Fti Newsletter Dec. 2009

December 2009

Volume 3, Issue 6

FOUNDATION NEWS FAIL-SAFE Your Phone Service With PRI

in the SKY™!

“Fail-Safe”: Incorporating some feature for automatically counteracting the effect of an anticipated source of failure. WHEN a telephone outage occurs at any point in the telephone system and for any reason (man-made or natural disasters), PRI in the Sky™ automatically and instantaneously re-routes all calls to and from your location around the point of failure via the FTI satellite service until the normal telephone service is restored. The point of failure could be the main line into the city, central office, local telco lines or the telephone switch on premise. This new service supplements the present FTI Backup Internet offering that provides automatic load balancing and Internet service redundancy providing a total Fail-Safe telecommunications option to schools, businesses, police, fire and hospitals where there can be no acceptable failure of often times “life critical” telecommunications services. PRI in the Sky™ is compatible with Avaya, Nortel, Lucent, Cisco, NEC, 3COM, Alcatel, Mitel and any other system using PRI/ISDN for carrier connections. A single satellite antenna can support a virtually unlimited number of concurrent calls in multiple formats (PRI, analog, E & M trunks) and simultaneously provide backup internet service. The basic level of service provides up to ninety-two (92) concurrent calls with additional capacity as needed.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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Rapidly restores control of calls during outages or disasters.

New SCOLA Channel Launch ............. 2

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Professionally recover all your existing numbers, including DID’s

FTI’s Network Monitoring Service ..... 3

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No hardware, No software, No change of carriers

Broadband Stimulus Application.......... 3

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Scalable for enterprise, affordable for small business

Contact Information .............................. 4

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Satisfies compliance requirements in all industries

Features Included to Assist During Recovery: 

Mass notification (voice, SMS/text, email)

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Toll-Free Emergency Info Hotline

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Conferencing, voicemail-to-email, fax-to-email, and more

FTI provides the service under a proprietary license agreement with Telcom Recovery based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Glenwood WIFI Anniversary ............... 2

President’s Corner ................................. 4

SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST  FTI’s New Service PRI in the SKY™  Network Monitoring Service Now Available!

SCOLA Announces Launch of 8th Channel FTI is proud to announce the launch of the 8th SCOLA broadcast channel. Founded over twenty-three (23) years ago in 1986, SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization that receives and re-transmits digital television programming from around the world in native languages to an estimated 41 million viewers via satellite and has announced the launch of “SCOLA Eight Eurasia”. The eighth channel is the most recent addition to the SCOLA channel line-up which includes:

Channel One - Europe

Channel Five - Africa

Channel Two - Spanish & Portuguese

Channel Six - Middle East & Near

Channel Three - The Confucius Institute Channel—Mandarin Chinese

Channel Seven - Far East (South Asia)

Channel Four - Asia

Channel Eight - Eurasia

“SCOLA has always been very proud to be the near sole-source provider for the Less Commonly Taught and Virtually never Taught Languages.”

—Francis Lajba, SCOLA President & CEO.

Glenwood WIFI Celebrates First Anniversary of Service! Glenwood is a small rural Indiana community with a population of approximately 200. Like many small rural and remote towns, Glenwood previously had no other access to the Internet besides the dial-up phone. A little over a year ago, Foundation Telecommunications Inc. set out to provide the citizens of Glenwood, Indiana with a faster and more affordable wireless internet connection recognizing that there may only be up to six subscribers at any given time, FTI installed a low cost satellite system with applicable bandwidth and two wireless Internet repeaters strategically installed in the small community. Today, the nine subscribers enjoy high-speed Internet that they can purchase by the day, week or month as they need the service.

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SCOLA’s eight satellite channels broadcast 24 hours a day seven days a week from 115 countries in more than 100 languages. That is over 70,000 hours of programming a year broadcast to approximately 41 million viewers. This adds another level of excellence to this premier provider of foreign language training and cultural awareness providing educational programming to Universities, Colleges, K-12 schools, cable systems, government language schools and individuals. SCOLA is the best source for Satellite provided content for current foreign language news, language study and cultural enhancement. “SCOLA has always been very proud to be the near sole-source provider for the Less Commonly Taught and Virtually Never Taught languages,” said Francis Lajba, SCOLA President and CEO. “We are the go-to network for incredibly hard to get countries and languages.” SCOLA emphasizes the importance and effectiveness of modern information technology as a tool in overcoming barriers to global understanding and will remain at the forefront of its applications. FTI is honored to be the sole provider of satellite related hardware and technical support to the SCOLA organization. Foundation Telecommunications, Inc. has been providing SCOLA uninterrupted satellite network technical and operational support for over fifteen (15) years and anticipates many more years as the network continues to grow and evolve technically. For more information about SCOLA and their broadcasts visit http://www.scola.org.

