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Telx, an interconnection and colocation provider, has expanded its data center at the 111 8^th Avenue facility in New York City. This 50 percent increase in space and a new state-of-the-art data center facility provides an additional 21,500 square feet of data center capacity.

With this expansion, Telx will extend capacity to financial institutions and cloud infrastructure and software providers to offer a direct connection into the Hudson Street Ninth Avenue fiber highway – one of the main fiber optic arteries in New York City.

“Our decision to add more data center capacity to our 111 8^th Avenue facility is in response to a sharp increase in demand from our financial services customers and cloud application service providers,” explained Eric Shepcaro (News - Alert), CEO of Telx, in a statement.

“With the expanded footprint, we can immediately meet the latency, proximity, security and services requirements of the most demanding financial services and cloud computing environments.”

Financial firms in need of NY Metro area colocation services can benefit from the larger facility and leverage Telx’s secure, direct connections to dozens of markets, exchanges, communities and vendors in just hours instead of weeks.

These same firms can quickly and cost-effectively reach an expanding base of exchanges, broker dealers, capital market vendors, market data providers, order management vendors, buy-side and sell-side firms in the expanded NYC data center suites offered by Telx.

“The Telx 111 8^th Avenue facility has become one of our primary Points of Presence (PoP) growth locations in the New York metro area thanks to its low-latency connectivity and resiliency,” said Jeffrey Britell, director of Network Planning, IPC Systems (News - Alert).“Telx has built a high-value ecosystem for the financial services industry, and their expansion of the 8^th Avenue facility will enable them to provide even more connectivity choice to their customers.”

Telx positions its 111 8^th Avenue in the industry well as it is strategically located on top of one of the main fiber optic arteries in New York City, the Hudson Street Ninth Avenue fiber highway.

This location also offers a robust ecosystem of service providers and enterprises, ensuring its data center suites are optimal for secure enterprise cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) environments.

In other Telx news, the company was recently selected as a connectivity partner by SoftLayer (News - Alert), a global provider of on-demand data center, hosting and cloud services. Telx delivers a secure, connection-rich environment from which SoftLayer can offer low-latency access to its applications and network infrastructure.

Telx also announced that Criteo has established a colocation suite and secure Point of Presence (PoP) within Telx's 111 8th Ave. location, helping them expand presence in the United States.