Riser selected as infrastructure manager at five Rudin Management properties. (Technology Update).

Riser Management Systems, L.P., the leading telecommunications engineering, management, and consulting firm serving the real estate industry, has been selected as the telecommunications riser and infrastructure manager at five Rudin Management Company, Inc. properties in New York.

Riser has selected Lexent, Inc., a leading infrastructure services provider delivering a full spectrum of design, management, and deployment services in the nation's largest metropolitan markets, as its preferred subcontractor for on-site work in these buildings. With the five new management contracts adding 3,334,300 SF, Riser and Lexent now manage over 4 million SF of Rudin property, including 55 Broad St. and 110 Wall St.

As the riser and telecom infrastructure manager at 1675 Broadway, 24 State St., 40 East 52nd St., 80 Pine St., and 641 Lexington Ave., Riser will manage all telecom-related spaces in the properties, controlling access, provisioning circuits, and providing security. In addition, Riser will also manage each building's Communications Distribution System ("CDS"), a competitively neutral fiber-optic and high-speed copper infrastructure designed by Riser to meet the voice, data, and video requirements of both tenants and carriers. Riser's management software will provision and track all CDS circuits used by tenants and carriers.

As Riser's preferred subcontractor, Lexent will support Riser in performing on-site work on the buildings' telecom infrastructure, including cross-connects, moves/adds/changes, maintenance, and repair services. Riser and Lexent will provide 24x7x365 customer service and support to tenants of these buildings.

Professional, competitively neutral riser management lets building owners like Rudin give their tenants access to the greatest possible choice of telecom services and carriers. Because telecom risers, pathways, and equipment spaces in commercial buildings are limited, they must be managed carefully and used efficiently. Riser and Lexent engineers will review every riser installation in the buildings to ensure that compliance with plans and building standards. And by monitoring and controlling access, Riser provides added security against loss of service, increasing reliability.

"The recent meltdown in the telecom industry has only reinforced the advantages of an approach that combines neutral infrastructures with riser management, said Jerry Marmelstein, president of Riser. "It helps draw carriers to buildings, gives owners control, and makes it easy for tenants to switch carriers and services. Rudin is making sure that its tenants will always have fast, reliable, and non-discriminatory access to telecom services over the life-cycle of these buildings3/4regardless of which or how many carriers are competing for their business."