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I was quoted in TMCNet article about Metro Ethernet.

Riding the (CWDM) Wave

Atlantic Metro Communications operates advanced Internet Data Centers and networks throughout the New York Metropolitan area and Chicago. The company also provides managed ISP solutions, colocation, metro transport, IP bandwidth, managed hosting and voice solutions. They provide services to many ISPs, web hosting solution providers, enterprise financial networks, Web 2.0 startups, VoIP suppliers, and carriers. Currently, Atlantic Metro Communication’s global network includes multiple PoPs in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, Canada and London, UK.

James Cornman, CTO, says, “We offer CWDM (Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing) Layer 1 passive waves. It allows our provider and enterprise customers to put their own equipment on the wave and be guaranteed a secure channel — there’s no shared infrastructure, it’s not switched Ethernet, which is what many other carriers offer. We can provide services to carriers on a fully dedicated Layer 1 passive channel. No intermediary electronics are necessary. We provide the optics on either side, which we also manufacture. We can also provide lit Layer 2 Ethernet services via our fiber infrastructure, as well as ourWiMAX ( News – Alert) infrastructure, seamlessly between any type of medium. We can deliver a 20 Meg tail circuit via WiMAX or you can also bridge that into a building connected at 100 Mbps. Our whole infrastructure nationwide is pure Ethernet; there’s no SONET anywhere in it. Our topologies run the gamut from point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, full ring, and so forth. We offer the CWDM services in Manhattan and metro area.”

“We see our carrier business growing as people increasingly outsource and replace more expensive solutions with converged technology that we offer,” says Stephen Klenert, Atlantic Metro’s CEO. “We see SONET eventually being phased out. MPLS is becoming a bit more prevalent but that’s an independent phenomenon. As a whole, with the offerings we bring to the table, customers tend to hub a lot of connections off one physical port or in other cases multiple ports in different markets or buildings. Overall, Ethernet is a far better platform to grow, particularly considering the current state of the market, with people not wanting to spend as much capital to get the bandwidth they need.”

Continue reading the full article here: http://www.tmcnet.com/voip/0209/metro-ethernet-marches-on.htm

Atlantic Metro Communications is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring the Web Hosting Industry Review Networking Event in San Francisco on February 11th 2009.

Event Location: ICON Ultra Lounge
Start time: 7 PM PST

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Full event information can be found here: http://whirevents.com/sf.html

re-blog from telephonyonline.com – By Carol Wilson

Two competitive New York City service providers are combining forces to create an end-to-end network solution that leverages the broadband wireless access assets of Rainbow Broadband with the fiber network and managed services capabilities of Atlantic Metro Communications to offer a diverse and redundant mesh network to businesses.

The collaboration will enable each company to expand its customer base, as Rainbow Broadband moves off private lines to a meshed fiber network and Atlantic Metro gets a new means of access to buildings not connected to its fiber network.

Rainbow Broadband has been providing WiMax access in New York City for about three years, using RAD microwave radio technology, said CEO Russ Hamm. “We have 100 radio pairs scattered throughout the major metro area here servicing buildings,” Hamm said. “Prior to coming together with Atlantic Metro, we used private lines for the backhaul in our network, with a star topology. We realized by getting together with Atlantic Metro, we could [use] their protected fiber rings, which give us a more robust backbone, and we could give Atlantic Metro access to certain buildings where it would be too prohibitively expensive to put fiber.”

Rainbow Broadband has wireless hubs atop eight major NYC high-rises, Hamm said, and Atlantic Metro already has fiber into some of those hubs, “So we now have a gigabit or greater backbone where we had much less bandwidth before.”

One attraction for NYC businesses is the availability of network service that is completely diverse from that of the incumbent, Verizon, said Stephen Klenert, CEO of Atlantic Metro, since many other competitors lease incumbent lines for the final access into corporate office buildings.

“We are offering a true Ethernet solution end-to-end, while many other companies are using Type 2 circuits from Verizon,” Klenert said. “We don’t see a lot of competitors doing what we are doing.”

The two companies are seeing demand from the financial services industry, and Rainbow Broadband is specifically targeting media companies, which are seeing bandwidth requirements skyrocket, Hamm said.

Atlantic Metro also can leverage the less-expensive wireless access to attract small to mid-sized businesses, Klenert said. “This lowers the barrier to entry. We can’t afford to run fiber into every building, but we can reach more small to mid-sized businesses.”