 Over 60 Execs Attend BOOT CAMP to Hear ADVA Optical Networking, CIBER, IBM & OCG Presentations |
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BOOT CAMP at The Teleport in Staten Island NY Draws Raves
Over 60 executives attended March's BOOT CAMP @ TELEHOUSE Center and upon leaving had positive comments about the entire concept.
"The last boot camp was the best yet I've attended. The companies profiled and the knowledge of the presenters were top notch. It was good for us also because I met with vendors that are now in a position to meet our service needs. Keep up the good work TELEHOUSE." (Frank-Charles Osafo, EVP/CTO, Patrina Corporation).
"The boot camp of 3/31 was great. The presentations were informative and the networking was excellent. I personally made 4 new contacts with whom I feel I will be doing business with in the near future. I look forward to attending the next TELEHOUSE BOOT CAMP, they have proved more than worth my investment of time. Thank you again." (Andrew Weitzberg, EVP, Brae Group Inc.)
"It is impossible for anyone to stay current with all technology developments, particularly in the telecomm world. Because I attended the 'Enterprise Network Security and New Dark Fiber BOOT CAMP' sponsored by TELEHOUSE, I now understand the physics of DWDM, Internet 2 networks and National Lambda Rail, and the huge advantages this technology brings to many sectors. It is great to know that a responsive and cost-effective solution is now possible." (Kathleen Lucey, President, Montague Technology Management, Inc.)
"I like to share my feelings with you regarding your BOOT CAMP last week. Bravo, Its about time somebody had a meeting where the different presenters didn't promote just their companies, but created interest by informing. If meetings are going to be like this, just count me in, since you always can learn. Thanks again." (Frank Lieberman, President, IBC Worldwide Ltd.)
The day's definition of network security was insuring the protection of the enterprise network from instances that threaten the continuity of voice, data and content flow essential to business operations.
CIBER's opening presentation pointed out the big picture approach needed to tackle IT initiatives and specifically network security in its entirety. "It is essential to focus on and think through the entire solution from a business and technology impact, not just on a particular technology, however solid they are," said Tony Ferrigno, Vice President of Sales and Strategy for CIBER. Enterprise owners must evaluate the areas impacted and identify the possibilities to lower costs and risk while increasing value and manageability. Using a methodology that delineates assessments, implementations, and management coupled with communication and project management, lessens risks, adds flexibility, and accelerate deliverables. The resulting solutions should move the enterprise forward in the right direction. CIBER presentation
OCG voiced opinions on the downsides of "old fiber" presently in use, then commented on present generation optical fiber. It offers higher speed capability, notably less packet loss, superior capacity, ease of multiplexing, and higher operations and cost efficiencies. Waves, an alternative to dark fiber network ownership, give increased flexibility, lack costly infrastructure support and maintenance, and provide the capacity to handle day-to-day needs. OCG used their new underground dark fiber network to illustrate key points. OCG presentation
ADVA Optical Networking discussed bandwidth and applications' changing landscape. The enterprise network faces dramatic increases in data storage and bandwidth capacity needs, while concurrently meeting the demands of regulated industry sectors requiring same day recovery of critical functions. In response large corporations created their own solution - owning and operating their own high capacity dark fiber network to control efficiency, stability and costs. Greater bandwidth produces less down and backup time. Today's WDM solutions simplify bandwidth adjustments. And they reduce recovery times using one pair of optical fibers. ADVA and IBM's jointly developed "Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex™" solved distance issues. As for bandwidth's future, it lies in Internet2. I2 is tomorrow's Internet. ADVA presentation
IBM smoothly segued from ADVA's presentation into the essentials of securing a critical end point – the remote site and its continuity. Providing continuity calls for high availability, continuous operations and disaster recovery to protect critical business data, operations after a disaster, provide predictable recovery and reliability, and keep costs predictable and manageable. IBM presented what it learned from past experience about IT survival tactics for remote sites. The talk also touched on the importance of considering the business and cost impact of synchronous vs. asynchronous remote copying, short vs. long distance, and the demands of rapid database availability measured in minutes and data transmission costs. IBM's remote disk copy techniques such as global and metro mirror and global copy were brought up in support throughout the talk. IBM presentation
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IX News Waves
NYIIX…peak traffic volume is 14.6Gps. March activity…. New members Samsung [@25B], BroadbandONE [@60H], and RNK Telecom [@60H] joined last month's new arrivals TDS Telecom, Zen Internet, Telnor, Altecom, and Cable Vision. Upgrades are Interroute [@60H], Freenet [@25B], Hurricane Electric [@25B], N-layer [@25B] and Telewest [@25B].
LAIIX…peak traffic volume is 2.3Gps. Added EP.net as a new member. Hanaro and Samsung joined as members in February.
