Monday, October 24, 2011

Unified Communications standard with most hosted PBX solutions

Unified Communications integrates your telephone system with your computer network and email server. When someone leaves you a message, the unified messaging system saves the recording into your “voice” mailbox and also sends the message in the form of a .wav file to your email inbox.
What are the benefits for you?

Email-Voicemail-FaxMail — All in One Box
• You can forward the voicemail message to anyone with an email address — not just the users in your voicemail system.
• It gives you the ability to prioritize your messages visually – listening to the most important ones first.
• Unified means “synchronized” — if you listen to a voicemail message from your email client, the system will turn off the message waiting light on your desk phone and the reverse.
• Caller ID information of the caller is displayed in the subject line.
• With SIP Fax capability — your faxes arrive in your email inbox as a PDF file — no more standing in line at the fax machine!!
• FaxMail can be sent directly from the desktop easily

Monday, August 15, 2011

News from Windstream

Windstream has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire PAETEC Holding Corp.
Windstream Corp. announces the expansion of its next-generation voice and data services into Columbus, Ga., giving local businesses a new choice for advanced communication services.
Windstream announced it has begun a significant expansion to its Raleigh data center, one which will grow the facility's usable space by almost 50 percent to 32,000 square feet.
Windstream Corp. this week brought its high-bandwidth Ethernet for businesses into 11 new markets. The service provider sells through channel partners, who now may offer Ethernet of up to 1gbps in Akron, Columbus and Dayton, Ohio; Indianapolis, Ind.; Wichita, Kan.; Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Okla.; northwestern Arkansas; Augusta, Ga.; Baton Rouge, La.; and Mobile, Ala.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Nitel Offers Flat-Rate MPLS Pricing

Until August 31, 2011, Nitel is offering flat-rate MPLS pricing nationwide. Each site -- no matter the distance from the central office -- is priced at $443.00 for T-1 access and port. The monthly price of $443.00 per site also includes quality of service/class of service.
Nitel is available to existing AT&T MPLS customers. If you are a current AT&T MPLS customer, consider switching to Nitel and take advantage of substantial savings.
Call me at 610-942-7501 for more information.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Benefits of Cloud Computing

Key benefits of cloud computing:
• Flexibility – There is the ability to update hardware
and software quickly to adhere to customer demands
and updates in technology.
• Savings – There is a reduction of capital expenditures
and IT personnel.
• Location & Hardware Independence – Users
can access application from a web browser connected
anywhere on the internet.
• Multi-tenancy – Resources and cost are shared
among many users, allowing overall cost reduction.
• Reliability – Many cloud providers replicate their
server environments in multiply data centers around
the globe, which accounts for business continuity and
disaster recovery.
• Scalability – Multiply resources load balance peak load capacity and utilization across multiply hardware
platforms in different locations
• Security – Centralization of sensitive data improves security by removing data from the users’ computers.
Cloud providers also have the staff resources to maintain all the latest security features to help
protect data.
• Maintenance – Centralized applications are much easier to maintain than their distributed counter
parts. All updates and changes are made in one centralized server instead of on each user’s computer.
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Friday, May 6, 2011

Paetec Announces Plans for New Data Center in McLean, VA

MCLEAN, Va. - May 5, 2011 (Print-friendly PDF file)

PAETEC Holding Corp. (NASDAQ GS: PAET), a Fortune 1000 company that provides advanced communication solutions to businesses nationwide, today announced plans for the deployment of a new data center in McLean, Va., approximately ten miles northwest of Washington, D.C. The center, which includes 49,000 square feet of raised floor space, will provide colocation services and geographic diversity to businesses and government entities along the East Coast and nationwide. The center also will support the shift to cloud computing as more business applications move towards advanced network-based services. The McLean center is planned to open at the end of 2011.

Planned services in the center include colocation space, power, and connectivity to PAETEC's diverse portfolio of network services as well as high-speed, fault-tolerant connections to the public Internet. Customers will have access to PAETEC's newest data center services including Dedicated Server, Virtual Server, Managed Cloud Storage, Hosted Exchange and Hosted Network Security Services.

