SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488 launch party

via cellodude at IV:

Hong Kong - Samsung Electronics, the official Worldwide Partner of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in wireless communications equipment, today launched its Full Touch Screen Phone – SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488 at the renowned Watermark restaurant located at Central Pier no.7.

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Creative interaction games allows one to experience first hand the unique TOUCHWiZ User Interface of the SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488. Thus, SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488 replicated photo hunt games were arranged within the 3000 square meter waterfront venue for guests to touch and feel this unique feature of the TOUCHWiZ F488. To further trigger one’s desire towards SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488, a striking dance is performed by a team of professional dancers. The choreography is based entirely on the haptic feedback concept of the phone, which gives the users a vibration feedback when the screen is touched. All in all, this is one splendid event where one can experience and be immersed in the unique features of SAMSUNG Anycall TOUCHWiZ F488 in real life!

Using weather to cool US data centres

A small Equinix related comment:

THE use of economisers that take advantage of nature to help cool data centres is gaining traction in the US.

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Another supporter of these technologies is data centre operator Equinix, which says it saves up to 80 per cent in annual cooling costs by using economisers in eight of its 19 US facilities.

Did uWink at me?

Did uWink at me?

by Elizabeth @ 2:47 pm. Filed under Urban Suburbanite

DH works at a shiny new internet startup that loves to tout how there’s a scene in L.A. too, really, there is. See? We’re young and hip! He got an invite to a preview night for the uWink restaurant at Hollywood and Highland.

It’s date night, and we still haven’t figured out where to get a decent meal in L.A., so we jumped at the chance to try something new and geeky.

The restaurant doesn’t open for a few more days, and the preview night was intended to generate some hype, as well as work the bugs out of the system. I’m going to skip over the part where we had a 4:00 reservation, and we stood in line and looked in the window until 5:30. At 5:00 the staff were still up on ladders plugging in flat screens, and the waitresses were still drying wine glasses over the touch-sensitive computer on the bar. Never mind that the bartenders were playing with the visual effects on the bar instead of serving drinks at 5:00.

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The overall concept is pretty cute. You get a wrist band at the door, and you get seated with your party around a table with touch screens in the middle. An adorable pixie of a waitress explained that she was our Entertainment Guide(?) for the evening, and how to order food so that everything came out in the order we wanted, and we could eat at the same time as the members of our party.
Commence the screen tapping. There are soft drinks, bar drinks, appetizers, specials, build-your-own-burgers, desserts, as well as trivia games, virtual tours, group games, and screen drawing games. Our round of Roy Rogers and Shirley Temples came from the kitchen in a flash the restaurant handled this was handled very well.

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There was a table of guys with laptops, cables, and redbull huddled in one corner. At one point in the evening, the servers crashed and all the screens went blank (remember, this is a preview night). There was an audible “Awwww” across the restaurant. All of the (Mac) software reloaded quickly, and we were back in business soon. Shortly after dinner and the reboot, the waiters brought us appetizers, and then just told us to take them when we looked confused. Ten minutes later, we were brought duplicate main courses… the server(software) didn’t lose our orders, but it did reset them. I’m sure they’ll fix that before they open.

We sat with two other couples (they were only taking groups of four and six from behind us in line). One of the guys commented that this system would make for very easy inventory control inside the restaurant. Another girl in our party left without paying for her cosmo (food was free, drinks were half price for the preview). There weren’t waiters manning the tables, so I don’t think anyone at the restaurant noticed. I’m sure they’ll notice when they open.

The games were fun, and it would be easy to come to this restaurant to entertain people from several different age groups in one party. I’m sure we’ll be back with friends when the hype settles down. Especially for drinks.

Outage in San Jose, California - Internap

We’ve had a major outage on Friday evening in our San Jose, CA data center. Our data center provider tells us that its the biggest in 11 years. This was our own biggest outage to date. It turns out it was a configuration issue that happened at Internap that had caused this problem (we use Internap bandwidth). No hardware had failed.

I am not sure why Internap did not know that this change had caused a major network outage, until our network provider escalated - that too after a long time. Internap is a premium provider, so this is a question we are still waiting to hear back from our network provider/Internap. It is unacceptable.

To our customers - I am very dissapointed and concerned with what had happened. Entic.net is a startup, and is marketing to high quality hosting market. So, this kind of thing just throws the work we do, out the door, especially since we put in a lot of money to maximize reliability on the servers themselves. Sorry!

IP Traffic and Pricing Trends

An interesting comment from: Telecom Ramblings

>>Here it is:

As you can see, Internap’s IP revenue was dead flat for two years at $25M quarterly, nothing could budge it. Then, in 2006, something happened at last - yes, traffic grew faster than pricing declined - and since then Internap has been doing better and better. At least until last quarter when they screwed up their integration of the Vitalstream CDN business and there was collateral damage.

In my book, this is evidence for Dan’s case, that in mid 2006 there was a resurgence in this sector. One that continues today, Cogent’s and Level 3’s pecadillos not withstanding. But that growth, while real, remains a bit weak yet - about 10% a year at Internap for the last two years. Their real growth product these days is colocation.

Aray - downgraded by UBS

Upgrades & Downgrades History

UPGRADES & DOWNGRADES HISTORY

Date	Research Firm	Action	From	To
13-Jun-08	UBS	Downgrade	Neutral	Sell

Equinix to showcase at the Green Data Centres Conference

Equinix to showcase at the Green Data Centres Conference

London

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, today announced it is participating in the inaugural Green Data Centres Conference at the Holiday Inn, Bloomsbury, London on 1-2 July 2008.

The Green Data Centres Conference will explore what can, and what is being done to achieve the Green Data Centre. Delegates will hear presentations from industry leaders in the development of IT Technology, the latest research and statistics as well as case studies from leading industry professionals.

Equinix’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing – Europe, Michael Winterson will be participating on the panel discussion ‘What techniques are there for measuring the operating efficiency of a data centre?’

Equinix was recently awarded the Green Award 2008 at the Data Centres Europe Awards ceremony for its credentials in the field managing its environmental impact. Together with customers, Equinix is working to address energy consumption in datacentres by pioneering new strategies that maximise space, minimise operating costs and lessen environmental impact. Providing the most efficient datacentre design and infrastructure is the single most significant impact Equinix can have in enabling customers to lower their energy consumption and cool their equipment located within its centres.