FTI Proposes to Bring Broadband to Rural America Earlier this year the Federal Government announced a Broadband Stimulus package that includes $7.2 billion dollars for broadband projects in the US expressly targeting rural and underserved communities as prime benefactors of the funding.

FTI’s NMS Screenshot: Fault Management & Network Availability Tools [Color coded interactive map also available]

Product Spotlight:

FTI Network Monitoring Service Available to customers for pennies a day, FTI’s NPM enables customers to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve network outages and performance issues. It offers at-a-glance insight into networks, ensuring access to critical information needed to keep the network in tip-top shape; and FTI’s NPM is the easiest product of its kind to use and maintain, meaning more time actually managing networks. 

Monitor network performance indicators, such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, errors, discards, and quality of service for any SNMP-enabled devices

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Monitor disk space, CPU load, and memory utilization on network devices

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Conduct detailed performance monitoring and analysis of network elements

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Hover over a network object to see additional details about the object including status, IP address, machine type, and percent loss.

FTI’s Network Performance Monitor (NPM) provides comprehensive performance, fault management and network availability tools to ensure that the network is always running at peak performance. Via a cutting-edge, customizable web interface, FTI’s NPM provides a unified view into the performance of thousands of nodes and interfaces on the customer’s network, all from a single web page where the operator can drill into any element to see exactly what's happening. FTI’s NPM’s web interface provides real-time views of network performance and availability statistics, as well as detailed monitoring and analysis of data from routers, switches, servers and any other SNMP-enabled devices. This performance monitoring data alerts for poor network conditions like slow traffic, loss of packets, or impaired devices. The result is a comprehensive view of how the network is performing, providing the information needed to quickly isolate, diagnose, and repair problems before end users realize that a network issue has developed. With FTI’s NPM, customers can also automatically monitor and set alerts on disk space, CPU load and memory utilization for network devices. With out-of-the-box support for many vendors and operating systems, including Cisco®, Foundry®, Extreme Networks®, Motorola®, ARRIS®, Linux, Solaris®, HP-UX®, AIX®, Windows® 2000, Windows 2003, and Windows XP devices, FTI’s NPM ensures that customers can easily collect and alert on conditions that could potentially cause a network outage or performance degradation. For additional information and a demonstration call or contact Lamar Bostic at [email protected]

Government statistics indicate that 19,000 communities across the nation currently don’t enjoy broadband connectivity and that over 40 percent of U.S. households currently are without access to high-speed Internet. That rate rises to 60 percent among low-income and rural geographically isolated sectors of the population. The FTI goal is to help eliminate this technological gap in society through an innovative application of leading edge satellite and wireless technologies. Accordingly, FTI has applied in the first round of grant funding scheduled to be announced towards the end of 2009. The application to provide 110 small communities in 10 states using the FTI standard two-way high-speed satellite hybrid system with service provision directly to the end users via a 802.11x wireless network. Given their geographic isolation, it is unlikely that the designated communities will ever be bundled with a towns miles away as part of a larger telcom based proposal. As such, communities that continue to be overlooked by traditional providers of High-Speed Broadband/Internet services may be provided access to these services by virtue of this Broadband Initiative together with the proven innovative technological solution offered by Foundation Telecommunications, Inc. featuring: Lowest Cost

Reliable

Highest Speed

Flexible

Sustainable

Complete: 2010

For more information regarding the Broadband Stimulus visit: www.broadbandusa.gov www.usda.gov/rus/ www.ntia.doc.gov www.recovery.gov www.connectednation.org

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President’s Corner 2009 is a benchmark year for Foundation Telecommunications, Inc. with much to look back on since its original incorporation in 1979. Thirty years of continuously providing telecommunications solutions through innovative applications of leading edge satellite and wireless technologies has served both the company and its clients well over the years. Some of those include: 

15 years of continuous engineering support for SCOLA, a non-profit institution now serving over 41 million viewers with foreign language programming

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17 years of providing continuous uninterrupted two-way high-speed satellite Internet to extremely rural geographically isolated K-12 schools in the Wyoming Equality Network

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17 years of providing two-way high-speed Internet and secured VPN services via satellite technology to schools, businesses, government agencies, cable television companies, Internet Service Providers and others

The next decade promises to include the development of even more impressive telecommunications technologies that will allow higher data rates at lower power requirements providing wireless services direct to end users over wider distances more reliably than ever before.

“Thirty years of continuously providing telecommunications solutions through innovative applications of leading edge satellite and wireless technologies.”

For more Information on any FTI Product or Service, Call or Email: Lisa Hunt-Tolan, Sales & Support Email: [email protected] Lamar Bostic, IT Systems Manager Email: [email protected] Mike Durgin, Satellite Systems Manager Email: [email protected] George Livergood, President & CEO Email: [email protected]

FOUNDATION TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC. 9379 Technology Drive, Rogers, Arkansas 72756 Phone: 800-833-3353

Fax: (479) 636-8997

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