FORM S-1

Assumed initial public offering price per share

Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2009

Increase per pre-offering share in pro forma net tangible book value per share attributable to sale of common stock in this offering

Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after giving effect to this offering

Dilution of net tangible book value per share to new investors

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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We and the selling stockholders may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

This is the initial public offering of shares of common stock of The Telx Group, Inc.

We are selling shares of our common stock and the selling stockholders are selling shares of our common stock. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the shares of common stock sold by the selling stockholders.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. The initial public offering price of our common stock is expected to be between $ and $ per share. We will apply to list our common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “TELX.”

See the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 9 to read about factors you should consider before buying shares of our common stock.

The underwriters have an option to purchase a maximum of additional shares of our common stock to cover over-allotments of shares of common stock.

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York on , 2010.

Through and including , 2010 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to a dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.

No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representations. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

Market data and industry statistics and forecasts used throughout this prospectus are based on independent industry publications, reports by market research firms and other published independent sources. Tier1 Research, Cisco, Gartner, The Insight Research Corporation, the U.S. Census and Nemertes Research are the primary sources for third-party market data and industry statistics and forecasts. Some data and other information are also based on our good faith estimates, which are derived from our review of internal surveys and independent sources. Although we believe these sources are credible, we have not independently verified the data or information obtained from these sources.

The Gartner reports described herein (the “Gartner Reports”) represent data, research opinion or viewpoints published, as part of a syndicated subscription service by Gartner, Inc. (“Gartner”), and are not representations of fact. Each Gartner Report speaks as of its original publication date (and not as of the date of this prospectus) and the opinions expressed in the Gartner Reports are subject to change without notice.

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights certain information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information you should consider before investing in our common stock. You should carefully read the entire prospectus, including the section entitled “Risk Factors” and our financial statements and related notes, before you decide whether to invest in our common stock. If you invest in our common stock, you are assuming a high degree of risk. See the section entitled “Risk Factors.” References to “we,” “our,” “our company,” “us,” “the company,” “Telx,” or “The Telx Group, Inc.” refer to The Telx Group, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries. References to “GI Partners Funds” refer to GI Partners Fund II, L.P. and GI Partners Side Fund, II, L.P., collectively and references to “GI Partners” refer to the entities that control or manage the GI Partners Funds. Unless otherwise indicated, industry data are derived from publicly available sources, which we have not independently verified.

Business Overview

Telx is a leading provider of network neutral, global interconnection and colocation solutions in the United States. Our interconnection and colocation offerings enable customers to seamlessly connect to hundreds of diverse communications networks and other enterprises. Additionally, we provide a secure and reliable environment to house customers’ mission-critical equipment and time sensitive data. We believe that our 15 facilities, located in nine tier-1 markets, are some of the most strategically positioned datacenters in the United States. These facilities are located at the primary intersections of multiple, major international and domestic fiber routes where we believe Internet and private network traffic is most concentrated and interconnection demand is highest. We believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer gives us greater physical interconnection density than our competitors. Over the last two years, we have grown our revenues from $50.8 million in 2007 to $98.3 million in 2009, representing a compound annual growth rate of 39%.

As a network neutral provider, we are an unbiased intermediary that provides the necessary interconnection products and related services that facilitate the exchange of communications network traffic between our customers. Customers within a Telx facility are able to connect to any other customer within the facility, including up to 290 communications service providers, depending on the facility. These interconnections effectively allow a customer to replace their existing and more expensive network alternatives. Through these interconnections, our facilities host diverse and densely populated ecosystems of communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, and other entities. Our customers benefit from greater choice of networks, reduced network costs, improved capital budget efficiency, improved performance and access to revenue opportunities with accelerated time to market.

