Node Com Launches Data Center Exchange
Web site serves as confidential marketplace for Internet facilities

July 19, 2001 -- Node Com Inc. today launched Data Center Exchange, a new web site to help developers of Internet data centers locate buyers and tenants.
The new site is positioning itself as an online matchmaker in the rapidly-consolidating data center business, in which many developers are seeking tenants to fill vacant space, and some cash-strapped companies are selling properties.
As a confidential marketplace, Data Center Exchange provides an affordable way to market properties and space, according to Node Com President Joseph Suppers.
"The ongoing consolidation in the data center industry is creating both challenges and opportunities," said Suppers. "Owners need to recover their investments and begin filling their buildings and collecting rent, and quickly.
"At the same time, investors and tenants are looking for deals that can position them for future growth," Suppers added. "Data Center Exchange brings these parties together."
Princeton, N.J.-based Node Com provides telecom services ranging from site location to construction management. Node Com is a business affiliate of Carrier Hotels Inc., which operates the CarrierHotels.com web site.
Users of Data Center Exchange can log into an online database and enter information about their facilities. All contact information remains unpublished, available only to Node Com. Potential buyers and tenants can search the database, and then contact Node Com with inquiries about specific facilities.
There is no charge for listing facilities or searching the listings. If a sale or lease occurs, Node Com receives a fee for its services.
Data center owners and operators can manage their own listings through the web interface, while browsers can search facilities by city, square footage, fiber providers and numerous other criteria.
Data Center Exchange expands on the model of The Equipment Marketplace, a section of CarrierHotels.com where data center operators are marketing surplus equipment. The marketplace currently includes listings for more than $10 million in equipment.
The new venture is the third industry website launched by Node Com and its affiliates in the past 12 months, following the August, 2000 debut of CarrierHotels.com and the February launch of Colocation Guide, a lead generation service for colocation providers and end users.
As the telecom sector has experienced a historic slump, Node Com has been expanding and diversifying.
In the past year, the seven-year old telecom site location company has purchased a carrier hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla. and expanded into colocation services and construction management. Node Com now has offices in Princeton, New York, Tampa, Miami, West Palm Beach and Birmingham, Ala.