Swith & Data, Telseon Announce Partnership

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Aug. 29, 2000 -- Carrier hotel developer Switch & Data Facilities Co.and Telseon, a provider of high-speed, scalable metro area IP services, today announced a strategic partnership that will help break the bandwidth bottlenecks in 14 cities by year end with additional locations to be announced in 2001.
The companies said the agreement will allow Switch & Data's colocation customers to manage bandwdth scalability through a Web-based interface.
Telseon will initially offer its high-speed, innovative IP services to the tenants of Switch & Data's facilities in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Dallas, and both companies expect to continue its partnership within additional major metropolitan areas going forward.
Switch & Data already operates its network in 18 key locations in the U.S. and Europe with an additional 22 facilities to open by year-end.
"The Switch & Data network is extensive and impressively run, important factors in the partnerships that Telseon is leveraging to expand our services to the global metropolitan markets," said John Kane, chief executive officer of Telseon. "Through this relationship, we will significantly increase the availability of fast, secure, bandwidth-on-demand to service providers and enterprise customers competing in the Internet economy."
"Our alliance with Telseon has given additional credence to the carrier-neutral business model while enabling us to offer diverse service options with superior customer control," said Steve Kelly, chief executive officer, Switch & Data.
Denver-based Telseon provides service providers and their enterprise customers with fast, secure, instantly scalable services that break the bandwidth bottleneck in the metro.
Founded in 1997, Switch & Data Facilities Co. is a pioneer of the concept of an international network of carrier-neutral, co-location shared telecommunication infrastructure facilities. Switch & Data Facilities Co. intends to have 40 co-location facilities operational worldwide by the end of 2000.