KDDI America expands its metro network in the West Coast area
KDDI America Inc., the U.S. division of KDDI Corporation, a Global Fortune 500 company and worldwide leader in international telecommunications services, today announced that it has launched KDDI America MetroWave in the Los Angeles metropolitan area extending up the West Coast. This service offering provides a wide variety of flexible and affordable, high-performance network services to customers on the West Coast, the International Gateway to Asia Pacific.
The KDDI network will connect between the major data centers on the West Coast such as TELEHOUSE Los Angeles, Equinix LA1 Los Angeles, Equinix SV8 Palo Alto, and Equinix SV1 San Jose. By connecting the metro networks between these data centers, KDDI America can provide Internet or Ethernet services as a very cost effective solution to their customer base. Enterprises, ISPs, or content providers who are seeking access from their data center on the West Coast to Asia or from Asia to their data center will benefit.
By deploying the optical technology of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) in its metro fiber network, KDDI America is capable of accommodating high-capacity circuits within multiple sites in the West Coast area. Through a wavelength of light on an optical fiber, seamless interconnections are available to different transport interfaces such as SDH/SONET, as well as Ethernet transport high-capacity from OC48 scaling up to OC192 and 1Gbps scaling up to 10Gbps. Separated wavelengths of capacity per fiber strand allow KDDI America to provide flexible, high-speed bandwidth and scalability with faster provisioning lead times. MetroWave has backbone capacity of up to 800Gbps.
The KDDI America MetroWave network is seamlessly integrated to connect customers located at any of the four data centers to KDDI America’s existing network services including its Internet, IP-VPN and domestic and global Ethernet service offerings, US Powered Ethernet Network (US-PEN) and KDDI Global Powered Ethernet Network (GPEN). As a result, customers can access MetroWave from any of US-PEN’s Points of Presence which include New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Chicago, IL; Ashburn, VA and Dallas, TX. By having access to TELEHOUSE’s global network of data centers, KDDI America can offer its customers colocation and network services in safe, secure data centers with low-latency connectivity in 22 cities in 15 countries around the world.
“In the past year, KDDI America has seen a heightened demand for connectivity over wavelength services from several industries such as software providers, entertainment and media firms,” said Sandra de Novellis, Director of Marketing, KDDI America. “KDDI America meets its customers’ needs by allowing them to expand their network seamlessly from Los Angeles to San Francisco and beyond by connecting them to the International Gateway.”
Customers interested in learning more about MetroWave products and pricing should contact KDDI America by dialing 212-295-1200 or email at marketing@kddia.com.
About KDDI America
KDDI America is the U.S. division of the KDDI Group of companies, a Fortune Global 500 company and leading provider of international telecommunications and collocation facilities around the world. KDDI America provides high-quality network solutions to clients with telecommunication needs throughout Asia Pacific, where it is particularly strong. KDDI Group is a pioneer and innovator in the Ethernet world, being the first telecom provider to provide switched Ethernet services between Asia and the United States. KDDI is also a leading provider in international data centers and value-added services through its group company, TELEHOUSE, in the United States, Europe and Asia. For more information about KDDI America, please visitwww.kddia.com.
Mobinil may seek its own international gateway licence (Egypt)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Mobinil, the Egyptian mobile telephone operator, may have to buy its own international gateway licence if its current provider does not cut prices. Mobinil now wants Telecom Egypt (TE) to reduce charges for leasing circuits and telephone exchanges and for international calls.
Yasser Radwan, Mobinil’s Commercial Vice President, said, “Mobinil wants to obtain better prices than anyone else seeking its service,”.
Radwan also stated that every company may start getting its own licencef, if TE does not provide for the needs of its customers at competitive rates for international calls.
TE & Vodafone Egypt ink wholesale services deal
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Telecom Egypt and Vodafone Egypt have inked an agreement for the provision of wholesale telecommunications services.with immediate effect and is expected to represent a total value for TE of approximately EGP 4 billion over the next three years.The deal entails two distinct elements, using TE international gateway services to transit all Vodafone incoming and outgoing international traffic, plus relying on TE’s domestic network for all Vodafone infrastructure leasing needs.
TE and Vodafone do a deal over Egyptian cellco
Telecom Egypt (TE) has agreed to sell up to 4.9% of mobile operator Vodafone Egypt to fellow investor Vodafone Group, in a deal which will give the UK-based wireless giant full management control of the cellco. The share sale is part of a wide ranging strategic business partnership struck by the pair that ensures Vodafone Egypt will work in tandem with TE as its fixed line partner. ‘This move will make it possible for Vodafone Egypt to take advantage of the products and services from [ISP subsidiary] TE Data and other parts of TE as well as increasing the opportunities for Vodafone Egypt to sell its services through TE,’ Akil Beshir, Chairman and CEO of TE, said in a statement. ‘This agreement will allow TE to maintain a substantial portion of the international voice services volumes from Vodafone Egypt after the liberalisation of international gateway services in Egypt,’ he added.
According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms database, TE acquired a further 23.47% stake in Vodafone Egypt from minority shareholders for EGP5.63 billion (USD1.03 billion) under a tender offer launched in September 2006. Upon completion of the deals, TE’s holding in the cellco rose from 25.5% to 48.97%. Vodafone Group holds approximately 50.1%. Under the latest agreement, Vodafone will launch a new tender offer, which if fully accepted will see its stake in Vodafone Egypt rising to 55%, whilst diluting TE’s holding to 45%, for a maximum possible consideration of EGP1.18 billion.
Source- telegeography Wireless Mobile Telecom
