LayerOne Launches Dallas 'Flagship' Site

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Oct. 16, 2000 -- LayerOne, Inc. today launched its flagship site in the Univision Building, a carrier hotel at 2323 Bryan St. in Dallas.
LayerOne said its NEXUS Optical Distribution Exchange will initially occupy 17,000 square feet in this premier telco hotel, which the company said houses more telecommunications tenants than all other Dallas telco hotels combined.
The launch of the Dallas NEXUS Exchange brings the number of LayerOne facilities currently in operation to three, including NEXUS Exchanges in Chicago and Miami. Another 12 sites are under construction.
LayerOne speeds network scalability and profitability by bringing buyers and sellers together under one roof and streamlining the entire interconnection process. "Our NEXUS Exchanges literally change the way carriers connect with one another,'' said Alexander Muse, LayerOne's chief executive officer. ``Until now, no one has offered carriers a standardized way to interconnect with other service providers in top markets."
In Dallas, more than 100 service providers are already located at 2323 Bryan and dozens more want entrance so they can exchange traffic and sell products and services, Muse said.
LayerOne, Inc., which derives its name from the primary layer of the Open Systems Interconnection model that defines connectivity standards, is a privately held company building a global network of layer one transport exchange facilities strategically located at the crossroads of the world's largest fiber networks.