With 763 customers and 28,272 total physical interconnections within our facilities as of December 31, 2009, our interconnection-centric model targets customers that value the interconnection density in our secure and reliable environments. The table below is a representative list of those customers:

Communications

Service Providers

Enterprises/Institutions

Online Media, Video and
Content Providers

Government / Cloud / SaaS /
Other

AT&T

Clearwire

Cogent

Level 3 Communications

Qwest

Reliance Globalcom

Sprint

Switch & Data

Tata Telecom

Telecom Italia

Verizon

ACTIV Financial Systems

Emory University

Hewlett Packard

International Securities Exchange (ISE)

University of Florida

CBS

Cumulus Media

Justin TV

JahJah

Viacom

Yahoo!

iland Internet Solutions

NASA (via Arcata
Associates)

Salesforce.com

SoftLayer Technologies

We evaluate market leadership based on publicly available information for physical interconnections per customer and our experience in the industry. Based on this framework, we believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer as of December 31, 2009 makes us a leading network neutral, global interconnection and colocation solutions provider in the United States. We believe that the interconnection density within our facilities creates a network effect that increases the value proposition of our products and related services with each additional customer added to the ecosystems, enhancing our ability to both retain existing customers and attract new customers. Our 15 interconnection and colocation facilities are located in the New York Metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte and Miami.

The global Internet datacenter market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19% from $9.2 billion in 2008 to $15.5 billion in 2011 according to Tier1 Research’s Internet Datacenter Global Markets Overview—2010 report. Increasing demand for our network neutral interconnection and colocation products and related services is being driven by powerful trends, including favorable datacenter supply and demand dynamics, continued growth in Internet traffic, increasing enterprise adoption of datacenter outsourcing and network based applications, continued adoption of Ethernet technologies, continued growth of Internet video, emerging computing technologies such as cloud computing, increasing demand for proximity hosting and low latency (or low time delay) networking, and increasing datacenter power and cooling requirements.

Our business is characterized by significant monthly recurring revenue, low churn (or loss of revenue), and a predictable cost structure. We generate revenue by charging our customers a recurring monthly fee for our interconnection and colocation products and related services, a one-time fee for the installation of related colocation and interconnection products, and an hourly or a subscription fee for technical support services. The combination of our recurring revenues, representing approximately 94% of our total revenue, and our low churn provides us significant visibility into our revenue generating capabilities for the coming years. We believe our interconnection-centric business model differentiates us from our competition. It improves our ability to maximize revenues and profitability relative to other predominately colocation-centric providers that do not have a similar level of interconnection density within a comparable physical footprint. Additionally, our interconnection-centric model improves our profitability and capital efficiency because we can add a significant number of interconnections between existing customers within our facilities without leasing additional space or incurring significant additional costs.

Our revenue growth since 2007 is primarily the result of organic growth, consisting of increasing amounts of our products and related services provided to existing and new customers. From December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2009, we have grown our customer base from 495 to 763 customers representing a 24% compound annual growth rate and our total physical interconnections increased from 19,692 to 28,272 representing a 20% compound annual growth rate. Over the same period, to meet our customers’ increasing demand for our products and related services, we have expanded our footprint from 370,543 gross square feet to 478,412 gross square feet representing a compound annual growth rate of 14%. The growth in our facility footprint was accomplished through the addition of three new facilities and the expansion of our existing space within our other facilities. We believe that our existing customer base, products and services will continue to grow, which will enhance the ecosystems within our facilities and in turn support our ability to attract new customers.

Our Competitive Strengths

Customers typically use our products and related services because we provide them with a level of interconnection access, quality of service, reliability and flexibility that is difficult to replicate independently or with another interconnection and colocation provider. We believe that our key competitive strengths, which are described below, position us well to take advantage of the favorable trends in our industry.

Industry Leader in Physical Interconnections. As of December 31, 2009, we facilitated a total of 28,272 physical interconnections between our customers, which represent an average of 37 physical interconnections per customer. This allows our customers to achieve the seamless exchange of information across hundreds of communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, government agencies, cloud computing providers and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers. We believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer as of December 31, 2009, represents greater physical interconnection density than our peers in the United States.

