(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and interconnection service provider Telx (www.telx.com) announced on Wednesday it has launched new Internet Exchanges in the New York and Dallas markets, giving customers a new, low-cost, single point of access method to interconnect with multiple carriers, service and content providers, financial exchanges, and enterprise networks.
The opening of the new Internet Exchanges gives customers a new, low-cost, single point of access method to interconnect with multiple carriers, service and content providers, financial exchanges, and enterprise networks.
The announcement follows Telx’s recent partnership with hosted media communications provider IntelePeer, which lets service providers at Telx quickly roll out advanced hosted voice and telecommunications services.
Telx Internet Exchanges describes its faciltiies as “neutral, privately owned and managed packet and Internet exchanges that provide a high-performance Internet peering platform for participants.”
TIE members typically reduce their operating costs by aggregating ISPs, content providers, enterprises and others on a single, highly available service platform.
This ensures that Internet traffic has direct access to destination networks, which eliminates the need for transit and facilitates greater communication between networks.
Telx is improving its peering capability in the two major, network-rich buildings at 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue.
The new international Internet Exchange has more than 400 service provider and enterprise customers located with Telx in these buildings, offering customers highly reliable and cost-efficient access to all of these service providers and enterprises.
In Dallas, a new exchange will let customers use peering services within 2323 Bryan and the Telx facility at 8345 Stemmons Freeway.
“Telx is fully committed to providing superior Internet Exchange points within its facilities, and as a result have chosen to launch the next phases of our Internet Exchanges in the New York and Dallas markets,” says Michael Lucking, director of IP development and engineering for Telx. “These two markets are currently underserved in terms of high quality Internet Exchange points. We intend to make New York and Dallas true metropolitan exchanges.”
Telx says the TIE platforms in New York and Dallas will be monitored around the clock and are currently accepting Ethernet connections.
The TIE service will be fully integrated into Telx’s product and service portfolio, and as a result, customers in New York and Dallas now be able to purchase one-stop shopping solutions that includes space, power, and interconnectivity between networks as well as interconnectivity to the respective TIE platforms.
