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Press Release -- June 3rd, 2010
Source: Lexent Metro Connect
Tags: Colocation, Exchange, Expansion, Low Latency

LEXENT METRO CONNECT PLANS EXPANSION OF ITS DARK FIBER NETWORK INTO TELX’S CLIFTON, NJ COLOCATION FACILITY

A BOON FOR FINANCIAL NETWORKS, ALSO COLOCATED IN CLIFTON, WHO REQUIRE LOWEST LATENCY CONNECTIONS FOR HIGH CAPACITY TRADING IN AND AROUND THE CITY

New York, New York – June 3, 2010 – Lexent Metro Connect, a leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area, announces today its plans to extend its dark fiber network into the Telx facility at 100 Delawanna Avenue in Clifton New Jersey. As Lexent’s sixth New Jersey colocation center, 100 Delawanna will expand upon Lexent’s growing latency sensitive fiber routes built between New York and the major colocation facilities hosting financial exchanges in Northern New Jersey.

Telx, one of the largest and fastest-growing domestic interconnection and colocation data center operators, offers Lexent direct and secure access to hundreds of other financial and service provider networks, also colocated in Clifton. Telx customers can then utilize Lexent’s fast, secure and flexible dark fiber solutions to ensure low latency routing to other financial exchanges and trading houses in and around New York metro area and Northern New Jersey.

“Telx provides a managed, network-neutral, secure colocation environment and Lexent provides the flexible and shortest, dark fiber routes,” states William Kolman, Executive Vice President of Sales for Telx. “As financial executives continue to increase their need for low latency, partnering with companies like Lexent offers our customers superior network performance that provides a competitive edge on the trading floor.”

In addition, Lexent announces today its plans to extend the New Jersey latency sensitive dark fiber network further south, with dark fiber builds into Carteret and Piscataway. These locations host additional data centers with a high concentration of financial networks present. Lexent’s continued network extension in New Jersey is further evidence of the rising demand from financial companies, trading houses and exchanges for secure, dark fiber routes with shortest distances available to and from the City. These strategic dark fiber network builds to Carteret and Piscataway, along with the Telx Clifton expansion, further demonstrate Lexent’s commitment to providing financial clients in the New Jersey area flexible, and robust network options.

“Lexent has always been committed to providing cutting edge network options for our customers. The need for fast connectivity in the financial community has continued to drive our New Jersey Network expansion in the first half of 2010. It’s our goal to provide the right connections at fast speeds to our customers concerned with latency,” continues Ray La Chance, CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “With direct access into Telx’s Clifton facility, the financial networks colocated there will be able to connect to hundreds of carriers, business exchanges and enterprises, with a single cross-connect, for fast, dark fiber access into key financial hubs.”

With over 25 years of experience in providing world class, dark fiber networks to the New York metro area, Lexent’s veteran team of engineers and technical support adhere to the highest industry standards in designing and deploying network footprints. Built with reliability and diversity, Lexent’s networks ensure maximum network resiliency for financial, carrier and enterprise clients.

This is the fifth time Lexent has selected Telx as its interconnection and data center operator; Lexent also has network presence in the following Telx facilities: the 9th floor of 60 Hudson Street; the 8th floor of 111 Eighth Avenue; the 15th floor of 111 Eighth Avenue and the 1st floor of 300 Boulevard East, Weehawken. For the complete list of Lexent’s carrier hotel and colocation Points of Presence, please visit www.lexent.net/list.php. This list is in addition to the 100+ financial and commercial buildings already part of the Lexent dark fiber footprint.

About Lexent Metro Connect:
Lexent Metro Connect, LLC provides enterprise customers and service providers in New York City and its surrounding boroughs with state-of-the-art, custom built, dark fiber optic networks. As a leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, Lexent is the only fiber provider that owns, operates, builds and maintains its own dark fiber network in-house. 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 email info@lexent.net or call 212.981.0700.

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About Telx: Telx is a leading provider of interconnection, colocation and business exchange services in strategic, high demand North American markets. With 15 premier facilities, Telx increases speed to market and reduces connectivity costs by providing direct connections to the industry’s highest performance networks and access to more than 800 leading telecommunications carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises. Telx is a privately held company headquartered in New York City with four facilities in the New York Metro area, two facilities in Chicago, two facilities in Dallas, three facilities in California, (Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santa Clara) and facilities in Atlanta, Miami, Phoenix and Charlotte, N.C. For more information about Telx, visit www.telx.com.

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