High Barriers to Entry. We believe our interconnection-centric model has high barriers to entry primarily resulting from the difficulty in replicating the ecosystems that exist within our facilities and the resulting network effect that exists among our customers. Significant time and resources are required to develop these ecosystems. In addition, we believe that the buildings in which we operate are already the primary landing points and crossroads for global fiber networks and the ability to replicate this network proximity would be difficult and cost prohibitive. While significant barriers to entry exist, we believe that our experience, relationships with a critical mass of communities of interest and leading communications service providers, reputable brand, associated track record and proven business model enable us to pursue expansion opportunities more effectively than potential competitors.

Exclusive Operator of Interconnection Areas within 10 Digital Realty Trust Wholesale Datacenter Buildings. Our relationship with Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (“Digital Realty Trust”), one of the leading datacenter real estate investment trusts, generally provides us with the exclusive ability to operate the interconnection areas in 10 tier-1 wholesale datacenter buildings across the United States.

Our Strategy

Our goal is to expand our leadership position in network neutral, global interconnection and colocation products and related services. Our strategy for accomplishing this goal includes the key elements described below.

Continue to Expand our Relationships with Existing Customers. We will continue to offer our existing customers best-in-class interconnection and colocation products and related services to meet their growing requirements. Over 70% of our revenue growth during 2008 and 2009 resulted from revenues from existing customers. We will strive to continue to provide the quality of service and interconnections that have resulted in low average monthly churn of 0.8% and 0.6%, respectively, during 2008 and 2009.

Continue to Acquire Profitable New Customers. We recognize the ability of additional customers to enhance the value proposition of our interconnection ecosystems. We will continue to target and develop relationships with customers that will benefit most from their inclusion in a Telx ecosystem and that will increase the value proposition to our other customers due to their expected demand for interconnection. We intend to continue to price our products and services at a level that reflects both the market demand for our products and related services, as well as our short and long term profitability goals and return on invested capital expectations.

Further Penetrate Attractive Industry Sectors. A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from communications service providers that require the high level of interconnections we offer. Revenue from other industry sectors, however, has grown from 15% of our revenues in 2007 to 24% in 2009. The enterprise, online media, video and content provider, government, cloud computing provider and SaaS provider industry sectors have grown significantly within the ecosystems that exist within our facilities and provide attractive opportunities for further ecosystems development and growth. We also believe other industry sectors, such as healthcare, will provide additional long-term opportunities for ecosystems development and growth. We intend to continue to focus our efforts to further penetrate these sectors.

Increase Network Densities. As our network densities increase, our customer value proposition increases. As an interconnection-centric company, we aim to continuously increase the number of interconnections we facilitate. We will continue to focus our sales, marketing, technology and facilities efforts accordingly.

Selective Product and Services Expansion. We intend to continually develop our interconnection and colocation offerings and introduce new products and related services to meet our customers’ needs. Product and services launched during 2009 included the Telx Video Exchange and our Managed Security Services offerings. In 2010, we plan to introduce an Ethernet Exchange offering.

Pursue Selective Acquisitions. We believe our industry has favorable consolidation characteristics and we expect this trend to continue in the foreseeable future. Given the limited availability of interconnection and colocation facilities within tier-1 markets, acquisitions of existing businesses may provide a cost-effective method of increasing network densities, expanding our customer base and broadening our geographic footprint. We intend to pursue attractive opportunities as they arise.

Summary Risk Factors

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully the risks and uncertainties summarized below, the risks described under “Risk Factors,” the other information contained in this prospectus and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes before you decide whether to invest in our common stock.

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We have incurred substantial losses in the past and may continue to incur losses in the future.

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Our operating results have fluctuated historically and could continue to fluctuate in the future, which could affect our ability to maintain our current market position or expand.

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In the past, significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting have been identified. If new material weaknesses arise or if we fail to maintain proper and effective internal controls going forward, our ability to produce accurate and timely financial statements could be impaired, which could adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

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Our ability to maximize the utilization of our facilities is limited by the availability and cost of sufficient electrical power and cooling capacity, which may result in our inability to accept new customers at our facilities. This could lead to a decline in our revenue growth and may cause us to incur additional costs to increase the power supply, increase cooling capacity or acquire space at an additional facility.

