Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS) offers connectivity to tel(x) customers

New York, NY. Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), a tenant of tel(x) in60 Hudson Street, 111 8th Avenue in New York, 350 East Cermak, Chicago; 600 West 7th Street, Los Angeles; and 200 Paul Street, San Francisco announces a new offering enabling tel(x) customers to expand reach and manage hybrid network requirements.  The Deutsche Telekom International layer 2 Ethernet transport service is accessible today from five of tel(x)’s core interconnect facilities within the US.

The ICSS solution enables companies, specifically collocated with tel(x), flexible connectivity options.  “This solution is a perfect example of why we’re a neutral interconnection provider.  Deutsche Telekom, one of the world’s largest network operators, offers our customers the capability to connect between our core interconnect facility locations and beyond, simply by being within our facilities.” says Eric Shepcaro, Chief Executive Office of tel(x). “This further extends our customer’s ability to reach peering exchanges, content providers, voice network interconnections, streaming and web hosting facilities,” continues Mr. Shepcaro.  “Our vision of being the core interconnection specialists with the most network density services is further realized through the ICSS solution.”

Helmut Angst, Senior Executive Vice President, International Carrier Sales & Solutions Deutsche Telekom says, “As a result, tel(x) customers can benefit with the opportunity to expand their networks to new locations, collocate their equipment with one provider, while also enabling companies to integrate and operate Ethernet access technology to a broader range of potential customers.”  

ICSS Layer 2 Ethernet solutions are offered in three flavors:

• Transparent Circuit Port Ethernet

• Transparent Circuit Port VLAN

• Multi Circuit Port

tel(x) customers and companies considering a carrier-neutral collocation interconnection facility, are encouraged to leverage their presence within the five tel(x) facilities to gain access to the largest pan European network, with a state of the art MPLS based service that offers scalable and flexible speeds from Fast-E to Gig-E and beyond.  As a tel(x) customer, short provisioning lead times are guaranteed, as an ICSS Layer 2 network solution customer, provisioning intervals are further accelerated.

Benefits for tel(x) customers include:

• Companies, such as ISPs and ASPs, can get dedicated Ethernet to any or multiple IP Peering exchanges on the East and West coasts and in-between.

• Customers benefit from a virtual presence to any carrier or provider already in one of the five tel(x) Meet-Me-Room locations that the ICSS MPLS service interconnects.

• VoIP carriers benefit from lower latency between any ICSS connected facility.

• Hosting, Media and Content providers can leverage the low cost and flexible bandwidth to directly connect the East and West coasts to quickly transport communications.

To find out how you can collocate with tel(x) or to find out more information about our 13 sites please contact tel(x) directly.  For information about the ICSS Layer 2 Ethernet solution, please contact Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions directly.

About tel(x)

tel(x) is the premier operator of telecom "meet-me" network interconnection facilities in North America, with twelve facilities nationwide.  By providing a neutral marketplace for network services, tel(x) promotes, encourages and facilitates business opportunities between and among its carrier and enterprise clients.  Known for its "best of class" facilities and customer support services, tel(x) strives to avail its customers of significant growth opportunities. tel(x) is a privately held company, headquartered in New York City, USA, with operations in Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Weehawken.  

For more information about tel(x)’s solutions visit www.telx.com

About Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS)

ICSS, the international wholesale arm of Deutsche Telekom Group, is one of the biggest Voice carriers worldwide and an increasingly important IP player across a growing European market with excellent interregional connections between Europe and the Americas and Asia.

With continuously changing markets, ICSS has redesigned its portfolio from traditional Voice and transport services to advanced innovative wholesale services and customized IP solutions. ICSS’s business activities and efforts focus on serving the following market segments: Broadband (ISPs, WISPs, and VoIP), mobile operators and MVNOs, content/application and media providers, corporate service providers and VNOs, fixed Voice carriers, and carriers’ carriers and their customers through a worldwide sales network. The basis for the delivery of ICSS’s services is an expanding ultra-modern infrastructure - Deutsche Telekom’s international network.

For further information, see www.deutschetelekom.com/icss