Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions Introduces High-Performance Ethernet Services with End-to-End Performance Monitoring

Accedian Networks’ real-time service assurance solution enables critical transactional and real-time applications for New York’s financial, healthcare, media, publishing and legal sectors

            New York, NY, June 12, 2008 – Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions, Inc. (RGTS) announced today the availability of high-performance Ethernet services for the greater New York area. The new service supports critical, real-time communications and transactional services and is backed by Accedian Networks’ ESAP™ Service Assurance Platform. RGTS’ capability to continuously monitor Ethernet performance provides the best possible Quality of Service (QoS) to clients whose success depends on highly resilient network connectivity

            “RGTS is excited to now offer leading-performance/carrier-grade Ethernet services backed by dedicated customer service and responsive operations capabilities – a unique combination that helps clients benefit from managed connectivity that enable advanced communications applications and increased business efficiency,” said John Tarduno, President and CEO of RGTS.  “The transition from SONET to Ethernet will save clients money on both equipment and manpower as it is easier to use. The speed is ideal for data applications and RGTS is proud to be offering it.”

The Ethernet service is made possible by Accedian Networks’ ESAP solution, which allows RGTS to proactively monitor end-to-end, per-application performance. This ensures that committed bandwidth, availability, packet delay and jitter meet each customer’s unique requirements.  The solution also provides accelerated service provisioning, remote troubleshooting, and carrier-grade operations, administration and maintenance functionality to ensure services are efficiently deployed and managed.

“Best-in-Class companies identified by recent Aberdeen research are more than twice as likely as others to manage deployed service performance proactively, and 1.5 times as likely to monitor QoS metrics,” said Michael Dortch, senior analyst at Aberdeen Group and author of the recent study, “Performance in a Service-Oriented Architecture World. “Such efforts help to assure SLA compliance and improve overall performance of critical applications he added.Performance monitoring is increasingly critical to the effective monitoring, management, and optimization of IT and communications resources. By leveraging Accedian Networks’ ESAP solution, RGTS will be well-positioned to deliver services that meet or exceed its clients’ QoS requirements.”

About RGTS

Rockefeller Group Technology Solutions, a subsidiary of real estate developer The Rockefeller Group, provides and manages a broad range of communications services for tenants in commercial office buildings. The company’s emphasis is on delivering high-quality service and support to its clients and it does so by providing a “single point of contact.”  For more information: www.rgts.com

About Accedian Networks

Accedian Networks™ provides Packet Performance Assurance™ solutions that enable carrier-grade, packet-based applications over wireless and wireline networks.  The Ethernet Service Assurance Platform (ESAP™) provides in-service monitoring, demarcation, loopback testing, service creation, traffic conditioning, SLA assurance, and standards-based end-to-end administration & maintenance (OAM) for wireless backhaul, business access, and inter-carrier applications.

About the Aberdeen Group

Aberdeen is a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence to the global technology market.  As a trusted advisor that delivers demonstrable results, Aberdeen™ is the company corporations turn to for insights that drive decisions. [There is a dangling participle in the original sentence construction.]  Having benchmarked more than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely positioned to drive market awareness, create demand, enable effective sales strategies, and deliver meaningful return-on-investment analyses.  Aberdeen is a Harte-Hanks Company; for more information please visit www.Aberdeen.com and www.harte-hanks.com.