telx (www.telx.com) opened a new 20,000-square-foot Los Angeles facility, the first of two facilities that will offer the company's Intelligent Facility Management System. telx's new facility gives clients direct access to Pacific Bell (www.pacbell.com), Time Warner Telecom Inc. (www.twtelecom.com) and WorldCom Inc. (www.wcom.com). The company also expanded its facilities at 60 Hudson St. in New York, adding 30,000 square feet on the building's ninth floor.
Focal Communications Corp. (www.focal.com) and Digital Island Inc. (www.digitalisland.net) partnered to improve Internet content delivery for businesses and consumers alike. Digital Island will deploy its Footprint servers throughout Focal's Internet exchange locations nationwide. Focal just turned up new Internet exchanges in San Francisco and the Delaware Valley area of Pennsylvania.
ConnectSouth Communications Inc. (www.connectsouth.com)is now offering collocation services, in addition to high-speed connectivity and Internet business tools. The collocation site in Austin, Texas, is currently operational. ConnectSouth plans to add sites in Charlotte, N.C., and New Orleans during the first half of 2001.
Diveo Broadband Networks Inc. (www.diveo.net) opened new Internet data centers in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and São Paolo, Brazil.
SmartPipes Inc. (www.smartpipes.com) completed its 80,000-square-foot, carrier-class Americas Network Intelligence Center (NIC) in Dublin, Ohio.
Sphera Optical Networks Inc. (www.spheranetworks.com) signed a service agreement with LayerOne Inc. (www.layerone.com) that allows Sphera to be able to interconnect with numerous local and long-haul carriers to exchange traffic in LayerOne's NEXUS optical distribution exchange.
Progress Telecom (www.progresstelecom.com) will establish a PoP in LayerOne Inc.'s (www.layerone.com) NEXUS optical distribution exchange in Miami.
AT&T Corp. (www.att.com) opened its Chicago area Internet data center, with almost all of phase I of the facility sold out. Construction for phase II is already under way, with an opening scheduled for next spring.
CTC Communications Group Inc. (www.ctcnet.com) opened the first of two data centers in Springfield, Mass. The company plans to have its Waltham, Mass., data facility completed in mid-2001.
Qwest Communications International Inc. (www.qwest.com) opened a CyberCenter Internet hosting facility, located in Denver. Qwest now operates a network of 12 U.S. CyberCenters.
Network Appliance Inc. (www.netapp.com) and Exodus Communications Inc. (www.exodus.net) announced a partnership. The alliance will enable customers to purchase NetApp network storage and server-side content distribution solutions throughout the Exodus worldwide network of Internet data centers.
