MediaXstream, a carrier-neutral, high quality transport and managed network services for the production and broadcast industries, has worked with Atlantic Metro Communications on multiple deals that required fast, dedicated, dark fiber solutions connecting their core network, located at 60 Hudson Street in New York to various sports and entertainment venues. It was important for MediaXstream to find a fiber solution provider that was flexible, reliable and easy to work with. With roots in metro fiber connectivity, MediaXstream knew the hurdles associated with deploying a top-notch dark fiber solution to state-of-the-art entertainment arenas requiring low-latency transmission services. Together, Atlantic Metro Communications and MediaXstream provide an efficient delivery platform that enables production companies to quickly transmit, edit and ultimately broadcast high-definition Internet and Television entertainment to the mass-market

Atlantic Metro Communications is constantly adding new building locations to its on-net service list. We’ve now added a way for you, our customers and partners to always have the most up to date information about these building locations.

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You can subscribe to our On-net buildings & POP list via RSS here: Atlantic Metro Communications On-net & Network POP RSS FEED

Atlantic Metro Communications is proud to announce that we are now an official Ubuntu mirror!  We use Ubuntu quite a bit in our offices and datacenters, and now we would like to give back.  We supply a full mirror, complete with distributions and repositories.  Give this OS a shot, you won’t be disappointed!

We are big fans of the open source community at AMC.  In addition to the new Ubuntu mirror, we also serve up Apache, CentOS, and Mozilla mirrors.  Head over to our mirror and check it out!

All downloads from our mirror are accelerated using our very own content acceleration service platform.  Find out how this platform can accelerate your business!

Atlantic Metro Communications announced today that it will be sponsoring Wordcamp New York - http://newyork.wordcamp.org

The final schedule is still TBA, but here are the speakers lined up.

• Michael Hampton - WordPress Security
• Jeremy Clarke - Blogging Networks
• Jen Simmons - Video Blogging
• Aaron Brazell - Making it into the Big Leagues
• NHL Representative - Keynote / Corporate Blogging
• Pending Robert Deaton - Using WordPress as a CMS

This list is not yet finalized and we will hopefully add more soon.

Thanks and we’re looking forward to seeing you at WordCamp NY 2008!

Don’t forget to purchase your ticket today: http://wordcampny2008.eventbrite.com/

For those of you who are Twitter fans, you can now follow Atlantic Metro Communications on Twitter.

Our whole staff will be constantly updating Twitter with network news, maintance notices, new service offerings and much more.

Follow us for service discount coupons, and special offers that only Twitter followers will be able to see.

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Atlantic Metro helped serve up its fair share of the 8 Million Firefox 3 downloads. Our nationwide network handled the large increase in traffic without a hiccup. All segments of our nationwide IP Backbone have been designed to scale 10 fold. Scalability and reliability is our number 1 goal for our clients.
More details on the 8 Million downloads was published on the Ars Technica blog.

All downloads from http://mirror.atlanticmetro.net are accelerated using our very own content acceleration service platform. Atlantic Metro’s content acceleration service can increase download speeds by 85%.

Find out more about our Content Acceleration Service and how it can help you today.

Atlantic Metro has been helping serve up your Mozilla Firefox 3 updates today. Even downland.mozilla.org was having trouble keeping up with the number of requests it was getting according to Data Center Knowledge.

We are happy that we can help serve the community.

Happy Surfing.

Biz Buzz: Would the last one to log in please (not) turn out the lights?
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The last time there was a massive blackout in the region, it was triggered by a tree brushing against a sagging high-voltage power line on a hot August day in 2003.

The next time the lights go out, it might be tied to the rapid growth in corporate and government data centers.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has warned the electricity consumed by data centers jammed with Internet servers, computers and other electrical equipment is pushing the nation’s power system toward gridlock.

At particular risk: New York City and northern New Jersey.

The United States is home to more than 40 percent of the world’s largest data centers, many of them based in the New York metropolitan area, the EPA says in a recent report.

Data centers account for 1.5 percent of all electrical consumption in the United States, according to the EPA. If unchecked, consumption could double in the next five years.

Failure to resolve the problem will likely lead to more frequent power outages and higher prices for consumers and businesses, the EPA says.

There is some hope, however. More efficient systems using advanced processors, data storage and power generation equipment could dramatically reduce energy consumption.

– Tom Johnson