NYIIX & LAIIX...Look for future news about added benefits to NYIIX–LAIIX's members though cooperative efforts with the Frankfurt Internet exchange, which offers access to central and eastern Europe and over 180 ISP's and content providers from over 15 different countries. Peak traffic is 60Gbps.
AMS-IX now switches 1 Petabyte a day and is nearing 30 Terabytes a month. For a view of monthly traffic from all ports. AMS-IX Volume Stats
DE-CIX will launch it's Competence Center, offering a tech lab, conference facilities and access to the combined know-how of DE-CIX employees, customers and vendors. The lab will serve a vital role - a place where next-gen Internet technology can be evaluated, installed and presented. The contact is Frank Orlowski, Dir. of Business Development (frank.orlowski@de-cix.net) or visit DE-CIX
LINX and its solutions partner Renesys Corporation launched the LINX Peering Professional. Prospective members now can explore the business advantages of peering and evaluate the benefits of LINX membership through an internet exchange point. There are two elements Peer Finder and What If Route, which are available via a secure web portal requiring authentication. LINX Peering Professional
AboveNet & SIEDC Draw B'kfast On B'way Full House; Akamai Hosts April
AboveNet's MaryBeth Nance discussed the growing significance of available alternative fiber network routes relative to carrier consolidations. Enterprise owners, especially in regulated sectors, should be reviewing their network diversity status now to insure compliance with federal regulations. A new option for diversity and bypassing Manhattan is the new fiber and carrier presence in Staten Island and New Jersey. When asked about those moving to bypass Manhattan, Nance pointed to accelerated movement by financials. AboveNet's dcXchange product helped illustrate a new means to satisfy LEC bypass redundancy obligations in metro areas. AboveNet Presentation
SIEDC's Jay Anderson brought his expertise on government programs to the seminar. He pointed out the wide selection of municipal / state-backed initiatives, how to obtain them, and how they offset operating expenses. Anderson advised researching government programs, and then seek out those providing assistance or services in the planning, technical, real estate, business development zone tax breaks, incentives and abatements, and local networking areas. Then examine the opportunities presented by zoning, population growth, an area's industry profile, and how it matches up to your goals. As a prime example of a key telecom, continuity and disaster recovery hub opportunity outside of Manhattan, Anderson singled out the tremendous upside of the Port Authority's corporate communications park – The Teleport. SIEDC Presentation.
Client Waves
Cogent changed its burstable pricing model [Cogent Price Change]. Excess bandwidth usage will be billed at a 90th percentile instead of the current industry norm - the 95th percentile. To take advantage of this trial offer, visit Cogent's website (www.cogentco.com) and fill out an inquiry form, or email info@cogentco.com
Globix (Amex: GEX) launched its Managed Hosting Service in the US. Managed Hosting Service
LMC (Last Mile Connections) announced a new partner program in Las Vegas at the Channel Partners event & conference. The program allows partners to leverage the benefits of the LMC Exchange. LMC Partner Program Info
Peer 1 (TSX-V:PIX) and IPeerX, Inc. (a pulver.com Enterprises subsidiary and VoIP peering services provider) inked a hosting agreement, marking IPeerX milestones in growth, separation from Free World Dialup (FWD) and its ability to provide unfailing service to VoIP providers worldwide. Peer 1 & IPeerX info
XO recently signed 5 local CLECs for its Wholesale Local Voice services solution. XO expands its California and Texas presence, especially with the Hispanic users.
XO Wholesale Local Voice info.... XO said at CompTel that it went with the Infinera DTN optical system to upgrade its 18k-mile fiber optic long haul network that connects 1M+ miles of XO metro fiber. XO Capacity Expansion info
TELEHOUSE Sales Manager Gets RIPE April 24th Week
TELEHOUSE's ubiquitous Sales Manager, Fred Cannone, will be at RIPE, available for meetings April 26-28. He would love to see you. BTW, Fred, a true 007 fan, has stated he is set on retracing Sean Connery's Istanbul steps from the flick From Russia With Love. Then he is off to London (how coincidental you might say) visiting our sibling TELEHOUSE Europe and clients. So please eMail Fred about meeting at RIPE or TELEHOUSE in London. Otherwise it will be weeks of hearing him answer his phone here with "That's Cannone...Fred Cannone."
Global News Briefs
Reinventing the internet Networking: New initiatives aim to overhaul the internet. But how can a "clean slate" redesign ever be implemented? Economist.com, Mar 9 2006, From The Economist print edition Copyright © 2006 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights reserved.
Listening to the Internet Internet trends: Companies are eavesdropping on online discussion forums to find out what their customers really think about them. Economist.com, Mar 9 2006, From The Economist print edition, Copyright © 2006 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights reserved.
