TELEHOUSE America and telx, which provides network access to more than 100 network carriers and enterprise customers via its carrier-neutral interconnection facility at 60 Hudson St., have joined forces to establish an Internet exchange point at the carrier hotel in downtown New York.
By placing a remote peering switch at telx and extending it through a redundant backbone to TELEHOUSE America’s NYIIX (New York International Internet Exchange) at 25 Broadway, companies at 60 Hudson now can peer with multiple partners at what the companies say are significantly lower costs by sharing level 2 transport between 60 Hudson and 25 Broadway. Likewise, the more than 50 NYIIX members at TELEHOUSE’s Broadway Center now will be able to extend their peering options by connecting with more than 100 telx enterprise and carrier customers at 60 Hudson, enabling all to connect to the NYIIX.
“Until now, companies at 60 Hudson were only able to peer privately via cost-prohibitive fiber cable connections,” says Hideki Akazawa, president and CEO, TELEHOUSE America. “With the help of the telx marketplace, TELEHOUSE America can now offer these companies the ability to peer with multiple partners on an Internet Exchange, using a single port, which provides them with significant cost savings over the previous model.”
The new connection comes less than three months after TELEHOUSE America upgraded the NYIIX to the IPv6 protocol and began offering enhanced service in that area. TELEHOUSE America’s peering exchange on the U.S. West Coast, the Los Angeles Internet eXchange (LAIIX), also offers the IPv6 protocol and gives participants the ability to peer with members of the LAAP exchange.
