(NOVEMBER 21, 2005) - Standing out in a crowd is a tough thing for privately held companies to do. It’s tough, but not impossible. Light Reading editors and Heavy Reading analysts have looked at the entries in the Leading Lights Award category for Best Marketing, Private Company, and, while doing so, we’ve found some interesting examples of companies that have really...
(CLEVELAND,OH - OCTOBER 24, 2005) - In a world of telecom giants, being a small, Midwestern Internet service provider requires some innovation to survive. For local ISP Expedient, months of research and development on a new Internet service are starting to pay off. The company has added 13 sales employees around the country since launching a new product called Ethernet Anywhere...
(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...