CTC Communications has completed construction of the Advanced Technology Center, a 50,000-sf Class A Data Center, at its headquarters in Waltham. The new facility will allow the integrated communications carrier to lower costs and speed service for new products and applications, and will enhance opportunities for the company’s customers to outsource their mission-critical equipment and applications.
Telecom giant WorldCom, based in Clinton, Miss., opened a new 110,000-sf data center in Billerica in October. The facility offers security, climate-control, and power-supply features, as well as on-site tech support, bandwidth options, performance reporting, and access to WorldCom's global Internet protocol network. WorldCom's long-term goal is to open approximately 70 data centers around the world that offer the company's hosting and Internet-services business.
ETS-Lindgren has consolidated its Austin, Florida, and Minnesota offices in a new 70,000-sf plant in Cedar Park. The company performs tests for electromagnetic compatibility, and manufactures products along that line. The lack of radio frequency noise at Cedar Park was one feature that attracted ETS to the site. Plant and equipment costs for the new facility amounted to $10 million. The company is a subsidiary of St. Louis-based ESCO Technologies.
Data-Centers Now, based in Rockville, Md., is planning CyberPlex@Dulles, a project comprising office space (2.4 million sf), telecom and Internet space (860,000 sf) and an electricity substation to provide power to the facility. The fortress-like data center, housing critical computer data and equipment, will be located at a 425-acre site in eastern Loudon County. The project is valued at $50 million over the next 10 years.
Hughes Network Systems, a unit of California-based Hughes Electronics, has just opened its new $20 million, 43,000-sf operations center for the company’s satellite-based broadband network, DirecWay. The new facility, which is a consolidation of eight operations, will be the control center for the $.14 billion DirecWay service—a two-way connection that enables users to both receive and send data over the same wireless receiver.
DataCentersNow has completed CyberFortress II, a 109,800-sf vault-like data center in Manassas. For companies requiring highly secure facilities to house their telecom and Web sites, CyberFortress II offers bullet-proof glass doors, thick walls, and independent power generation, as well as raised floors and large fiber-optic pipes.
Telecom giant WorldCom Inc., based in Clinton, Miss., opened a new 110,000-sf data center in Billerica in October 2001. The facility offers security, climate-control, and power-supply features, as well as on-site tech support, bandwidth options, performance reporting, and access to WorldCom’s global Internet protocol network. WorldCom’s long-term goal is to open approximately 70 data centers around the world that offer the company’s hosting and Internet-services business.
A subsidiary of Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, has opened a new 136,000-sf building at a 12-acre site in Valley Forge. The new three-story facility will consolidate 500 company employees currently housed in three separate locations in the area.
Clear Channel Communications Inc. plans to break ground in the Stone Oak area on a 3-story, 120,000-sf facility that will house approximately 300 employees--the company’s IT personnel and the accounting division. The 26-acre site could accommodate up to three 120,000-sf buildings and a five-level parking structure. Clear Channel is working with Carter-Burgess on a master plan for its new campus.
Cingular Wireless intends to build a data center on land the company purchased in Alpharetta. Slated for completion in the first quarter of 2002, the facility will be developed by Holder Properties.
Communications firm Acterna has contracted Rand Construction of Arlington to build a new 184,000-sf headquarters and 138,000-sf manufacturing facility in Germantown, Pa. Located in the Milestone Business Park, the 323,000-sf project will be designed by Hickok Warner Fox Architects, with construction management provided by The Orr Co.
Astrolink International LLC is planning a new 80,000-sf telecommunications Network Operations Center at the Innovation @ Prince William site in Manassas. Scheduled to begin in August 2001, the $205 million project will function as a global telecommunication network providing state-of-the-art satellite technology. Service will be initiated in the second quarter of 2003.
Bedminster, N.J.-based Verizon Wireless plans to build a 175,000-sf network operations center in the Solana business complex in Southlake. The $20 million center is one of two centers (the other in Bedminster) that monitor and control the firm's nationwide network. Employing 400 people in its first phase, the facility could potentially expand to 350,000 sf and accommodate 1,000 employees.
King Products Inc. has won architectural sign contracts in excess of $2 million to provide way finding signs for the main terminal at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., and for Terminal "F" at the Philadelphia International Airport in Pennsylvania.
Astrolink will locate its new $205 million network operations center in the Prince William County-owned Innovation office park in Manassas, Va. The Bethesda-based wireless broadband company is also building a global telecommunications satellite network for broadband and Internet services.
