Minnesota Struggles To Close Broadband Gap 28% Are Without Broadband Services

Minnesota struggles to close broadband adoption gap
By Sean Buckley

Despite all of the positive talk about the progress the United States has made with broadband, political leaders should look at Minnesota, a state where an estimated 28 percent of consumers still do not subscribe to a broadband service.
Connect Minnesota interactive chart

Click here for an interactive chart of Connect Minnesota survey results

While that figure is lower than the national average of 35 percent, a new survey released by Connect Minnesota this week revealed there are two main reasons why Minnesota residents don't have a broadband connection: a lack of interesting content, and the cost of service. An average broadband connection in Minnesota costs about $49.46 versus the national average price of $45.73 a month.

Keep in mind the U.S. Average without Broadband is 35% with South Carolina being one of the highest listed as 43%


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TeleGeography: Service providers scramble to keep up with colocation space demand

TeleGeography: Service providers scramble to keep up with colocation space demand
By Sean Buckley

Despite the poor macroeconomic environment, data center and colocation space continues to be filled up a rapid pace, driving more service providers to increase their respective footprints organically and through targeted acquisitions.

Results from TeleGeography's new colocation survey revealed that as of September 2011, there was only 16 percent of retail colocation space available in the Washington, D.C. area, down 30 percent from the same period in 2010. Likewise, vacancy rates declined 36 percent in other major markets such as New York and 26 percent in London during the same period.

New York, in particular, saw the largest gain with over 1.3 million square feet of new colocation space being built between September 2009-2011. Meanwhile, service providers in Hong Kong and London added over 400,000 square feet of new colocation space followed by San Francisco, which added 300,000 feet.

Led by major carriers including AT&T (NYSE: T), CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL), Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) in addition to a host of specialized players like Telx, it appears that the colocation growth trend is going to continue.

"It's unlikely that the pace of expansion will slow anytime soon," said Jon Hjembo, a TeleGeography analyst. "While operators are adding capacity, vacancy rates in a number of metro markets we surveyed remain under 25 percent."



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U.S. Dedicated Internet Access Services Market Update 2010 Market Research Report

This research study covers the U.S. market for dedicated internet access services through the period 2008 to 2015. The analysis in the study is segmented by retail (sales to enterprises) versus wholesale (sales to service providers) revenues, and percentage breakouts of revenues by service type. The wholesale portion of DIA is also commonly referred to as high-speed IP transit services in the industry. This is referred to as wholesale DIA in this study. The study provides market share analysis based on revenues for the U.S. dedicated internet access services market only.

This Frost & Sullivan research service titled U.S. Dedicated Internet Access Services Market Update 2010 provides an analysis of key market drivers, restraints, and trends that are impacting the market, The study also presents market share analysis and competitive analysis. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following technologies: T1, T3, SONET, and Ethernet.

Market Overview

Migration of Bandwidth-Intensive Applications to the Internet Drives Growth in the U.S. DIA Services Market

The U.S. dedicated Internet access (DIA) services market has undergone some interesting changes over the past 2 years. Both the retail (DIA) and wholesale (high-speed IP transit) market segments experienced negative growth rate from 2008 to 2009, primarily due to the economic downturn. The market revenues did rebound modestly in 2010, with the retail recovering faster than the wholesale market. The need for businesses to access ever-higher IP bandwidth and the growing migration of bandwidth-intensive applications to the Internet is fuelling market spending on high-speed services. The Internet is viewed as a tool to reduce travel costs and help drive higher productivity due to real-time and virtual conferencing, collaboration, and other virtual office applications and services. “The shift to such applications – including video conferencing, web conferencing, Internet training and voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) – on the Internet is increasing bandwidth usage as companies apply these various tools to their overall cost reduction plans,” notes the analyst of this research service. “To manage the traffic growth companies are electing to purchase more bandwidth than currently needed, seek burstable options from suppliers or migrate to Ethernet for its scalability component.”

As customers add voice/video applications to their Internet pipes, there is a growing demand in the market for managed Internet services where the service provider offers a richer set of offerings that enhance the overall service experience/framework/component. Some of the services offered include: managed router, network security services (such as customer-premises equipment (CPE) or cloud-based, network management, and software updates) and physical maintenance as covered in the service level agreements (SLAs).

