Alexander Francis Muse is an entrepreneur best known as the founder of LayerOne

LayerOne

LayerOne, Inc. acquired by Switch & Data , in 2005, was a U.S. private corporation that provides carrier-neutral datacenters and interconnection.-Services:...

. Muse is the son of Ralph Buckley Muse a successful United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 business executive. He was co-founder of Architel

Architel

Architel Holdings LLC is an American professional services company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Architel provides computer and network support. Architel operates multiple data center and network operation facilities with personnel in more than six countries around the globe...

, an information technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 company. He is also a cofounder of Big in Japan

Big in Japan

Big in Japan was a punk band that emerged from Liverpool, England in the late 1970s. They are better known for the later successes of their band members than for their own music...

, a company which provides platforms for social-networking websites. Additional ventures include Simpleticket and WhiteBox

WHITEbox

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. In 2005 Muse created a reality television series called MotorSport Ranch

MotorSport Ranch

MotorSport Ranch is an American reality television series created by Alexander Muse. The show centers around a real-life country club where instead of a golf course or tennis courts, the members have access to two world class road courses...

 that initially aired on INHD and can currently be seen on VOOM. Muse maintains the popular weblog Texas Startup Blog.

LayerOne

Prior to founding LayerOne, Muse held various sales positions with ICG Communications (metropolitan fiber provider), BBN Planet (internet backbone provider) and Broadwing (long haul fiber provider). Realizing a need for each of these companies to connect to one another, Muse wrote a 300 page business plan detailing his concept for neutral interconnection points in each major city in the United States. Muse pioneered the concept of 'buy-side' interconnection, whereby carriers were encouraged to participate in 'pooling points' in major cities without upfront costs. Carriers who sold connectivity were charged a monthly recurring fee based on the capacity of the connection. Within three years the company provided interconnection services to every major and most minor telecommunications companies in the United States with the notable exception of Sprint.

Architel

In 2003 Muse left LayerOne to become CEO of Architel, an information technology services company he co-founded with Scott H. Ryan in 2001. Architel

Architel

Architel Holdings LLC is an American professional services company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, Architel provides computer and network support. Architel operates multiple data center and network operation facilities with personnel in more than six countries around the globe...

 provides outsourced IT services to small and medium sized businesses relying on an all-you-can-eat flat fee delivery model.

Personal life

Muse lives in Dallas, Texas

Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...

with his wife, Michele Muse, and children, Ethan Alexander and Erin Elizabeth.

External links

• Texas Startup Blog, Muse's blog, launched June 2005