BellSouth Announces the Location of Two FloridaMIX Optical Nodes; West Dade and Broward Locations Are Chosen, Work Continues On Two Other Optical Node Locations.Business Editors MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2001 BellSouth announced today the location of two of four optical node locations that will house the Florida Multimedia Internet Exchange See IXP and NAP. (FloridaMIX), South Florida's next-generation Network Access Point (NAP). The nodes are principal connection points, enabling transmission of Internet Provider Internet provider - Internet Service Provider services and direct access to BellSouth's South Florida optical switched network. The West Miami-Dade County optical node will be at the LightSpeed Miami Center The Miami Center is a skyscraper in downtown Miami, Florida. Although not even close to being one of that city's tallest buildings, it is a symbol of early downtown. Built in 1983, it is older compared with most of the taller buildings in Miami, which have been built in the last (formerly Beacon Tradeport) at 11200 N.W. 25th Street. The optical node in Broward will be at the LightSpeed Ft. Lauderdale Center at the Southeast corner of North Andrews Avenue and Cypress Creek Road. The West Miami-Dade location will occupy about 109,000 square feet at the complex. It is located near major technology companies in the Western part of the county. The Broward optical node will occupy an approximately 110,000 square foot complex in Western Ft. Lauderdale. "The announcement of these optical node locations is the first step in deploying the FloridaMIX throughout Southern Florida," said BellSouth Business Vice President, Janet Craft. "BellSouth is committed to implementing the latest optical switching technology in making this the fastest Internet Exchange in the country. It will be an important link for Internet connections between Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. , the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ." BellSouth is close to an agreement on the locations of two other optical nodes in Downtown Miami Downtown Miami is the central business district of Miami-Dade County and Miami, Florida. Brickell Avenue/Biscayne Boulevard is the main north-south road in downtown, and Flagler Street is the main east-west road in the Central Business District. and South Palm Beach County. Originally targeted for the end of 2000, BellSouth's implementation schedule was fine-tuned to accommodate a change in strategy to employ non-BellSouth facilities. "It became apparent that if we wanted to provide greater access and location flexibility for the FloridaMIX, we needed to utilize non-BellSouth facilities. For the last month, we have been actively negotiating with companies to locate the optical nodes in areas we've identified as potential sites. Today's announcement is only the beginning," said Craft. The FloridaMIX will link major Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , including some of the largest in the country: NETRAIL, Qwest, PSINet, Intermedia Intermedia - A hypertext system developed by a research group at IRIS (Brown University). and UUNet, a WorldCom Company. Connection to these providers will permit the FloridaMIX to direct the vast majority of Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. in and out of Florida. About LightSpeed LightSpeed Infrastructure is a subsidiary of LightSpeed Capital, a company controlled by Swerdlow Real Estate Group. The firm has strategic alliances with various high-tech manufacturers, infrastructure providers, real estate developers and prominent institutional investors. It provides technologically advanced real estate infrastructure for the new economy. Its developments serve the rapidly expanding needs of a broad range of telecom companies, ISP's, ASP's and web hosts, as well as general business with high-tech real estate needs. LightSpeed Infrastructure is headquartered in Hollywood, Florida. About BellSouth Corporation BellSouth Corporation is a Fortune 100 communications services company headquartered in Atlanta serving more than 44-million customers in the United States and 16 other countries. Consistently recognized for customer satisfaction, BellSouth provides a full array of broadband data and e-commerce solutions to business customers, including Web hosting and other Internet services. In the residential market, BellSouth offers DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary high-speed Internet access, advanced voice features and other services. BellSouth also provides online and directory advertising services, including BellSouth(R) Real Pages(SM).com. BellSouth owns 40 percent of Cingular Wireless, the nation's second largest wireless company, which provides innovative wireless data and voice services. For more information on BellSouth, please visit http://www.bellsouth.com. |
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