Pricing pressures on the wholesale side for high-speed IP transit services continue to challenge service provider revenues. The economic downturn has only worsened the situation. Although demand for high-speed IP transit services remains high, the price decline has clearly led to reduced revenues overall. Wholesale customers are demanding higher speed ports but the commit rate on those ports is lower than the commit rates for TDM services. “Wholesale customers are investing in Ethernet as it comes at a better price per megabit (MB),” says the analyst. “However, the fact that Ethernet bandwidth is easily scalable has led to reduced commit rates on the ports.” Service providers are trying to address this challenge by keeping the per MB price higher for lower commit rates to ensure high levels of commitment from customers. In the retail DIA services market, demand for traditional services such as T1/T3 and SONET is declining, but the growing demand for Ethernet services is sustaining market growth. The DIA services market is a fairly commoditized market as service providers have traditionally offered just pure bandwidth. This has resulted in a significant reduction of pricing levels for DIA services. Over the past 4-5 years, carriers are emphasizing value-added services and managed services to counter the revenue decline. Hence, this challenge is acting as a driver for companies willing to provide managed services and as a restraint to those who see the DIA space as selling pure bandwidth.

Market Sectors

Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:

Wholesale
Retail


Technologies

The following technologies are covered in this research:

T1
T3
SONET
Ethernet



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The Quest For Speed and The Exchange Gateway To Asia

The Race To Zero: Asia
Singapore SGX has commited US$250m to its low latency cause, as algo trading spurs investment in data center infrastructure around the world. SGX details its reach
Published by Ambrose McNevin

One of the key topics of concern for brokers and traders wishing to have high-speed access to trading engines is location – or “just how physically close can you get me to the trading platform”.

In London, with its multiple exchanges, the issue is around staying inside its M25 ring road. Go any further than that trading platform and the milliseconds start to build up and you find yourself stuck in the slow lane.

In New York, the answer is not to be any further than North New Jersey where there is a large concentration of data centers including the Verizon site that hosts Nasdaq and the Mahwah data center built and owned by NYSE Euronext.

In Singapore, there are no such worries about far-flung locations. Being on an island measuring just 10km x 40km means that wherever you locate you can never be that far away from the trading engine.

For the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), its US$250m investment in an ultra-low latency trading platform called Reach is about locating in an ultra modern data center with super-fast connectivity to Tokyo, Chicago, New York and London.

Bob Caisley, CIO at the Singapore Stock Exchange, says he believes he is building the fastest trading engine in the world. “Reach is about having the fastest trading engine in the world, at the best data center in Asia with the best colocation facilities,” he says.

Like all trading engines, Caisley acknowledges there may be other trading platforms which will outpace his, but for now, his will be the fastest with an order response time of 90 microseconds.

This quest for speed is behind the exchange’s US$250m investment in Tier IV data center infrastructure which is scheduled for commission at the end of Q1 2011. The fit out is currently underway and SGX believes it can attract algo traders not only for its international derivatives business but its cash equities business which it sees as having huge growth potential for high frequency trading and making Singapore “the exchange gateway to Asia”.



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An Explanation Of How Ip Transit Is So Important For The Internet

by Alfonso Hinton

Two services make up IP Transit. The first being customer routes being advertised to other ISP’s (Internet Service Providers). The other part being advertising routes to other ISP’s. Commonly this is done by the use of default routes or set of routes to everywhere else on the internet. However this is not always the case. This means they are soliciting the outbound traffic from the customer towards the other networks. IP Transit can be explained by the following.

There are some slightly more technical questions you need to ask both yourself and your provider about. You have dual IP stack which is an IPv4 to IPv6 transitional technology that uses the two existing internet protocols in the operating system. One for each of the versions of IP. The implementation may be different for each host, some using a hybrid system while others implementing IPv4 and IPv6 separately. The latter is the more common implementation in modern operating systems on both the server and for an end user.

You may need to consider routing protocols and whether your happy for your route to be pre-defined on where to go using one route. This can be because there is only one route out from the network and thus you go through another router owned by some one else first or for cost reasons. the internets’ core protocol of the internet is called Border Gateway or BGP by holding and updating a table of IP networks or prefixes this is used to designate the availability of a network. By Autonomous system which is a collection of connected IP routing prefixes under the control of one or more network operators and so that presents a common and clearly defined routing policy to the internet. The actual BGP is described as a path vector protocol which updates the path information dynamically. Any updates that get looped through the same node are easily detected and discarded and used in some other routing protocols to avoid any count to infinity loops.

You also have peering, which is a voluntary interconnection of separately owned and operated networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The real definition is defined as “sender keeps all” or settlement free, which means the owners of each network will pay the other to exchange data with each other. This ensures that the revenue has to come from their customers. So many companies now inappropriately use the work Peering when they really mean it when payment is involved. As not to cause confusion many people now use the term “settlement free peering” to make sure that no one misunderstands what is being advertised or described.

