Digital Realty Trust Facilities Offer Meet Me Room Tenants Unique Value
Proposition
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Digital Realty Trust,
Inc. (NYSE: DLR), the leading owner and manager of corporate data centers and
Internet gateways, today announced recent agreements with eight new and
expanding tenants in its nationwide portfolio of state-of-the-art Meet Me
Rooms.
Meet Me Rooms are facilities that allow telecom carriers and network
service providers to cost-effectively cross connect their networks to support
the buying, selling and sharing of bandwidth. Digital Realty Trust offers
telecommunications carriers and network ISPs advanced Meet Me Room facilities
through its portfolio of Internet Gateway Facilities, providing tenants
connectivity to other carriers and colocation customers with no cross
connection fees.
Companies that have recently signed agreements to become tenants or expand
their presence in Digital Realty Trust Meet Me Rooms in San Francisco, Dallas,
Los Angeles and Santa Clara include:
* AboveNet
* Broadwing Communications
* FiberTower
* ILD Communications
* NetLogic
* UnitedLayer
* Universal Access
* XO Communications
"Digital Realty Trust's Meet Me Rooms offer companies a truly compelling
value proposition: State-of-the-art space in the world's premier Internet
Gateways; an exceptional operations team with an unwavering focus on customer
service; and unique amenities such as no-cost cross connections," said Michael
F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty Trust.
For more information about Digital Realty Trust's Meet Me Room facilities,
please visit www.digitalrealtytrust.com.
About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, repositions and manages
technology-related real estate. The Company's 44 properties contain
applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of
technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise data center tenants.
Comprising approximately 8.0 million net rentable square feet, excluding space
held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust's property portfolio is located
throughout the United States and in Western Europe. For additional
information, please visit the company's website at www.digitalrealtytrust.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements based on current
expectations, forecasts and assumptions, including current expectations,
forecasts and assumptions related to our market position. These current
expectations, forecasts and assumptions involve risks and uncertainties that
could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially. These risks and
uncertainties include adverse economic or real estate developments in our
markets or the technology industry; general economic conditions; defaults on
or non-renewal of leases by tenants; increased interest rates and operating
costs; failure to obtain necessary outside financing; decreased rental rates
or increased vacancy rates; difficulties in identifying properties to acquire
and completing acquisitions; failure to successfully operate acquired
properties and operations; our relatively limited operating history in Europe;
failure of acquired properties to perform as expected; failure to deliver
secure facilities or the power required by our tenants; failure to maintain
the Company's status as a REIT; environmental uncertainties and risks related
to natural disasters; financial market fluctuations; changes in foreign
currency exchange rates; and changes in real estate and zoning laws and
increases in real property tax rates. For a further list and description of
such risks and uncertainties, see the reports and other filings by the Company
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company disclaims any
intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
For Additional Information:
Media Contact:
Rich Miller
415-462-5633
rmiller@digitalrealtytrust.com
Business Contact:
Chris Crosby
214-231-2491
ccrosby@digitalrealtytrust.com
Investor/Analyst Contact:
Bill Stein
415-738-6500
SOURCE Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
01/24/2006
Web site: http://www.digitalrealtytrust.com
(DLR)
01/24/2006 07:00 EST http://www.prnewswire.com
