BCI Acquires VO2 Networx

Here’s a recent article in the Memphis Business Journal regarding the VO2-BCI relationship.

  

Today In History

November 11, 1873: Arizona Territory- a telegraph line is established between Prescott and Yuma.

  

VO2 Fuels GHS-TV Auction

For the fourth consecutive year, VO2 has provided the telecommunications services for GHS-TV’s annual auction. Each year the auction gives viewers in and around the Germantown area the opportunity to bid on hundreds of gift items, ranging from round-trip airfares to free cable services, art, jewelry, and much more. Viewers can call in their bids or bid online at www.ghstvonlineauction.org.

  

Elderly Woman Pokes Cable;Cuts Internet Access in Three Countries

Georgian woman cuts off web access to whole of Armenia
Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75, slices through cable while scavenging for copper

An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia, it emerged on Wednesday.

The woman, 75, had been digging for the metal not far from the capital Tbilisi when her spade damaged the fibre-optic cable on 28 March.

As Georgia provides 90% of Armenia’s internet, the woman’s unwitting sabotage had catastrophic consequences. Web users in the nation of 3.2 million people were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours as the country’s main internet providers – ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa – were prevented from supplying their normal service. Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.

Large parts of Georgia and some areas of Azerbaijan were also affected.

“It was a 75-year-old woman who was digging for copper in the ground so that she could sell it for scrap,” said a spokesman for Georgia’s interior ministry said yesterday.

Dubbed “the spade-hacker” by local media, the woman – who has not been named – is being investigated on suspicion of damaging property. She faces up to three years in prison if charged and convicted.

A spokesman for Georgia’s interior ministry said the woman was temporarily released “on account of her old age” but could face more questioning.

The damage was detected by a system monitoring the fibre-optic link from western Europe and a security team was immediately dispatched to the spot, where the woman was arrested. The interior ministry said she had no accomplices.

The cable is owned by the Georgian railway network. It is heavily protected, but landslides or heavy rain may have exposed it to scavengers.

Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.

Source: Guardian UK

  

Today In History

1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone.
1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York City and London.

  

Memphis University School and VO2 Networx Sign Multi-year Agreement

VO2 Networx, Inc. announced today an agreement with Memphis University School (MUS) to provide cloud based telecommunications services at its Memphis, Tennessee campus. The installation will leverage the school’s existing state-of-the-art voice and data switching and fiber infrastructure.

Memphis University School, a traditional, college-preparatory school for boys in grades seven through twelve, was founded over 100 years ago.

  

VO2 Announces Upgrades to Both Datacenters

VO2 Networx, Inc. announced today two upgrades to its Memphis datacenters.

The core application servers at its Network Operations Center One (NOC-1) were recently upgraded to Broadsoft’s 8.0 software, and the fiber based connectivity between NOC-1 and NOC-2 will be increased by 50% on October 29th, further enabling VO2 to provide enterprise, best-of-breed services to its clients throughout the country.
Beau Peyton, VO2’s founder and President stated “It’s part of our ongoing commitment to maintain a robust, leading edge platform for our clients. Our solution eliminates the headaches and costs often associated with server maintenance. Our clients don’t have to worry about obsolescence or maintenance, because that’s in the ‘cloud’ and is therefore our responsibility.”

VO2 anticipates a major expansion of its Network Center architecture in early 2011 which will include a next generation soft switch installed in a third location outside Tennessee.

  

Lanning Moves to Field Marketing

VO2 Networx announced today the creation of a new position, Field Marketing Specialist (FMS). VO2’s Dean Lanning was selected to fill this unique role. Field Marketing Specialists work closely with direct sales in generating leads and assisting with the overall sales effort by managing VO2’s advertising programs and web presence.

“Dean’s a perfect fit. This leverages his strengths in sales and marketing, as well as his in-depth familiarity with our core offerings. He’s very active in the community, is highly creative and has a proven ability to locate and qualify prospects for VO2’s services. We needed more than just a marketing person. We needed someone who knew how to generate business via prospecting and possessed creative abilities and keen organizational skills,” stated Beau Peyton, founder and President of VO2.

Dean has been with VO2 since 2004.

The new role will help VO2 expand and continue the exceptional growth it experienced in 2009, a year in which VO2 established itself as a key player in the over 100 user market with the addition of WKNO, Entercom and Presbyterian Day School.

  

We Promise To Be Faster Than A Carrier Pigeon

A South African information technology company recently demonstrated they could transmit data with a carrier pigeon faster than sending the same data using Telkom , the country’s leading internet service provider.

We promise to always be faster than pigeons and offer a money back guarantee that no avian species can deliver data faster than our network. Does your vendor make the same promise?

  

VO2 Approved In Louisiana; Looks Next To Texas

VO2 Networx, Inc. announced today that it was recently granted a certificate to operate as a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier in the State of Louisiana. While such certification is generally not necessary for VoIP providers and IP delivered applications, VO2 voluntarily goes through the process in each state in which it operates a point of presence or “POP.”

“Going through the CLEC process does a couple of things,” stated Beau Peyton, VO2’s founder and President. “One, it demonstrates to the marketplace you’re serious about being a long time player in the market and that you have the financial and technical resources to successfully operate a telephone company. You have to submit financial reports, technical and executive resumes and in most states, provide bonding or a letter of credit from a financial institution. It’s just not something where you fill out a short form, pay $25.00 and gain the State’s imprimatur. Secondly, it allows us to provide a key and unique architectural platform.”

VO2 has offered IP based services in Louisiana since 2007. In 2010, VO2 will expand its data center and offer a more robust package of products and services through its strategic partner, iConvergence.

  

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