Enabling direct connections to IP networks around the globe from Telx’s 60 Hudson Street facility

PacketExchange, leading provider of private network services with internet economics, today announced the availability of its global network at Telx’s 60 Hudson Street Facility in New York. PacketExchange allows existing customers of the Telx facility to connect directly to their trading partners and access networks around the world. Using the PacketExchange private infrastructure, as opposed to the public internet, significantly improves the quality of service while reducing costs.

“PacketExchange’s deployment at Telx was a strategic decision for the company,” according to Chuck Stormon, CMO of PacketExchange. “Telx’s 60 Hudson Street facility is recognized as one of the leading Interconnection facilities in the world. This makes the PacketExchange network available immediately to more than 400 networks and service providers currently deployed with Telx.”

PacketExchange offers Layer-2 MPLS based services, provisioned on a redundant mesh of global 10G wavelengths. By carefully managing Quality of Service (QoS), PacketExchange offers the low levels of latency as well as near-zero packet loss and jitter that are required for real-time services and reliable transactions. PacketExchange currently supports the demanding network needs required by digital media, high-definition TV, video, telepresence and Web 2.0 applications. Private network security and performance is made available economically and feasibly for every organization, large or small

PacketExchange eXpress, is an exclusive service that enables wide-area peering from one port, without the need to negotiate individual agreements with your globally located network partners.

“Telx is the ideal facility for our 44th PoP,” commented Rick Mace, CEO of PacketExchange. “Our managed Application Delivery Network (ADN) services are the perfect solution for Telx’s enterprise customers and our eXpress peering fabric is perfect for Telx’s service and content provider customers. We’re already seeing extremely strong growth.”

“Telx strives to form a business ecosystem optimizing our customer’s solutions,” stated Tesh Durvasula, Chief Marketing and Business Officer of Telx. “PacketExchange’s unique offerings for global interconnections makes them an ideal customer, partner and service provider for the greater Telx market.”

Beginning June 1 and for a limited time, PacketExchange is offering Telx customers the opportunity to connect to its network without a port charge.

About Telx

Telx is a world-class leader in providing interconnectivity solutions through their carrier-neutral, network rich, colocation facilities. With over a dozen facilities in North America, Telx offers cost effective networking solutions for customers to seamlessly access diverse global networks and exchange information in a secure and reliable environment. Over 500 leading telecommunications carriers, ISP’s, content providers and enterprises rely on Telx’s world-class team to support their mission-critical global infrastructure needs and to create a global connectivity marketplace to dramatically expand their business growth opportunities. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with facilities in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Miami, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Weehawken, NJ. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

About PacketExchange

PacketExchange is the leading provider of private network services with internet economics – providing ADN, CDN, wide-area peering, WAN, VPN, EPL, and IPT. Our unique real-time transactional services platform leverages a global private layer-2 network to offer a fast, secure, reliable and cost-effective alternative to the public Internet backbone. PacketExchange’s redundant mesh across Europe, USA and Asia and exclusive wide-area peering fabric enable hundreds of access and broadband service providers, content and web application providers, enterprises and customers to connect directly to their trading partners around the world. PacketExchange is a privately held company headquartered in London, UK with network facilities in Amsterdam, Brussels, Chicago, Dallas, Dublin, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Miami, New York, Palo Alto, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Secaucus NJ, and Washington DC.
Contacts

Telx
Ilissa Miller, 212-480-3300
imiller {at} telx(.)com
or
PacketExchange
Bruce Gibson, 1-646-853-0368
bruce.gibson {at} packetexchange(.)net
www.packetexchange.net