PAIX Opens Second Vienna Center

CarrierHotels News Staff

Oct. 9, 2000 -- Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. said today that its PAIX.net, Inc. subsidiary has opened a second facility in Vienna, Virginia.
The new center will provide PAIX's diverse group of customers, including ISPs, content providers, carriers and network providers, with a secure, neutral peering environment in the nation's capital and northern Virginia area.
"Because of its strategic significance for Internet-centric companies and its role as a major hub for carriers and ISPs, the Washington D.C. suburbs in northern Virginia provide an ideal location for a PAIX facility,'' said Tim Guarnieri, vice president of PAIX. "As one of the largest points where networks come together to exchange data, PAIX will benefit from, and contribute to, the positive development of the region's Internet infrastructure.''
In addition to the Virginia facility, PAIX will open new Internet Exchanges in Seattle, New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Amsterdam by the end of the year.
PAIX, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, began operations in 1996 as Digital Equipment Corporation's Palo Alto Internet Exchange. PAIX says it is the only major commercial IX that is not owned by a telecommunications carrier. PAIX is a subsidiary of Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc. To ensure its neutrality, it operates as a separate entity with its own management and technical advisory board comprised of industry experts.