Telehouse America is a data center services provider in the United States with carrier-neutral colocation facilities in New York

New York

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 and Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, as well as international Internet exchanges, managed IT services and disaster recovery solutions. In 1996, Telehouse America launched the New York International Internet Exchange point (NYIIX), Manhattan's largest and most heavily trafficked peering exchange still operational and located in its data center facility at 25 Broadway, as well as established the first Los Angeles International Internet Exchange point (LAIIX), a peering gateway to the Asia-Pac Rim.

Today, Telehouse America operates SAS 70 Type II data centers and colocation facilities in New York, including the Teleport Center a 162000 sq ft (15,050.3 m²). disaster recovery

Disaster recovery

Disaster recovery is the process, policies and procedures related to preparing for recovery or continuation of technology infrastructure critical to an organization after a natural or human-induced disaster. Disaster recovery is a subset of business continuity...

 center and the company's headquarters in Staten Island

Staten Island

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, NY and the Broadway Center, downtown Manhattan

Manhattan

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 multi-tenant data center at 25 Broadway; in addition to the Los Angeles Center, a full-service data center in Los Angeles, California. Telehouse America in conjunction with its sister company Telehouse Europe also operate Global Interlink, an ultra fast ethernet

Fast Ethernet

In computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s. Of the fast Ethernet standards 100BASE-TX is by far the most common and is supported by the...

 transatlantic IP interconnection between the New York, Los Angeles, London and Paris facilities. Utilizing virtual LAN

Virtual LAN

A virtual local area network, virtual LAN or VLAN, is a group of hosts with a common set of requirements that communicate as if they were attached to the same broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location...

 (VLAN), Global Interlink allows the interconnection of any ethernet capable devices hosted within the Telehouse North American and European sites, to provide connectivity on a global platform. Global Interlink is the first service offered by Telehouse America that leverages its parent company, KDDI

KDDI

is a Japanese telecommunications operator formed in October 2000 through the merger of DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp. It has its headquarters in the Garden Air Tower in Iidabashi, Chiyoda, Tokyo....

 Corporation's Global Powered Ethernet Network (G-PEN) infrastructure.

Telehouse America's consulting and operations teams provide Manage E Service which delivers help desk and hardware support, managed IT infrastructure, security and compliance and planning services from one point-of-contact. Telehouse America also owns and operates public Internet exchange point

Internet Exchange Point

An Internet exchange point is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks . IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit...

s in New York (NYIIX) and Los Angeles (LAIIX). Both exchanges provide a peering

Peering

In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...

 platform for participants to peer (exchange internet traffic) at up to 10Gbps speeds using IPv4

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...

 and IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

protocols.

Its sister company, Telehouse Europe operates six facilities across London and Paris, which combined provide 45,000 square meters of data center space. Both companies are part of the worldwide KDDI Corporation, Japan's second largest telecommunications provider, which operates data centre facilities in America and Asia. KDDI is a US$39.9 billion (operational revenue), Global 300-listed company.

Telehouse has acquired 60000 square feet (5,574.2 m²) of data center space at 85 10th Avenue in New York.