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Switch and Data Announces Agreement with Interxion to Provide Colocation and Interconnection Solutions across North America and Europe



    Switch and Data (NASDAQ: SDXC), a leading provider of Internet
    exchange and co-location services, announced today that it has agreed
    with Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data
    centers, to jointly market their portfolios of network-neutral data
    center and interconnection services across North America and Europe.
    Interxion operates the broadest footprint of carrier-neutral data
    centers in Europe and Switch and Data offers the broadest market
    coverage in North America. Together the two companies can help
    companies reach new customers and distribute content to end users at
    56 sites across the world´s two largest markets.

    The account management teams of Interxion and Switch and Data can
    now offer solutions across both footprints to their customers and
    prospects. Content companies, enterprises, and communications service
    providers have demonstrated strong demand for co-location and
    interconnection services to reach new customers in distant markets and
    place content near end-users to improve performance. Together Switch
    and Data and Interxion now provide the broadest solution in the North
    American and European markets.

    "Switch and Data and Interxion can now offer customers the
    broadest and most diverse co-location, Internet exchange and
    interconnection solutions in both North America and Europe," explains
    Ernie Sampera, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Switch
    and Data. "We are excited to be able to offer Interxion´s extensive
    footprint across Europe and strong technical support to our customers
    and give them an integrated solution to expand their businesses into
    new global markets."

    Established in 1998, Interxion has the broadest footprint of
    carrier-neutral data centers in Europe with 22 sites, in 13 cities
    across 11 countries. The company offers services from co-location in
    cabinets, cages, and private rooms to fully-outsourced data center
    solutions for disaster recovery that are designed to provide the
    highest level of operational resilience. Interxion also is home to 15
    European Internet exchanges and provides access to 460 Internet
    service provider and telecommunications carrier networks. The company
    offers customers ultra high power density solutions to support blade
    server environments up to 20 kW per rack.

    "Our customers are increasingly interested in a global solution
    and this strategic alliance with Switch and Data allows us to offer
    them access to the broadest footprint in the North American market and
    access to PAIX, the world´s first commercial Internet exchange," said
    Anthony Foy, Group Managing Director for Interxion. "Our customers
    will welcome an easy way to interconnect, peer and distribute content
    to the North American market."

    Switch and Data was founded in 1998, operates 34 sites in 23
    markets, and provides one of the highest customer satisfaction scores
    for technical and engineering support in the industry. Leading content
    companies, enterprises, and communications service providers rely on
    Switch and Data for customer reach, security, and world-class service,
    delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network
    of interconnections in North America. Switch and Data offers custom
    colocation solutions in racks, cabinets or cages, and offers power and
    cooling capacities at up to more than 200 watts of power per square
    foot.

    About Switch and Data

    Switch and Data is a leading provider of Internet exchange and
    co-location services. Based in Tampa, Florida, Switch and Data
    operates one of the largest footprints of neutral Internet exchange
    and co-location facilities in North America serving more than 880
    customers. Switch and Data´s PAIX is recognized worldwide as the
    premier name in peering and Internet exchange services and is home to
    one of the largest commercial exchange points in North America.

    For more information, please visit www.switchanddata.com.

    About Interxion

    Interxion is a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data
    centers, offering high power, highly flexible, scalable co-location,
    interconnection and related managed services to customers from a wide
    range of industries. With 22 data centers across Europe, Interxion
    operates the broadest footprint of carrier-neutral data centers in
    Europe and supports over 1,000 customers including enterprises,
    systems integrators, Internet Service Providers, hosting and
    telecommunications companies. In Interxion data centers customers have
    access to 15 major European Internet exchanges and 460 ISP/Carrier
    networks. Interxion data centres meet the most stringent industry
    requirements, offering a very high level of security, 2n availability
    of power, and a multiple and cost effective choice of connectivity
    solutions. Interxion has extensive experience in designing, delivering
    and operating the ultra high power density solutions supporting blade
    server environments with up to 20 kW per rack.

    For more information see www.interxion.com