"We have distributed platforms across the country," he said, "and we're getting tremendous play on the server side, and amazing take on the storage side, with folks placing their storage requirements on our platform, either locally within our data center in a hybrid environment, which is unique because we're both the cloud provider and the co-location provider, as well as being in Florida in the hurricane zone."

Chesal pronounced himself "pleasantly surprised" with the take rate as well.

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Recently at the CBX 2010 show in New York City, TMC's (News - Alert) Group Editorial Director Erik Linask had the opportunity to interview Telehouse America's Fred Cannone, the company's sales and marketing director.

Cannone noted that the company's moving to be more of a total provider. "Traditionally, most people recognize Telehouse as a data center co-location provider, in nine countries on five continents, but we're moving beyond that. Our value proposition going forward is bringing more value outside the data center.

Independent of whether clients' data processing equipment sits with them, "we're really bringing additional services beyond that," he explained. "So whether it be our data center or somebody else's data center, we can provide a whole host of services, whether it be monitoring or mediation."

Providing additional customer services was a decision driven by customer demand, Cannone said. "Customers, especially in the small to medium-sized market, are demanding more services, and have a need for additional services. As far as we're concerned that market is probably underserved. The larger customers always get the lion's share of attention from the biggest of players, I don't think it's any secret to anybody that that's what typically happens."

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Recently at the CBX 2010 show in New York City, TMC's Group Editorial Director Erik Linask had the opportunity to interview Hibernia Atlantic's VP of Sales North America, Joe Hilt.

The company is the owner and operator of "a physically diverse submarine cable system and a global network provider," Hilt explained for those unfamiliar with the company. He said the company's concentrating in three marketplaces today - wholesale, financial and media. 

Discussing the wholesale market, Hilt called it "the backbone of Hibernia Atlantic. It's really where we started out, we're providing mostly big bandwidth services, mostly wavelength, ten gigabyte, and now even 40 gigabyte across the Atlantic Ocean."

Most recently they've added a fifth landing station, he said, in Ireland, just north of Belfast, and the company is now providing services out of that region.

When asked if the company was going to expand from their current offerings of ten and 40 gigabytes to 100, Hilt said "We're always looking at it. The guys in the test labs in Dublin, where our headquarters are, are definitely always looking for the biggest, best and newest technology."

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Recently at the CBX 2010 show in New York City, TMC's Group Editorial Director Erik Linask had the opportunity to interview Global Telecom and Technology's Senior Vice President Michael Hollander.

In December of 2009 the company wrapped up an acquisition of WBS Connect, Hollander said, which was "exciting," as it was the first acquisition as part of a plan to "really move forward." Hollander said the company has plans for a few more acquisitions over the next seven to ten quarters, and "we see the market is really prime for that type of discussion."

When asked what drove the initial acquisition and what's driving the subsequent ones, Hollander said he came from a company - WBS Connect - that GTT had purchased, and "the idea which WBS coined is that ten megs is the new T1. And we see that bandwidth is only growing at this point."

What GTT has done as a model, Hollander explained, is to establish "more Ethernet NNIs than any provider out there, and the major providers right now are using us to provide their Type 2 services." He remarked that the CBX event is good for GTT, since "we provide Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 1 services to almost everybody in this building, and we're a partner, a customer and a vendor to most of the people in this room."

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U.K.-based companies Skyworks and Earthware are "giving Web users an interactive experience of the FIFA World Cup stadia across South Africa" through the fusion of HD video footage and "cutting edge mapping technology, 'Avimap' (Aerial Video Integrated Mapping)," which has been co-developed by the firms.

Officials of both firms say TheWorldCupMap.com features Microsoft's Bing Maps Silverlight technology, Windows Azure cloud hosting and the latest IIS (Internet Information Services) smooth streaming video. 

The service is described as providing "aerial views of each stadium, complemented by information about the matches and teams playing at the venues."

Neil Osmond, Managing Director of Earthware, said by creating an interactive experience online, "Avimap is a flag-bearer for the art of the possible, as it's the first time that HD aerial footage and Web based mapping technology have been linked in the cloud environment."

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