Live webcast to feature high-tech tool that targets tumors at Miller-Dwan Medical Center

>>Surgery without a scalpel. It’s possible thanks to a high tech tool that treats tumors at the CyberKnife Center at Miller-Dwan Medical Center. The public will get an opportunity to learn more during a live webcast on Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at 6:30 p.m.

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The CyberKnife uses extremely precise beams of radiation, combined with data from three-dimensional scans, to target tumors and lesions all over the body. It can effectively treat malignant and benign tumors that were previously thought untreatable by more conventional surgical and radiation methods. Several members of the CyberKnife team will discuss the benefits of this treatment and answer questions e-mailed from viewers during the live webcast. Along with a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, and surgeon, a patient will describe his CyberKnife experience firsthand.

Equinix Hong Kong to borrow up to the HK Dollar equivalent of $20,000,000 until June 2009

On June 6, 2008, Equinix Singapore Pte. Ltd., Equinix Japan KK, Equinix Australia Pty Limited and Equinix Hong Kong Limited (together, the "Equinix Subsidiaries"), each a wholly owned subsidiary of Equinix, Inc. ("Equinix"), entered into a Second Amendment and Accession Agreement amending a multi-currency credit facility agreement with ABN AMRO Bank N.V. ("ABN") and Co�peratieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A., Hong Kong Branch ("Rabobank"), as lenders, and ABN as facility agent, arranger and collateral agent (the "Amended Facility"). The Amended Facility adds Equinix Hong Kong Limited ("Equinix Hong Kong") as a borrower, adds Rabobank as a lender, and increases the Amended Facility by $20,000,000 in local currency equivalents.

The Amended Facility allows Equinix Hong Kong to borrow up to the HK Dollar equivalent of $20,000,000 until June 2009 with repayment to occur in 12 equal quarterly installments thereafter. Under the Amended Facility, Equinix Hong Kong can borrow at variable spreads of 1.85% to 2.50% over the local borrowing rates and may use these borrowings to fund capital expenditures on leasehold improvements, equipment, and other installation costs related to its IBX expansion plans. The Amended Facility will continue to be secured by the Equinix Subsidiaries' Asia Pacific assets.

In connection with the Amended Facility, Equinix amended its guarantee thereof to increase it to guarantee the obligations of Equinix Hong Kong.

It is anticipated that drawings of various amounts under the Amended Facility will continue to occur periodically, and that up to the full amount of the Amended Facility will be borrowed over the next 12 months.

Atari founder Nolan Bushnell has told GameDaily BIZ that he believes he can actually serve 600 trillion games through his uWink business

>>uWink offers a variety of those same social experiences that Bushnell sees as essential to a game experience. And there's other news, such as new locations in Mountain View, California, and in Los Angeles at Hollywood and Highland.

"Probably the most important [aspect] is that we have decided to sell our software to anybody," announces Bushnell. "When you look at numbers..." He asks for a pen. "Right now, we serve about six million games per restaurant." McDonalds famously measured their numbers of burgers sold, but Bushnell measures the games.

"We're going to be selling our software, and right now we've got some inquiries on the part of some really interesting people." Those people find the menu ordering system to be an efficient, labor saving device.

"We've got this thing where I get to serve the games," he says, and they don't care about the games, "and I get a little piece of the revenue."

"I believe that, by 2020, that I can...be in 100,000 restaurants," estimates Bushnell. So at six million per year, he continues, figuring on the napkin, "Zero, zero, zero." He pauses, adding. "Zero, zero."

"Six hundred..." Bushnell says, pausing once more to count just how large this number is. His publicist helpfully guesses how the sentence ends, "Million games?"

But the man responsible for the business of interactive entertainment looks up from his napkin. "Six hundred trillion," he says calmly. And as the number sinks in, "That's a lot," he says. "Now what's wrong with that? A 100,000 restaurants?"

AfterDawn.com - Nokia & touchscreens

>>"Currently, the market for touchscreen products is a niche market. We always aim for a situation where we can cover all the segments with all the options," said Senior Vice President of Nokia Markets Anssi Vanjoki. He added "We will introduce products from the very low segment to the highest one featuring this type of functionality."

Despite a drastic price reduction compared to the original, the new iPhone is still out of reach for many consumers. If Nokia is able to capture the interest of consumers who would like to own an iPhone 3G but just can't afford it there should be a lot of market potential. Of course if they're plan isn't wildly successful it could be a fairly expensive misstep.

GigaOM - Samsung Instinct: Novelty, Not Novel

>>The touch experience on the Instinct is a novelty design. It’s what Samsung calls a haptic touch screen, which means it vibrates when a user touches in a command. Pogue calls it gimmicky and he’s right, but I liked it anyhow. However, it’s hard to think of ways to integrate that vibration into features that push the Instinct to go beyond the constraints of a modern cell phone. In contrast, the iPhone’s novel use of accelerometers and software give it the ability to orient itself (something the Instinct can’t do). That’s a feature that provides a similar Wow factor as haptic touch, but also can be used to change that way games are designed, turning the movement of the device into a type of joystick. That’s novel.

LA Eater: uWink at H&H

Eater Tracking: uWink at Hollywood & Highland
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Here we have a quick status check on Nolan Bushnell's newest uWink, which takes over Wolfgang Puck's shuttered Vert on the second floor of the Hollywood & Highland complex.

Sony Ericsson PlayStation haptic phone patent app

Via IV MB:

>> March 6, 2008

ORIENTATION BASED MULTIPLE MODE MECHANICALLY VIBRATED TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY

Abstract

A system and method is disclosed for reconfiguring the graphical user interface (GUI) of a mechanically vibrated touchscreen display associated with a portable mobile communications device that is operable in a variety of modes. The reconfiguration of the GUI is based on the orientation of the portable mobile communications device. An orientation sensing mechanism senses whether the portable mobile communications device is currently in a portrait or landscape orientation. An orientation sensing application accesses an orientation profile that associates each mode of operation with either a portrait or landscape orientation and determines which mode of operation is the default mode for the sensed orientation of the portable mobile communications device. The GUI of the mechanically vibrated touchscreen display is then reconfigured for the default mode of operation.

