Buy your global bandwidth via the web, from Vanco?

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:51

Business IT - Networking

An un-named global network provider is promising to announce, on 6 October, a new way for carriers and large enterprises to instantly increase their global footprint by sourcing circuits outside their networks via ecommerce. All the signs that this is global virtual network operator, Vanco.

• Announcements

In a press release announcing the launch event, to be held at the Rockefeller Center in New York, the company promises that its service will be the first to put destinations of the largest global networks, including pricing and specifications, on an ecommerce platform. And it promises that this  will be "the first public demonstration of disruptive force that will rip the industry" but will, nevertheless create a situation where "everyone wins - carriers, enterprises and integrators."

The company says that, by aggregating the greatest amount of information available anywhere for identifying, specifying and ordering telecom circuits and putting it directly into customers' hands, it will "drive down costs while increasing the efficiency of global telecommunications networks."

The originator of the scheme claims to be a global network provider with service in 230 countries and territories (Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa). Announcement of the event came from a public relations company, Austin Lawrence Group, which also handles PR in the US for UK-based Vanco, a global virtual network operator that also claims to offer services in 230 countries and territories.

And the new service as described would be a logical extension of Vanco's existing business. Vanco uses network services from other carriers to create an end-to-end global service for its customers in competition to owners of infrastructure such as BT, AT&T, Equant and Verizon Business (MCI).