{"id":5764,"date":"2007-08-08T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T10:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/voice-peering-growth.html"},"modified":"2007-08-08T10:59:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T10:59:12","slug":"voice-peering-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/voice-peering-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"Voice Peering Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Last year I proclaimed it the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.tmcnet.com\/news\/2005\/oct\/1192877.htm\">year of VoIP peering<\/a>. 2007 is becoming the year of rapid VoIP peering growth. Case in point is the Voice Peering Fabric or VPF who recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/08\/07\/2845710.htm\">stated<\/a> they have reached a 200 billion minute run-rate up from a 100 billion minute run-rate in October 2006.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I recently had a chance to see the VPF&rsquo;s New York location at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=telx\">Telx<\/a> carrier hotel at 60 Hudson Street. Believe it or not, this was my first trip to 60 Hudson. I have been to many of the other carrier hotels in the country such as <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/broadband\/one-wilshire.html\">One Wilshire<\/a> in Los Angeles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/0105\/PO.htm\">56 Marietta<\/a> in Atlanta and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/snapshots\/snapshots.aspx?Company=Terremark+Worldwide\">NAP in Miami<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/telx2.jpg\" \/>In every case, you really aren&rsquo;t allowed to mention who the tenants are or take photos of the equipment customers have in the facility. Thankfully I did manage to snap a few anonymous shots of the Hudson Street building. This will give you an idea of how organized it is without giving away any of the tenants.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In conversation with Hunter Newby, Telx Chief Strategy Officer I learned that Telx got its start in the wholesale business but saw margins in wholesale were far lower than what they were receiving from clients who were leasing space. They got into the space leasing business because the landlord of the building was interested in renting only large blocks of space.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">A side benefit of the focus on space leasing was these companies are better payers.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">So the company decided to seriously pursue the leasing business with a heavy focus on meet-me room interconnections they could facilitate. First they designed a sophisticated physical layer inventory management system and customers continued to stream in. Shortly thereafter one of the largest telephone companies in the world started to see the power of interconnecting through the Telx facility and the VPF in particular.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/telx1.jpg\" \/>If you know the VPF and its founder, Shrihari Pandit you know his company is a big believer in disruption and automation. Though I am sworn to secrecy on the details we will see a great deal more disruption and automation coming from him and his team in the upcoming months.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em>To meet with Hunter and Shrihari and learn more about peering, be in Los Angeles September 12<sup>th<\/sup>, 2007 to participate in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/west-07\/w-07-special-attractions.htm#voice-peering\">Voice Peering Workshop<\/a> as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/voip\/conference\/\">Internet Telephony Conference &amp; Expo<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I proclaimed it the year of VoIP peering. 2007 is becoming the year of rapid VoIP peering growth. Case in point is the Voice Peering Fabric or VPF who recently stated they have reached a 200 billion minute run-rate up from a 100 billion minute run-rate in October 2006. &nbsp; I recently had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,179,180,202,172,160,163,212,199,218,197,188,198,221,156,189,203,118,177,190,191,205,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}