CRG West Announces Added Customers in San Jose and Los Angeles Data Centers.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 6, 2003 CRG West  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , the telecommunications asset management division of The Carlyle Group, today announced several new customers for its Market Post Tower (MPT MPT Maryland Public Television MPT Modern Portfolio Theory (investing) MPT Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications MPT Message-Passing Toolkit MPT Master of Physical Therapy MPT Mitochondrial Permeability Transition ) facility in San Jose and its One Wilshire facility in Los Angeles. Akamai, Global Netoptex and Mzima Networks are among the industry leaders now housing significant portions of their widely distributed telecommunications infrastructure with CRG West. One Wilshire and MPT are industry-recognized telecommunications peering locations that bring together telecommunications companies, content providers and carriers. These facilities are critical homes of the Internet infrastructure that power the digital economy. Collectively with carriers such as AT&T, Global Crossing, Level 3, MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , Sprint, XO and the private peering services provided by Palo Alto Internet Exchange (PAIX PAIX Palo Alto Internet Exchange (Palo Alto, CA peering facility) ), CRG West facilities offer a unique opportunity to garner ubiquitous, carrier-neutral connectivity. "Rapidly growing global telecommunications companies like Akamai, Global Netoptex and Mzima all derive a tremendous benefit from being housed at one of the premier data centers on the West coast," said Timothy Doherty, managing director of CRG West. "Our ability to meet and exceed the needs of the industry's most demanding IP customers is unparalleled." Akamai (www.akamai.com) uses CRG CRG Centre for Research on Globalisation CRG Council for Responsible Genetics CRG Contingency Response Group CRG Citizens for Responsible Government CRG Corporate Renaissance Group CRG Columbia River Gorge CRG Consulting Resource Group CRG Columbia Resource Group West's MPT facility in San Jose to host a billing system for its customers. Due to the collocation of MCI's MAE (1) (Metropolitan Area Exchange) Originally known as Metropolitan Area Ethernets, MAEs are junction points on the Internet where data is exchanged between carriers. See IXP and NAP. West switching center at MPT, like all other MPT customers, Akamai pays no charge for interconnections to exchange Internet traffic across its distributed content delivery network, thereby reducing Akamai's overall cost of operations. Global Netoptex (www.netoptex.com), a San Jose-based provider of managed telecommunications services, houses its offices, collocation space and its Network Operations Center See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. at MPT. The company found MPT to be a perfect combination of location, services and capability for their mission-critical needs. As a multi-homed, route-optimized IP provider, Mzima Networks (www.mzimanetworks.com) takes advantage of the MAE West switching center to offer its 56 peering options to its customers. Furthermore, Mzima's presence in the facility allows CRG West to offer Mzima's IP bandwidth services to its other existing and potential customers. About CRG West An operating partner of The Carlyle Group, CRG West was formed in 2001 to oversee and enhance strategic telecom assets managed by Carlyle Realty Group. The One Wilshire Building (Los Angeles), Market Post Tower (55 South Market, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. ) -- home of MAE West -- and 470 Vanderbilt (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) are three core assets under CRG West management. The CRG West team combines extensive telecommunications, network planning, meet me room development and operations experience with astute real estate development and management practices to serve telecommunications customers and office tenants. The CRG West team is committed to providing fast response, innovative operational solutions, and local expertise. |
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