Assignee Name and Adress: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB

Tactile feedback touchscreen display means driven by software controlled operating modes can quickly reconfigure a portable mobile communications device display to represent multiple different modes or applications such as those presented above.

Integrating motion/orientation sensing technology with tactile feedback touchscreen displays allows the portable mobile communications device to automatically reconfigure itself for a different mode of operation without the user having to delve into the intricacies of the user interface to manipulate the functions.

The mechanically vibrated touchscreen display is configurable and can provide a tactile sensation that gives the user the sensation of actually pressing a button.

The mechanically vibrated touchscreen display is configurable and re-configurable to suit the mode or application desired by the user. In this example, when the user presses an area of the mechanically vibrated touchscreen display that corresponds to one of the buttons that is associated with the PSP.TM. interface, a tactile sensation is returned to the user that indicates a button was pressed.

Internap - Pearl Jam bootleg

Via Yahoo Mb:

>>Powered by Internap (INAP), Pearl Jam's digital bootlegs are high-resolution digital files released without DRM (Digital Rights Management) so that fans can burn them to disc, transfer to them to MP3 players, or play them from their hard drives.

Full concert digital downloads are available exclusively at www.pearljam.com.

uWink Hollywood

According to an Investors Hub post, the opening will be on June 27th:

>>Grand opening party for uWink Hollywood = June 27. Invitation only.

>> A Press Night is arranged for the 16th, Soft Opening is Tuesday the 17th, therefore they will be Open from the 17th up through the Grand Opening.

Equinix Financial eXchange to showcase at JWG-IT’s Frankfurt-based THE FORUM, Monday 16th June, Le Méridien Parkhotel, Frankfurt

Equinix Financial eXchange to showcase at JWG-IT’s Frankfurt-based THE FORUM, Monday 16th June, Le Méridien Parkhotel, Frankfurt

Frankfurt

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, will showcase its network of Equinix Financial eXchange community offering at JWG-IT’s ‘THE FORUM’ event at the Le Méridien Parkhotel in Frankfurt on 16 June 2008.

‘THE FORUM’ will focus on clarifying the agenda for EU principles-based regulation in the post-MiFID environment, and its conference agenda aims to discuss what buy-side and sell-side organisations need to do to ensure they are still in a winning position five years after the passage of MiFID. This is the second in a series of pan-European industry conferences, with further events to follow in Paris, Madrid and Milan.

Equinix will platform its network of global Equinix Financial eXchange communities at the event - which now include Frankfurt, London and Paris in Europe as well as Chicago and New York in the United States.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest, consisting of capital market participants such as execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology utilities and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment. Equinix customers can directly exchange data within the same physical location with strategic partners, customers and vendors, providing solutions for their multi-network connectivity and high-performance data center needs.

Launched in 2003, Equinix Financial eXchange now extends to hundreds of members and is available in Equinix IBX centers located in the Chicago, New York, Frankfurt, Paris and London areas.

Amazon peering

It looks like Amazon has increased the number of peering points:

Company Information
Company Name	Amazon.com
Also Known As
Company Website	http://www.amazon.com
Primary ASN	16509
IRR Record	AS-AMAZON
Network Type	Content
Approx Prefixes	20
Traffic Levels	20-50 Gbps
Traffic Ratios	Heavy Outbound
Geographic Scope	North America

Public Peering Exchange Points
Exchange Point Name	ASN	IP Address	Mbit/sec
No records

Private Peering Facilities
Facility Name	ASN	City	Country	SONET	Ethr	ATM
Equinix Ashburn	16509	Ashburn	US
Equinix Newark	16509	Newark	US
Fisher Plaza Seattle	16509	Seattle	US
PAIX Palo Alto	16509	Palo Alto	US
PAIX Vienna	16509	Vienna	US
Switch and Data St Louis	16509	St. Louis	US
Westin Building Seattle	16509	Seattle	US

Atrium Network joins Equinix Financial eXchange

Atrium Network joins Equinix Financial eXchange

London

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity for the financial community, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet exchange services, announced today that Atrium Network has joined the Equinix Financial eXchange by co-locating in Equinix datacentres in both London and Frankfurt.

Members of the Atrium Network extranet community will be able to further reduce their latency benefiting from Atrium Network’s exchange proximity. Atrium Network can offer clients a single point of connection to Deutsche Boerse, NYSE Euronext LIFFE, Borsa Italiana, OMX exchanges, BME, Chi-X Europe and Turquoise. Equinix Financial eXchange customers can now access even more liquidity pools and benefit from resilient ‘back haul’ through their single point of connectivity with the Atrium Network extranet.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest, consisting of capital market participants such as execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology utilities and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment.

Commenting on joining Equinix Financial eXchange, Emmanuel Carjat, CEO at Atrium Network said, “Since the introduction of MiFID, we have been focusing on minimizing latencies between clients and both the traditional and emerging pools of liquidity. In addition, we see back haul and crossover between the liquidity pools as a key challenge. Customers have identified varied challenges in pulling data back from execution venues and see this as a potential area of risk. We are pleased that by proximity hosting and becoming a member of Equinix Financial eXchange we have been able to deliver resiliency for our customers and confidence that as new MTFs come to market, data haul will be fully resilient.

Petrina Steele , VP Business Development, Equinix added, “We are delighted to welcome Atrium Network and its extensive global customer base to Equinix Financial eXchange. We have been impressed with Atrium Network’s focus on addressing their clients’ needs to address the data haul challenge and we welcome such innovators to the Equinix Financial eXchange membership.”

Amazon outage

An interesting opinion about the recent Amazon outage:

>>Dr. Supranamaya Ranjan, a senior member of the technical staff at Narus, says Amazon is typically adept at "load balancing" -- responding to customer visits by spreading its computing resources efficiently between the computer servers that are in the best position to respond to that customer at that time. But during the outages, he said, that was not the case; his visits to Amazon.com were often handled by faraway or already overloaded servers.

"That does lead me to conjecture that they are in the process of re-architecting the whole way their content distribution system works and the causes for this could have been this new Unbox service," Dr. Ranjan said.

