GLOBAL CARRIER LIVES UP TO NAME

With a new release of its pop2pop.com pricing and quote management portal this week, non-facilities-based carrier Global Internetworking became truly global by extending its real-time pricing and provisioning capabilities for private line services to more than 40 countries.

Global Internetworking has a database of 1435 domestic carriers for which it has wholesale pricing agreements it can use to provide instant quotes for private line service, including service levels.

“In a few seconds, we can configure thousands of ways of building a circuit route utilizing all the carrier relationships we currently have,” said Todd Vecchio, executive vice president of sales at Global Internetworking. “The solution that the external user of pop2pop.com receives is the most cost-effective network route.”

With this release foreign carriers now can access the companies' online system and get real time quotes for circuits touching any of Global Internetworking's 540,000 points-of-presence.

“Responding to Tier 1-to-Tier 1 service requests are pretty easy. Everyone owns the major NFL cities,” said Michael Keenan, president and CEO of Global Internetworking. “But with over 1400 carriers domestically, we have drilled down to the Tier 3 and Tier 4 markets. We know the mom-and-pop telcos that serve those areas.”

As a carrier-neutral operation founded in 1998 (and profitable since 1999, Vecchio said) Global Internetworking feels it can offer domestic and foreign carriers the best route configuration. “It gives us the strength to design and implement a service based on what the customer needs and not on what our network constrains them to do,” Vecchio said.