July 1, 2003 -- Telehouse America, which operates the New York International Internet Exchange (NYIIX) at 25 Broadway, has established an Internet exchange point at 60 Hudson Street which will make it easier for companies in the two carrier hotels to exchange traffic.
Telehouse has partnered with TelX, which operates a carrier-neutral interconnection facility at 60 Hudson, locating equipment within TelX's "SuperNode," a 40,000 square foot data center facility.
The arrangement provides an efficient way for the more than 100 telecom and Internet tenants at 60 Hudson to connect with NYIIX, where another 50 providers hand off traffic to one another through peering relationships.
"Until now, companies at 60 Hudson were only able to peer privately via cost-prohibitive fiber cable connections," said Hideki Akazawa, president and CEO of Telehouse America. "With the help of the TelX marketplace, Telehouse America can now offer these companies the ability to peer with multiple partners in an Internet Exchange using a single port, which provides them with significant cost savings over the previous model."
"We are proud that Telehouse America has chosen TelX to locate its premier Internet peering product," said TelX president and CEO Rory Cutaia, whose growing firm has recently announced an expansion within 60 Hudson, taking an additional 10,000 square feet of space.
"We started these discussions to try and look at ways to add value to the peering point at 25 Broadway," said John Shields, Telehouse Vice President and Chief Engineer. "We've always been aware of 60 Hudson and its importance. It was a target of ours to figure out how to get companies at 60 Hudson involved in our peering point."
The answer was to locate equipment at TelX, in an example of how companies with similar strategies can find ways to work together to mutual benefit.
"While we compete in some ways, we're pursuing different customers," Shields said of TelX. "What we do is almost identical. What's different is that TelX's primary market has historically been carriers, while our market has been the Internet-centric customers."
The new arrangement allows both groups to get connected, and Telehouse anticipates the service will prove popular.
"These are two of the three key locations in New York City," said Shields. "I think you're going to see a lot of activity pretty quickly."