San Francisco Bay Area (Palo Alto & San Jose) Colocation, Interconnection and PAIX Peering Services

Switch and Data has two data centers in the San Francisco Bay Area offering colocation, interconnection and PAIX Internet exchange and peering services.  We are located at 529 Bryant Street in Palo Alto and at 534 Stockton Avenue in San Jose. 

Switch and Data’s Palo Alto data center is distinguished as the pre-eminent Internet exchange point in North America. The PAIX peering fabric is well known in the Internet community primarily for the density of networks that connect to it and because of the policies applied to it to ensure integrity of data exchange.

The Palo Alto data center recently completed a major expansion – doubling the space and quadrupling the power available to our Internet exchange and colocation customers. 

The Switch and Data San Jose data center is located in the heart of Silicon Valley and is one mile from Mae West.  This one-story stand-alone building is a 20,000 square foot facility with numerous connectivity options.  It was retrofitted to Zone 4 seismic reinforcement in April 2000.  Roof rights are available with satellite space and the building offers a clear line of sight in all directions.

The Palo Alto and San Jose colocation and peering data centers are interconnected via the Switch and Data MetroPAIX fabric.  This means that a customer colocating in the Palo Alto data center can interconnect with customers residing in the San Jose data center.  The reverse is also true.  Other data centers that are a part of the San Francisco Bay Area MetroPAIX fabric include eXchange in San Francisco, NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, and AboveNet and Market Post Tower in San Jose.

Please visit the Palo Alto colocation and San Jose colocation site spec pages for more information about our Bay Area sites.

For more information about our locations, or to schedule a site tour, please do not hesitate to contact us.