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| Westin Building |
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| Information |
| Location |
2001 Sixth Avenue, Seattle, USA |
| Status |
Complete |
| Constructed |
1981 |
| Use |
Office/Carrier hotel |
| Height |
| Roof |
409 ft (124.7 m) |
| Top floor |
34 |
| Technical details |
| Floor count |
34 |
| Floor area |
386,103 ft² (35,870.1 m²) |
| Elevator count |
8 |
The Westin Building is a major telecommunications hub and carrier hotel facility located in downtown Seattle, Washington.[1]. The building is also home to the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) and Pacific Northwest Gigapop's Pacific Wave Exchange.[2]
The facility has a pair of "Meet-me Rooms" on the 19th floor, which are used by telecommunication carriers and internet service providers to cross-connect their individual networks. These carriers situate their POPs within racks spread throughout the building utilizing optical fiber cabling back to the meet-me room thereby facilitating interconnection with other carriers' infrastructure within the building. The Westin Building's meet-me room is the heart of the facility,where buyers and sellers of broadband services offer interconnectivity to their backbones and diverse services without the need to utilize telephone company provided interconnections.[3]
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Seattle, Washington skyscrapers and towers |
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Heron Tower · 1823 Minor · 2015 2nd Avenue · 1931 2nd Avenue · 8th and Stewart Condominiums
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| Approved |
2000 Third Avenue · AVA · Seventh at Westlake Tower · Second and Pike Condominiums · 2301 6th Avenue Tower I · 2301 6th Avenue Tower II
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