BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$66.4M
- Private
- US
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RCN Metro Optical Networks is unique among facilities-based bandwidth providers for our diverse network in one of the most valuable telecommunications markets in the world. Our dense build network, with more than 200 Points of Presence (POPs), provides customers quick, cost-effective, and comprehensive connectivity to critical communications facilities and enterprise locations throughout our footprint. That's why wireless carriers, long distance carriers, enterprise customers, competitive local exchange companies (CLECs), Internet service providers (ISPs), and cable television operators choose RCN Metro Optical Networks. The RCN Metro Optical Networks' Network: A Well-Traveled Route. RCN Metro Optical Networks has been deploying its network since 1994 throughout the nation's busiest telecommunications corridor more quickly, easily, and cost-effectively than our competition. The 12-state, $300-billion market encompasses 25 percent of the nation's communications market and extends from New England, New York City, and the north Atlantic coast to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC, and into Virginia. Our customers leverage the RCN Metro Optical Networks' network to reacRCN Metro Optical Networksh more than 500,000 businesses and 18 million households in the dense Northeast and mid-Atlantic market. Our high-capacity Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), over geographically diverse fiber routes, provides a cost-effective, fully redundant bandwidth solution for our customers...
Chief Operating Officer
Kurt VanNumber of Employees 330
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Custom Computer Programming Services: 541511
Recent Events
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RCN Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
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RCN Metro Optical Networks to Provide Lombardi & Co. Inc. With Dedicated Internet Service on...
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OpenCape selects RCN Metro to build and operate fiber network
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RCN Metro to build and operate fiber-optic network for OpenCape
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RCN Metro Appoints New Vice President of Operations
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Nine Realities That Could Affect Alternative Energy ETFs
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-09-29
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The International Climate Change Negotiations are in full swing and countries have agreed on the need to carefully monitor our climate. The conference brought to light the realities of environmental measures enacted that could be a boon to the alternative energy industry and related...
Renewable Energy Finance Forum: Looking to Washington for Guidance on New Financing
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-07-05
Chris Cather submits: The PowerPoint slide said it all: Bank of America Merrill Lynch. A dramatically transformed financial landscape was the setting for the late June Renewable Energy Finance Forum (REFF) – Wall Street in midtown Manhattan. This year’s REFF brought together renewable energy industry leaders and sent a message...
Why Green ETFs Are Sprouting New Growth
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-04-03
Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: The market may be sprouting some signs of life, and the first to be rewarded may be the investors who kept their faith in the so-called green energy ETFs. Many green-focused investors have taken the long-term view and have held on for what they...
Ethanol: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Beautiful
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-03-08
John Addison submits:The Good The 9 billion gallons of ethanol that Americans used last year helped drive down oil prices. For those of us who fuel our vehicles with gasoline, as much as 10 percent of that gasoline is ethanol. The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 requires that...
Is Alternative Energy Dead?
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-02-19
Hard Assets Investor submits: It’s almost axiomatic to say that we all care about the effects of global warming (hi Mr. Gore!). Nobody wants to swim down 5th avenue. But it really wasn’t until last year’s phenomenal oil spike that people started talking about alternative energy with any kind...
2009: Boom or Bust for Clean Energy?
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-02-12
Although the macro economic environment continues to display signs of weakness, many of the sentiment measures analysts use such as TED spread and consumer confidence, show improvement. The US yield curve has moved to an "incredibly positive reading, says research firm Cannacord Adams. Many analysts are looking for recovery to...
Advice for Obama: Spend Green Today, Tax Green in the Future
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-01-21
Jeffrey Frankel submits: Politicians are often tempted to think that a policy to help one goal, say air quality, must also help lots of other goals, say economic growth. Economists are more likely to presume tradeoffs, and to use the principle of targets and instruments. That principle says that...
Energy ETFs: Alternative Sources Attract Investor Attention
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-01-07
Jeff Miller submits: The United States has followed a disturbing pattern in forming energy policy. Most of the time we focus on fossil fuels. Alternative energy only gets attention when oil prices are high. With last year's oil price spike still fresh, there is a just...
GEX: An ETF with Green Profits
Seeking Alpha
- 2009-01-07
Simit Patel submits: The alternative energy sector has been heralded by many as an investment opportunity in the US over the next four years. The rationale: Fossil fuels are declining in supply and are environmentally destructive. While there are those who dispute this, there seems to be enough of a...