Equinix Datacentres enable Camelot to deliver cutting-edge UK National Lottery for the next 10 years

Equinix Datacentres enable Camelot to deliver cutting-edge UK National Lottery for the next 10 years

London

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral datacentres and Internet exchange services, and Camelot, the licensed operator of the UK National Lottery, today announced that Camelot will deploy operations for its new communications network in one of Equinix’s European datacentres.

After winning its third licence to operate The National Lottery for 10 years from February 2009, Camelot is implementing its carefully-prepared transition plans to ensure that the lottery is in the best possible shape for the start of the new licence period. The plans include the introduction of a new communications network to replace the existing ISDN network in National Lottery retail outlets.

Camelot will operate the new infrastructure within a dedicated datacentre suite at the Equinix facility, which will form the central hub of Camelot’s information systems, processing all of the data coming in from its new satellite network. The move will provide Camelot with direct access to a high-performance datacentre platform designed to host high-density computing infrastructures offering a rich source of robust network connectivity.

These important elements will provide Camelot with a cutting-edge infrastructure that offers a high-performance and reliable platform for new lottery products and player services for the next 10 years.

Jonathan Root, Chief Systems Architect at Camelot, said: “Equinix is playing a critical role in enabling us to meet our plans for the third licence. Our service delivery infrastructure demands a more sophisticated datacentre and we were attracted by the premium solution provided by Equinix. We can build our systems in an extremely secure environment, which benefits from acknowledged operational excellence and the added resilience of direct access to multiple network providers.”

Michael Winterson, VP Sales and Marketing at Equinix in Europe, commented: “Camelot has made considerable achievements over the last 13 years, running the most cost-efficient lottery in Europe and returning a higher proportion of lottery revenue to society than any other major lottery operator in the world. Its commitment to a high-performance communications infrastructure has played a critical role in these successes. The partnership with Equinix will provide them with a perfect platform to continue this outstanding success story.”

Equinix - Holland

Company Name	Virtu Secure Webservices
Also Known As	VIRTU
Company Website	http://www.virtu.nl

Public Peering Exchange Points
Exchange Point Name	ASN	IP Address	Mbit/sec
AMS-IX	16243	195.69.144.245	1000
AMS-IX	16243	195.69.145.222	1000
NDIX	16243	193.108.98.254	1000

Private Peering Facilities
Facility Name	ASN	City	Country	SONET	Ethr	ATM
Equinix Amsterdam AM1	16243	Amsterdam	NL
Equinix Enschede EN1	16243	Enschede	NL
Equinix Zwolle ZW1	16243	Zwolle	NL
NIKHEF Amsterdam	16243	Amsterdam	NL
TelecityRedbus Amsterdam 2 (South East)	16243	Amsterdam	NL

ZapMyTV - Internap

Internap issued a P/R about ZapMyTv. The Company will start offering "its ‘triple revenue’ service over the next two quarters". As there is no link to a web site, and Google brings no more than Internap's P/R itself, right now, it's a guessing game... :-)

www.zapmytv.com
This page is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com

ZapMyTV investor contact:

Al Colucci, 610-623-5420
alcolucci@dbcusa.com

DBC web site is under construction.

>>Digital Broadcast Corporation was founded on April 5, 1995.
We have one operational system, in Roanoke, Virginia, which provides service
under the name AirCable America. We are launching additional
systems this year, starting with Mobile, Alabama and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre,
Pennsylvania. At present, we own MMDS licensing and have ITFS alliances in 8
markets nationwide, with the expectation of developing 25 to 30 more markets
over the next 3 years. Our developmental partner for AirCable America is
Decathlon Communications, Inc., of Denver, Colorado. As our corporate name
implies, we provide digital, as opposed to analog, services. We
are relatively unknown to ITFS licensees because we have spent years quietly
developing, with Decathlon, the only commercially viable 10:1 digital
compression technology known to mankind, for which we have exclusive rights. In
other words, 4 channels to us are actually 40.

Welcome to Air Cable America.

Thank you for visiting our website. We are preparing a completely new website in order to serve the rapidly growing demand we've experienced over the last few years!

some testimonials:

>>When I first decided to go with AirCable I wondered if it would have the same
quality of service as other cable companies. I was pleasantly
surprised. Not only was the quality good but the service was better.

>>Hi Gary. Ralph and I are so excited about the future of DBC after hearing your
conference call this week! We never lost fait, and based on the early information
about DBC, we would have been satisfied with the early predictions of success!...
But now!!! I can't wait to see the impact the internet technology will have on the
world.If I were just coming in to DBC today, the predictability for massive
success is so much greater than when I came aboard in 2000. I saw the potential
way back then, and invested the whole retirement fund! My CFP
just gulped and reminded me that it wasn't so smart to liquidate everything to a
company that I was just learning about... but, Gary,
you don't meet many leaders like you in ANY industry.. and I wanted to be on your
team!! Smart me, eh?? Look at us now!! When I told my
advisors that DBC was my retirement, they should have asked for investment
information for themselves... but they weren't smart enough
then!! We're proud and excited to be on your team, Gary... I wish the old
coach was still around to see where
we have come. He encouraged me to follow my gut feeling and go with you back
then, and he would be smiling as broadly as i am today if he could
see where all your hard work and persistence has carried you... and us, as
investors. God Bless you my friend, I'm Thrilled to be a part of
this DBC family!! 
Lyle Gillman

>>Digital Broadcast Corporation, a low cost/high quality provider of digital
wireless television programming under the trade name AirCable America, announced
today that it has been granted leave of court to amend its complaint to allege $200
million in damages against Miami-based securities firm,
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. and others. The amended complaint, which seeks $150 million
in compensatory damages and $50 million in punitive damages, alleges fraud, breach
of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract in connection with a failed private
placement of stock. Multiple motions to dismiss the complaint have been denied.
The case is pending in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New
York, before Justice Richard B. Lowe III.

