CLIFTON – Last week, Telx, a North American data interconnection company and world-leader in networking solutions, announced the acquisition of a 24,000-square-foot space at 100 Delawanna Ave.
The new facility allows customers higher speed connections to over 400 firms, including carriers, business exchanges and enterprises, all of which utilize a single point of connection between networks. Additionally, the facility offers dedicated Internet access and an exclusive connection with three other regional Telx locations, which includes a Weekhawken site and its two premiere New York City carrier hotels.
"We have large facilities in which our customers put their equipment," Telx Vice President Rose Klimovich said. "We connect carriers and all our customers’ networks together. If they have two carriers ‘a’ and ‘b’ who need to connect to one another or if there’s a business who needs to connect, they can put their networks together by using a MeetMe room [connection to the Telx Financial Exchange service]."
Klimovich said clients are also able to use a virtual exchange service that uses a box to connect two different local-based networks via a neutral location.
The Clifton rental marks the fifth Telx acquisition in the last six months, creating a total of 70,000 square feet of new space and expanding the company’s footprint by more than 20 percent.
Karyn Price, a Telx public relations representative, said the facility is being leased from Mountain Development Corporation, which owns the building.
The new Clifton site offers its customers 150 watts per square foot, redundant power and the efficiency of a Tier 3 data center. By comparison, Tier 1 is the simplest system often implemented by small businesses while Tier 4 is designed to handle critical servers and security zones.
The new site will be up-and-running by the first quarter of 2009, Price said.
Though the acquisition of the 100 Delawanna Ave. location was announced just last week, Telx is already experiencing "great" interest in the new space’s accommodations.
"We are already seeing demand for our Clifton facility from both existing customers as well as prospects as our leadership in interconnections and co-location grows," Telx CEO Eric Shepcara said. "Telx now can offer our customers a great local site as well as a redundant site to our leading New York City offerings as well as a site that is interconnected to more than 300 carriers and service providers and other firms in New York."
According to a Tier 1 Research report released in 2007, Northern New Jersey ranks as the ninth largest market in the country in the area of co-location and data center services.
"New Jersey is a critical market for connectivity and data center services and we’re pleased to help bring a premiere vendor like Telx to New Jersey-based enterprises," said Michael Seeve, president of Mountain Development Corp. "Telx brings a diverse selection of carriers and businesses together – more than 400 in all - offering a vast array of choice for enterprises that use Telx inter-connection service."
Telx Vice President Rose Klimovich cited the Garden State’s cost-effectiveness when compared with the company’s two Manhattan locations, at 60 Hudson St. and 111 Eighth Ave., as one of the advantages to the Clifton locale.
"It’s a very big market," Klimovich said. "There are a lot of corporate headquarters in the [Northern New Jersey] market and they could use facilities. There’s more space in New Jersey for New York-based companies seeking such a disaster recovery facility."
The building at 100 Delawanna Ave. was previously leased by Digital Reality Trust.