A New American Energy Policy
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-12-22
Michael Fitzsimmons submits: One has to wonder when a country has such fine engineering schools why its “engineering economy” is in such disarray. Think of all the great engineering schools in this country: MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford, Georgia Tech, the University of Illinois, Cal Berkeley - the list goes on...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Kurt Van | Chief Operating Officer |
| Paul Eskildsen | Chief Legal Officer |
| James J. Capuano | Vice President, Carrier Operations |
| Maura Mahoney | Vice President, Sales & Marketing |
| Russ Kohn | Vice President, Enterprise Operations |
| Theresa Ford | Vice President, Enterprise Sales |
| Tom Welsh | Vice President, Network Engineering & Technology |
| Terri Ford | National Carrier |
| John H. Forsgren | Director |
| Raymond L. Steele | Director |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Pete Stevenson | Board of Directors |
| Steven Lampe | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | President | Former |
| Verizon Communications Inc. | Director of Consumer Sales and Service | Former |
| NYNEX | Director of Marketing Strategy | Former |
| NYNEX | Director of New Business Development | Former |
| Harvard Business School | M.B.A. | Former |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | B.S. | Former |
Paul Eskildsen is RCN Metro Optical Networks' Vice President and General Counsel. He is the chief legal officer for RCN Business Solutions and also provides legal and transactional support for other RCN company initiatives. Prior to joining RCN, he was Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel of MCI, where he led and managed MCI's legal support for customer contracting, marketing, product development, network and technology law, procurement, government contracts, intellectual property, advertising, real estate and international law. He also played a leadership role in MCI's M&A activities, including its merger with Verizon, and led MCI's merger approval efforts at the Department of Justice and the EU. Paul joined MCI in 1988 after spending several years in private law practice at a large DC law firm, and worked at MCI in various positions of increasing responsibility for over 18 years. Paul is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the University of Virginia School of Law.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Chief Legal Officer | Current |
| RCN Business Solutions | Vice President & General Counsel | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | General Counsel & Vice President | Current |
| RCN Business Solutions | General Counsel | Former |
| The University of North Carolina | Former | |
| University of Virginia School of Law | Former |
James Capuano is Vice President of Operations for NEON. He joined the company in March 1999 and has ensured the business delivers operational excellence to NEON's high profile customer base. In his current role, Mr. Capuano also has responsibility for NEON's network control center, customer care, field operations, IS/IT, provisioning, change management, and quality assurance. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Capuano held positions at MCI, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Air Force/National Guard.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Neon, Inc | Vice President of Operations | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Vice President, Carrier Operations | Current |
| RCN Business Solutions | Vice President, Engineering & Operations | Current |
| Neon, Inc | Department of Defense | Former |
| United States Air Force | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Vice President, Sales & Marketing | Current |
| RCN Business Solutions | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
| Boston University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Waltham Corporation | B.S. Degree In Finance | Former |
| Bentley College | B.S. Degree In Finance | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Business Solutions | Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Vice President, Enterprise Operations | Current |
| RCN Corporation | Current | |
| Pitney Bowes Inc. | Chief Technologist | Former |
| Pitney Bowes Inc. | Vice President | Former |
| RCN Business Solutions | Executive Director | Former |
| Product Development Corporation | Managing Director | Former |
| Con Edison Communications, Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Vice President, Enterprise Sales | Current |
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| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Vice President, Network Engineering & Technology | Current |
| The Flag Company, Inc. | Former | |
| New York University | MBA | Former |
Terri Ford oversees the sales growth of the National Carrier/Wholesale channel, the Enterprise Businesses in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania and the Federal/Local Government Market. She has an extensive and broad-based skill set having held various executive positions in the telecommunications industry over the last 20 years; from among sales, sales management, operations, business development/management, marketing, field support and finance. Terri started her communications career with Western Union where she led various marketing initiatives for the financial services industry. She then went on to MCI and over the course of 15 years there took positions of increasing responsibility and scope ranging from branch management of a sales organization, to product management, to global outsourcing to a Chief of Staff position to Director of Sales and Operations. Terri spent three years at Con Ed Communications prior to joining RCN Metro Optical Networks. Terri holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration/Finance from Lehigh University.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Business Solutions | Vice President of Sales | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | National Carrier | Current |
| RCN Business Solutions | National Carrier | Former |
| Lehigh University | Bachelor of Science In Business Administration, Finance | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| CuraGen Corporation | Chairman | Current |
| Northeast Utilities | Vice Chairman | Current |
| The Regents | Board of Directors | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Director | Current |
| The Phoenix Companies, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Northeast Utilities | Cfo | Former |
| Northeast Utilities | Executive Vice President | Former |
| University of Geneva | M.S. | Former |
| Columbia University | M.B.A. | Former |
| Georgetown University | Bachelor of Arts Degree In Economics | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Board of Directors | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | CEO | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Horizon Offshore, Inc. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | Current |
| Terrestar Corporation | Chairman of Motient | Current |
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Director | Current |
| Motient Corporation | Board of Directors | Current |
| Horizon Offshore, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Webcraft Technologies | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Provident Bank | Chief Investment Officer | Former |
| Provident Bank | Vice President | Former |
| Provident Bank | Trust Officer | Former |
| Dualstar Technologies Corporation | member | Former |
| Webcraft Technologies | Chairman of the Board | Former |
| Modernfold, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Video Services | Board Member | Former |
| Dualstar Technologies Corporation | Board of Directors | Former |
| Emerson Radio Corp. | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| RCN Metro Optical Networks | Board of Directors | Current |
| Smith Management Co., Inc. | Former | |
| Middlebury College | Bachelor of Arts Degree | Former |
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