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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 cableunion, May 15, 2012 5:24 pm

Cologix recently announced that it has acquired Minnesota’s most connected data center, the Minnesota Gateway. The Minnesota Gateway?(News – Alert), which is situated in the carrier hotel at 511 11th Avenue South in Minneapolis, is one of the major network neutral interconnection and colocation providers in Minnesota.

The Minnesota Gateway is not only the top data center in Minnesota, but also the 16th largest metro market in the United States. The meet-me-room in the 511 building with its 70 networks, which is also unanimously considered as the place to colocate and connect in the region, is operated by the Minnesota Gateway. Cologix, which offers network neutral interconnection and colocation services, therefore stands to benefit from the acquisition.

In a release, Grant van Rooyen, president and CEO, Cologix said, “The Minnesota Gateway is one of the largest and fastest-growing carrier neutral interconnection and colocation businesses in the Midwest, and we are pleased to add this operation to the Cologix platform. The Minnesota Gateway team has created an outstanding base of customers, sound infrastructure, high touch local service and the region’s best connectivity, which align perfectly with the Cologix approach. We expect the Minnesota Gateway customers will value the benefits our broader platform offers, and we are equally confident our existing customers and prospects will be interested in the unique advantages of expanding their networks and colocation footprints to Minneapolis.”

More than 20,000 SQF are operated by the Minnesota Gateway in the extremely connected building in Minnesota, the 511 building. The data center offers a sturdy carrier ecosystem comprising of national, regional and local networks in the meet-me-room. Up-and-coming cloud, financial, education and government ecosystems are also supported by the facility. Carriers, ISPs and ASPs, and Minnesota Internet Cooperative Exchange can be directly accessible by more than 100 clients of the Minnesota Gateway.

Neutral data centers in Dallas, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are managed by Cologix. The company now assists more than 550 clients and offers over 300 network choices for its clients following the acquisition of the Minnesota Gateway.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 11:55 am

Telecommunications vendor, ADVA?(News – Alert) Optical Networking, has successfully implemented new OpenFlow technology that can dynamically control wavelength-switched optical networks.

Based on the FSP 3000, an optical transport solution from ADVA Optical Networking?(News – Alert), this breakthrough was developed as part of the OFELIA project, which provides researchers with a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) testbed for experimenting with new applications using a Web-services approach.

The updated OpenFlow technology uses one common OpenFlow control for both the packet and the optical layer, resulting in more effective and efficient network solutions.

“SDN presents a tremendous opportunity for customers to streamline and automate network infrastructure and operations,” said Christoph Glingener, CTO at ADVA Optical Networking. “While server and storage virtualization have been widely adopted, network virtualization is still in its infancy. SDN closes this gap by offering programmable network control, better scalability and faster adaption to virtual machine mobility.”

“We have proven that SDN can seamlessly extend into the optical domain and enables network virtualization across multiple layersm he added. “The OpenFlow approach extends our existing SDN solution employing our RAYcontrol control plane.”

ADVA Optical Networking used the SDN facility at the University of Essex in the U.K., which includes packet switches and application servers, dynamically connected by optical lightpaths. Users can access the facility directly by way of G?ANT, a high-bandwidth backbone which interconnects national research and education networks across Europe.

“It has been exciting developing this OpenFlow solution with the team at ADVA Optical Networking,” said Professor Dimitra Simeonidou, head of the High Performance Networks Group at the University of Essex. “Together we have built an SDN testbed with packet and wavelength switches under a common OpenFlow control. This is something that has never been done before. Researchers can now obtain slices of network infrastructure to program their own virtual multi-layer networks.?They can use optical switching alongside packet switching to adapt bandwidth, latency and power consumption to their application needs.”

ADVA Optical Networking also unveiled its new Syncjack suite in April, designed to deliver precise timing synchronization and testing solutions to the wireless telecommunications market. Meanwhile, ADVA Optical Networking launched a high speed, city-wide network in Cape Town, South Africa.

Edited by Braden Becker

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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 7:20 am

The high-tech corridor at S?o Paulo is set to become bigger with Terremark expanding the Network Access Point?(News – Alert) (NAP) do Brazil, a massive and diverse carrier-neutral data center that is home to one of the most important Internet exchange points in Latin America.

By increasing its data center footprint and investment in Brazil, which is generally regarded as the IT hub in Latin America, Terremark, a Verizon?(News – Alert) Company, is attempting to fulfill its global strategy of extending the reach of its advanced IT solutions throughout the world, said company officials.

“We have experienced outstanding success and growth in Latin America, which is a clear testament of our unique proposition and our commitment to help enterprises across every industry transform their business through the adoption of the Enterprise Cloud,” said Nelson Fonseca, president at Terremark, in a press release.

NAP do Brazil, in the Alphaville area of S?o Paulo, will house 150,000 servers?in a connected, secure and redundant ecosystem and when combined with the recently expanded NAP of the Americas-Columbia facilities, Terremark will collectively offer more than 90,000 square feet of raised data center floor space in Latin America.

The expansion of Terremark’s operations in Brazil stems from increased customer demands for a world-class data center that has high security standards in place including ISO 27001 certification and capable of offering its customers a comprehensive portfolio of services.

“Our goal is to provide growing local and multinational enterprises with a secure, highly available hosting environment for their mission-critical applications,” said Hugo Zanon, head of the operations in Brazil.

Related news reports Terremark helping Direct Insite, a provider of e-invoicing solutions for accounts payable and accounts receivable automation, to improve application speed and responsiveness, and gain scalability, mission-critical availability and global bandwidth via its suite of IT infrastructure solutions.

Edited by Brooke Neuman

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By cableunion, May 15, 2012 4:06 am

Data center and colocation centers offer power, cooling and physical security for server, storage and networking equipment. ???

In a bid to save in costs and decrease the high risk of data loss, Rio Networks is set to complete its 12,500-square-foot data center and colocation facility in Roseburg, OR.

According to a press release, the data center will start working in October 2012. The company has developed this data center to offer support high tech startup companies in Oregon. This center will offer cloud-based infrastructure and a business incubator in the same facility.

A portion of the Umpqua Business Center will get tenants managed cloud services including IT services, voice, data, Web, SaaS?(News – Alert) applications, end point security and network monitoring from Rio Networks.

“Businesses located in the Umpqua Business Center who take advantage of Rio’s managed services will be able to focus their time and financial resources on developing the core value of their business rather than managing their technology,” said Mark Bilton-Smith, President of Rio Networks. “Special financing will allow tenants to forego the upfront capital investment commonly required to start-up a technology business.”

“This is truly a game-changing concept for Oregon start-up companies coming to the business incubator.” Bilton-Smith added. “In a time when small business financing is difficult to receive, we are proud to offer a world-class facility and technology infrastructure that creates a competitive advantage for otherwise under-capitalized businesses.”

The the Umpqua Business Center will be located on the second floor of the data center, offering a unique blend of office space, business collaboration and technology infrastructure all under one roof.

The location not only offers immunity and legal protection, but the advantages of being in a HUBZone (Historically Underprivileged Business Zone).

Edited by Braden Becker