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Telarix Names
Microsoft VP as CEO
Telarix has appointed Marco
Limena as its CEO, succeeding
Glen Kazerman. Limena joins Te-
larix after more than two decades
of experience in a variety of ex-
ecutive roles, including general
manager, CEO and board director
in both public and private firms
within the telecom, mobility and
cloud hosting industry.
Previously, Limena led HP’s
Network & Service Provider Solu-
tions business globally and served
as president and CEO of VoIP
communications software provider
Sylantro Systems. Most recently
he was vice president in charge of
driving growth of Microsoft’s B2B
hosting and cloud business at a
time of critical transformation for
Microsoft to mobility and cloud.
“Building on Telarix’s growth
as a market leader in CSP billing
for interconnect and settlement,
I look forward to working with the
entire Telarix team and with our
customers to help service provid-
ers increase their revenues and
extend their reach through our
electronic information exchange,”
said Limena.
“We’re excited to work with Mar-
co to continue building upon Telarix’s
solutions for the telecom industry,”
said Patrick Severson, lead director
for Telarix’s board of directors and
principal at Vista Equity Partners.
“Marco has a unique set of experi-
ences and skills that will support Te-
larix’s continued growth and global-
ization while maintaining its delivery
of rapid innovation for customers.”
FedRAMP Authorizes
First Cloud Provider for
Voice, Collaboration
Collaboration solution provider
collab9 has become the first
FedRAMP Authorized unified
communications as a service
(UCaaS) provider in the world. col-
lab9 was sponsored by the Fed-
eral Communications Commission
to achieve a FedRAMP compliant
ATO (Agency Authority to Oper-
ate) and become verified by the
FedRAMP PMO (Project Manage-
ment Office).
With the cloud-first mandate
trickling through the U.S. govern-
ment, the certification means fed-
eral, state and local agencies now
have a secure unified communica-
tions cloud service catering to their
requirements, said the company.
The Federal Risk and Authoriza-
tion Management Program, or
FedRAMP, is a government-wide
program that supports the U.S.
government’s mandate that all U.S.
federal information systems com-
ply with the Federal Information
Security Management Act of 2002
(FISMA). Providing a cost-effective,
risk-based approach for the adop-
tion and use of cloud services, ex-
ecutive departments and agencies
using FedRAMP Authorized cloud
systems, such as collab9, can reap
significant financial and time sav-
ings by implementing new systems
quickly, said the company.
“As agencies are increas-
ingly using more cloud services,
specialized services like UCaaS
solutions are gaining greater entry
into the Federal marketplace,” said
Ashley Mahan, FedRAMP agency
evangelist. “FedRAMP is cloud
agnostic so the authorization pro-
cess works for any delivery model
or service type.”
collab9’s data center infrastruc-
ture was designed to meet the
NIST 800-53 standards for federal,
state and local government se-
curity requirements. Additionally,
collab9 offers the only FedRAMP
Authorized UCaaS solution for
hosted voice – the second most
common application for business-
es, after email.
Shakeup in U.S.
Carrier Ethernet
‘Leaderboard’
Charter made its first appear-
ance on Vertical Systems Group’s
U.S. Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard
among the mid-2016 results. Char-
ter surged ahead of Verizon into
third position based on aggregated
ports from its May 2016 acquisi-
tions of Time Warner Cable and
Bright House.
Port shares were calculated us-
ing the mid-year base of enterprise
installations of Ethernet services
in the U.S. plus input from surveys
of Ethernet providers. The Lead-
erboard threshold is 4 percent or
more of billable port installations.
At the end of 2015, Time War-
ner Cable was the top cable MSO
and ranked fifth on the U.S. Lead-
erboard, while Charter and Bright
House were in the Challenge Tier,
which includes providers with be-
tween 1 percent and 4 percent
share of the U.S. retail Ethernet
market. Charter Spectrum is now
the largest cable MSO provider of
retail Ethernet services, says Verti-
cal Systems Group.
As a result of this shakeup,
Verizon’s mid-2016 rank drops to
fourth from third in 2015, and Cen-
turyLink moves from fourth to fifth.
Additionally, XO moves into the
seventh share position ahead of
U.S. Carrier Ethernet Leaderboard,
Mid-2016
1. AT&T
2. Level 3
3. Charter
4. Verizon
5. CenturyLink
6. Comcast
7. XO
8. Cox
9. Windstream
Source: Vertical Systems Group
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