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We are dependent upon third-party suppliers for power and certain other services, and we are vulnerable to service failures of our third-party suppliers and to price increases by such suppliers.

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We are continuing to invest in our expansion efforts, but we may not experience sufficient customer demand in the future to realize expected returns on these investments.

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Changes in technology could adversely affect our business.

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Our success largely depends upon retaining the services of our management team.

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The forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the markets in which we compete achieve the forecasted growth, we cannot assure you our business will grow at similar rates, or at all.

Corporate Information

We were incorporated on August 3, 2000 as a Delaware corporation. We currently conduct certain operations through our wholly owned subsidiaries. We are headquartered in New York, New York. Our principal executive offices are located at 1 State Street, 21st Floor, New York, New York 10004 and our telephone number at this location is (212) 480-3300. Our website address is www.telx.com. Information included or referred to on, or otherwise accessible through, our website is not intended to form a part of or be incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

The Offering

Common stock offered by us

Common stock offered by the selling stockholders

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering

Over-allotment option

Use of proceeds

We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering for capital expenditures, working capital and general corporate purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds to finance growth through the acquisition of, or investment into, businesses, products, services or technologies complementary to our current business. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. See the section entitled “Use of Proceeds.”

Proposed Nasdaq Global Market symbol

TELX

The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering is based on the number of shares outstanding as of , 2010, after giving effect to the conversion of all of our outstanding shares of preferred stock into shares of common stock; and excludes:

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118,235 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options outstanding as of March 1, 2010, having a weighted average exercise price of $34.08 per shares;

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6,158 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under our equity incentive plans as of March 1, 2010; and

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1,000 shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of March 1, 2010, having an exercise price of $40.00 per share.

Assumptions Used in This Prospectus

Except as otherwise indicated, all information contained in this prospectus assumes:

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an offering price of $ per share of common stock, which is the mid-point of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus;

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the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional shares of our common stock from us and/or the selling stockholders;

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the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock into an aggregate of shares of common stock effective immediately prior to the closing of this offering;

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a for stock split of our outstanding capital stock that was effected on , 2010;

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the filing of our restated certificate of incorporation upon the completion of this offering; and

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our issuance of shares of common stock in this offering.

Summary Consolidated Financial Data

The following summary consolidated financial data for the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 are derived from our audited financial statements. You should read this data together with our audited financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus and the information under the sections entitled “Selected Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”


	Years Ended December 31,
	2009			2008			2007
	(in thousands, except share and per share data)
Statement of Operations Data:^(1)(2)(3)
Revenues	$	98,335		$	70,038		$	50,762
Operating expenses		99,937			93,332			78,063

Operating loss		(1,602	)		(23,294	)		(27,301	)
Interest income		374			396			612
Interest expense		(7,221	)		(7,380	)		(9,769	)
Other expense		(12	)		(330	)		(739	)

Loss from operations before income taxes		(8,461	)		(30,608	)		(37,197	)
Income tax benefit (expense)		(1,458	)		(772	)		811

Net loss	$	(9,919	)	$	(31,380	)	$	(36,386	)
Less: preferred dividends		(24,452	)		(21,743	)		(17,676	)

Net loss available for common stockholders	$	(34,371	)	$	(53,123	)	$	(54,062	)

Net loss per common share	$	(63,066	)	$	(290,290	)	$	(540,620	)

Weighted average common shares outstanding		545			183			100


(1) Includes stock-based compensation of:	$	1,179		$	919		$	379
(2) Includes depreciation and amortization of:	$	21,686		$	32,256		$	31,560
(3) Includes non-cash rent expense of:	$	7,953		$	6,720		$	5,373

Adjusted EBITDA Reconciliation

We use a non-GAAP financial metric that we call Adjusted EBITDA to track, analyze and understand our financial performance, which we define as operating income from continuing operations, plus depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation expense and other non-cash items such as deferred rent (income)/expense. We believe that Adjusted EBITDA is a helpful metric for the following reasons:

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As a measurement of operating performance, it assists management in comparing our operating results for various periods, since it removes the impact of items not directly resulting from operations;

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For planning purposes, we use it to help prepare our internal operating budgets;

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It allows us to establish targets for certain management compensation that relate to the results of our operations, avoiding the impact of items not directly resulting from operations; and

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It allows us to effectively evaluate our capacity to incur and service debt, fund capital expenditures and expand our business.

