(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation and network services provider Telx (www.telx.com) announced on Thursday it plans to partner with tandem interconnection services provider Neutral Tandem (www.neutraltandem.com) for its new Telx Ethernet Exchange.
Neutral Tandem and Telx plan to connect their key Ethernet Exchange sites, helping customers to seamlessly interconnect their networks without complex, time consuming interconnection agreements.
The partnership will provide greater reach to both companies’ end customers, as well as provide enterprise and cloud/SaaS providers with greater network choice and faster interconnections.
“We believe that our planned relationship with Telx will enable us to create the largest Ethernet Exchange platform in the nation,” says Rian Wren, president and CEO, Neutral Tandem. “Neutral Tandem’s proven track record with interconnecting carriers across the US, combined with Telx’s strategic data center locations, will form the basis for a winning combination. With this planned collaboration, Telx’s service provider ecosystem will be able to leverage Neutral Tandem’s expansive network, while our customers will have access to the 800+ Telx customers in their strategic interconnection centers.”
Under the partnership, both Neutral Tandem and Telx’s Ethernet Exchange offerings will be built using the same unified exchange fabric, resulting in a seamless customer experience regardless of location.
Telx’s global marketplace of service provider customers will be able to extend their geographic service regions by tapping directly into Telx’s seven Ethernet Exchange locations as well as Neutral Tandem’s planned 14 Ethernet eXchange locations nationwide.
The combined platform will provide service providers with a cost-effective way to connect their Ethernet networks without going through the time-consuming, costly process of setting up individual, complex interconnection agreements or building out local fiber networks themselves.
Telx Ethernet Exchange will become available in seven of its strategic interconnection data centers over the next nine months.
Neutral Tandem previously announced plans to launch its Ethernet exchange in 14 markets this year.
Once implemented, customers of the Telx Ethernet Exchange will be able to use the Neutral Tandem exchanges in the same metro areas and across the wide area for even more connectivity choice, while Neutral Tandem customers will have secure access to Telx’s service provider ecosystem in key locations, resulting in low-latency, resilient connections.
Telx will debut the Telx Ethernet Exchange live at the Customer Business Exchange Event Thursday at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City’s Times Square.
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