Thursday, May 10 2007

Systems and Methods for Casino Gaming Haptics

A patent application related to haptic and casino gaming (via IV):

Systems and Methods for Casino Gaming Haptics

Abstract

Systems, methods, and products for self-contained casino gaming haptics are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system for casino gaming haptics includes a touch-sensitive input device configured to sense a contact from a user; an actuator coupled to the touch-sensitive input device, the actuator configured to output a haptic effect to the touch-sensitive input device; and a processor in communication with the touch-sensitive input device and the actuator, the processor configured to: generate a display signal configured to cause an image associated with a casino game to be displayed; receive an input signal from the touch-sensitive input device associated with the contact; determine an interaction between the contact and the image; and generate an actuator signal associated with the interaction, the actuator signal configured to cause the actuator to generate a haptic effect.

March 13, 2008

Assignee Name and Adress: Immersion Corporation

Interesting filing for Immersion

BALYASNY ASSET MANAGEMENT LLC

Stock Option (right to buy) (@ $7.50 and $10 )

Expiration Date: 6/21/2008

PhoneMag - Samsung Instinct unboxing and Hands-on video!

A very nice comment on Immersion haptic technology:

>>As far as the responsiveness of the touch screen — it’s damn awesome. I never thought I’d ever say this, but the localized haptic feedback works a lot better than I’d imagine or expected. Great work Samsung.

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I’m super thrilled that the Instinct features localized haptic feedback, a faint vibration to indicate you’ve pushed a button. Haptic feedback is one major feature missing from the iPhone, which we all hope Apple will implement into iPhone 2.0.

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY - Intuitive, Accuray Jockey For Position In Robotics Sector

A few comments on Accuray technology, and a comparison to Intuitive Surgical:

>>It's the battle of the robots.

Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) and Accuray (ARAY) are both pioneers in robotic technologies to treat cancer and other diseases.

The companies are located just three miles apart in Sunnyvale, Calif. Both were founded in 1999. Both integrate sophisticated imaging with their own science. And both find their systems are used more for treatment of prostate cancer than any other disease.

That's where the similarities end.

No Major Consolidation In The CDN Market Anytime Soon

Dan Rayburn's take on the CDN market:

>>I keep reading a lot of reports and quotes by people who all agree that there are lots of CDN providers in the U.S. and as a result, that must mean that industry consolidation is inevitable. The problem is, right now, very few CDNs have enough revenue to make them worth anything. And with many of the new CDNs not focusing on applications and IP, why would we see consolidation when there is nothing yet to acquire?

'Net traffic: Knowing what we don’t know

>>Determining how fast the Internet is growing is almost a parlor game among pundits these days. Part of the reason is simple practicality: Companies that depend for their livelihoods on supplying or using Internet infrastructure want to better understand growth trends so they can plan investments and growth curves accurately.

Nobody knows how fast the Internet is growing. Another opinion, from IDG News Service:

>>Why didn't we know this until recently? Because there's no system for monitoring and measuring traffic in the 'Net. Individual carriers look inside their own networks, and peering providers (such as Equinix) examine characteristics of traffic that crosses peering points. But although many individual researchers and research institutions are attempting to monitor Internet traffic, none has a panoramic view.

... The best guess, according to experts who attended a conference with me recently, is somewhere between 75% and 100% per year -- but that could be off by as much as 2X (that is, it could be as low as 50% or as high as 200%). One of the foremost researchers in the field, the University of Minnesota's Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, estimates it's between 50% and 60%. The folks at Equinix figure more like 75%. And my own firm recently conducted a study modeling Internet demand at 100%. But the truth is, nobody really knows.

Immersion SH Meeting

from the IV board:

>>Just got back.
Nothing really noteworthy to say but the biggest take away is in regards to Clent.
Going into it I was a little concerned that he was a "typical sales" guy. Completely not the case. He is a seasoned veteran who is more of a sergeant then a softy. He looks you in the eye, speaks very well and is very thoughtful and personable. Yet there is a no BS side to him that you can tell right away that he will not be standing still if performance can be better. He seems very hands on and detailed but knows he needs the right team to execute. If I worked there I would now be on notice and know that I can’t bs my way around him.

I had the opportunity after the meeting to spend ten minutes talking with him. Spoke about Apple a little and TIVO and the experiences there and how they parallel some of the challenges at IMMR. I understand why he lasted so long in Steve's regime. He is an execution guy that also understands strategy and structures for fulfillment.

He understands the shareholders’ frustrations and said is he working quickly with what is in place to continue to the execution and to better focus effort in the most profitable areas. He said organic growth is going to be good but that he was not hired to do that and is working hard to take this to the next level. Very passionate about the areas of opportunity. I asked about Vic’s comments regarding the two future phone contracts and he said they are working on executing and that is the focus and would have to leave it at that.

Very few shareholders there, Maybe 6 to 8 with lots of IMMR members. Good to have the time with them just to get a check on their moods. All seemed fairly fired up about what the future product line….but of course no specifics. So I don’t know anything about Apple or RIM cars etc.

I asked Clent about future guidance and he said that it will remain the same for now with no guidance. He did say he is setting it up so Canadian investors and I think he said UK investors can invest. He has met with 27(I think…? Any way a decent number) of the largest institutional shareholders and will expand the investor relations department to bring more potential buyers to the table. Lastly he said that some of the new/future hires on the medical side will help them better control the sales process and at better margins. He was bullish on medical.

Take away….another 6-9 months for some Show Me on the revenue side with some the expectation of some announcements for new deals between now and then, so I will stay 100% in for the announcement(s) pop.

Bit Gravity, TATA - Global Strategic Partnership

The background:

>> Communications Arm of Tata Group to Leverage its Tier-1 IP Network and International Presence to Offer BitGravity’s Technology Platform as Key Strategy in Value-Added Services Offering

MUMBAI, India and BURLINGAME, Calif., March 5, 2008 – Tata Communications, (NYSE: TCL) a leading provider of the new world of communications, and BitGravity, Inc., the pioneer in Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) for interactive broadcasting, announced today a strategic partnership. Tata Communications will co-brand, resell and jointly market BitGravity’s technology platform worldwide as part of a value-added services offering on top of Tata Global Network.

As part of the arrangement, Tata Communications, with a global presence in more than 200 countries across 300 PoPs will provide tight integration with BitGravity’s platform and their carrier-grade infrastructure, including collocation and IP-network capacity, and local sales presence in each region for the CDN offering. BitGravity will provide technology and manage the content delivery operation. The service will be sold in Europe and Asia and branded as Tata Communications’ CDN Powered by BitGravity.