The following is a reconciliation of our operating loss for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 to Adjusted EBITDA.


	Fiscal Year Ended December 31
	2009			2008			2007
	(in thousands)
Operating loss	$	(1,602	)	$	(23,294	)	$	(27,301	)
Non-cash rent expense ⁽¹⁾		7,953			6,720			5,373
Depreciation and amortization expense		21,686			32,256			31,560
Stock-based compensation expense ⁽²⁾		1,179			919			379

Adjusted EBITDA	$	29,216		$	16,601		$	10,011

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Non-cash rent expense includes deferred rent expense and non-cash rent expense related to a stock option granted to a landlord. Deferred rent expense represents the non-cash component of rent expense required by GAAP to reflect the total escalating rent payments under our long-term leases as a straight-line expense each period over the estimated term of the lease.

(2)	Stock-based compensation expense is the non-cash component of compensation expense related to our equity incentive plans.

Our Adjusted EBITDA is not necessarily comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA: (a) does not represent net income or cash flows from operating activities as defined by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP; (b) is not necessarily indicative of cash available to fund our cash flow needs; and (c) should not be considered as an alternative to net income, operating income, cash flows from operating activities or other financial information as determined under GAAP.

We prepare Adjusted EBITDA by adjusting operating loss to eliminate the impact of a number of items that we do not consider indicative of our core operating performance. You are encouraged to evaluate each adjustment and the reasons we consider them appropriate. As an analytical tool, Adjusted EBITDA is subject to all of the limitations applicable to operating loss. In addition, in evaluating Adjusted EBITDA, you should be aware that in the future we may incur expenses similar to the adjustments in this presentation. Our presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an implication that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items.

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. In deciding whether to invest, you should carefully consider the following risk factors, as well as the financial and other information contained in this prospectus, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes. Any of the following risks as well as other risks and uncertainties discussed in this prospectus could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects and cause the value of our stock to decline, which could cause you to lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties of which we are unaware, or that are currently deemed immaterial by us, also may become important factors that affect us.

We have incurred substantial losses in the past and may continue to incur losses in the future.

We have never been profitable and have incurred losses since our inception. For the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, we incurred net losses of approximately $9.9 million, $31.4 million and $36.4 million, respectively. As of December 31, 2009, we had an accumulated deficit of $84.4 million. There can be no guarantee that we will achieve profitability. Our ability to achieve profitability is dependent upon a number of risks and uncertainties discussed below, many of which are beyond our control. Even if we achieve profitability, given the competitive and evolving nature of the industry in which we operate, we may not be able to sustain or increase profitability on a quarterly or annual basis.

Our operating results have fluctuated historically and could continue to fluctuate in the future, which could affect our ability to maintain our current market position or expand.

Our operating results have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate in the future as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including the following:

Any of the foregoing factors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Although we have experienced growth in revenues in recent quarters, this growth rate is not necessarily indicative of future operating results. A relatively large portion of our expenses are fixed in the short-term, particularly with respect to lease and personnel expenses, depreciation and amortization expenses, and interest expense. Therefore, our results of operations are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in revenues. Comparisons to prior periods should not be relied upon as indications of our future performance.

In connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008, our independent registered public accounting firm did not identify any material weaknesses but did identify two significant deficiencies in our internal controls relating to an inadequate system of internal controls during 2008 in certain processes and several deficiencies related to information technology, or IT, processes, controls and documentation. A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those responsible for oversight of our financial reporting. In connection with the audit of our consolidated statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2007, our independent registered public accounting firm identified a deficiency that constituted a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting for the year ended and as of December 31, 2007. This material weakness related to an inadequate system of internal controls during the first half of 2007 (as we documented a comprehensive set of accounting policies and procedures in the second half of the year) and several control deficiencies related to IT processes, controls and documentation. A material weakness is a deficiency or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

In connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2006 and for the periods from January 1 to October 3, 2006 and October 4 to December 31, 2006, our independent registered public accounting firm identified two control deficiencies that represented material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting for such periods. These material weaknesses related to insufficient technical resources in accounting, financial reporting and income taxes and an inadequate system of internal controls including a lack of a comprehensive set of accounting policies and procedures and several deficiencies related to IT processes, controls and documentation. Because of these material weaknesses, there is heightened risk that a material misstatement of our financial statements as of and for the periods ended December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2006 was not prevented or detected.

We have taken steps to remediate our material weaknesses and significant deficiencies. However, there are no assurances that the measures we have taken to remediate these internal control weaknesses were completely effective or that similar weaknesses will not recur. Additionally, as part of our ongoing efforts to improve our financial accounting organization and processes, from 2007 to the present we have hired several senior accounting personnel. We plan to continue to assess our internal controls and procedures and intend to take further action as necessary or appropriate to address any other matters we identify. While no material weaknesses or significant deficiencies were identified during the year ended December 31, 2009, we did not perform an assessment of our internal controls over financial reporting nor did our auditors perform an audit over our internal controls over financial reporting; we therefore cannot assure you that these or other similar issues will not arise in future periods.

The availability of an adequate supply of electrical power and cooling capacity, and the infrastructure to deliver that power and cooling, is critical to our ability to provide our products and services. Even though physical space may be available in a facility, the demand for electrical power may exceed our designed capacity. We may be unable to meet the increasing power and cooling needs of our customers if our customer mix does not match our expectations or our customers further increase their use of high density electrical power equipment. In addition, the amount of sellable space within our facilities is reduced to the extent that we house generators and

batteries to provide back-up power. Further, certain of the leases for our facilities also contain provisions that limit the supply of electrical power and cooling capacity to such facilities, as a result of which our ability to reach full utilization may be constrained in these facilities. If the availability of power and cooling capacity limits our ability to fully utilize the space within our facilities, we may be unable to accept new customers at our facilities and our revenue growth will decline. We also may incur additional costs to increase the power supply and/or cooling capacity or acquire space at an additional facility, which could increase our losses, or reduce our ability to become profitable.

We are dependent upon third-party suppliers for power and certain other services, and we are vulnerable to service failures of our third-party suppliers and to price increases by such suppliers.

We rely on third parties to provide power, and we cannot ensure that these third parties will deliver such power in adequate quantities or on a consistent basis. If the amount of power available to us is inadequate to support our customer requirements or delivery of power does not occur in a timely manner, we may be unable to provide our services to our customers and our operating results and cash flow may be materially and adversely affected. In addition, our facilities are susceptible to power shortages and planned or unplanned power outages caused by these shortages such as those that occurred in California in 2001, in New York City and the Northeast in 2003 and in Miami in 2005. We attempt to limit exposure to power shortages by using backup generators and batteries. Power outages, which may last beyond our backup and alternative power arrangements, would harm our customers and our business. Although we have maintained power availability in excess of the Tier 4 fault tolerant standards resulting in aggregate availability in excess of 99.999% across our facilities since 2003, a limited number of our customers have experienced temporary losses of power, for which we generally provided credits against future invoices. We could incur similar or other financial obligations or be subject to lawsuits by our customers in connection with a loss of power. In addition, any loss of services or equipment damage could reduce the confidence of our customers in our products and services and could consequently impair our ability to attract and retain customers, which would adversely affect both our ability to generate revenues and our operating results.

