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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.
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
Rapidly restores control of calls during New SCOLA Channel Launch ............. 2
outages or disasters.
Glenwood WIFI Anniversary ............... 2
Professionally recover all your existing
FTI’s Network Monitoring Service ..... 3
numbers, including DID’s
Broadband Stimulus Application.......... 3
No hardware, No software, No change
of carriers President’s Corner ................................. 4
Scalable for enterprise, affordable for Contact Information .............................. 4
small business
Satisfies compliance requirements in
all industries
FTI provides the service under a proprietary license agreement with Telcom
Recovery based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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 organi-
zation 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 Two - Spanish & Portuguese Channel Six - Middle East & Near
Channel Three - The Confucius Insti- Channel Seven - Far East (South Asia)
tute Channel—Mandarin Chinese
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.
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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 NPM’s web interface provides real-time views of network performance and availabil- Lowest Cost Reliable
ity 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 Highest Speed Flexible
for poor network conditions like slow traffic, loss of packets, or impaired devices. The
Sustainable Complete: 2010
result is a comprehensive view of how the network is performing, providing the informa-
tion needed to quickly isolate, diagnose, and repair problems before end users realize that
a network issue has developed. For more information regarding the
Broadband Stimulus visit:
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 www.broadbandusa.gov
many vendors and operating systems, including Cisco®, Foundry®, Extreme Networks®,
www.usda.gov/rus/
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 www.ntia.doc.gov
on conditions that could potentially cause a network outage or performance degradation. www.recovery.gov
www.connectednation.org
For additional information and a demonstration call or contact Lamar Bostic at lbos-
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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 telecommunica-
tions 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 serv-
ing over 41 million viewers with foreign language programming
17 years of providing two-way high-speed Internet and secured VPN services via satellite
technology to schools, businesses, government agencies, cable television companies, Inter-
net Service Providers and others
The next decade promises to include the development of even more impressive telecommunica-
tions technologies that will allow higher data rates at lower power requirements providing wire-
less services direct to end users over wider distances more reliably than ever before.