tw telecom For Amerex Brokers

tw telecom today announced the successful installation of a private, four-node network delivering Ethernet, Internet and local and long distance services for Amerex Brokers LLC of Houston. Amerex Brokers LLC provides energy brokerage services for electricity, natural gas, emission credits and allowances, renewable energy credits and retail energy procurement.

"Reliable and secure data and voice communications are imperative to the day-to-day operations of our business," said Brian Trudeau, Chief Information Officer for Amerex Brokers LLC in Houston. "We require a network we can count on 24 hours a day, both here in Houston and across the country in our Manhattan offices, to be operational when we need it. We recognized the reliability of tw telecom's private, dedicated services could improve the way we manage our network and mitigate outages."
"The tw telecom team took the time to really learn and understand our business and was proactive in helping us implement communications solutions that furthered our objectives," said Trudeau. "What impressed us was the speed with which they can scale the circuit bandwidth to support our highly dynamic business environment. We view tw telecom as a partner in our business."

Amerex Brokers' headquarters location and disaster recovery sites in Houston communicate over a private, highly available 1 Gigabit Ethernet network. The company's Carlstadt, New Jersey site utilizes a dedicated 100Mbps Ethernet connection providing traders secure connections to the company's Houston location. Additionally, tw telecom provides a 70 Mbps Ethernet Internet connection and local and long distance voice services to all company locations.

"Our team worked closely with Amerex Brokers LLC to identify and eliminate single points of failure in their network," said Darin Cook, vice president and general manager for tw telecom in Houston. "Providing solutions, such as dedicated connections, resilient fiber rings and access point diversity through two central offices are a few of the services we provide to ensure the network uptime businesses require. We pride ourselves in our ability to consult with companies wishing to increase efficiencies, reduce cost and still maintain a fault tolerant network. In today's market place, companies like Amerex must balance the need for maximum uptime while ensuring the network is scalable and cost effective."