Comptel Plus (Spring 2015) Day 1 Show Daily

36 / 40

COMPTELPlus | Monday, April 13, 2015 Beka Publishing, 36
DAY 1
FairPoint Communications Inc., a Northern
New England retail and wholesale commu-
nications provider, announced the launch of
data center services applications for whole-
sale resellers and cloud providers seeking a New
England presence.
According to FairPoint, growth in Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) solu-
tions will drive cloud providers to use third-party data
centers to grow their business, since they often need
to scale their solution into regions further away from
their primary data center.
Satellite data centers reduce latency and improve
performance of application servers by moving
compute and storage resources closer to customers
and off-loading the primary and secondary data
centers. In addition, data centers can be employed as
part of a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy.
“Cloud providers know that response times for
their end users are very important in certain applica-
tions, so having data centers close to those users
becomes critical,” said Chris Alberding, FairPoint vice
president of Product Management. “Cloud providers
offering services to customers in the Northeast
are turning to FairPoint because we offer a highly
reliable and physically secure infrastructure, low-
cost power and access to skilled labor. As the local
service provider, FairPoint offers fiber Ethernet and
Wavelength Service to key Internet exchange point
Network to network interfaces.
“In addition to the demand we are seeing for
cloud satellite data centers, we also have wholesale
customers coming to us to use data center coloca-
tion for disaster recovery,” said Alberding. “FairPoint
has been serving the wholesale community for many
years and we are excited to now offer these additional
data center services.”
With more than 16,000 fiber route miles, Fair-
Point’s data centers connect to the largest owned and
managed Ethernet network in Northern New England
as well as through extended connectivity into Boston
and New York City.
As a network infrastructure service provider, Fair-
Point data center services can include high-speed
Ethernet services up to 1 Gbps and wave services up
to 10 Gbps.
“Every company’s success, including yours
and your end users, depends on smooth safe-
guarded operations and reliable performance,”
said Alberding, referring to wholesale and cloud
providers. “FairPoint owns and operates its data
centers, which have state-of-the art environmental
controls, multiple layers of physical security and
24/7 monitoring for business continuity.” o
FairPoint’swholesale business team is atCOMPTEL PLUS
andavailable todiscussdata center services forwholesale
schedulea time tomeetwithawholesale
accountmanager, visit
If you are a Carrier, Reseller, Master Agent, or
Toll-Free RespOrg, we can help you!
• Customer/Agent Portal, Toll-Free Number
Management, Provisioning, Texting & Route
Optimization Software
• 8MS Now Allows You to Provision SMS/800 AND Your
Carrier’s Network in One Step Automatically!
• 8MS is Used by Over 85 RespOrgs to Manage
30% of all Toll Free Numbers in the Industry
• Save Money Immediately Using CSF’s
Toll Free Provisioning and LCR Software!
Toll-Free Provisioning,
Texting & LCR Software
CSF Corporation Contact
+1.732.302.0222
Frank Lauria, 732.713.3562
Ask us about
8MS TeXT texting
for toll-free numbers!
“Toll Free Provisioning Made Easy”
FairPoint Launches Data Center Services
‘Cloud providers know
that response times for
their end users are very
important in certain
applications, so having
data centers close
to those users
becomes critical.’
— Chris Alberding, FairPoint