(((Man, no wonder Chris Anderson lost his temper with these people.
They pounce instantly now. If I blogged about teflon frying pans, I'd get three marketing droids by morning all eager to exploit my grass-roots word-of-mouth blogging network to promote their &*&^$$%#
frying pans.)))
Hi Bruce, (((sometimes people wonder why I turned commenting off years ago; imagine the harassment you've been spared)))
As reported in your recent blog post and on other top news sites, the cable breaks that occurred in the Mediterranean starting January 30th impacted telecom and internet connectivity from Egypt to Dubai to India, threatening the functionality and cost-efficiency of organizations worldwide. However, a major set of business users remained unaffected by the outage – despite the fact that their networks utilize the cut cables – thanks to Virtela Communications (www.virtela.com).
Virtela is a Virtual Network Operator (VNO) whose Global Service Fabric is multi-connected to the best local, regional and global networks in the world. On January 30th, Virtela's global monitoring systems reported the performance issues caused by the cable cuts. Virtela started traffic analysis immediately along those routes and rerouted traffic seamlessly so that customers experienced negligible latency performance impact. Essentially, Virtela's customers remained disaster-proof, while many organizations are still experiencing network complications due to the fact that the cuts will take at least a week to repair. Some areas of the Middle East experienced disruption of more than 70% of internet service and in India and Pakistan the breakage affected connectivity for more than 72 million users.
(((So, Virtela – given that you profit radically whenever Internet cable disasters occur, would it be fair to ask on my blog if you own any submarines? Not that I'm alleging anything about your vulture-like lunge at protection money from distressed Indian offshore operations.)))
If you're interested in speaking with Virtela about how they maintain such infallible service in the face of global disasters (((that prospect sure ought to interest John Robb, anyhow))) and why their system is critical to enterprises worldwide, (((except my own "worldwide enterprise," which is keenly irritated by this unsought corporate PR spam))) I'm happy to arrange an interview with one of their executives. (((Could you tell this guy to knock it off with the blogger harassment? We don't exist for your marketing convenience.))) The company has seen 30% annual growth in the last several years and is poised to take a greater share of market. Virtela is leading the charge in providing best-of-breed, business-critical services as more and more enterprises are now expanding and migrating to global networks.
Thanks, and I look forward to your feedback.
Best,
Susan
Susan Wise
For Virtela
650.646.3268 x11
