Cologix, a network neutral interconnection and data center company, provides data center solutions from 24 prime interconnection locations across 9 strategic North American markets. 1600+ leading network, managed services, cloud, media, content, financial services and enterprise customers leverage Cologix to support their business critical infrastructure to connect them to customers, vendors and partners. The edge markets that Cologix operates in are: Columbus, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Lakeland, Florida; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; Northern New Jersey; and Vancouver, British Columbia. The company supports five Internet exchanges in Toronto (TORIX), Minneapolis (MICE), Columbus (OHIO-IX), Vancouver (VANIX) and Montreal (QIX).
Cologix provides choice of 450+ carrier networks within their network neutral Meet-Me-Rooms and provides choice of 200+ cloud service providers including connectivity to the cloud hyperscalers: AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute & Softlayer.
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United States
Columbus
Cologix acquired DataCenter.BZ in February 2014, procuring 86,000 square feet across two data center facilities at 555 Scherers Court in Columbus, Ohio. The site is located at the intersection of two trunks of nationwide fiber optic network that carries most Internet transmissions. Cologix is currently building a 160K SQF, 18+MW data center on its existing 8 acre campus in Columbus. The new $130M+ facility will become Columbus's largest neutral data center and will be directly linked to Cologix's existing data centers, offering connectivity to 45+ network service providers, 20+ cloud service providers and the Ohio-IX Internet Exchange. The data center is built based on a concurrently maintainable design with 2N power and N+1 cooling. Further attributes include an EF-4 tornado rating, K-rated perimeter fence and 24x7 guards. The redundancy, scale, security and connectivity enables Cologix to address growing market demand ranging from individual cabinets to multi-megawatt deployments.
Dallas
Dallas is situated at the major crossroads of network connectivity in the South Central United States. Cologix operates 40,000 square feet across two data centers in the Dallas Infomart, including a meet-me-room. The Dallas INFOMART building, is the region's preeminent carrier hotel located at 1950 North Stemmons Freeway. The INFOMART has the largest number of carriers out of any single building in a 900-mile radius, with more than 8,700 strands of fiber.
Jacksonville
Jacksonville is fast becoming an important interconnection point connecting Internet traffic between North and South America, which telecom research group TeleGeography recently cited as the highest capacity route between the continents. In addition, it continues to be a very important enterprise market with many large public and private enterprises based in Jacksonville.
Cologix operates two data centers in Jacksonville, Florida, including one site, JAX 1, at 421 West Church Street (the region's carrier hotel) and a second data center, JAX 2, at 4800 Spring Park Road which provides enterprise colocation and disaster recovery. Cologix maintains a meet-me-room in the 421 West Church Street building, which is wired with submarine communications cable to connect to Central and South America. Cologix connects the NAP of the Americas in Miami to Cologix's Jacksonville data center and meet-me-room at 421 West Church Street. The 421 West Church Street site facilitates connections at the intersection of metro, long-haul and subsea fiber routes.
Lakeland
Lakeland, FL is centrally located in central Florida between Tampa and Orlando at an elevation approximately 20 stories above sea level. Lakeland's proximity to major market centers makes it a natural location for primary or secondary IT sites for enterprises in Orlando, Miami and Tampa. Cologix operates 100,000 square feet of data center space in Lakeland, Florida offering disaster recovery and colocation services from their data center.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the 16th largest market in the United States and home to more Fortune 500 companies per capita than any other market in the country. In addition, the city has long been a network aggregation point for the Upper Midwest and an increasingly attractive alternative to Chicago for network and server deployments.
Cologix operates data center space and the meet-me-room at the carrier hotel at the 511 Building (Minneapolis) in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota providing access to more than 80+ network providers. Cologix also provides the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange (MICE) with space and power in the 511 Building.
Northern New Jersey
Cologix's Northern New Jersey data centers are located about 30 miles outside of Manhattan and 280+ feet above sea level. This location provides proximity to New York City for connectivity to key carrier hotel facilities, while offering geographic diversity on a completely separate power grid. Cologix operates four New Jersey data centers and business continuity sites, within more than 230,000 SQF of usable floor space, provide enterprise-grade colocation, cloud and managed services.
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Canada
Cologix operates 11 network neutral data centers in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Montreal
Cologix operates more than 100,000 square feet of colocation space across seven data centers in Montreal, including in the carrier hotel at 1250 Rene Levesque West. A dedicated fiber ring connects the seven Cologix Montreal sites to share connectivity. Additionally, the Quebec Internet Exchange (QIX) deployed a core node with Cologix at 1250 Rene Levesque.
Toronto
Cologix operates two downtown Toronto data centers at 151 Front Street (the area's carrier hotel) and 905 King West in Toronto. The sites share connectivity through the use of a diverse metro fiber ring. Cologix Toronto offers access to more than 150+ networks and provides a direct on-ramp to the Toronto Internet Exchange (TORIX).
Vancouver
Cologix operates two data centers in Vancouver, British Columbia in the Harbour Centre at 555 West Hastings Street and 1050 West Pender. The Vancouver Internet Exchange (VANIX), an open and participant-run non-profit Internet exchange, deployed a core node in Cologix's facility at 1050 West Pender Street in Vancouver. Cologix is partnered with VANIX, contributing space and fiber optic network connections.
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