texas united states 2000 headquarters 265 winter street waltham massachusetts key people jack lodge president products connectivity as a service access network services carrier ethernet mpls vpn one marketplace lattis telecommunications pricing and supply information slogan connectivity made simple website http www.globalcapacity.com 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 . 1 2 the company buys and combines multiple high speed network connections and then resells multiple lower speed connections to customers . 3 the company also manages and updates lattis a proprietary database of telecom pricing information . 4 5 contents 1 history 2 products and services 2.1 one marketplace 2.2 lattis tariff pricing database 2.3 network management services 3 awards and recognition 4 notes 5 external links history edit global capacity originally known as global capacity group was founded in houston texas in 2000 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 . 6 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 . 6 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 . 6 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 . 7 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 . 8 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 . 9 also in 2009 global capacity launched one marketplacetm a network connectivity trading platform that combines network capacity from multiple suppliers and uses telecommunications switching equipment to deploy this capacity toward market demand . 10 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 . 11 later that month the company announced the release of lattis global an extension of its lattis tariff quoting system to 35 additional countries . 12 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 . 13 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 . 14 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 . 15 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 . 16 the acquisition was completed in january 2015 . 17 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 . 1 in may 2015 the company announced the addition of google cloud to its service portfolio . 18 products and services edit one marketplace edit global capacity is a network service provider focusing on the delivery of connectivity as a service caas . 19 the company purchases high bandwidth connections from network operators and resells lower speed connections to other network operators through an interconnected network platform called one marketplace . one marketplace allows network operators to obtain quotes on wholesale services and it automates their purchases . 2 customers access one marketplace using an application called circuit lifecycle manager clm . the company offers an application programming interface api for clm to allow third developers to create complementary applications for accessing one marketplace . 20 one of the applications the company developed for one marketplace is network builder used for designing wide area networks with a modeling approach allowing customers to examine different scenarios when designing their networks . 21 using the covad legacy access infrastructure purchased from megapath the company also sells its own ethernet over copper and dsl connections to customers . with global capacity s equipment located inside the phone companies central offices cos one marketplace calculates whether a customer can get ethernet over copper service or dsl service at a specific address by measuring the distance from the customer site to the serving co. as of january 2015 the one marketplace platform included access to 41 points of presence pops 2 007 cos and over 4 500 last mile network interconnections for customer service delivery . 2 lattis tariff pricing database edit the company owns and updates the lattis tariff pricing database which provides access to a database of published local area tariff rates for multiple carriers and geographies . the database includes 325 tariffs with large service providers including tariff rates for e line and e lan services offered by ilecs and operators including at & t verizon centurylink fairpoint communications among others . the database is also targeted towards international carriers trying to understand telecommunications pricing in the us market . 14 lattis stands for local area transport tariff information system . global capacity acquired lattis from vanco direct in 2008 . 8 network management services edit the company also offers a range of network management services related to the development enhancement and monitoring of broadband networks . 22 awards and recognition edit in 2015 the company was awarded the pipeline innovation award by communication industry publication pipeline for the one marketplace solution and network builder application . 23 in 2015 and 2014 the company was awarded the communications solutions product of the year by global media company tmc for the one marketplace solution and network builder application . 24 25 in 2014 one marketplace was awarded the best service innovation award for its one marketplace solution by capacity magazine a publication of capacity media a company focused on the wholesale telecommunications industry . 26 in 2012 one marketplace was named best technology partner by capacity magazine . 27 in 2011 the company received internet telephony magazine s tem award for their ability to help telecommunications expense management . 28 notes edit a b global capacity extends wholesale mpls vpn service across 9.6 m locations . fiercetelecom.com . 2015 04 13 . retrieved 2015 05 11 . a b c global capacity megapath deal should be a win for both companies . telecompetitor.com . 2014 09 08 . retrieved 2015 04 28 . cite error invalid ref tag ; name telecompetitor1 defined multiple times with different content see the help page . megapath deal should expand global capacity carrier ethernet offerings . carrierethernetnews.com . 2014 09 11 . retrieved 2015 04 28 . global capacity launches online tariff quote tool . financial.tmcnet.com . 2011 05 24 . retrieved 2015 03 28 . lattis . globalcapacity.com . retrieved 2015 05 07 . a b c lines of communication . bizjournals.com . 2006 05 28 . retrieved 2015 04 28 . edgar online item 9 directors . edgar online.com . retrieved 2015 04 28 . a b global capacity completes 15m acquisition funding for vanco direct . it.tmcnet.com . 2008 12 01 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . capital growth systems 2009 10 k . edgar online.com . 2009 09 18 . retrieved 2015 03 28 . global capacity reports third quarter 2009 results . bloomberg.com . 2009 11 06 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . pivotal group buys telecom firm global capacity . bizjournals.com . 2011 05 18 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . on line tariff quote tool provides telecommunications coverage in 35 countries . yahoo.com . 2011 05 23 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . global capacity expands in 8 equinix sites . datacenterknowledge.com . 2013 07 30 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . a b global capacity extends network presence in the uk updates ethernet tariff capabilities . fiercetelecom.com . 2014 03 18 . retrieved 2015 05 16 . global capacity forges new cable link . multichannel.com . 2014 07 28 . retrieved 2015 05 15 . megapath deal should expand global capacity carrier ethernet offerings . carrierethernetnews.com . 2014 09 11 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . global capacity wraps acquisition of megapath s wholesale division . fiercetelecom.com . 2015 01 06 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . global capacity adds google cloud to marketplace . itbusinessedge.com . 2015 03 18 . retrieved 2015 05 06 . global capacity purchases megapath s network services business . talkincloud.com . 2015 01 06 . retrieved 2015 04 28 . application api . globalcapacity.com . retrieved 2015 04 29 . global capacity debuts network builder application for wans . eweek.com . 2015 02 04 . retrieved 2015 05 07 . network management . globalcapacity.com . retrieved 2015 04 29 . global capacity named most innovative operator of 2015 . reuters.com . 2015 06 23 . retrieved 2015 09 14 . tmc announces recipients of the 2015 communications solutions product of the year award . nextgenerationdigitalservices.com . 2015 08 21 . retrieved 2015 09 14 . global capacity awarded 2014 communications solutions product of the year award . hosting review.com . 2014 06 25 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . metro connect awards . capacitymagazine.com . 2014 02 27 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . winners of capacity awards embody year of innovation in wholesale telecoms . capacitymagazine.com . 2012 11 14 . retrieved 2015 05 06 . global capacity receives 2011 internet telephony tem excellence award . globalcapacity.com . 2012 01 03 . retrieved 2015 04 29 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title global capacity & oldid 743336575 categories telecommunications companies of the united statescompanies based in chicagointernet service providers of the united stateshidden categories pages with reference errorspages with duplicate reference names navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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