It is via metro ethernet, that datacentres talk to each other. The internet is a great big collection of independant networks all operating from a set of standards of unique IP addressing and the use of BGP routing. You find that relationships form between networks and so can be placed in three categories. Transit where you make payment to another network to gain internet access. Peer or swap and exchange the traffic for the others customers freely and for a mutual benefit, or finally as a customer where another network pays you to provide them with internet access. A network to beable to reach any other networks on the internet it must sell transit, directly peer with the network, or pay another for network transit and go round the loop until reaching the destination


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Ethernet, Fiber, Dedicated Internet Services Around Denver..Sales Opportunities!

Hi Country Wire and Telephone
Telecommunication Industry Job Openings
and Employment Opportunities

Hi Country Wire and Telephone has employment needs in the following areas primarily in the Denver Colorado Metro area. If you feel that you meet the pre-qualifications for any of the job openings below please send your resume to us via fax at 303-467-5521 or by email to Hi Country Wire and Telephone.

* Cisco, ShoreTel, and Avaya PBX/Telephony Sales Positions : We are looking for highly motivated and entrepenuerial sales associates with more than 3 years of direct telecommunications equipment sales experience to sell Avaya, ShoreTel, and Cisco traditional voice, VoIP, and data solutions.

* Network Sales Associates: We are looking for highly motivated and entrepenuerials network sales associates with more than 3 years of direct telecommunications sales experience to sell Qwest, Level 3, Paetec, and AireSpring voice and data solutions.

* Experienced Installation Engineers We are looking for experienced Cisco, ShoreTel, or Avaya technical


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Federal Communications Commission Reforms an $8 billion Phone Subsidy Program By Reallocating Money To Extend Broadband Internet Connections

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission recently announced a proposal to reform an $8 billion phone subsidy program by reallocating money to extend broadband Internet connections in rural areas. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a speech Thursday that his plan to reform the Universal Service Fund would put about $4.5 billion into two funds to bring wireline and wireless high-speed Internet connections to 18 million homes that don't have access. He didn't reveal many details of his plan, which critics fear will closely resemble proposals by giant phone companies that could favor them. [1] THE LEDE: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski announced his plan to reform the Universal Service Fund on Thursday, calling the current system "outdated," "wasteful" and "unfair."

The FCC estimates 18 million Americans live in areas without access to broadband; Genachowski said his plan would cut that figure in half within five years. It's still unclear how similar Genachowski's proposal is to America's Broadband Connectivity (ABC) Plan, which was drafted by the major telecom firms. He said his plan "will not rubber stamp or adopt wholesale the proposals of any stakeholders" but rather he reviewed a variety of suggested proposals and his plan includes elements of many of them. "Chairman Genachowski has taken an important step forward today in bringing broadband -- both wired and wireless -- to all Americans. I strongly support and applaud his efforts and look forward to working with him and his fellow Commissioners to reform the universal service system. Next week, the Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on the need to move forward on these important proposals. We have a real opportunity to close the digital divide in rural America if we get this right.


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Sales Success Strategies For a Social & Mobile World

Where is Social Media Going
Selling Power Article Link

Social media and mobile sales have changed the way we relate, communicate, and conduct business. Eric Qualman, the author of the bestselling book, Socialnomics, said it best, “We don’t have a choice whether we do social media; the question is how well we do it.”

Let’s look at the facts: Only 14% of people trust advertising; 93% of marketers use social media for business. Big Shift #1: we’re moving from customer relationship management (CRM) to customer engagement management, aka Social CRM. Tech research firm Gartner predicts that by 2012 the Social CRM market will be more than $1 billion with 100+ companies competing for this rapidly growing pie. The three leading vendors are Jive, Salesforce, and Lithium.

If you’re still unclear about how to approach sales success strategies in a social and mobile world, picture your office water cooler going global, enabling B2B sales conversations in real time, 24/7.

Here are the numbers:
175 million users log on to Facebook every 24 hours.
65 million access Facebook through a mobile device and they share 30 billion (billion!) pieces of content every month and that number includes 3 billion photos and videos.
84% of Internet users watch videos online.
YouTube visitors watch 2 billion videos every day.
LinkedIn attracts one new member every second.
Econsultancy reports that over 25 billion tweets were sent last year.


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Zayo Group to Acquire Seattle's 360networks in Major Fiber Merger

Zayo Group to acquire Seattle's 360networks in major fiber merger
Date: Saturday, October 8, 2011 Article Link

Zayo Group of Colorado says it has an agreement to acquire Seattle's 360networks Holdings (USA) Inc., a deal that almost doubles Zayo's fiber network and make it what its CEO calls "a national provider of bandwidth infrastructure service."

