Westin Building

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Westin Building


Information
Location 2001 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, USA
Status Complete
Constructed 1981
Use Office/Carrier hotel
Height
Roof 409 ft (124.7 m)
Top floor 34
Technical details
Floor count 34
Floor area 386,103 ft² (35,870.1 m²)
Elevator count 8

The Westin Building is a major telecommunications hub and carrier hotel facility located in downtown Seattle, Washington.[1]. The building is also home to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop's Pacific Wave Exchange.[2]

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 utilizing optical fiber cabling back to the meet-me room thereby 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.[3]

References

  1. ^ Westin Building. "Contact Us."
  2. ^ Carrier Hotels, Featured Sites. "The Westin Building, Seattle"
  3. ^ Rawlson King. "Meet-Me Rooms Provide Cheap Carrier Cross-Connects". The Web Host Review.

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