Mr. Mark Casey
President, CFN Services, Inc.
Member of the Telecommunications Council
Council Member Biography
Mark Casey brings a successful track record of over 20 years in the communications industry across marketing, finance, sales, business development, and general management. He has delivered results for several leading incumbent and competitive communications providers including AT&T, Verizon, and e.spire (TW Telecom). In 2001, he launched CSX Fiber Networks for CSX and in 2005 acquired FiberSource to form CFN Services. CFN Services designs, deploys, and manages high performance networks globally. Leveraging its proprietary FiberSource platform, CFN enables carrier, enterprise, and government network operators to optimize across the key network variables of latency, diversity, bandwidth, and cost. Mark offers knowledge and expertise on the wireline and wireless telecom markets worldwide, low latency, global sourcing, MAN, WAN, fiber and microwave networks, dark fiber, global data centers and collocation, 2G, 3G, and 4G networks, wireless backhaul, and telecom mergers and integration. (This is me - Update Profile)
Employment History
- 2005 - Unspecified
- President, CFN Services, Inc.
- 2001 - 2005
- General Manager, CSX Fiber Networks
- 1999 - 2001
- VP Business Development & Channel Management, e.spire Communications (nka Xspedius)
- 1996 - 1999
- General Manager CampusMCI, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
- 1989 - 1996
- Director, VERIZON COMMUNICATIONS INC.
GLG NewsSM Analyses by Mark Casey
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Another win for Infinera; limited dark fiber availability could impact WDM growth
August 2, 2007
Cox Selects Infinera for National Transport Backbone | www.convergedigest.com
1 - Infinera continues to build momentum with this Cox win and a recent XO Communications announcement that they will light additional long haul capacity with a second round of Infinera equipment; 2 - Recent Infinera wins however are built on a dwindling supply of available dark fiber; 3 - While optical demand continues to ramp up at the 2.5G and 10G level, options for non-traditional carries access to dark fiber is becoming very tight.
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4G Deployment Creates Wireless Backhaul Opportunities for Equipment Vendors, CLECs, and Cable MSOs
March 19, 2007
WiMAX to roll across Texas | www.mobiletechnews.com
With several thousand cell sites across these three markets, Sprint will likely need to efficiently migrate from T1 based backhaul to a broadband fiber and wireless backhaul network. This broadens the opportunity base for competitive carriers and mobile backhaul providers to take market share from incumbent telcos in the shifting backhaul market. The question is who will answer the call and how will the incumbent telcos react? Will the Cable MSOs and/or equipment vendors join the party? How will these early network deployments set the stage for the broader wireless backhaul market supporting 3G and 4G deployments?
GLG Study Groups with Mark Casey(?)
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
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| TMT Council Members in Member Programs | 18316 |
| Telecom Infrastructure & Equipment Experts | 4064 |
| Telecommunications Council Members in Member Programs | 3779 |
| Colocation and Data Center Experts | 549 |
| Wireless Services Experts | 517 |
GLG Live Meetings with Mark Casey(?)
Mark Casey has not participated in any GLG Live Meetings.
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