This is from ContentSutra (Mon 02 Jun 2008):

>>While there is no official announcement yet, this is big news for the video market. We had earlier reported Tata Comm and BitGravity, a CDN solutions provider based out of California, partnering to resell the technology platform in Europe and Asia. The service is now live with Tata entering the market currently dominated by Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) and recently intruded on by edge distribution competitor Limelight (NSDQ: LLNW).

Found via cdnevangelist

Minnesota Internet Traffic Studies (MINTS)

Some interesting data:

Current (year-end 2007) annual Internet traffic growth rates
U.S.	50-60%
World	50-60%

Year-end 2007 monthly Internet traffic estimate
U.S.	750-1250 PB (PetaByte = 1015 bytes)
World	3000-5000 PB (PetaByte = 1015 bytes)

Year-end 2007 estimates for monthly Internet traffic (GB per capita)
Australia	1.0
Western Europe	2.3
Japan	2.6
U.S.	3.0
Hong Kong	17.0
South Korea	17.0

Estimates for Australia and Hong Kong are based on official government statistics, while that of Japan is derived from cooperative ISP data collection in that country. In all cases, extrapolations were made to provide estimates for year-end 2007. Figures for other countries are based on snippets of information of varying degrees of reliability, as well as confidential reports by some service providers.

With an interesting video, an article from Data Center Knowledge:

Level 3: Our CDN Business Is Growing

Level 3 (LVLT) has increased the capacity of its content delivery network by a factor of 30, according to Lisa Guillaume, VP at Level3 who spoke to Beet.tv last week at Streaming Media East. "We have a cost advantage in the marketplace, because we own all layers of the network we're operating our CDN on," said Guillaume.

Pipe International will be delivering services to both the San Jose and Sydney Equinix facilities

On their recent trip to the US, the Pipe International team attended a site visit to the Equinix San Jose SV1 Facility. This is one of many Equinix datacentre facilities worldwide that offers telehousing to large content providers, smaller providers, telecommunications carriers, and corporate customers. Pipe International will be delivering services to both the San Jose and Sydney Equinix facilities for some of the initial PPC-1 customers. More photos courtesy of Equinix are on our gallery under "Facilities".

June 17th - uWink is having our LA Geek Dinner beta test their new Hollywood & Highland location

Ladies & Gentlemen gather round and lend a helpful hand back to the community. uWink is having our LA Geek Dinner beta test their new Hollywood & Highland location.

What’s uWink? uWink is a new restaurant concept by Nolan Bushnell, the man that bestowed upon us Atari & Chuck E Cheese, when we so needed it the most. We’ve tested their Woodland Hills location a number of times and are very excited to try this one.

This will be a pay for your own meal event. Looking for the right sponsor.

June 17th, 8pm
uWink, Hollywood & Highland

Official RSVP on upcoming and for those of you who want to spread the love, rsvp available on facebook too.

CyberKnife Exceeds Gamma Knife non-invasive procedure to treat tumors

An article mentioning Accuray's CyberKnife:

>>In 2001 a new device called CyberKnife was approved by the FDA to treat tumors anywhere in the body. This new device provides a non-invasive procedure to treat tumors that are in-operable by traditional open-surgery. Unlike Gamma Knife, CyberKnife does not require the use of stereotactic gear because of its robotic arm that positions itself according to the patient’s placement. It also re-corrects itself according to the patient’s movements during the procedure. .... Individually, the rays are very weak but when the rays gather at the targeted point, they are very powerful and yet the device still manages to leave the surrounding healthy tissue undamaged. The recovery time with Cyber Knife is very short just as it is with Gamma Knife.

There is a link to a blog:

http://corporateblog.morsecyberknife.com/

that has an interesting video about CyberKnife

CyberKnife Video

September 17th, 2007

CyberKnife Expert James G. Schwade, an internationally recognized Radiation Oncologist with over 20 years of clinical experience cures cancer patients using non invasive surgery called the Cyberknife.

Updates on the 2 latest locations - Uwink

http://peakstocks.com has been following uWink for a while and is now updating with the latest information about the openings:

It looks like we have a little bit more clarity from uWink (Nasdaq: UWKI.OB), an entertainment and hospitality software development company and the operator of an interactive restaurant concept called uWink, concerning their latest 2 restaurant locations that are scheduled to open later this summer.

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Bottom Line

Everything looks good and is on track for uWink to have 3 total restaurant locations up and running by the end of the summer.

This still leaves time for perhaps 1-2 more locations either via stand alone, or franchisee deals, before the end of the year.

In the mean time, uWink has released their latest earnings for all of 2007 which now gives us a chance to compare quarterly sales at the only location that they have, which has been open for over 1 year, among other items such as margins, etc.

Look for that complete update in the coming weeks.

Alentus Expands Into Europe Acquiring London-based Areti Internet Limited

LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. - (Business Wire) Alentus Corporation (Pink Sheets: ALNS), a leading provider of web hosting and managed services, is pleased to announce it has acquired London, UK-based Areti Internet Limited.

The acquisition will add approximately $1.5M in annual revenue and position Alentus in the fast growing European market.

Founded in 1996, Areti Internet focuses on managed Co-Location, Dedicated Server, Internet Access with national UK xDSL and Leased Line, Virtual/Shared Hosting, and specialist data-center virtualization solutions. Areti brings a long term stable client base to the Alentus platform.

Areti operates extensive multi-cabinet private cages/suites within the following five data centers – Telecity Sovereign House and Telecity Harbour Exchange in London, Equinix in Slough, IFL I and IFL II in Manchester, UK, and Telehouse America in New York. All locations are connected to Areti’s Cisco powered redundant network featuring BGP4 carrier resiliency.

“The UK is our 2^nd largest market behind North America – a strategic network expansion into Europe was inevitable. Areti has a very strong technical workforce, this combined with our sales and marketing team, should enable UK sales to be quickly on par with our North American operations,” said William King, Alentus Corporation CEO.

Alentus Corporation CTO, John Macleod, comments on the technical benefits to current Alentus and Areti clients. “It is important to be able to bring your clients solutions as close to the viewing public and their customers as possible. This allows us to build geographically redundant solutions between continents, and expand our global network to the next level. Very few hosting and managed services providers can offer a redundant presence in the US, Canada and Europe and all connected to their own global network.”

