August 6, 2003 -- -CRG West today announced several new customers for two of its carrier hotel buildings, the Market Post Tower (MPT) in San Jose, Calif. and One Wilshire in Los Angeles.
Akamai, Global Netoptex and Mzima Networks have located "significant portions" of their telecom infrastructure with CRG West, the telecom asset management division of The Carlyle Group.
"Rapidly growing global telecommunications companies like Akamai, Global Netoptex and Mzima all derive a tremendous benefit from being housed at one of the premier data centers on the West coast," said Timothy Doherty, managing director of CRG West. "Our ability to meet and exceed the needs of the industry's most demanding IP customers is unparalleled."
Akamai is hosting a customer billing system at Market Post Tower, a 289,965 square foot, 15-story office tower located in downtown San Jose that houses MCI's MAE West switching center. Like all MPT customers, Akamai pays no charge for interconnections to exchange Internet traffic across its distributed content delivery network, reducing Akamai's overall cost of operations.
Global Netoptex, a San Jose-based provider of managed telecommunications services, houses its offices, collocation space and its Network Operations Center at MPT. A multi-homed, route-optimized IP provider, Mzima Networks will also takes advantage of the MAE West switching center to offer its 56 peering options to its customers.
All three companies also have a presence in One Wilshire, the 30-story, 656,000 square foot carrier hotel that is widely acknowledged as the most wired facility in Los Angeles.
CRG West, an operating partner of The Carlyle Group, CRG West was formed in 2001 to oversee telecom assets managed by Carlyle Realty Group, including The One Wilshire Building in Los Angeles, Market Post Tower (55 South Market) in San Jose and 470 Vanderbilt in New York.