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Telia Carrier owns and operates one of the world`s most extensive fiber backbones. Our mission is to provide exceptional network infrastructure and services – empowering individuals, businesses and societies to execute their most critical activities. By working close to our customers we make big ideas happen at the speed of fiber.
Covad, a Platinum Equity company, is a leading national provider of integrated voice and data communications.
Advantage Partners LLP, through three of its private equity investment funds, is the principal owner of GTA. Advantage Partners is the largest private equity investment firm based in Japan. Founded in 1992, Advantage Partners services several funds with total capital commitment exceeding USD $4.6 billion (JP¥ 380 billion), with approximately two-thirds of which are funded by international investors. The firm has made investments in about 30 companies to date and has achieved the highest level of returns in the Japanese market. Its operating philosophy is to create value not only for the funds and their investors but also for all related parties including shareholders, employees and their families, business partners and financial institutions. To achieve optimal results, Advantage Partners places great importance on supporting operational improvement and strategic planning based upon extensive management consulting experience. Advantage Partners focuses on creating companies that are successful for the long-term. It takes a medium to long-term approach and provides multi-faceted support that enables portfolio companies to be competitive and maintain growth long after the funds have exited. Companies in Advantage Partners` portfolio include both private and publicly traded firms in various market segments including: IT/communications/software development, finance/services, consumer products/manufacturing, and distribution/retail.
A small team of technology innovators led by George Macricostas and his father Constantine “Deno” Macricostas came together in early 2000 to solve a problem – currently available data center solutions were not enterprise grade. As part of the executive team at Photronics, a $500 million global supplier to the semiconductor industry founded by Deno Macricostas, George and Deno commissioned data center builds around the world, but they weren`t satisfied with the current industry standards. That`s when they decided to found RagingWire Enterprise Solutions, now RagingWire Data Centers – because they wanted to design, build, and operate the world`s best data centers. The RagingWire leadership team soon met Charlie Linkhart, who would become RagingWire`s Chief Engineer, and started brainstorming potential advances in data center infrastructure. They had a unique idea, that world-class data centers should be designed for concurrent maintenance and operations. They realized that data center operations would fail without frequent maintenance and that maintenance would be discouraged unless it did not interrupt operations. In a matter of months, Charlie and the executive management team turned this idea into a design specification that would evolve into RagingWire`s 2N+2 critical infrastructure architecture and N-Matrix™ infrastructure management systems. Today, RagingWire has hundreds of customers and 650,000 square feet of data center space, but it has not lost its focus on innovation, maintenance, and operations. RagingWire remains a privately owned company, with no reliance on outside venture capital, ensuring our ability to meet client demands for years to come.
Founded in 1985, NYSERNet is a private not-for-profit corporation created to foster science and education in New York State. Its mission is to advance network technology and related applications to satisfy needs common to the institutions comprising New York State`s research and education community, providing a forum for exploration of the opportunities and challenges these innovations present. An Internet pioneer, NYSERNet has delivered next-generation Internet services to New York State`s research and education community for more than twenty-five years. NYSERNet members include New York State`s leading universities, colleges, museums, healthcare facilities, primary and secondary schools, and research institutions. NYSERNet`s Board of Directors is composed of CIO`s and other senior personnel drawn from and representing New York`s leading research universities and institutions.