We are dependent upon third-party suppliers for the resale of Internet access and other services, and we have no control over the quality and reliability of the services provided by these suppliers. In the past, some of these providers have experienced significant system failures. Users of our products and services may in the future experience difficulties due to service failures unrelated to our systems, products and services. If for any reason these suppliers fail to provide certain services to us, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

While most of our facilities operate in regulated energy markets, power costs increase from time to time. We generally have the option to pass along increases in the cost of power to our customers, but we may choose not to do so for a variety of operating reasons. To the extent that we do not pass these costs along, or that we delay in passing them along, we will pay higher energy prices, increasing our operating costs and depressing our margins. In addition, even if we do pass these power costs along, we will effectively increase the price for our products and services, which could reduce overall demand for our products and services.

The high utilization of our facilities may limit our ability to grow in certain key markets, and we may be unable to expand our existing facilities or locate and secure suitable sites for additional facilities.

Our facilities have reached high rates of utilization in many of our key markets. Our ability to meet the growing needs of our existing customers and to attract new customers in these key markets depends on our ability to add additional capacity by incrementally expanding our existing facilities or by locating and securing additional facilities in these markets that meet specific infrastructure requirements such as access to multiple communications service providers, a significant supply of electrical power and sufficient cooling capacity, high ceilings and the ability to sustain heavy floor loading. In many markets, the supply of facilities with these characteristics is limited and subject to high demand. If we are unable to expand our facilities in a timely and cost-effective manner, or to locate facilities with characteristics similar to our current facilities, our revenue growth will decline, and we may not achieve profitability.

We are continuing to invest in our expansion efforts, but we may not experience sufficient customer demand in the future to realize expected returns on these investments.

We expect to acquire or lease additional properties, and potentially may construct new facilities. If successful, we will be required to commit substantial operational and financial resources to these facilities, generally up to 12 months in advance of securing customer contracts, and we may not experience sufficient customer demand in those markets in which we choose to expand to support these facilities once they are built. In addition, unanticipated technological changes could affect customer requirements, and we may not have built such requirements into our new facilities. Any of these contingencies, if they were to occur, could make it difficult for us to realize expected or reasonable returns on these investments and could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.

Moreover, there can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully integrate these new facilities. Specific challenges we have encountered in such prior acquisitions include the following:

Acquiring or leasing additional properties (including the construction of new facilities) may expose us to the challenges set forth above and other risks such as:

The failure to successfully integrate such new properties could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Successful integration will depend on our ability to manage acquired operations, realize revenue growth from an expanded customer base and eliminate duplicative and excess costs, among other factors.

Our construction of additional facilities could involve significant risks to our business.

Construction involves substantial planning and allocation of company resources. Construction also requires us to carefully select and rely on the experience of one or more general contractors and associated subcontractors during the construction process. Should a general contractor or significant subcontractor experience financial or other problems during the construction process, we could experience significant delays, increased costs to complete the project and other negative impacts to our expected returns.

In the event we decide to construct new facilities separate from our existing facilities, we may provide services to interconnect these two facilities. Should these services not provide the necessary reliability to sustain service, this could result in lower interconnection revenue, lower margins and could have a negative impact on customer retention over time.

If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, our financial results could suffer.

We have increased our number of full-time employees from 103 as of December 31, 2007 to 163 as of December 31, 2009 and have increased our revenue from $50.8 million in 2007 to $98.3 million in 2009.

Further, we intend to continue to expand our overall business, customer base, headcount, and operations, domestically and possibly internationally. Creating a global organization and managing a geographically dispersed workforce will require substantial management effort and significant additional investment in our operating and financial system capabilities and controls. If our information systems are unable to support the demands placed on them by our rapid growth, we may be forced to implement new systems which would be disruptive to our business. We may be unable to manage our expenses effectively in the future due to the expenses associated with these expansions, which may negatively impact our gross margins or operating expenses. If we fail to improve our operational systems or to expand our customer service capabilities to keep pace with the growth of our business, we could experience customer dissatisfaction, cost inefficiencies, and lost revenue opportunities, which may materially and adversely affect our operating results.

We lease all but one of our facilities, and the termination or non-renewal of leases poses significant risk to our ongoing operations.