All Areti Internet employees were retained in the acquisition.

Financial details of the cash and stock transaction were not disclosed.

Logicworks Selects Equinix’s Premier Colocation Facilities for Data Center Expansion

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Logicworks, a leading provider of high-availability hosting solutions to support business-critical applications and content, today announced it has expanded into Equinix’s New York-4 (NY4) Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) center in Secaucus, New Jersey to deliver its complex managed hosting services and solutions.

The new NY4 center is Equinix’s fourth in the New York Metro area and its largest in the United States. At 340,000 square feet, the new center is the size of five football fields. Designed to ensure optimal conditions for equipment operation, the Heating/Ventilation/Air Conditioning (HVAC) system provides appropriate airflow, temperature and humidity throughout the center.

“Equinix’s facility includes the most modern design, power, cooling and security provisioning, all of which were deciding factors in our facilities expansion,” said Kenneth Ziegler, president and COO of Logicworks. “Our clients require the highest level of system availability. Equinix understands facility management and capacity planning at a level we can appreciate given our experience utilizing these services. Their new facilities are a natural fit with Logicworks’ core mission of keeping our complex hosting clients up and running 100% of the time.”

Logicworks’ designs fully fault-tolerant systems for its growing client base, and will deploy rack-mountable servers, storage arrays, network and other devices to serve the needs of its growing client base throughout the world.

Logicworks plans to expand into Equinix’s West Coast facilities later this year.

About Logicworks

Founded in 1993, Logicworks exclusively delivers managed services and high-availability hosting solutions to savvy, high-growth customers in need of maximum uptime for their applications and content. Through its High-Availability Hosting and No Transactions Lost Database Services, Logicworks offers unmatched technology expertise to its diverse client base, which includes Fortune 500 companies in a multitude of industries. For additional information, visit www.logicworks.net or call 866-FOR-LOGIC.

Terremark Worldwide - Earnings Call Transcript

Some highlights for the conference call, thanks to Seeking Alpha transcripts:

>>Manuel Medina

First our fiscal 2008 results were exceptional. We met our guidance for the year. ... Our pipeline is very strong and our Q4 bookings were the best ever. In short, business is booming and based on our strong contract executions to date, we are raising guidance for fiscal year 2009.

We reported record Q4 bookings of $29.6 million, 70% of which were derived from existing customers.

Jose Segrera

Additionally we are seeing a healthy pricing environment for both our collocation and managed services. Our bookings for the March quarter were evenly distributed between collocation and managed hosting deals and as we look out over the next quarter we continue to see strong demand for the two product lines.

Tom Watts – SC Cowen & Co.

Some of the other companies in the sector, virtually everybody has seen very strong demand for COLO but some companies have experienced a slowing of sales cycle for managed hosting, have you seen any impact of the economy in areas of your business?

Manuel Medina

We have not ...

Jose Segrera

From a pricing standpoint the pricing environment is really comparable to what we’ve seen over the past quarter or two, it’s strong. We’re not seeing any downward pressures. We’re seeing strong pricing as we’re very happy with the prices and the price points that we’re getting as we’re signing up customers now ... and we’re seeing the same trends on the managed services side. Aren’t really seeing any downward pressure ...

GoDaddy.com - Equinix Ashburn

GoDaddy is now peering at Equinix Ashburn (info from peeringdb):

Company Information
Company Name	GoDaddy.com
Also Known As
Company Website	http://www.godaddy.com
Primary ASN	26496

Private Peering Facilities
Facility Name	ASN	City	Country	SONET	Ethr	ATM
Downtown Phoenix Technology Exchange	26496	Phoenix	US
Equinix Ashburn	26496	Ashburn	US

Atrium Network joins Equinix Financial eXchange

London - 2 June 2008

Atrium Network, provider of smarter connectivity for the financial community, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading global provider of network-neutral data centres and Internet exchange services, announced today that Atrium Network has joined the Equinix Financial eXchange by co-locating in Equinix datacentres in both London and Frankfurt. Members of the Atrium Network extranet community will be able to further reduce their latency benefiting from Atrium Network’s exchange proximity. Atrium Network has co-located their POP with Deutsche Boerse, NYSE Euronext LIFFE, Borsa Italiana, OMX exchanges, BME, Chi-X Europe, and, when live, Turquoise. Equinix Financial eXchange customers can now access even more liquidity pools and benefit from resilient ‘back haul’ through their single point of connectivity with the Atrium Network extranet.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of common interest, consisting of capital market participants such as execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers, technology utilities and network service providers, that locate operations within Equinix data centers in order to implement a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure within a neutral environment.

Commenting on joining Equinix Financial eXchange, Emmanuel Carjat, CEO at Atrium Network said, “Since the introduction of MiFID, we have been focusing on minimizing latencies between clients and both the traditional and emerging pools of liquidity. In addition, we see back haul and crossover between the liquidity pools as a key challenge. Customers have identified varied challenges in pulling data back from execution venues and see this as a potential area of risk. We are pleased that by proximity hosting and becoming a member of Equinix Financial eXchange we have been able to deliver resiliency for our customers and confidence that as new MTFs come to market, data haul will be fully resilient.

Petrina Steele, VP Business Development, Equinix added, “We are delighted to welcome Atrium Network and its extensive global customer base to Equinix Financial eXchange. We have been impressed with Atrium Network’s focus on addressing their clients’ needs to address the data haul challenge and we welcome such innovators to the Equinix Financial eXchange membership.”

Mountain View restaurant location - uWink

On May 23, 2008, following receipt of final California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control approval, the Company closed escrow on the acquisition of certain restaurant equipment and a liquor license (for use at its new restaurant location at 401 Castro Street, Mountain View, California) from Miyake Foods, Inc., the former occupant of the space leased by the Company in Mountain View. The consideration for this asset acquisition was $250,000 in cash. The Company currently estimates that the Mountain View restaurant location will open in late July 2008, although there can be no assurance that factors outside of the Company's control (including, among other things, certain city and landlord approvals) will not cause a delay in the estimated opening timeline.

