Telecom infrastructure discussed by REBNY/Downtown Alliance panel. (Transcripts).Lower Manhattan's unexcelled telecom infrastructure can be a major marketing asset for property owners, panelists asserted at an Oct. 15 REBNY/Downtown Alliance seminar, provided the industry voluntarily offers building access to competitive carriers. Carl Weisbrod, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of discussed the Lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North Telecom Users Working Group. The group was formed last fall by the Alliance, REBNY REBNY Real Estate Board of New York , the Association for Better New York and the New York Building Congress to assess leading Downtown businesses' views regarding weaknesses in the system revealed by the terrorists' attacks, and to find ways of strengthening the infrastructure's competitive advantages. The users group drew the following three conclusions: First, Lower Manhattan is the most wired business district on earth. Second, the area's telecom executives are "significantly better prepared for the next unexpected disaster." Third, tenants want and need full access to the entire system and its choice of providers. The property owner can ensure such an alternative through control of "the first mile," the loop between the business user located within his building and the carrier's central office. Spinola described Lower Manhattan's telecom infrastructure as "the most sophisticated in the world," praising it as sufficiently "reliable, scalable and redundant"' meet the most demanding user's needs. REBNY president Steven Spinola advised building owners that the Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. has refrained from adopting mandatory access rules based Using "if-this, do that" rules to perform actions. Rules-based products implies flexibility in the software, enabling tasks and data to be easily changed by replacing one or more rules. on industry assurances that bona fide [Latin, In good faith.] Honest; genuine; actual; authentic; acting without the intention of defrauding. A bona fide purchaser is one who purchases property for a valuable consideration that is inducement for entering into a contract and without suspicion of being carriers would be admitted to buildings as service providers. He urged owners "to make good on this promise" to avoid regulation and accelerate downtown's economic recovery. Spinola pointed out that owners play a key role in establishing redundancy--the critical back-up connection that can be substituted when a service interruption occurs in the first. Richard Kennedy, senior director of Cushman & Wakefield, spoke about "Meeting Tenants' Telecom Needs." He stressed the need for duel telecom risers, multiple points of building entry and carriers that could be alternatives to Verizon to guarantee service should an emergency arise. "Business continuing planning has become a top priority for financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and all other office tenants," Kennedy said. A panel discussed methods of upgrading buildings to create redundancy citing per square foot costs for various approaches. The panelists were John Compitello, president, Compitello Associates; Maureen Bierne, senior vice president, Lexent; and Jerry Marmelstein, chief executive officer of Riser Management Systems. The moderator was John Gilbert John Gilbert may refer to:
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