top 50 list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” for breakthroughs such as lightRadio™, which cuts power consumption and operating costs on wireless networks while delivering lightning fast Internet access. Through such innovations, Alcatel-Lucent is making communications more sustainable, more affordable and more accessible as we pursue our mission – Realizing the Potential of a Connected World.

With operations in more than 130 countries and one of the most experienced global services organizations in the industry, Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The Company achieved revenues of Euro 15.3 billion in 2011 and is incorporated in France and headquartered in Paris.

For more information, visit Alcatel-Lucent on: alcatel-lucent.com, read the latest posts on the Alcatel-Lucent blog: alcatel-lucent.com/blog and follow the Company on Twitter: twitter.com/Alcatel_Lucent.

Source: Alcatel-Lucent

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By admin, May 15, 2012 11:40 pm

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Within its general strategy to keep abreast of latest global business development, Bahra Cables Co. Ltd., a CPC affiliated company, is getting ready to open a new automated storage facility uses latest technologies in the areas of storage and products classifications.

The new warehouse built on an area of 10000 square meters, and can accommodate more than 19,000 pallets, in addition to 2500 pallets in an air-conditioned and temperature controlled, according to product type, storage area.

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By admin, May 15, 2012 8:55 pm

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

USA Wire and Cable has announced the immediate availability of aluminum photovoltaic wire in sizes for DC feeder cable runs between combiner box and inverter station. The company has also created the USA Solar Solutions group to provide industry-leading solutions and service with the goal of lowering cost per watt for contractors, developers and owners.

Growth in solar project development and aluminum production labor strikes are leading to long lead times for aluminum cable. While most factories are quoting lead times of 20 weeks or more, utility-scale customers can keep projects on track, without delay, by accessing USAWC’s PV 2KV aluminum direct burial cable in sizes 1/0AWG, 4/0AWG, 350KCMIL and 500KCMIL. All other sizes can be available in four to six weeks.
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The cable is constructed with sunlight-resistant RHH/RHW-2 cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) insulation, and compact stranded 8030 aluminum alloy conductor. It is UL 4703 listed, direct burial, CT rated, 90oC wet or dry and VW-1 flame test compliant.

Source: Solar Novus Today