Lexent Metro Connect Delivers a Dark Fiber Network to Telx Linking Major New York Metro Area Data Centers

Telx provides Metro Cross Connect Service between 60 Hudson and 111 8^th Avenue

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area, announces today it has deployed a secure and redundant dark fiber optical network for Telx, one of the largest and fastest-growing domestic interconnection and colocation data center operators. The dark fiber network links Telx facilities at 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue in Manhattan. The network supports the Telx Metro Cross Connect service that provides TDM and Ethernet connectivity at various speeds between Telx’s New York area colocation facilities.

“For the financial executive working on the trading floor, downtime is simply not an option. With partners like Lexent, Telx’s Metro Cross Connect Service is ensuring the optimal network performance and interconnections that its customers, particularly those in the financial services sector, require to remain competitive and compliant.”

“New York-based financial institutions, media companies and enterprise businesses, located in the epicenter of the global banking and media capital of the world, demand significant amounts of connectivity and capacity in colocation and interconnection facilities like Telx,” states Ray La Chance, CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “Because Lexent owns and maintains its dark fiber network, and has a dedicated force of service professionals who monitor and maintain the network 24x7, we provide Telx not only a dark fiber extension of its key interconnection facilities, but an experienced and well-trained team that can guarantee Telx and its customers one of the highest levels of network reliability in the market.”

Lexent Metro Connect’s dense dark fiber footprint provides connectivity between the Telx colocation facilities at 60 Hudson Street, 111 8^th Avenue as well as to over 90 enterprise buildings in and around the New York metro area. This provides Telx customers, especially large banks and media firms where network downtime can mean lost revenue, an added layer of redundancy and reliability that is critical to their operations. Given the current economic climate, financial services firms are facing increased regulatory requirements, accompanied by pressures to stay within strict budgetary guidelines. Lexent Metro Connect’s proprietary dark fiber provides the colocation facilities that serve these businesses a secure and cost-effective network solution.

“Leveraging Lexent’s dark fiber network allows Telx and its customers to create physically diverse and low latency networks that meet both their present and future needs,” states Mike Terlizzi, Executive Vice President Engineering and Operations, of Telx. “For the financial executive working on the trading floor, downtime is simply not an option. With partners like Lexent, Telx’s Metro Cross Connect Service is ensuring the optimal network performance and interconnections that its customers, particularly those in the financial services sector, require to remain competitive and compliant.”

About Lexent Metro Connect

Lexent Metro Connect, LLC provides state of the art, carrier neutral, dark fiber network infrastructure to enterprise customers and service providers throughout New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area. As the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the region, Lexent is the only fiber provider that builds and operates its entire network with its own in-house engineering, construction and maintenance workforce thereby providing its customers with a lower cost of ownership while delivering the highest levels of reliability and control of their network assets in the market. Lexent provides its customers with the option to leverage an existing dark fiber network as an extension of their own, or to build a new, dedicated, private fiber network in the City. Lexent also provides direct connectivity to carrier-neutral colocation facilities, enabling Freedom of Choice in pursuing wholesale buying of Network Services. Lexent’s ever-growing network provides diverse connectivity between regional Carrier Hotels, Central Offices, and Enterprise Buildings. For more information on Lexent Metro Connect, please visit www.lexent.net or contact us directly by email at [e-mail] or call [phone].

About Telx

Telx is a world-class leader in providing interconnectivity solutions through their network-neutral and network rich, colocation facilities. With over a dozen facilities in North America, Telx offers cost effective networking solutions for customers to seamlessly access diverse global networks and exchange information in a secure and reliable environment. Over 600 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises rely on Telx’s world-class team to support their mission-critical global infrastructure needs and to create a global connectivity marketplace to dramatically expand their business growth opportunities. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with facilities in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Miami, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Clifton and Weehawken, NJ. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.