American Fiber Systems’ CEO Addresses International Telemedicine Conference
CEO to lead three roundtable sessions on the effects of telecom industry deregulation and consolidation risks imposed relative to Telemedicine Network reliability. CEO asserts liability risks for less than stellar network reliability, path diversity and circuit redundancy.
Nashville, TN (PRWEB) May 14, 2007 -- David G. Rusin , the Founder, President and CEO of American Fiber Systems, Inc., a privately held company that offers dark fiber and metro Ethernet solutions, recently presented at a roundtable session entitled: “Telemedicine Network Reliability: In the Age of Telecommunications Consolidation & Deregulation.” The focus of the session was the lack of true telecom facilities-based alternatives for healthcare organizations seeking to use telemedicine applications reliably over the public network.
“With deregulation creating many facilities-light carriers or virtual network operators, it is incumbent upon the CIO of any health organization to understand that there are major distinctions between network providers,” said Rusin. “For mission critical applications which require extremely high network reliability, you really need to understand who really owns the physical network—the fiber optical plant, or the last mile, if you will.” Rusin points out in his presentation that fundamental performance risks occur the further away the transport applications for video, data, internet access or voice are from the physical network owner. Someone who rents pieces or parts of a third party network or resells capacity transport has limited ability to effectuate end-to-end reliability. Under the topic of “Liar’s Poker… You Lose,” Mr. Rusin addresses the risks and factors head-on. “In this day and age,” according to Rusin, “it is important to ask and understand when someone says they have a network; what do you mean by ‘network?’” Rusin lays out critical questions to ask anyone representing that they own and operate a network.
Dave Rusin’s ATA presentation may be downloaded from the company’s website here and a compendium white paper,“12 Steps to Network Reliability,” may be from the website here.
American Fiber Systems was recently granted Atlantic ACM’s Best-in-Class Wholesale Metro Service Provider Award and Capacity Magazines Best US Metropolitan Provider. AFS scored well in both network quality and performance, as well as provisioning, customer service and sales representatives.
About American Fiber Systems
American Fiber Systems (AFS) provides metropolitan fiber optic network infrastructure and wholesale transport services to carriers and large enterprises. AFS enables its customers to easily and reliably connect to a city's most important points of communications presence including ILEC central offices and wire centers, CLEC PoPs, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and data center locations, Inter-exchange “carrier hotels,” wireless providers, cable company head ends and Fortune 1000 companies. AFS has deployed over 1,200,000 miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth metropolitan fiber optic cable since 2000 in over 20 cities across the nation. AFS has over 500 capacity enabled on-net buildings and supports an addressable market teledensity of over $9 billion in annualized telecommunications services. American Fiber Systems is a privately held venture-backed company. For more information, please visit www.AmericanFiberSystems.com.
Contact:
A.R. Brache
(585) 785-5803
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