360networks' chairman is Greg Maffei, CEO of Douglas County-based Liberty Media Corp. Maffei was 360's CEO from 2000 to 2005.

Louisville-based Zayo provides telecommunications services, such as bandwidth, voice and managed services, to government and private-sector customers.



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Colorado's Tech Industry Takes a Hit!

Colorado lost 5,300 tech industry jobs in 2010, mostly as telecommunications and engineering services companies cut back, according to the TechAmerica Foundation annual census.

The Washington D.C.-based trade group released its Cyberstates report at 10:01 p.m. MDT Tuesday.

TechAmerica, formerly known as AeA, has measured technology industry employment using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 14 years.

Colorado’s high-tech workforce totaled 156,900 in 2010, down 3.2 percent from the 162,200 counted in 2009, the report said. The average private sector tech worker in Colorado earned $90,800 in 2010, which is 96 percent more than the average private sector wage in the state.

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Colorado's Level 3 Communications Completes Acquisition of Global Crossing

Level 3 Completes Acquisition of Global Crossing

Combination meets customers' local, national and global communications needs - Combination provides service over 165,000 intercity, metro and subsea fiber route miles with presence in 45 countries - Pro Forma 2010 revenues of $6.2 billion and 2010 Adjusted EBITDA of $1.3 billion, $1.6 billion including expected synergies - Announces plans to transfer listing of common stock to New York Stock Exchange, will implement reverse stock split

BROOMFIELD, Colo., Oct. 4, 2011
/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Level 3 Communications, Inc., LVLT +5.28% today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Global Crossing Limited. The transaction was structured as a tax-free, stock-for-stock exchange. The company also announced that it will conduct its business on a worldwide basis using the Level 3 Communications name with a new brand identity that incorporates elements from both companies, representing their combined strengths. In addition, the company announced plans to transfer the listing of its common stock to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and expects to begin trading on the NYSE on Oct. 20, 2011, under its current ticker symbol "LVLT". The company will continue to trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market until the transfer is completed. In conjunction with listing on NYSE, the company will affect a 1-for-15 reverse stock split of the Level 3 common stock.



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Carrier Ethernet World Congress Meeting

This year's test results confirm that the Carrier Ethernet implementations of the 24 participating vendors have progressed substantially. When it comes to Ethernet OAM performance monitoring, packet-based clock synchronization, protection and Ethernet microwave, we have witnessed a wide range of interoperable, robust implementations.


The Official MEF Americas Congress

2010 saw the launch of Carrier Ethernet Americas (CE Americas): the first official MEF Congress in the LATAM region. It represented the largest gathering for the Ethernet transport and service industry in the region, and will be returning to repeat this success in 2011, at its new home in Rio de Janeiro.

Delegates had the opportunity to network with the following companies at CE Americas 2010:

RACSA Costa Rica * Oi Brasil * Telefόnica Brasil * Telefόnica International * Telesp * Telium Telecomunicacoes * NTT America * Vivo * TIM Brasil * NTT America * Vivo Brasil *AES Electropaulo Telecom & AES Com Rio * Antel Uruguay * Internexa * Copel Telecomunicaçoes * Millicom Central America * GVT * Belgacom ICS * Global Crossing * Telmex Argentina * O2 UK * Algar Telecom * CTBC Brasil * Neovia Telecomunicaçoes and more……

Event Details
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CONFERENCE DAY ONE - Tuesday 11th October 2011

Investigating the Market and Business Case for Carrier Ethernet

Stream one: Building end-to-end infrastructure to deliver Carrier Ethernet services; comparing the different Carrier Ethernet access strategies
Stream two: Delivering hybrid customised solutions to vertical business sectors; vertical industry Carrier Ethernet case studies
Stream three: Content delivery evolution and service provider interconnection; optimising media delivery - meeting the explosive growth in digital media and online video traffic

CONFERENCE DAY TWO - Wednesday 12th October 2011

Current Trends and Future Developments of Next Generation Transport Networks

Stream one: The reality of Ethernet in mobile backhaul
Stream two: Delivering wholesale Carrier Ethernet; Ethernet & The Cloud
Co-located conference: Transport Network Strategies

CONFERENCE DAY THREE - Thursday 13th October 2011

Current Trends and Future Developments of Next Generation Transport Networks

Stream one: Global interconnect
Stream two: Investigating the end user dynamic for Carrier Ethernet
Co-located conference: Transport Network Strategies
Closing plenary: Delivering next generation networks with Carrier Ethernet





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Infinera's 100 Gigabit Ethernet Demo

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