A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Carrier Hotel Landscape View from California

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Carrier Hotels A CRG West Definition Carrier hotels offer a neutral meet-me point for facility-based networks, carriers, service providers, entertainment, and content distribution providers to easily interconnect their networks and services. The carrier hotel is rapidly evolving to support packet exchange services, in addition to classic physical interconnections.

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design One Wilshire Profile Meet-Me-Room – 236 tenants CRG West MMR/IDC space – 175,000sqft Private telecom tenant space - ~300,000sqft Building street level conduit penetrations Building vertical conduit risers – 1231 Total building telecom-related tenants - ~390 Average telecom orders processed – 25/day

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Expanding the Meet-Me-Point (Was Expanding the Meet-Me-Room) MMRs have limited geography MMR Space is very expensive Requires multiple locations within a carrier hotel Physical diversity supporting redundancy and disaster recovery Carrier hotel continues to support Tier 1 and carrier bypass

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design A 3 Dimensional View MDF Telecom Building Cable coming into the building from below street level Pvt Suite MDFMDF MDF Cages and Cabinets Lease and License Cages, Cabinets, Suites 7 th Floor 27 th Floor 11 th Floor 19 th Floor From the Street At the MDF Throughout the Building From the Street From the MMR From the Building

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Addition of the Packet Exchange MMP is already a large exchange point Facility-based carrier consolidation Physical interconnections are a large monthly expense –Large networks do not pay for XConnects –Smaller networks carry cost burden Packet Exchange allows one-to-many relations Ethernet is king Simplify remote management and trouble shooting

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Any 2 Exchange Neutral Internet exchange point Member advisory counsel 104 members 10Gbps) –ISPs –International networks –CDNs –VoIP –Entertainment Route servers Distributed California exchange

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design Profile Changes Stronger influence of international carriers Larger application hosting companies –CDNs –Entertainment (CATV, online gaming, etc) –Hosting Migration from TDM to VoIP

A Better Internet …by Design A Better Internet …by Design