EdgeConneX® And NWAX Partner To Build New Node Into Hillsboro Edge Data Center®
Partnership is designed to improve local internet community by enabling superior connectivity, performance, cost, and content delivery.
EdgeConneX® has announced a partnership with Northwest Access Exchange (NWAX) to build a new remote NWAX node into its Portland, Oregon Edge Data Center® (EDC), available in the fourth quarter of 2015. Located at 23245 NW Evergreen Parkway, Hillsboro, Oregon, the build will facilitate connectivity advancement of the local Internet community with superior content delivery to local-market consumers. The partnership also allows EdgeConneX customers to connect and exchange traffic locally with NWAX's broad base of participants.
EdgeConneX will provide a dark fiber path between the NWAX node inside its Portland EDC and the NWAX Core Switch, located at 921 SW Washington Street, Portland, Oregon, which will allow bandwidth to scale as members are added and traffic flow increases. This remote switch provides another location for NWAX members to connect to the exchange. NWAX currently has 72 members and is the 14th largest IX in the nation. Current customers taking advantage of direct access to NWAX's bilateral and multilateral peering services include wireless carriers, service providers, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), enterprises, healthcare providers and government entities.