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May 01, 2012

Introducing Concentric Cloud Solutions

Today, I am pleased to announce the launching of Concentric Cloud Solutions, a division of XO Communications, that will be focused on the evolution of IT infrastructures including Cloud Computing, Content Acceleration and Cloud Voice.  Concentric will capitalize on the strength, experience and legacy of XO Communications while also initiating an entrepreneurial start-up approach to generate new business.

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May 02, 2012

Content Delivery Planning and Concentric

JB Hong

Content delivery (the effective delivery of content to the user in real time without delay) has made significant strides in catching up with overall Internet traffic over the last couple of years. Up until about five years ago, the lion share of content delivery involved raising the hit ratio of static content, typically images.

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May 17, 2012

Concentric off and running!

Eric Hyman

In a relatively short period of time, I’m proud to report that the Concentric team launched 3 lines of business and over 15 new products! In addition to the mountain of work this group of people completed, a lot of it was accomplished using the very services we offer, both from the XO suite of as well as the new Concentric services. It’s also wonderful to see this work being recognized by the analysts and media that cover our segment. Thus far we have seen only high praise about our strategy and direction. 

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May 21, 2012

Is my call really important to you?

Websites are becoming more and more personalized each day; why not your phone “site”?

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May 23, 2012

Mass Notification is Suddenly a Big Marketing Deal

In my last blog post, I introduced Concentric Connect, a multi-modal mass notification system that enables organizations to not only reach their employees with critical messages or emergency notifications, it now has the ability to keep in contact with customers for a wide variety of purposes. In this blog post, I thought I'd share some interesting a couple of stats with you regarding the number of SMS available devices available today. In 2011, there were more than 6 trillion (yes, TRILLION) SMS messages sent around the world and 73% of the world’s population has an SMS capable device!

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