The Intergate data center in lower Manhattan is to install a point of presence (PoP) for DE-CIX, the world’s biggest internet exchange.

The owners of the facilities, Seattle-based Sabey Data Center Properties, will launch the PoP using the Apollon interconnection platform from DE-CIX, a data center and carrier-neutral exchange service provider.

Sabey’s proprietary IGX fiber network will provide DE-CIX with two redundant links on diverse routes to connect 375 Pearl Street and DE-CIX at 111 Eighth Avenue and 60 Hudson Street. The new DE-CIX POP allows all Sabey tenants to take advantage of DE-CIX’s Ethernet interconnection options. The connection could potentially expand to multiple terabits per second in the future, according to Sabey.

Sabey Data Centers will use services from DE-CIX that include peering and Layer 2 connectivity to other New York City data centers.

DE-CIX, which operates exchanges in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg and Dubai, has PoPs in seven other data centers in New York and New Jersey and operates 111 access points in the metro area. Sabey owns a 1 million-square-foot facility at 375 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. DE-CIX’s Apollon system provides the infrastructure for peering-direct and settlement-free IP interconnection among Internet service providers (ISPs).

The Intergate installation should be completed within 60 days, said Sabey.

The two companies have been working on a business agreement since January, said John Sabey, president of Sabey Data Centers. “Both parties strongly support the growth of New York as an Internet hub for the region,” he said.

A presence in the Intergate facility is part of DE-CIX’s strategy to get into every relevant data center and carrier hotel in the New York-New Jersey area, said DE-CIX CEO Frank Orlowski. “DE-CIX New York is just a cross connect away from 99% of the providers in this metro market,” said Orlowski.

The Intergate building has been designed with its substation on the second and third floors, to provide resilience against the types of storm damage created by Hurricane Sandy, which affected eight Manhattan data centers in 2012.