Denver, CO – August 10, 2010 – National data center and peering provider CoreSite announces today that two

of the top economic news service providers have deployed at the company’s Washington, DC data center at 1275 K Street. The DC data center and colocation facility is located approximately one mile from the United States Department of Labor, Departme

nt of Commerce and Department of The Treasury. Need to Know News and Rapidata deliver low latency economic news to high-frequency trading firms, investment banks, and other entities with a vested interest in receiving market data as quickly as possible. With critical, market-moving data being released directly from the U.S. Departments of Labor, Commerce and Treasury, these companies identified CoreSite as the best data center in the closest proximity. Read More

Annual Event Puts the Spotlight on the Region’s “Hot” Technology Companies

HERNDON, Va., June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced today the winners of the 9th Annual NVTC Hot Ticket Awards, honoring the region’s best and brightest entrepreneurial technology companies.  More than 550 members of the Northern Virginia technology community came out to celebrate the nominated companies, poolside at the home of NVTC’s President & CEO Bobbie Kilberg.

During the event, Kilberg announced NVTC’s recent commitment to serve only Virginia wines at all its events to promote Virginia’s wine industry as a creator of jobs and revenue in the Commonwealth.  The 2010 Hot Ticket Awards was NVTC’s first event at which this new policy was implemented, and NVTC intends to carry it forward to its TechCelebration banquet in the Fall, its CFO Awards next Spring, and all its other evening gatherings.  Speaking to the Hot Tickets crowd, Kilberg issued a friendly challenge to the other trade and membership associations in Virginia to join NVTC in this initiative.

The awards program was emceed by NVTC Hot Ticket Awards Committee Co-Chairs Jennifer Trax of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” Argy Wiltse & Robinson and Mark Spoto of “Smoking Hot Sponsor” Cooley.  The judges for the 2010 Hot Ticket Awards included: Frank Bonsall III, New Markets Venture Partners; Mary Dridi; Jeremy King, Benchmark Executive Search; Edwin Miller, (i)SAGE; Don Rainey, Grotech Capital; and Greg Van Beuren, BB&T Capital Markets/Windsor Group.

Nominations were gathered for seven categories: Hottest Social Buzz, Hottest Management Team, Hottest Bootstrap, Hottest Exit, Hottest Venture Capital Deal, Hottest Emerging Government Contractor, and Hottest International Company. The finalists and winners in each category are as follows:

Hottest Bootstrap (sponsored by PNC Bank)

• CFN Services, Inc.
• CustomInk.com **Winner**
• PointAbout
• ODIN Technologies

The Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia. As the largest technology council in the nation, NVTC serves about 1,000 companies from all sectors of the technology industry, as well as service providers, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations and governmental agencies. Through its member companies, NVTC represents about 200,000 employees in the region. NVTC is recognized as the nation’s leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events; specialized services and benefits; public policy advocacy; branding of its region as a major global technology center; initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas; the Equal Footing Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charity that serves local area youth; and The Entrepreneur Center @NVTC which mentors new technology entrepreneurs. Visit NVTC at www.nvtc.org.

San Mateo, CA, June 28, 2010 – CFN Services, a world-class low latency managed network infrastructure provider, has been named a winner of the Red Herring 100 North America awards for 2010. The award, whose past winners include Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, Twitter and Salesforce.com, is given to companies demonstrating the ability to disrupt an industry or create an entirely new industry via an innovative business model. The Red Herring 100 North America has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new and emerging companies. redherring_2010_release

CFN Services Utilizes Equinix to Meet Increased Demand for Optimized Network Performance
Equinix providing colocation in United States, Canada  and Europe to optimize network performance for CFN Services customers

FOSTER CITY, CA and London, United Kingdom — June 22, 2010 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that CFN Services, a managed telecom infrastructure services company, is now connected to Equinix’s International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle and Toronto as part of the CFN Services global low latency network. By leveraging Equinix’s global data center footprint and services, CFN Services is able to offer its customers ultra low latency, diverse routes for protected services, and optimized network routes in relation to all of the major global financial exchanges. Download Full Release

San Mateo, CA – June 11, 2010 – Red Herring announced today that it has selected CFN Services as a Finalist for Red Herring’s North America 100 award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from the North American business region.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of hundreds from across North America. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the “buzz” and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

“This year was especially difficult,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. “Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. The finalists selected all show great promise, so now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Top 100 winners for the Red Herring North America award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.”

Finalists for the 2010 edition of the Red Herring 100 North America award are selected based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries were considered for the award.

The Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring North America Conference in San Diego June 22-24, 2010. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on June 24 at the event.

