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Welcome Note
Welcome to the fifth issue of The Connection, the Lexent Metro Connect quarterly newsletter. It’s hard to believe the first Quarter of 2010 has already come to a close. We have had an incredible start to this new year and are excited for what’s in store for the rest of 2010! First we want to extend our thanks and appreciation to not only our diligent network and engineering teams for their incredible work on network expansions thus far, but also to our valued clients and partners who have helped drive our network expansion. As a team, we’ve been able to expand our footprint in less than 12 months to include many of the major financial exchanges in New Jersey and are able to boast some of the shortest paths between the region’s top tier exchanges and data centers.
The financial sector has continued to be a major driving force in our network expansion. Competition within the brokerage houses and trading firms is so fierce that microseconds of latency can equate to millions of dollars lost or gained. These firms must have high capacity, low latency dark fiber routes to compete. In response to the demands of our financial and carrier clients, Lexent built out our network last year to reach the major exchanges in New Jersey. Our first clients are up and running on our new fiber routes and our team is working harder than ever to find shorter paths to cut distance out of both our current and proposed network build outs. In the upcoming months we plan on adding Carteret, Piscataway, Clifton and Carlstadt locations to our on-net network list. Our expansion is driven by you, our customers, so please contact us with your network needs.
For further details on our financial expansion projects, please read some of the excerpts below. For a complete list of our on-net buildings and Points of Presence, please email us at info@lexent.net.
As always, we value your business; we look forward to enhancing your network and business goals in 2010.
Warm Regards,
Ray La Chance
President & CEO
Lexent Metro Connect Expands Its Presence At Telx 60 Hudson In New York And At Telx 300 Boulevard East In Weehawken, New Jersey
Lexent is pleased to announce that it has expanded its presence at Telx, the leader in interconnection choice, to meet the continued growth of its client base colocating within Telx facilities. The expansion is within Telx’s colocation facilities located at 60 Hudson Street in New York City and at 300 Boulevard East in Weehawken, New Jersey; two leading interconnection facilities in the metropolitan market.
Lexent’s core strengths include building state-of-the-art, cost effective network solutions and maintaining a strong presence within robust interconnection points in and around the New York metro area. These strengths are critical for Lexent’s extensive base of enterprise and wholesale clients, notably for the financial trading houses looking for direct connection into local exchanges, with lowest latency and expandable capacity. Additionally, the further network presence allows Lexent’s dark fiber customers the ability to offer additional back up, storage and replication capabilities, increasing security and network redundancy.
Want to know more? Read the complete press release here.
For any further information or questions, please email info@lexent.net.
Lexent Metro Connect Joins Switch And Data's GeoReach
SMProgram Providing a Low-Latency, Dark Fiber Network in New Jersey
Switch and Data SDXC, a leading provider of network-neutral data center and Internet exchange services, announced that Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York metropolitan area has become part of Switch and Data’s GeoReach program.
“Providing reliable connectivity services and affordable network solutions are common goals Lexent shares with Switch and Data,” stated Ray La Chance, President and CEO of Lexent Metro Connect. “With our ultra low-latency dark fiber routes, Switch and Data clients can benefit from secure, high-bandwidth connectivity, cost effectively compared to traditional carrier options such as Ethernet private-line connectivity.”
For the complete press release, click here.
Industry News
Our Industry News section is a list of recent headlines affecting the dark fiber and/or NYC Metro network market. Here are the news affecting our industry today:
March 31, 2010
Wall Street & Technology
Citi Launches Next Generation Algorithmic Trading Platform
March 23, 2010
A-Team Low Latency
FIX Protocol Ltd. Unveils Algorithmic Trading Definition Language for Rapid Algo Deployment
March 19, 2010
Advanced Trading
Low Latency, It's Not Just For Hedge Funds Anymore
If you would like to include your company's news in this section for our next quarterly newsletter, please submit your news for consideration to info@lexent.net. We look forward to hearing from you.
Lexent in the Headlines
What do Phone+, New York Daily News, Yahoo! Finance, TMCNet, Forbes.Com and Telecom News Now all have in common? They are just a few of the media organizations that featured our latest news. In case you didn't catch our recent headlines, check out our news page.
Euro Investor covered Lexent's Dark Fiber Presence expansion with Telx to boost resiliency and connectivity for financial services customers. Click here for the complete article.
Forbes featured an article on Lexent joining Switch And Data's GeoReach Program. Click here for the complete article.
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