By David Gross
It used to be a month wouldn't go by without a Carrier Ethernet Exchange press release, then a week, and now we're getting close to daily announcements of some kind or another. This morning, CENX announced its service is now available in London, Hong Kong, Miami, and New Jersey, expanding its interconnection geography beyond New York, LA, and Chicago.
Neutral Tandem (TNDM) announced last week that it was up to 14 markets, more or less covering the top 14 U.S. MSAs from New York to Seattle. And its international presence is being boosted by the "addressable" 85 POPs it acquired when it bought Tinet. Of course, there is no such thing as an addressable POP outside of a press release, but the race is on, and the Neutral Tandem release was strong enough to get a response from CENX.
Telx has been quiet about its service for four days now, since announcing it had been nominated for an award. I'd be surprised if we don't hear more from them soon. Same goes for Equinix (EQIX). Last week's revenue announcement was no reason to sit on the sidelines here.
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Monday, October 11, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Telx Ethernet Exchange Nominated For Award
By David Gross
If you think there have been a lot of press releases about Ethernet Exchanges in the last week, expect a lot more over the next month leading up to LightReading's Ethernet Expo. Everyone in this market is trying to speak up and let it be known that they're the leader for this rapidly evolving service.
Telx hit the wire yesterday announcing that its service had been nominated, that's right nominated, hasn't won anything yet, for LightReading's "Leading Lights" award for best new telecom service. While that's good for Telx, it has a very tough competitor in CENX, and will need to continue to work closely with its interconnection partner Neutral Tandem (TNDM) to reach additional POPs in markets where it doesn't have co-lo facilities. And if they issue a PR for being nominated, can only imagine what they'll do if they win.
If you think there have been a lot of press releases about Ethernet Exchanges in the last week, expect a lot more over the next month leading up to LightReading's Ethernet Expo. Everyone in this market is trying to speak up and let it be known that they're the leader for this rapidly evolving service.
Telx hit the wire yesterday announcing that its service had been nominated, that's right nominated, hasn't won anything yet, for LightReading's "Leading Lights" award for best new telecom service. While that's good for Telx, it has a very tough competitor in CENX, and will need to continue to work closely with its interconnection partner Neutral Tandem (TNDM) to reach additional POPs in markets where it doesn't have co-lo facilities. And if they issue a PR for being nominated, can only imagine what they'll do if they win.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Neutral Tandem Accelerates Ethernet Exchange Rollout, Will Equinix Respond?
By David Gross
The service is still really less than a year old, but things are ramping up quickly in the Carrier Ethernet Exchange market. Neutral Tandem (TNDM) announced today they had accelerated their deployment of Ethernet Exchanges, reaching 14 U.S. markets. Additionally, through their Tinet acquisition, they can provide service in another 85 POPs throughout the rest of the world, including what the company describes as "hard-to-reach" countries.
This rapid deployment is clearly a response to CENX, which was co-founded by Neutral Tandem's own co-founder, Ron Gavillet, and has been signing up carriers left and right, including Cox Business last week, in addition to Verizon (VZ) and Level 3 (LVLT). While Equinix (EQIX) has other things on their mind now, they will clearly have to figure out a strategy for Ethernet Exchanges very soon. While this service differs from the marketplace of business-to-business cross-connects Equinix currently offers, they will either have to do something to get ahead of Neutral Tandem and CENX, take sides with either CENX or Neutral Tandem, or narrow the focus of the service to avoid becoming a second-tier provider in this area.
Telx, who is still sitting in registration, and could be awhile longer now that Equinix (EQIX) is tanking, has a partnership with Neutral Tandem to co-locate their own exchanges at seven of Neutral Tandem's U.S. POPs. A similar partnership might not be a bad idea for Equinix.
The service is still really less than a year old, but things are ramping up quickly in the Carrier Ethernet Exchange market. Neutral Tandem (TNDM) announced today they had accelerated their deployment of Ethernet Exchanges, reaching 14 U.S. markets. Additionally, through their Tinet acquisition, they can provide service in another 85 POPs throughout the rest of the world, including what the company describes as "hard-to-reach" countries.
This rapid deployment is clearly a response to CENX, which was co-founded by Neutral Tandem's own co-founder, Ron Gavillet, and has been signing up carriers left and right, including Cox Business last week, in addition to Verizon (VZ) and Level 3 (LVLT). While Equinix (EQIX) has other things on their mind now, they will clearly have to figure out a strategy for Ethernet Exchanges very soon. While this service differs from the marketplace of business-to-business cross-connects Equinix currently offers, they will either have to do something to get ahead of Neutral Tandem and CENX, take sides with either CENX or Neutral Tandem, or narrow the focus of the service to avoid becoming a second-tier provider in this area.
Telx, who is still sitting in registration, and could be awhile longer now that Equinix (EQIX) is tanking, has a partnership with Neutral Tandem to co-locate their own exchanges at seven of Neutral Tandem's U.S. POPs. A similar partnership might not be a bad idea for Equinix.
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