"We selected this location specifically to meet the growing needs of the mid-Atlantic businesses as well as to support government applications," said Sanjay Hiranandani, PAETEC's chief technology officer. "When coupled with our strong portfolio of solutions, leading-edge IP network infrastructure and industry-leading service, we expect this data center to be considered one of the premier centers on the East Coast. Additionally, our fiber and fixed wireless infrastructure ensure that we can deliver the cloud-based services to end users virtually anywhere in the country at Gigabit and higher speeds."

The three-story, 62,500 square foot existing facility will be converted into data center space over the next seven months. Plans call for 49,000 square feet of raised floor space available to customers to collocate their servers, routers, and other systems and communication equipment. PAETEC will be hiring an incremental set of technical staff, complementing its broad engineering talent base to support this center. The location is also planned to have a 24x7 Technical Assistance Center (TAC), redundant power, and latest advancements in physical security, including precautions against flooding, fire and natural disasters.

The center continues PAETEC's legacy of geographic expansion of data centers enabling cloud-based services on a truly national basis. With the addition of McLean, PAETEC will have key data center facilities in Andover, Mass.; Bethlehem and Conshohocken, Pa.; Milwaukee, Houston, Phoenix, and Richmond, Va., augmenting its footprint of more than 100 physical colocation facilities nationwide.

For more information on PAETEC's data center solutions, visit www.fast.com.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Century Link, Inc, to buy Savvis, Inc.

Phone company CenturyLink Inc. plans to buy Savvis Inc. for about $2.5 billion in cash and stock to beef up its data center business as it looks to cash in on increasing demand for cloud services, Reuters reported.
SOURCE: Washington Business Journal

Thursday, April 21, 2011

AboveNet will provide high bandwidth, low-latency lit services and fiber optic network in key DFT markets

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., April 13, 2011 - AboveNet, Inc. (NYSE:ABVT), a leading provider of high bandwidth connectivity solutions, today announced it has provided fiber connectivity into DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc (DFT) wholesale data center NJ1 located in Piscataway, New Jersey. AboveNet is already connected to DFT's data centers located in Northern Virginia and suburban Chicago and is in the process of building out to DFT's newest data center development, SC1, located in Santa Clara, California.

Utilizing DFT's underground and secure 3-lateral conduit bank system, AboveNet will deploy equipment at DFT's NJ1 data center, making the facility an IP and Metro Ethernet POP. By utilizing AboveNet's private, fiber optic network and extensive metro footprint for high bandwidth connectivity, customers within NJ1 will be able to take advantage of connectivity to two major carrier hotels located in the New York City Metro area, enabling them access to key business hubs throughout the world.

"Our customers must have access to scalable, diverse high bandwidth connectivity with no network interruptions," said Hossein Fateh, president and chief executive officer for DuPont Fabros Technology. "AboveNet has and continues to provide high performance fiber optic networks for our customers' mission critical business applications."

AboveNet provides a complete portfolio of metro Ethernet, WDM, Long Haul and IP transit services. Potential benefits to DFT customers include:

Support for multiple protocols - simplifies connectivity into the LAN;
Scalability - adding capacity to the network is as simple as inserting a card and customers can scale from 1Gbps to 40Gbps;
Reliability - AboveNet WDM networks are designed to ensure availability, reliability and security;
Business continuity - Fiber Channel, ESCON or FICON for data mirroring, Storage Area Networks or other disaster recovery solutions;
Diversity - bypasses the ILEC or CLEC legacy networks;
Simple fiber handoff - no copper, pure fiber based network;
Industry - leading latency guarantee - added assurance with AboveNet's Agility Guarantee program.
DFT's enterprise and carrier customers also can access AboveNet's world-class fiber optic network infrastructure including more than 2.3 million fiber miles, an intercity network spanning approximately 12,000 route miles and a global Tier 1 IP backbone.

"We focus exclusively on the needs of the high bandwidth customer, so we designed our network to reach key Internet hub cities and markets with a high concentration of web-centric businesses, financial services organizations and enterprises with a multinational presence," said Bill LaPerch, president and chief executive officer for AboveNet. "We are pleased to work with DuPont Fabros Technology to bring this extensive network to their enterprise and carrier customers."

About AboveNet, Inc.
AboveNet, Inc. provides high bandwidth connectivity solutions for business and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP services in and among top U.S. and European markets. AboveNet's network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services, media, health care, retail and government.