Grand Opening uWink Hollywood (Hollywood and Highland)

Grand Opening uWink Hollywood (Hollywood and Highland)

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Reply to: robertf@uwink.com
Date: 2008-05-31, 12:00PM PDT


uWink, www.uwink.com, a new entertainment-dining concept, is now accepting applications for servers, hosts, line cooks and food runners. Candidates will need to be available for training in Hollywood beginning on 6/9 for opening on 6/17.

This exciting company is opening its second Los Angeles area store in the prestigious Hollywood and Highland center.

uWink is a destination where playful, adventurous and empowered people enjoy food, cocktails and connection in a comfortable and engaging environment.

Apply in person at 6801 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood CA Monday - Friday 2-5pm, online at www.uwink.com or send your resume to

robertf@uwink.com

uWink 6801 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028

• Location: Hollywood and Highland
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

PostingID: 702535058

via Investors Hub

the Planet - outage, part 2

A nice summary of what happened is available at Data Center Knowledge:

'Extensive' Damage at The Planet's Data Center

>>Damage from Saturday night's explosion at The Planet's Houston data center was more extensive than initially believed, the company said late Sunday. CEO Doug Erwin reported that the explosion and fire destroyed the cabling under the first floor of the data center, known as H1. The Planet expects to have servers on the second floor of the facility back online early Monday, but Erwin said the downtime will be longer for 3,000 servers housed on the first floor.

LINX in London, as well, had a few problems:

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), one of the world's busiest peering points, was off-line for about an hour last Tuesday. The Register has the details on the incident, which was the second outage at LINX in the past month.

Limelight Networks - patent

From the recent conference call:

>>Finally, we're pleased to announce that we received our company's first U.S. patent award, one for digital rights management technology.

transcript by Seeking Alpha - www.SeekingAlpha.com

United States Patent	7,310,729
Gordon , et al.	December 18, 2007

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Digital rights management license delivery system and method

Abstract

A system for Digital Rights Management (DRM) license delivery is presented in which the license and encrypted content is accessed from a unique download URL address for each unit of encrypted content for each subscriber. The license is delivered only a limited number of times from each URL (typically once, but optionally more than once) and is delivered to the client system that first accesses the URL (or if more than one license delivery is authorized by the content owner or distributor) to the same or different client system that accesses the URL up to the maximum number of license delivery events authorized.. When the subscriber is ready to view the content, the subscriber clicks on the download URL to cause the browser for the subscriber client system to request the web page located at the unique URL location. In response to the request, the host system delivers a license and the encrypted content to the subscriber client system that accessed the URL. If the unique download URL is accessed subsequent times, the host system delivers the encrypted content, but does not re-deliver the license. Since the subscriber client system has already stored the license, if the subscriber client system re-accesses the site, it will be able to download and play the media content for so long as the terms of the license permit. However, if another client system accesses the unique URL address, for example if the subscriber e-mails the URL address to another user, the content can be downloaded but will not be played by the subsequent client system because the license is not re-delivered.

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Inventors:	Gordon; Michael (Paradise Valley, AZ), Raciborski; Nathan (Phoenix, AZ)
Assignee:	Limelight Networks, Inc. (Tempe, AZ)
Appl. No.:	10/386,766
Filed:	March 12, 2003

The Planet - outage

The Planet is currently experiencing an outage which is effecting a number of customers' servers. This issue may also be affecting customers' ability to get through to our call center.

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Today at approximately 5:45 p.m., a transformer in our H1 data center in Houston caught fire, thus requiring us to take down all generators as instructed by the fire department. All servers are down.

We are working with the fire department, with our facilities staff on site, to assess the situation.

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We have determined that no servers in the data center have been damaged. Nonetheless, they are down because power is out. Teams across the board are working to take appropriate action.

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We have just been allowed into the building to physically inspect the damage. Early indications are that the short was in a high-volume wire conduit. We were not allowed to activate our backup generator plan based on instructions from the fire department.

This is a significant outage, impacting approximately 9,000 servers and 7,500 customers. All members of our support team are in, and all vendors who supply us with data center equipment are on site. Our initial assessment, although early, points to being able to have some service restored by mid-afternoon on Sunday. Rest assured we are working around the clock.

We are in the process of communicating with all affected customers. we are planning to post updates every hour via our forum and in our customer portal. Our interactive voice response system is updating customers as well.

There is no impact in any of our other five data centers.

I am sorry that this accident has occurred and I apologize for the impact.

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As you know, we have vendors onsite at the H1 data center. With their help, we’ve created a list of equipment that will be required, and we’re already dealing with those manufacturers to find the gear. Since it’s Saturday night, we do have a few challenges.

We are prioritizing issues as follows:

1. Getting the network up at H1 is first and foremost. We’re pulling components from our five other data centers – including Dallas – which will be an all-night effort.
2. Getting power back to the data center is key, though it is too early to establish success there.
3. Because ServerCommand is in H1, our legacy EV1 customers are blinded about this incident. We are in the process of moving the ServerCommand servers to other Houston data centers so that we’re able to loop them into communications.
4. We absolutely intend to live up to our SLA agreements, and we will proactively credit accounts once we understand full outage times. Right now, getting customers back online is the most critical.

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Our UNIX and development team continue to work to restore service to both ServerCommand and EV1 DNS. Based on current information, 4 of the 8 DNS servers are in service and we expect the remaining DNS servers to come online within the next 180 minutes. The same approx. time line holds true for ServerCommand. The server farm has been relocated to another data center and development is currently working on bringing the services back online.

In terms of the facility, we do not have a firm ETR at the moment. Facilities continues to work with our on-site vendors to acquire replacement equipment and get it installed to bring service back online.

We do not have an Estimated Time to Repair at present. Our staff and management continue to work through the night and we will continue to provide hourly updates.

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The networking teams are ensuring connectivity to bring ServerCommand back online. Please expect another update on ServerCommand shortly. We are seeing fewer DNS issues as the new addresses continue to propagate.

Our primary focus is to hit our 5:00pm CDT initial power test and all necessary staff are onsite and are working diligently to hit this deadline. Additional staff and spare server hardware is being delivered in on site in preparation for bringing customer servers online pending a successful power test.