Westin Building
The facility has a pair of "Meet-me Rooms" on the 19th floor, which are used by telecommunication carriers and internet service providers to cross-connect their individual networks. These carriers situate their POPs within racks spread throughout the building, connecting back to the meet-me room via optical fiber cabling, facilitating interconnection with other carriers' infrastructure within the building. The Westin Building's meet-me room is the heart of the facility, where buyers and sellers of broadband services offer interconnectivity to their backbones and diverse services without the need to utilize telephone company provided interconnections.
In 2020, real estate investment trust Digital Realty acquired a majority stake in the building and assumed management responsibilities.
References
- ^ Musgrove, Marc; Stewart, John (2020-02-12). "Digital Realty to Acquire Forty-Nine Percent Interest In the Westin Building Exchange in Seattle" (Press release). San Francisco: Digital Realty. PRNewswire. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
- ^ Moss, Sebastian (2020-02-13). "Digital Realty to acquire majority stake in Westin Building Exchange in Seattle". Data Center Dynamics. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
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