Seattle-based Sabey Data Center Properties, a privately-owned multi-tenant data center owner and developer, has announced that DE-CIX will launch a point-of-presence of its DE-CIX Apollon interconnection platform within Intergate.Manhattan, Sabey’s 1 million-square-foot facility at 375 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan.
DE-CIX’s Apollon platform provides the infrastructure for direct and settlement-free IP interconnection among ISPs, known as peering. DE-CIX operates Internet exchanges in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Dubai and New York. DE-CIX New York is already deployed in seven other data centers in New York and New Jersey and operates 111 access points in the metro area. Its expansion into Intergate.Manhattan is expected to take place within the next 30 to 60 days.
Sabey Data Centers’ proprietary IGX fiber network will provide DE-CIX with two redundant links on diverse routes to connect 375 Pearl Street and DE-CIX at 111 Eighth Avenue and 60 Hudson Street. Sabey Data Centers will use services from DE-CIX that include peering and Layer 2 connectivity to other New York City data centers, and Ethernet interconnection options. The connection is able to grow to multiple Terabits per second in the future.
“DE-CIX expressed its desire to be at 375 Pearl Street, and we have been working on our business agreement since January,” said John Sabey, president of Sabey Data Centers. “This agreement clearly shows that both parties strongly support the growth of New York as an Internet hub for the region.”
Frank Orlowski, CMO for DE-CIX, added, “We are committed to growing DE-CIX New York to one of the world’s five largest Internet exchanges by 2020. Expanding to Sabey’s Intergate.Manhattan facility is part of our effort to establish a DE-CIX presence in every relevant data center and carrier hotel in this metro. DE-CIX New York is just a cross connect away from 99% of the providers in this metro market.”
