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Telecarrier
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Business Park Complex, South Tower, 3th Floor
PO BOX 0816-01442
Panama 5, Republic of Panama
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 Tel: +507 300-8888
Fax: +507 300-8889
E-mail: datacenter@telecarrier.com
 general information |
TELECARRIER, INC is established in the year 2000 in order to attend to telecommunications needs in Panama and opening of the market in the year 2003. The initial investment was over $40 millions and the shareholders are 100% Panamanians.
In the year 2002, TELECARRIER acquires Cable Data S.A., a company with one of the biggest fiber optics network in the country. Later on that year, TELECARRIER initiates operation of its Data Center, one of the most modern and safest in the region. Then in 2003, TELECARRIER acquires another mayor telecom company, Grupo Alianza Viva.
Through its initial investment and various acquisitions, TELECARRIER is one of the very few companies in Panama that provide full telecommunication services. These services include basic telephony, long distance national and international, Internet services, transmission and storage of data. The company has become on of the largest Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Panama, handling more than 60% of local Internet traffic.
Since the end of the year 2002, TELECARRIER’s Data Center hosts more than eighty clients from various industries (financial, commercial, services, legal) and different regions of the world (America, Europe and Asia). Our Data Center hosts contingency and replication solutions, primary sites and even complete system solutions of our clients.
TELECARRIER’s main shareholders represent the most important and major companies in Panama. The shareholders include:
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Grupo Motta: This group manages and/or controls major companies like COPA Airlines, Banco Continental, TVN, ASSA Compañía de Seguros, Motta Internacional, Felipe Motta, and others.
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MHC Holdings: This group was one of the owners of BSC Panama (Bellsouth) which was sold to Telefonica Movistar recently. They still manage many important real state corporations.
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Empresa General de Inversiones: This group includes Banco General and Petróleos Delta.
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Banistmo Securities: This group is part of Banistmo and Conase.
| business solutions |
TELECARRIER’s business solutions offer many advantages to its clients. Some of these advantages include:
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Time To Market: Through its various networks and fully redundant fiber rings, TELECARRIER is able to provide preconfigured and tested solutions that will reduce installation and configuration time. Thus, clients can get a quicker return on their investment.
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One Stop Shopping: Through its high value services and quality products, TELECARRIER serves as an integrated provider for all IT and telecommunications requirements.
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Outsourcing: TELECARRIER helps its customers focus on their core business while maintaining mission critical telecommunications and applications in high availability and optimal performance. This solution also allows the customers have a better infrastructure and operations cost control.
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Business Continuity: TELECARRIER designs and provides disaster recovery solutions for its customers systems and communications ensuring no loss of their business transactions.
| carrier connect |
Our network and supporting services are designed to provide you with a complete range of carrier possibilities from simple termination and origination, to complete infrastructure design and support.
Network access is available in the USA or Panama. Supported by ownership in several regional cable systems Telecarrier is well positioned to your carrier needs through the region.
A range of interconnection types and signaling methods are available through TDM or IP interconnect.
The construction of a new technological platform based on Internet Protocol, 100% fiber optics, and under the MPLS system, will enable Telecarrier to offer service guarantees, thus bringing new and improved service options, more bandwidth, as well as a higher level of redundancy and immediate access to the World Wide Web.
| international data center |
TELECARRIER’s International Data Center it’s the heart of the company’s operation. This facility was designed and built using strict international construction, security and redundancy standards from:
- Uptime Institute
- International Business Code
- Construction Specifications Institute
- US Navy Design Guide for Physical Security of Facilities
The major characteristics of the Data Center are:
- Structural resistance to survive hurricanes, tornadoes and seismic events of 7.5 in Richter scale with an epicenter as close as 50 kilometers
- Physical security supported by external and internal security personnel 24x7, plus CCTV systems that cover the entire building area
- Logical security supported by a combination of latest technology in hardware and software
- VESDA technology and other levels of fire prevention and pre-action sprinkler systems
- Energy distribution and redundancy systems through parallel UPS and electrical plants
- Precision air-conditioning and climate control systems
- 24x7 Network Operations Center (NOC)
- Meet-Me Room for local and international carriers
- Tier 1 IP Acces
- Redundant local and international communications through TELECARRIER’s local networks and international points of presence (POP)
TELECARRIER’s Data Center differentiators from other facilities in the region:
- Highest Data Center security and international quality
- Carrier Neutral
- Strategic alliances with major hardware/software service providers
- High value portfolio of service which are customizable to the client’s needs
- Service Level Agreements
- Location in Panama:
- Point of convergence of international submarine fiber cables
- Economic stability because of the dollar (US$) economy
- Advanced communications infrastructure
- Ease of access to/from the country to other parts of the world
- Lack of natural disasters
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