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Global Capacity is a Chicago, IL-based provider of telecommunications Connectivity-as-a-Service including Carrier Ethernet, used by companies for Internet access and WAN connectivity. Network services are offered using the company's ''One Marketplace'' hub, which aggregates the access and pricing information for broadband telecommunications services, including MPLS VPN, Ethernet over copper and Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). The company buys and combines multiple high-speed network connections and then resells multiple lower-speed connections to customers. The company also manages and updates ''LATTIS'', a proprietary database of telecom pricing information.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LATTIS )〕 ==History== Global Capacity, originally known as Global Capacity Group, was founded in Houston, TX in December 2001, as a wholesale broadband trading company. The two founders, John Abraham and David Walsh, had worked together at Enron's broadband unit, and realized the potential demand for a broadband market trading company. The company began creating individualized communications networks that didn't rely on any one network, allowing the company to offer the best connections at the cheapest price.〔 By 2006, the company had expanded its services from broadband delivery to network operations management and consulting services, creating and building secure, private data and voice networks for other businesses.〔 In December 2006, the company was sold to Capital Growth Systems (CGS), and was combined with two other companies, Centrepath, a provider of network management services, and 20/20 Technologies, a provider of telecommunications quoting and configuration software. 20/20 Technologies, which had been bought by CGS, had earlier acquired software vendor Magenta NetLogic in 2004. The combined company continued to do business as Global Capacity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Edgar online: Item 9 - Directors )〕 In November 2008, Global Capacity paid $15M to acquire Vanco Direct USA, a network service provider of consulting services for global corporate networks, and the owner of LATTIS (Local Area Transport Tariff Information System), an information tool for circuit pricing. In 2009, Global Capacity announced their organization into two groups: Optimization Solutions and Connectivity Solutions. Optimization Solutions were targeted to improving network efficiency for clients, and offered network pricing, monitoring and engineering services. Connectivity solutions were targeted at simplifying the network connectivity procurement process for customers. Also in 2009 Global Capacity launched One Marketplace, a network connectivity trading platform that combined network capacity from multiple suppliers, and used telecommunications switching equipment to deploy this capacity towards market demand. In May 2011, Capital Growth Systems, Inc. (CGS) sold Global Capacity to Pivotal Global Capacity Pivotal (GC Pivotal), an affiliate company of Pivotal Group, a Phoenix-based national investment company. Later that month, the company announced the release of LATTIS Global, an extension of its LATTIS tariff quoting system, to 35 additional countries. In 2013 Global Capacity announced it was expanding its Points of Presence (PoPs) into eight Equinix data centers in North America, allowing it to connect to Equinix's Ethernet Exchange. In March 2014, the company announced the expansion of its services into the UK, citing the large number of US multi-national companies with offices in the UK. In July 2014, the company signed a master service agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), allowing NCTC’s 950+ independent and rural members to use One Marketplace to automatically expand their North American network service coverage outside their network service areas. In September 2014, Global Capacity announced its plan to buy MegaPath's wholesale and direct access business. The assets included those acquired from DSL-provider Covad, which in 2010 had merged with MegaPath and Speakeasy to form the new MegaPath. The acquisition was completed in January 2015. In April 2015, the company announced the availability of MPLS VPN services over the One Marketplace platform, as a result of the network assets acquired from MegaPath.〔 In May 2015, the company announced the additional of Google Cloud to its service portfolio. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Global Capacity」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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