(OCTOBER 13, 2005) NEW YORK - Ethernet Expo - Demand for Ethernet services may be on the rise, but it can still be tough to get those services - even in New York City. At a carrier and enterprise roundtable session, here, some Big Apple users spun their tales of woe trying to get connected up. Part of the problem is...
Expedient engages Chuck Peters to assist with its expansion and the roll out of new technology/Product Line, Ethernet Anywhere. (ERIE, PA - SEPTEMBER 28, 2005) - Charles (Chuck) Peters a long-time, active member of the Erie Technology community, has entered into a partnership with Expedient Data Centers, a Pittsburgh based commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP), to advise, oversee and represent its...
(PITTSBURGH, PA - AUGUST 31, 2005) - If you have been strolling the streets downtown during lunch the past week you have probably noticed a very strange scene. And no, you were not dreaming, that was a “train” of nine Segway’s crossing the street. Segways, being an innovative product in their own right, go hand-in-hand with the innovative product that Expedient...
Expedient’s “Ethernet Anywhere” Peps Up Reliable Copper Lines to Fiber-Like Speeds (TEQ: July/August 2005) - Remember your father’s old Volkswagen? It was simple, economical, pretty cool to look at, but oh so slow - kind of like Internet connectivity on copper lines. Well, there’s a digital divide in this country, where those who do business over fiber enjoy speeds the folks...
Heavy Reading senior analyst Stan Hubbard predicted we would see a few carriers touting deployments, especially of multipoint Ethernet services using either virtual private LAN (VPLS) technology or Sonet with RPR, as well as some interest in access technologies that make use of existing copper (see Supercomm Preview, Part I). And he was right on: Broadwing Communications LLC and OnFiber...
The “Ethernet Anywhere” company is using the personal transportation device to generate buzz whenever it turns up a new central office (CO), and here on the Supercomm show floor. To date, the company is in 16 CO’s, primarily in its four target markets - Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Boston and Miami - and will turn up its first point of presence in...
ANDA Provides an Easy, Cost-Effective Migration Path for Convergence of All Services Over a Simple Ethernet Interface ANDA Networks, the leader in carrier-class solutions for fiber and copper-based access networks, today announced that Expedient is deploying ANDA EtherTone solutions for its new award-winning Ethernet Anywhere service that provides scalable, cost-effective Ethernet services for mission-critical business networks. Expedient’s Ethernet Anywhere service...
(RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - May 31, 2005) - Expedient Data Centers, which is deploying fast Ethernet bandwidth services over existing copper telecommunications infrastructure, is the SuperQuest award winner in network design and services from SuperComm. At the core of Expedient’s service is gear from RTP-based Hatteras Networks. Hatteras was recognized at the SuperComm convention last year for its promise as an...
Expedient Data Centers Independently Recognized for Delivering Innovative Business Services utilizing Hatteras Networks’ Carrier-Grade Ethernet Solution (RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC - MAY 26, 2005) - Hatteras Networks, the leader in standards-based, high-bandwidth, symmetrical, last-mile Ethernet over bonded copper access and service platforms, announced today that Expedient Data Centers has been honored by SUPERCOMM with a SUPERQuest Award in the “Network Design...
Expedient Offers Cure for the Seven Deadly Sins of Traditional Internet Service (PITTSBURGH, PA - APRIL 6, 2005) - ”Lusting” for faster Internet service? A “glutton” for more reliable, superior service for less money? Full of “wrath” when your Internet service goes down? For Pittsburgh area businesses cursed with the seven deadly sins of traditional Internet service, Expedient could be their...
(January 1, 2005) - SIX MONTHS AFTER THE IEEE 802.3ah standard was ratified - Ethernet in the First Mile is likely to see some high-profile deployments in the United States as well as a push for vendor conformance and interoperability. “We were surprised - quite pleasantly - with the change in the attitudes of service providers after ratification of the EFM...