High-Tech Hospital Facility Complete

Skanska USA Building Inc. announced the completion of the new CyberKnife Center at Stamford Hospital in Stamford, Connecticut.

Stamford Hospital is the only hospital in the region with a CyberKnife, the most advanced technology available in fighting cancer and other tumors.

It uses an array of precise x-ray beams to attack tumors with pinpoint accuracy, while preserving surrounding healthy cells.

Skanska provided pre-construction and construction management services to this 6,500 s/f project that began in September 2007.

The CyberKnife Center is part of the larger five-year construction program contracted to Skanska USA at Stamford Hospital. To date, nine projects have been completed or are in construction with another nine to twelve projects planned over the next three years.

High Tech Restaurant Arrives In Hollywood

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Interxion Partners with the London Internet Exchange

LONDON, 25th June 2008 – Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral data centres, is to host a Point of Presence for the London Internet Exchange (LINX) in its London City data centre. The move allows Interxion’s 1,000 plus customers the potential of peering directly with LINX’s extensive member base, which includes almost all of the major UK ISPs and content delivery service providers plus many more from around the world.

LINX is one of the world‘s largest internet exchanges, providing a neutral interconnection facility and peering platform for its 280 plus members who have over 570 connected ports, 110 of which are 10GigE ports. LINX joins Interxion’s roster of 450 plus carrier and network partners that provide connectivity from its sites across Europe.

“Partnering with Interxion is a key step in resolving the shortage of premium colocation space at our current London sites for our members. This allows us to look to the future with real confidence,” said John Souter, CEO of the London Internet Exchange. "With the availability of power and capacity so important in City of London, it is reassuring that Interxion has taken the necessary steps to meet the current and future demands of the industry."

“As we continue to attract customers who look to place their equipment at the heart of the Internet the LINX partnership will become increasingly important,” said Greg McCulloch, MD of Interxion UK. “LINX will allow our customers to gain greater control of their network traffic by giving them the choice to peer directly to the LINX exchange at the Interxion London City site, in combination with the highest standards of resilience and availability and access to high density power.”

AT&T's CDN Offering

An interesting analysis by Dan Rayburn on the recent announcement by AT&T of their CDN offering.

A comment is also worth reporting:

>>We have been a client of the ATT ICDS CDN for years but we never use it for any streaming because it is slow and expensive. We have not had a sales rep call on us for at least five years.

On the plus side, the times we did use the service it was very stable and the support people were always great. I wish ATT the best of success.

Posted by: Ray Harris | Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at 09:34 AM

Vocus Communications - Equinix Sydney TBA

Company Name	Vocus Communications
Also Known As
Company Website	http://www.vocus.com.au
Primary ASN	4826
IRR Record
Network Type	NSP
Approx Prefixes
Traffic Levels	1-5Gbps
Traffic Ratios	Mostly Inbound
Geographic Scope	Global
Looking Glass URL
Route Server URL
Notes	Australian Backbone NSP

CNBC - Equinix mention

Michael Lippert, Baron iOpportunity fund

T1R Insight headline - AT&T is in the CDN game, but still has work to do

>>AT&T's entrance into the CDN market has been telegraphed since last year. Now that the service, called Intelligent CDN, is officially being reintroduced to the market, has any new information come to light that would greatly affect the CDN market this year? In a word, no.

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Equinix Secaucus (NYC Metro). Now with Internap (1000 Mbps) and Level3 (1000 Mbps)

Internap president and CEO discusses solutions to ‘exaflood’ and other challenges.

Some highlights, from ScreenPlays:

>>Jim DeBlasio – Internap is unique in the industry in that it provides end-to-end technology solutions to support an organization’s online business, and that’s from the origin to the destination. Our customers look to us to help them manage, deliver and monetize their applications and content with what we consider to be unsurpassed performance and reliability. Unlike others in this space, CDN is a product, not the company.

Vitalstream was a great acquisition for Internap. It enabled us to quickly claim a leadership position in this fast growing market – streaming video and progressive downloads – and we also expanded our customer base. We picked up roughly 80 employees from Vitalsteam that are some very talented engineers.

SP – We’re hearing more and more about video heading to mobile. Do you, or will you, have a role in the emergence of mobile video?

DeBlasio – It’s something we’re looking at right now. You’re absolutely right. At this point, I can’t really speak to or announce anything that’s going on. Only to say that the market is still emerging, and there is a real need for CDN applications, video applications, over the handheld device. That is something that will be growing in the future, and it’s something that we’re looking into.

As users become more and more comfortable with the experience they get with HD, you’re going to see it begin to really pick up over time, and I believe we’re still about a year away from that. It’s something that Internap can offer and do very well.

Baron Fund Seeks Long-Term Growth

From Investor's business daily, an interesting comment on Equinix:

>>The fund's largest holding as of March 31 was Equinix. (EQIX) The fund bought it around 22 in 2003. The fund's average cost now is about 38. The stock is now trading around 95.

The fund added to its position when the stock went down to around 60 in March, Lippert says.

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Because of the cash flow it generates, Lippert thought the stock was cheap at 60.

Wired - Review: Samsung Instinct Gives iPhone a Run for Its Money

>>To call the Samsung Instinct an iPhone knockoff would be an understatement of grotesque proportions. Seriously: Even the packaging looks like it came straight outta Cupertino.

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But the Instinct doesn't stop there; it tries to stake a claim on new ground by adding features its arch rival (even the upcoming version) skips: Haptic feedback buzzes below your fingertip when you work the touchscreen, and voice control lets you do certain tasks sans typing.