Mike Hartman, former executive at Verizon Wireless and GTE, has joined the 1Velocity board of directors.
Retired since 2002, Mr. Hartman was president of Verizon Wireless’ Telecommunication Services, Inc. (TSI) for two years until he sold the company for more than $800 million to a private equity group. Prior to TSI, Mr. Hartman was with GTE for 28 years, ultimately rising to Area President. He oversaw operations from Ohio to Texas to Florida, responsible for over $600 million in annual revenues and 1.25 million customers.
Mr. Hartman brings excellent telecom and leadership experience to the company and says he sees great potential in 1Velocity.
Happy Birthday to us! Today is 1Velocity’s fourth birthday.
They Grow Up So Fast
In four years, the 1Velocity network has gone from zero locations to over one hundred. We’ve built state-of-the-art Metro Ethernet carrier networks in Las Vegas and Reno using wireless GigE millimeter-wave and microwave technology.
Banks, governments, airlines, healthcare, mobile phone carriers, public safety, and many other organizations have used 1Velocity to save thousands in trenching costs, improve redundancy, and get installed quickly. In fact, we have site-walked over six hundred locations.
Metro Ethernet over a Wireless Fiber Carrier Network
For years, carriers had to share the phone company’s infrastructure. 1Velocity has shown how to provide enterprise-class bandwidth on a wireless backhaul that completely bypasses the phone company’s trenches, poles, and central offices.
1Velocity provides Internet and metro Ethernet connections from 8 Mbps to 1 Gbps over its network to businesses, government, and carriers.
Thank You
Thank you to all our customers, investors, and staff over the years who helped get us to this point. We could not have done it without you.
Las Vegas Dissemination Company (LVDC) provides pari-mutuel services and race information to casinos and racetracks across North America. Ken Sarnecky from LVDC discusses the importance of redundant Internet providers to their business and why they chose 1Velocity.
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LVDC currently has 1Velocity and another provider providing Internet to their headquarters (both connections are used as primary with different data on each connection). LVDC added an additional line with 1Velocity last year and recently renewed the 1Velocity Internet connection at their headquarters.
“Two years ago, we brought in 1Velocity. They are completely diverse from any other carrier.
What has surprised us is it that 1Velocity’s wireless fiber has been more reliable than our ground fiber carrier. 1Velocity has performed very well, and I would highly recommend them.”
San Francisco pioneered using social media to connect citizens to 311 services. Recently, they partnered with Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle, and numerous other cities recently to the Open 311 API, which makes it easy for other cities to provide similar services.
Chris Vein, the CIO for San Francisco, said at the launch event, “We’ve done all of that work. We’ve come up with all of those rules and standards and we’re giving it away for free. If somebody in another city wants to use this, they can take it and their programmers don’t have to spend months going through the protocols and figuring out how to make it interoperable.”
