Your Data Center Connection Is Ready:
Fast, Cost-Effective, Highly-Scalable

The demand for managed datacenter space continues to grow as:

• New data centers typically fill up within a year of coming on line.
• These facilities fulfill application needs that are either cost prohibitive for the Enterprise or provide them a redundant solution to their internal infrastructure.
• Data centers replace local Central Offices as interconnect of choice with carriers within metro markets.

When you need to reduce costs, increase services and reach more customers AboveNet dcXchange is the answer. It can provide you Data Center connectivity with virtually unlimited scalability, ready to economically meet your present and future needs.

High-performance created to meet your needs

AboveNet provides carrier interconnect between key Data Centers in major metro areas. A rock solid DWDM core platform locks together high traffic locations with metro Data Centers for seamless WDM carrier interconnections. 

dcXchange is a service-ready offering, providing you a Plug and Play, pre-positioned carrier-grade WDM platform to interconnect your applications to commercial Data Centers and Carrier Hotel locations.

Your enterprise can leverage AboveNet’s proven fiber optic connectivity performance so your applications can easily access Meet Me Rooms and collocation sites.

Extend Your Applications

dcXchange is ideally suited for:

• Connectivity Access
• IP Transit/Peering
• Carrier Interconnectivity
• Storage Area Network
• Real-time and incremental data backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
• Hosting
• Virtual Servers and Web Site Hosting
• Media and Content Providers
• Wireless Backhaul
• Long Haul Connections / International Connections
• Access to AboveNet services (Metro Ethernet, VPN, eXpressWave^TM Long Haul)

Offering You Value:

• Solve Access Issues
  • Connect to previously inaccessible facilities, such as Carrier Hotels.
  • High bandwidth, low latency, solution offering a complete bypass to congested LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) networks.
• Cost reduction
  • Virtual presence: Gain access to Data Center services without having to maintain rack space or power presence.
• Simplicity
  • Eliminate finger-pointing with single vendor management of end-to-end connectivity solution

Features and Benefits

• Low latency, scalable bandwidth with speeds up to 10Gig
• Backup, Failover
• Traffic Aggregation for IP & Media
• Wide array of carrier and enterprise protocol support
• Point-to-Point, unprotected and path protected configuration options
• Shared platform: multiple customer circuits provisioned on same equipment chassis.
• Fully managed network services
• Service Level Agreements supported by 24X7 NMC monitoring
• Easy to upgrade or add circuits
• Simple contracts & ordering

dcXchange delivers a scaled version of the AboveNet eXpressWave long haul network deployed within metro markets. It leverages AboveNet’s extensive metro fiber footprint to interconnect Data Centers with a shared DWDM platform as the long haul network interconnects Carrier Hotels between markets.

Available In These Major Metro Markets:
New York/New Jersey metro, Washington DC metro and the San Francisco/San Jose area