DuPont Fabros Technology Inc. And Verizon Expand Relationship

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- DuPont Fabros Technology Inc. DFT, a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, large multi-tenant wholesale data centers, today announced it has expanded its relationship with Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Already a presence in DFT's other data centers in Northern Virginia as well as California, Illinois and New Jersey, the expanded relationship welcomes Verizon into the largest data center in DFT's portfolio, ACC7. Officially celebrated at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in late September, ACC7 is one of the largest multi-tenant data centers in North America, containing 446,000 gross square feet and 41.6 megawatts of critical power when fully developed. It is the sixth data center on DFT's 1.6 million square-foot Ashburn campus.

Verizon provides DFT's customers with a variety of enterprise-class networking services, including Private IP, public Internet, Ethernet and wavelength services. With 800,000 route miles, Verizon manages thousands of customer networks and more than 300,000 security, network and hosting devices in 142 countries and territories, including more than 120,000 routers, 60,000 switches, 80 technologies and 44,000 third-party circuits. Verizon operates and owns one of the largest Tier1 IP backbones on the globe.

"Our customers rely on DFT to provide them with access to the fastest Internet speeds and lowest latency carrier options available to keep their mission-critical applications running," said Vinay Nagpal, Director, Carrier Relations, DuPont Fabros Technology. "Expanding our relationship with Verizon as a Tier1 provider enables us to offer customers at our ACC7 data center an even more robust set of connectivity service options so they can select the offering that best works for their needs."

"Verizon is committed to delivering an unparalleled network experience for its customers," said Shawn Hakl, Enterprise Networking Platforms and Managed Products for Verizon. "By expanding our relationship with DuPont Fabros Technology, we are enabling more customers in more locations to take advantage of our enterprise-class offerings so they can seamlessly meet their mission-critical requirements."

About DuPont Fabros Technology Inc.
DuPont Fabros Technology Inc. DFT is a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, large multi-tenanted wholesale data centers. The Company's facilities are designed to offer highly specialized, efficient and safe computing environments in a low-cost operating model. The Company's customers outsource their mission-critical applications and include national and international enterprises across numerous industries, such as technology, Internet content providers, media, communications, cloud-based, healthcare and financial services. The Company's 11 data centers are located in four major U.S. markets, which total 2.75 million gross square feet and 240 megawatts of available critical load to power the servers and computing equipment of its customers. DuPont Fabros Technology, a real estate investment trust (REIT), is headquartered in Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.dft.com.

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