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Telx Company Profile
Company: The Telx Group, Inc.
Website: http://www.telx.com
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 2000
Public/Private: Private, portfolio company of GI Partners
Company Details
Industry Categories: Telepresence Interconnection Specialist, Telepresence Facilities Provider
Key Executives:
- Eric Shepcaro, Chief Executive Officer
- Chris Downie, President and Chief Financial Officer
- J. Todd Raymond, Esq., Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
- Bill Kolman, Executive Vice President of Sales
- Michael Terlizzi, Executive Vice President of Operations
- Rose Klimovich, Vice President, Product Development and Product Management
- Carl Nerup, Vice President, Business Development
- John Miller, Vice President of Finance
Partners: IP-V Gateways, Tata Communications
Telx Review
Telx is a carrier-neutral data center and interconnection provider that runs 15 facilities in North America providing equipment colocation and meet-me facilities to provide direct interconnections to diverse public and private global networks . Over 650 leading telecommunications carriers, ISP's, content providers and enterprises connect at various Telx facilities in New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, Clifton, NJ, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Miami, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Weehawken, NJ. The company can serve customers' international needs through its global alliance with Tata Communications.
Telx Services
Telepresence Options Analysis
As a leading IP networking and interconnection provider, Telx offers a number of solutions for telepresence and real-time videoconferencing deployments:
Telx Video Exchange- Telx's Video Exchange is an interconnection service for real-time telepresence and videoconferencing traffic that allows enterprise, carrier, and telepresence and videoconferencing managed service providers to securely connect to their joint venture partners, vendors, and customers on disparate networks while maintaining the Quality-of-Service required for real-time telepresence and videoconferencing. The service is powered by IP-V Gateways, which invented the business of inter-connecting real-time telepresence and videoconferencing traffic and is currently matching QoS tags between more than 30 global networks.
The Telx Video Exchange Platform is video expertise and a platform to solve video related problems including:
Colocation Space- Telx offers carriers, managed service providers, and enterprise customers a unique collocation proposition: Carrier-neutral colocation with the ability to rapidly and cost-effectively provision connectivity among the more than 650 carriers and IP application providers that meet in Telx's carrier-class collocation and meet-me facilities. This unique differentiator allows organizations to park their telepresence and videoconferencing infrastructure, PBX and VoIP gear, and IP networking gear in secure facilities where they can cost-effectively buy bandwidth, network connections, applications, and other IP services from the other customers in Telx's facilities. Connectivity can be quickly and cost-effectively provisioned, upgraded, and/or changed because there is no need to provision local loops to connect to networks or service providers.
Interconnection - Cross Connects: Telx supports both buyers and sellers of network services. Telx provides the greatest number of global opportunities to terminate telepresence, videoconferencing, and voice traffic, deliver your content, or access public IP addresses. Telx interconnects a variety of enterprise and telecom companies ranging from telepresence and videoconferencing end-users requiring interconnection with partners with true QoS and MPLS tag transliteration, to the leading global Tier 1 service providers that are buying and selling on a wholesale level. Interconnection can be done physically in "Meet Me Room Xchange Centers" or logically thru the Telx Virtual Xchange platform.
At the heart of the Telx Colocation Centers are Meet Me Areas (MMA) that contain passive interconnection panels to support circuit interconnections of every physical media type; it's by Telx putting a simple cross connect in-place that enables customers to buy, sell or exchange traffic.
Telx customers gain access to these MMAs by running bulk cable (cross connect) from their equipment (i.e. rack, cabinet or cage) into the Meet-Me Area, terminating on panels that they own.
Media Types Available
Telx Video Exchange- Telx's Video Exchange is an interconnection service for real-time telepresence and videoconferencing traffic that allows enterprise, carrier, and telepresence and videoconferencing managed service providers to securely connect to their joint venture partners, vendors, and customers on disparate networks while maintaining the Quality-of-Service required for real-time telepresence and videoconferencing. The service is powered by IP-V Gateways, which invented the business of inter-connecting real-time telepresence and videoconferencing traffic and is currently matching QoS tags between more than 30 global networks.
The Telx Video Exchange Platform is video expertise and a platform to solve video related problems including: - Creating extranets that enable traffic to get securely from one network to another.
- Enables protocol translation: SIP, H.323, H.320 thru hosted bridges
- Does standards-based addressing, security and quality of service transliteration
- Provides a simple to read dashboard and easy to run diagnostics
- A secure space for colocation of video equipment including gateways, bridges, gatekeepers and other video equipment.
- Interconnection to and between service providers in a secure carrier rich environment with QoS priority preservation end to end.
- Access to 24x7 personal support to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
Colocation Space- Telx offers carriers, managed service providers, and enterprise customers a unique collocation proposition: Carrier-neutral colocation with the ability to rapidly and cost-effectively provision connectivity among the more than 650 carriers and IP application providers that meet in Telx's carrier-class collocation and meet-me facilities. This unique differentiator allows organizations to park their telepresence and videoconferencing infrastructure, PBX and VoIP gear, and IP networking gear in secure facilities where they can cost-effectively buy bandwidth, network connections, applications, and other IP services from the other customers in Telx's facilities. Connectivity can be quickly and cost-effectively provisioned, upgraded, and/or changed because there is no need to provision local loops to connect to networks or service providers.
Interconnection - Cross Connects: Telx supports both buyers and sellers of network services. Telx provides the greatest number of global opportunities to terminate telepresence, videoconferencing, and voice traffic, deliver your content, or access public IP addresses. Telx interconnects a variety of enterprise and telecom companies ranging from telepresence and videoconferencing end-users requiring interconnection with partners with true QoS and MPLS tag transliteration, to the leading global Tier 1 service providers that are buying and selling on a wholesale level. Interconnection can be done physically in "Meet Me Room Xchange Centers" or logically thru the Telx Virtual Xchange platform.
At the heart of the Telx Colocation Centers are Meet Me Areas (MMA) that contain passive interconnection panels to support circuit interconnections of every physical media type; it's by Telx putting a simple cross connect in-place that enables customers to buy, sell or exchange traffic.
Telx customers gain access to these MMAs by running bulk cable (cross connect) from their equipment (i.e. rack, cabinet or cage) into the Meet-Me Area, terminating on panels that they own.
Media Types Available
- COAX - 6/12 Rack
- Cat 5 - 25/50 Pair
- Fiber - Single/Multi-Mode; 12 Strand and up
Telepresence Options Analysis
Location... Location... Location... sums up the heart of Telx's unique value proposition for telepresence and videoconferencing end-users, managed service providers, and carrier customers. The carrier-neutral colocation and meet-me room provider sits at the global epicenter of global network traffic in the 60 Hudson and 111 8th Avenue buildings in New York City along with two other metro New York sites and ten other facilities in North American carrier hotels with partnerships with similar meet-me room providers globally. The company closed a deal in June with IP-V Gateways the largest provider of interconnection services for telepresence and videoconferencing traffic which gives Telx the industry's leading platform for rapidly connecting disparate networks while enabling the QoS tag matching, address translation, and security policies required for real-time telepresence. Quite a coup for both companies. As the down economy continues to force consolidation in the airline industry and inter-company telepresence and videoconferencing continues to grow in popularity and utility, Telx is superbly positioned right smack in the middle of world's major telecommunications carriers with the world's leading inter-connection platform for connecting real-time traffic.
