1 6 THE INCOMPAS SHOW I OCTOBER 24 - 26, 2022 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 1 Y 2 Bluebird Network, a communications infrastructure provider and operator of two data centers and more than 10,600 miles of fiber, announced the fiber expansion in Salina, Kansas, is live. Bluebird offers secure and reliable connectivity to enable digital transformation for local businesses in Salina. A new, diverse fiber route to Chicago is also underway with the expansions into Aurora and DeKalb, Ill. The fiber route to Chicago is projected to go live by the end of 2022. Each of these network builds will have a point of presence (PoP) within the Salina and Aurora and DeKalb communities, allowing local businesses and organizations to leverage Bluebird’s full suite of high-quality, highspeed fiber connectivity. The Salina community is benefiting from 13.63 new fiber route miles, while the Aurora and DeKalb communities will realize initial builds of four miles and 1.68 fiber route miles, respectively. Earlier this year, Bluebird completed a network expansion in Waterloo, Iowa, with 11.74 route miles of fiber in the local community. These network expansions support Bluebird’s company vision, “to have a fiber presence in 80 percent of communities across our state footprint with a population greater than 10,000 people.” “For a long time, Bluebird was a fiber network company first and foremost, and these strategic expansions are what we’re still built on,” said Michael Morey, president and CEO of Bluebird Network. “But the Bluebird of today supports even more business needs with data center colocation, private cloud connectivity and a highly successful carrier sales operation.” Bluebird’s carrier sales team supports some of the largest technology and telecommunications companies in the world. p For more information about how Bluebird connects local businesses visit their representative at Deal Center Table 13 or bluebirdnetwork.com. Unite Private Networks (UPN), a leading provider of highcapacity, fiber-based communication networks, announced a network expansion into Colorado Springs, Colo. The expansion will bring more than 70 miles of new fiber-optic infrastructure to the region, yielding more than 3,800 serviceable locations. Business and carrier customers now will have access to dark fiber or dedicated lit services that are scalable from 10 Mbps to 100 Gbps, and a suite of other products powered by a low-latency carrier-grade, 100 percent fiber-optic network. Beyond services, UPN will implement a local team of experts to engineer, install, and maintain the fiber infrastructure, giving customers easy access to support services. “UPN is excited and honored to be welcomed into the Colorado Springs Community,” said Jeremy Andrews, group vice president of Carrier Services. “Our ful ly resi l ient network spans throughout Colorado Springs, starting downtown and reaching as far north as Monument. With existing network in Denver, Centennial, Pueblo, and Canon City, the expansion into Colorado Springs was a perfect geographic fit to continue growing our presence throughout Colorado. We’re looking forward to expanding our footprint whi le giving business and carrier customer broader access throughout the Front Range.” p For more information on UPN, visit the company’s Hotel Suite or go to www.uniteprivatenetworks.com. Bluebird Expands Fiber Network in Kansas Unite Expands into Colorado Springs Communications Data Group (CDG) announces the integration between CDG’s MBS consumer and enterprise billing, and OSS solution and CheckPoint Solutions demand aggregation, marketing and customer acquisition solutions for service providers. The initial integration helps automate a service provider’s order fulfillment and provisioning processes, by allowing new orders to flow automatically from CheckPoint to MBS and then through the provider’s workflow processes to installation and billing. Addresses and product catalogs are synced between the two systems. Additionally, MBS customers can use customer aggregation and ROI analysis tools for new fiber deployments without the need for manual data entry. According to CDG’s CTO, Tony Stout, “By integrating Checkpoint’s industry leading demand aggregation solution with CDG’s innovative OSS/BSS platform, service providers can realize flow through order processing, eliminating inefficient manual data entry. This integration will significantly improve customer experience and operational efficiency for our customers.”Jacob Terstriep, Director of Operations at CheckPoint Solutions, added, “We are very excited to be working with the CDG group on this project. Through integrating these two products, we are able to achieve levels of automation and efficiency that were previously unavailable from any other system on the market today.” CDG provides scalable, accurate (B/OSS) billing and operational support solutions for voice, video, and data for retail and wholesale telecommunications carriers and service providers. CheckPoint Solutions provides demand aggregation, marketing and customer acquisition solutions for service providers looking to use the latest data analytics to track edge-out and capital investment effectiveness. The CheckPoint Solutions platform is specifically designed to meet the needs of broadband providers deploying next-generation services. From the initial planning, through designing, building, selling, managing, and driving growth, CheckPoint serves as a single point of operational coordination. p For more information, visit CDG at Kiosk 3 on the Exhibit Floor. CDG Introduces MBS Integration with CheckPoint Solutions
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