Attack of the Eurogoogle Search technology: Can an ambitious new European search engine, backed by the governments of France and Germany, challenge Google? Economist.com, Mar 9th 2006, From The Economist print edition, Copyright © 2006 The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group. All rights reserved.
SIP – What Is It Good For? One of the major themes out of this year's Spring VoiceCon was the SIP-age had finally arrived. But what exactly does that mean? VoIIP Loop.com, Tuesday, March 28, 2006 by Irwin Lazar, Copyright © 2006 VoIP Loop
Meter Maids I wasn't kidding when I wrote that the Telco's including Verizon would end up charging us on a per-bit/byte basis for bandwidth once voice, data, video are all inclusive of that bandwidth. Monday, April 03, 2006 by Matt Brunk Copyright © 2006 VoIP Loop
Oops!...Aspect Did it Again Acquired a company that is. Following on the hot trend discussed in last week's blog - quality monitoring and recording - Aspect Software announced on April 5th that they would acquire Sophisticom Technologies of Schaumburg, IL. Wed., April 05, 2006, by Sheila McGee-Smith, Copyright © 2006 VoIP Loop
Genesys and VoiceGenie: A Magical Combination On the heels of this weekend's announcement that Alcatel would acquire Lucent, the US-based contact center subsidiary of Alcatel...Genesys...will acquire privately-held Toronto-based VoiceGenie...is not only one of the leaders in the VoiceXML space, it is one of the industry's founders. Thurs., April 06, 2006, by Sheila McGee-Smith, Copyright © 2006 VoIP Loop
Europeans rush to get '.eu' domain names BRUSSELS, Belgium - Some 300,000 Europeans rushed to register their new ".eu" domain names in the first hour of being able to sign up for the new Internet addresses...By midday, registrations had exceeded 550,000. Posted Fri, Apr. 07, 2006, Associated Press, Copyright © 2006 Associated Press, Copyright © 2006 San Jose Mercury News
The Alcatel Effect The wave of consolidation sweeping the telecommunications sector could clear the way for a rash of upstarts and presage the first round of equipment-gear IPOs in half a decade. Technology by Peter Burrows, April 05, 2006, Copyright © 2006 Business Week
China to Block Paid VoIP Calls for 2 YearsGov't fears effect on traditional carriers. CIO News Alerts - Blog, Mar 23, 2006, Copyright © 2006 CXO Media
Industry Waves
Baby Waves…...congrats to the Petrov's [Michael and Oksana] on the birth of their new son. Michael is the CTO of Digital Edge. Michael, it's a good thing you have a couch in the office......With three kids, you can forget about sleep for many moons!!
Job Waves…...As of 4-1-2006 there's a new CFO at Peer 1 - Gary N Sherlock. Gary's moved over to Peer 1 from his position as director of finance, distribution line of business for BC Hydro, where Gary worked for the last 14 years…… Frank Orlowski changed positions and locations; moving from T-Systems (Red Bank) to Director Business Development at DE-CIX (frank.orlowski@de-cix.net) in Frankfurt…Get your resume ready of you have interest in working for Globix - openings are for network and system engineers, architects, account and sales execs, technicians, accountants and operations. Click on Positions for the specifics. Contact HR@globix.com.
Summer's on the way Waves…...Well at the WSTA, the events team is hard at work again. Check out the Wall Street Technology Association's (WSTA) Summer Magic Social….Where else can you meet and network with over 1000 Financial Technology Professionals at a Spectacular Venue? Why at the Chelsea Pier Lighthouse at Pier 61…..For more information visit WSTA Summer Magic Be there, aloha!!
Events Waves 2006
Date Location Event Name
Feb. 15 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY
Mar. 15 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY
Mar. 31 Staten Is NY BOOT CAMP @ TELEHOUSE Center at The Teleport, Staten Island
Apr. 5 New York WSTA Effective Risk Mgmt: Sec., Compliance & DR
Apr. 19 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY w Akamai & WolfBlock @ 33 Whitehall St.
Apr. 21 Nassau NY C.P.E. Long Island Round Table Event
Apr. 24-28 Istanbul RIPE 52
May 8-12 Wash DC GTM
May 17 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY
May 18 New York WSTA Leading Edge Technology Showcase - Trading
May 19, 2006 Nassau NY C.P.E. Long Island Round Table Event
May 23-24 New York Streaming Media East
Jun. (early) TBD NANOG 37
Jun. 2 Staten Is NY BOOT CAMP @ TELEHOUSE Center
Jun. 16 Nassau NY C.P.E. Long Island Round Table Event
Jun. 21 New York BREAKFAST ON BROADWAY
Jun. 21 New York C.P.E. Annual Golf Outing
Jun. 28 & 29 New York CAPACITY USA 2006
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