Digital Realty Expands Internet Exchange Platform into Chicago and Northern Virginia

Colocation leader now providing internet exchange services in six metro locations nationwide

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Jan 21, 2019, 13:00 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today the expansion of the Digital Realty Internet Exchange Platform, or "DRIX," to Digital Realty data centers in Ashburn, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois. The two new locations extend the company's internet exchange service offering beyond the existing network in New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, connecting a variety of facilities within each of these metros to the peering platform.

The expansion of Digital Realty's internet exchange platform builds upon the growth of the company's colocation footprint in Northern Virginia, the world's largest data center market, in addition to its established stronghold at 350 East Cermak in Chicago, one of the world's single largest data center buildings and the network hub for internet traffic in the Midwestern U.S.

Digital Realty is the only internet exchange in these metros with significant existing and expansion capacity, offering solutions from a single cabinet up to multi-megawatt deployments. "The explosion of IP traffic has created the need for a highly scalable, reliable and cost-efficient internet exchange solution," said Digital Realty Chief Technology Officer Chris Sharp. "Our track record as a stable, trusted business partner has enabled us to reduce the complexities of interconnection for our customers, deliver innovative ways to simplify provisioning and improve their network performance for a better end-user experience."

DRIX is a neutral, privately-owned internet exchange that aims to accommodate the internet community's demand for more independent, reliable, and cost-effective exchange options. DRIX provides customers a high-performance internet peering platform that enables a broad cross-section of customers such as carriers, cloud service providers and digital media companies, to quickly and easily exchange IP traffic. DRIX is designed to reduce operating costs, improve network performance, and add another layer of network resiliency, all over a single platform. Through DRIX, Digital Realty customers gain access to a vibrant ecosystem of exchange partners, which complements the comprehensive collection of clouds and networks concentrated in Digital Realty's meet-me-rooms around the globe.

About Digital Realty
Digital Realty supports the data center, colocation and interconnection strategies of more than 2,300 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. www.digitalrealty.com

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This press release contains forward-looking statements which are based on current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially, including statements related to: Digital Realty Internet Exchange (DRIX) and the expected locations, timing and benefits of expanding DRIX. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the following: reduced demand for data centers or decreases in information technology spending; decreased rental rates, increased operating costs or increased vacancy rates; increased competition or available supply of data center space; the suitability of our data centers and data center infrastructure, delays or disruptions in connectivity or availability of power, or failures or breaches of our physical and information security infrastructure or services; our dependence upon significant customers, bankruptcy or insolvency of a major customer or a significant number of smaller customers, or defaults on or non-renewal of leases by customers; breaches of our obligations or restrictions under our contracts with our customers; our inability to successfully develop and lease new properties and development space, and delays or unexpected costs in development of properties; the impact of current global and local economic, credit and market conditions; our inability to retain data center space that we lease or sublease from third parties; difficulty acquiring or operating properties in foreign jurisdictions; our failure to realize the intended benefits from, or disruptions to our plans and operations or unknown or contingent liabilities related to, our recent acquisitions; our failure to successfully integrate and operate acquired or developed properties or businesses; difficulties in identifying properties to acquire and completing acquisitions; risks related to joint venture investments, including as a result of our lack of control of such investments; risks associated with using debt to fund our business activities, including re-financing and interest rate risks, our failure to repay debt when due, adverse changes in our credit ratings or our breach of covenants or other terms contained in our loan facilities and agreements; our failure to obtain necessary debt and equity financing, and our dependence on external sources of capital; financial market fluctuations and changes in foreign currency exchange rates; adverse economic or real estate developments in our industry or the industry sectors that we sell to, including risks relating to decreasing real estate valuations and impairment charges and goodwill and other intangible asset impairment charges; our inability to manage our growth effectively; losses in excess of our insurance coverage; environmental liabilities and risks related to natural disasters; our inability to comply with rules and regulations applicable to our company; our failure to maintain our status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes; our operating partnership's failure to qualify as a partnership for federal income tax purposes; restrictions on our ability to engage in certain business activities; and changes in local, state, federal and international laws and regulations, including related to taxation, 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 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2018, and June 30, 2018 and September 30, 2018. 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.

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