Switch and Data, a leading provider of Internet exchange and colocation services, has announced that the company has opened additional space in Dallas on schedule. This previously announced project adds capacity to Switch and Data's existing site in the Dallas INFOMART carrier hotel at 1950 Stemmons Freeway. The new capacity was built to satisfy high customer demand for interconnection in this key communications hub. Switch and Data's expansion adds 20,000 square feet of capacity to the Company's existing space in INFOMART and was the largest remaining block of space in the building.
Dallas is a major communications hub for the Southwest US and serves as the main US aggregation point for cross-border Internet traffic between the US and Mexico. US Commerce Department statistics rank Dallas as the sixth largest metro area in the US by economic output. Dallas is also an important technology center. Deloitte reports that 22 of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Texas are based in Dallas-Fort. Worth. Switch and Data supports the interconnection requirements of high-tech companies by providing the broadest footprint of sites in major North American communications hub markets such as Dallas, Buffalo, Chicago, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto.
Sixteen fiber providers have a physical presence in the building and provide a total capacity approaching 26 trillion bytes per second. Switch and Data's new Dallas site features more than 200 watts of power per square foot of power and cooling capacity.
"Switch and Data facilities give our customers access to a critical mass of network and bandwidth providers across the broadest footprint of key communications hub markets in North America," said Ernie Sampera, Sr. VP of Marketing, Switch and Data. "We are expanding our capacity in markets like Dallas to support our customers' increasing need for collocation space, interconnection, power and cooling to deliver rich Internet content. Because of strong demand, we already have signed orders for our new space from some of the leading names in the global technology industry."