Carrier Hotel Landscape View from California A Better

Carrier Hotel Landscape View from California A Better Internet …by Design

Carrier Hotels A CRG West Definition Carrier hotels offer a neutral meet-me point for facility-based networks, carriers, service providers, entertainment, and content distribution providers to easily interconnect their networks and services. The carrier hotel is rapidly evolving to support packet exchange services, in addition to classic physical interconnections. A Better Internet …by Design

One Wilshire Profile • • Meet-Me-Room – 236 tenants CRG West MMR/IDC space – 175, 000 sqft Private telecom tenant space - ~300, 000 sqft Building street level conduit penetrations - 154 Building vertical conduit risers – 1231 Total building telecom-related tenants - ~390 Average telecom orders processed – 25/day A Better Internet …by Design

Expanding the Meet-Me-Point (Was Expanding the Meet-Me-Room) • • MMRs have limited geography MMR Space is very expensive Requires multiple locations within a carrier hotel Physical diversity supporting redundancy and disaster recovery • Carrier hotel continues to support Tier 1 and carrier bypass A Better Internet …by Design

A 3 Dimensional View Lease and License Cages, Cabinets, Suites • From the Street • At the MDF • Throughout the Building 27 th Floor From the Building 19 th Floor 11 th Floor 7 th Floor MDF Cages and Cabinets From the MMR Telecom Building M D F Pvt Suite MDF From the Street Cable coming into the building from below street level A Better Internet …by Design

Addition of the Packet Exchange • MMP is already a large exchange point • Facility-based carrier consolidation • Physical interconnections are a large monthly expense – Large networks do not pay for XConnects – Smaller networks carry cost burden • Packet Exchange allows one-to-many relations • Ethernet is king • Simplify remote management and trouble shooting A Better Internet …by Design

2 Any Exchange • Neutral Internet exchange point • Member advisory counsel • 104 members (@10 Gbps) – – – ISPs International networks CDNs Vo. IP Entertainment • Route servers • Distributed California exchange A Better Internet …by Design

Profile Changes • Stronger influence of international carriers • Larger application hosting companies – CDNs – Entertainment (CATV, online gaming, etc) – Hosting • Migration from TDM to Vo. IP A Better Internet …by Design

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