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Dear Valued AboveNet Customers and Partners,
As the Dow Jones Average hovers near the 11,000 mark, businesses are expanding once more. One strong indicator: a rise in capital investments to meet growing demands on networks. In the wake of the most challenging economic environment in 70 years, it is encouraging to see signs of upward movement.
Amid the indicators, one fact stands out: The communications market of 2010 is customer-driven, and thus vastly different from earlier eras. Companies are more demanding than ever before, each with its own unique set of requirements for tailored solutions. The message, loud and clear to all communications service providers: One size does not fit all.
Consider the specialized needs of just three leading sectors.
Financial services companies today rely on end-to-end private facilities to ensure that their transactions are always up-to-speed, an essential concern in a market where network latency performance is mission-critical to success. An electronic trading platform that is just 5 milliseconds behind the competition can cost a company 1% of its flow-through – as much as US$4 million in revenues per millisecond of latency.
Health care providers count on scalable, high bandwidth Internet solutions to quickly, accurately and securely support applications ranging from imaging to home health monitoring. Another popularly prescribed solution: Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), to access and share patient and clinical information flexibly, cost-effectively, and in accordance with the strict privacy requirements of HIPAA.
The media, entertainment and social media arenas are experiencing explosive growth of their bandwidth requirements. Here, wavelength services are in high demand because they can scale to support any bandwidth need now or in the future.
These sectors are among the most demanding in the world, and AboveNet is proud to serve leading organizations in each area, as well as many others in the fields of information technology, retail, legal, energy, education and telecommunications. Our view is that every solution, however specialized a customer’s needs may be, must rest on a common foundation of qualities or values:
- Flexibility: Accelerating customers’ communications with high bandwidth Metro and Wide Area Network Solutions.
- Scalability: Private optical network solutions that support any custom network.
- The Lowest Latency: Carrier class electronics providing the fastest, lowest latency network to support demanding applications.
- Security: A 100% owned and operated all-private optical network offering solutions to handle all critical traffic.
- Reliability: Error-free service supported 24X7 year-round, and backed by industry veterans who are experienced in building and supporting networks for the world’s most particular customers.
Taken together, these attributes comprise the ultimate value for customers: choice. At AboveNet we strive to provide customers with a true alternative – high bandwidth connectivity solutions that ensure their businesses always have diverse, real-time connectivity where, when and how they need it.
We look forward to continuing to serve your needs.
MaryBeth Nance
Executive Director, Business Development
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