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From CO to Data Center Webinars @ ITS Fiber – Wed., Feb. 11th, 2015
Three of the sessions of our February 11th “Beyond Fiber and Into the Data Center” event at ITS Fiber will be simulcast via a webinar format. Thanks to Calix, IIS Group, LLC and Metaswitch Networks, you can join us at the event without leaving the comfort of your desk….of course, you will miss the warm…
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Wholesale CLEC & MVNO without Infrastructure Additions
Expanding outside an ILEC’s traditional service area without having to pay for upfront infrastructure is what Fritz Hendricks and Chris Brown of Onvoy discuss in the above interview, filmed at the 2014 Minnesota Telecom Alliance Convention. Hendricks describes a service that allows: An operator to offer unified communications’ services, through their own softswitch, outside their service…
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Star Valley – Data Center Ready
Thayne, Wyoming has multiple assets that put it in a competitive position as a home to data centers, including the right kind of climate, low-cost electricity and now, thanks to Silver Star Communications, availability of a gigabit network that connects to multiple major peering points in places like Silicon Valley, Dallas and Seattle. In the above…
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What Was He Thinking?
The opportunity to peer inside someone’s brain might be frightening, mysterious and humorous. Steve Gleave gave attendees of the 2014 Metaswitch Forum the chance to take a lighthearted and entertaining peek into his thoughts. Gleave, who is Senior Vice President of Marketing for Metaswitch, made excellent use of video and the stage to illustrate how software has decoupled from hardware…
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Managing Risk for New Services #Summit21
“Once you are given the responsibility to protect and manage [somebody’s else’s data]…you need to make sure you are taking all the necessary steps to protect your customers and your clients,” says Stephen Gorman of The Hartford in the above interview. Gorman was referring to the idea that service providers need to account for the security…
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SOC It to Me – Building a Culture of Ethics, Accountability & Quality
SOC-2 (Service Organization Control) compliance is a must-have for certain clients of data centers, as pointed out in the above interview with Brian Steuve and Robert Koch of the accounting firm of Olson Thielen. As Steuve indicates, it is about building trust and putting controls in place that puts clients’ minds at ease. More than…