Get the Rebroadcase Here: Light Reading is proud to present “Meeting the Backhaul Challenge”

By the year 2012, 65% of all phones will be Smartphones, which creates a huge burden on the already saturated networks of the wireless providers. Backhaul becomes the bottleneck and consumers have little patience for poor service, ensure you manage your backhaul correctly to allow you to maintain customers and grow the base exponentially. CFN Services, RazorSight and Cisco have combined their expertise to provide you this webinar to help you navigate the backhaul challenges

Our speakers:

Patrick Donegan, Light Reading:

Donegan has more than 15 years of experience as a telecom market journalist, analyst, and strategist. His in-depth knowledge of wireless technology issues is critical to Heavy Reading‘s expanding coverage in this area. Donegan authors Heavy Reading‘s “Ethernet Backhaul Quarterly Market Tracker”. Donegan joined Heavy Reading after five years at Nortel Networks, where he was a senior manager of strategic planning for the company’s wireless business.

Robert Synnestvedt, Cisco Systems:

Synnestvedt is Cisco’s global marketing lead for Mobile Internet Transformation of RAN Backhaul. Since joining Cisco in 1998, Robert has successfully lead engineering, management, and marketing of the IP NGN evolution of broadband and mobile networks around the world

Mark Casey, CFN Services:

Casey is the President of CFN Services. Mark brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry. Since 2001 Mark has led CFN Services in helping wireless operators reduce transport costs while multiplying capacity to support broadband wireless data deployments. His current focus is specific to wireless backhaul and supporting 3G and 4G operators with the design and deployment of fiber and hybrid fiber-microwave backhaul networks that multiply capacity 10 fold while reducing lifecycle backhaul transport costs.

Charlie Thomas, RazorSight

Thomas joined Razorsight’s board in April 2004, and became CEO in February 2005. Charlie has led Razorsight to strong growth resulting in a #8 ranking on Deloitte’s Virginia Fast 50 and a #114 ranking on Deloitte’s National Fast 500 list. Charlie has co-founded, grown and sold 3 companies over the last decade, and he has negotiated over $1 Billion in capital financings for his companies. He has successfully closed over 15 M&A transactions.

HERNDON, VA–(Marketwire – May 17, 2010) –  CFN Services today announced the deployment of Cyan’s Z-Series packet-optical transport platforms providing extreme low latency networking solutions for the Low Latency Global Exchange infrastructure expanding their presence in the Frankfurt and London financial markets. As data center outsourcing and managed networks trends continue and cloud-based applications growth drives compounding traffic, data center operators and managed network providers such as CFN Services require new solutions for scaling networks with carrier grade, low latency networks. Along with market leading modularity and scalability, the Cyan Z-Series platforms deliver powerful low latency solutions and compelling economics for data center deployments in the US and Europe.

“We selected the Cyan Z33 to meet our growing demands for ultra low latency 10 Gigabit Ethernet transport between key financial markets in Europe,” said Wil Tirado, VP of Network Engineering of CFN Services. “After evaluating numerous vendor solutions we found the Z33 to offer the best combination of low latency performance our customers and applications demand, with the scale and economics to meet the needs of our business.” CFN Services provides managed network and collocation optimization infrastructure solutions to market leading enterprise businesses, financial institutions and cloud-based application service providers. “We’ve seen our traffic capacity demands grow 300 percent over the past two years,” added Tirado. “We need data center and connectivity solutions that allow us to scale while maintaining or improving applications performance. Cyan’s combination of high performance Ethernet, with plug-in module DWDM expansion to deliver multiple 10 GbE transports per fiber allows us to scale capacity without incurring the recurring network cost of multiple single service fibers.” Read More

New York, NY (April 13, 2010) – Telx®, a leading interconnection and colocation provider in strategic North American markets, today announced that the Eighth Annual Customer Business Exchange (CBX) Event will be held on Thursday, June 3, 2010 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in Times Square, New York City. Telx’s CBX is a unique business event designed to bring its industry leading colocation and interconnection Global Marketplace face-to-face with participating customers and partners, facilitating new business relationships among the many global network provider, telecommunications, cloud computing, media and entertainment, financial services and enterprise companies that reside within any of Telx’s 15 facilities.

CFN Services Wireless Jumpstart® adds Communications Infrastructure Corporation® to its growing list of ecosystem providers that focus on wireless infrastructure ranging from site and network planning, acquisition, implementation, backhaul, and ongoing cost and performance optimization. Wireless Jumpstart® helps mobile operators construct an integrated solution utilizing the best of breed partners to ensure they have the optimal solution for today and poised for their future growth. Read More

CFN Services is announcing a program to support wireless infrastructure from core to tower.  Wireless Jumpstart ® was developed to help wireless providers with all aspects of the wireless infrastructure, from business cases to planning, design through implementation; for new markets, to upgrade existing markets and for new wireless providers. Wireless Jumpstart® can help expedite the time from planning to implementation. CFN Wireless Jumpstart® is an ecosystem of the leading firms to support all areas of the infrastructure such as RF design, site acquisition; planning the backhaul; making decisions regarding RAN and DAS if required, deciding between microwave, satellite and fiber.  This program provides professional services, tools and financing options to allow wireless providers the ability to focus on the core business of providing wireless broadband everywhere. Read Full Release