We only own one of our facilities (Atlanta), and operate the rest of them pursuant to commercial leasing arrangements. The initial terms of such leases expire over a period ranging from 2022 to 2050. We would incur significant costs if we were forced to vacate one of our facilities due to the high costs of relocating the equipment in our facilities and installing the necessary infrastructure in a new facility. In addition, if we were forced to vacate a facility, we could lose customers that chose our products and services based on our location. Our landlords could attempt to evict us for reasons beyond our control. Further, we may be unable to maintain good working relationships with our landlords, which would adversely affect our customer service and could result in the loss of current customers.

In addition, our business would be harmed by our inability to renew leases at favorable terms. Most of our leases provide two ten-year renewal options with rents set at then-prevailing market rates. We expect that the then-prevailing market rates will be higher than present rates. To maintain the operating profitability associated with our present cost structure, we must increase revenues within existing facilities to offset the anticipated increase in lease payments at the end of the original and renewal terms. Failure to increase revenue sufficiently to offset these projected higher costs would adversely impact our operating income.

The majority of our leases are with a single landlord, Digital Realty Trust, which makes us more vulnerable than if our leases were diversified. In addition, a significant portion of our revenue is generated by interconnection products and services we provide to customers located in Digital Realty Trust facilities, which we may lose if contractual arrangements we have with Digital Realty Trust are terminated or our rights under such contracts are impaired.

Ten of our 14 leased facilities are leased to us by a single landlord, Digital Realty Trust, representing approximately 28% of our total facility space. The initial terms of these Digital Realty Trust leases expire in 2026, and we have options to extend them through 2046. The terms of all these leases with Digital Realty Trust are generally similar. In the event that we are unable to come to agreement with Digital Realty Trust regarding the renewal of these leases, or come to a disagreement regarding our rights and obligations under these agreements, a significant portion of our available inventory may be impaired or lost.

Subject to certain exceptions, we have the general right to exclusively operate the interconnection areas at ten Digital Realty Trust facilities. Although we lease space from Digital Realty Trust (which we then license to our customers) in such facilities, due to our exclusivity arrangement with Digital Realty Trust, a significant number of companies that lease space from Digital Realty Trust directly make their interconnections in our interconnection areas. The revenue generated by the interconnections in such interconnection areas represents a significant portion of our overall revenue. If we were to lose the right to operate these interconnection areas in the future, we may also lose the revenue associated with the interconnections in such interconnection areas, and our business could suffer as a result.

If our contracts with our customers are not renewed or are terminated, our business could be substantially harmed.

Our customer contracts typically have terms of one to three years. Our customers may not elect to renew these contracts. Furthermore, our customer contracts are terminable for cause if we breach a material provision of the contract, including the failure to provide power or connectivity for extended periods of time, or if we violate applicable laws or regulations. We may face increased competition and pricing pressure as our customer contracts become subject to renewal. Our customers may negotiate renewal of their contracts at lower rates, for fewer products and services or for shorter terms. In addition, if we lose one customer, others may elect not to renew their contracts to the extent that such other customers depend substantially on interconnection with the lost customer. If we are unable to successfully renew our customer contracts on their current terms, or if our customer contracts are terminated, our business could suffer.

Any failure of our physical infrastructure or our products and services, or failure to meet performance standards under our service level agreements, could result in our customers terminating their relationship with us and could lead to significant costs and disruptions that could reduce our revenues, harm our business reputation and have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

Our business depends on providing customers with highly reliable products and services. The products and services we provide are subject to failure resulting from numerous factors, including:

Problems at one or more of our facilities, whether or not within our control, could result in service interruptions or equipment damage. We have service level agreements with substantially all of our customers in which we provide various guarantees regarding our levels of service. We may have difficulty meeting these levels of service if we experience service interruptions. Service interruptions or equipment damage in our facilities could result in credits for service interruptions to these customers. We have at times in the past given credits to our customers against future invoices as a result of service interruptions due to equipment failures. We cannot assure you that our customers will accept these credits as compensation in the future. In addition, our inability to meet our service level commitments may damage our reputation and could consequently limit our ability to retain existing customers and attract new customers, which would adversely affect our ability to generate revenues and negatively impact our operating results. Also, service interruptions and equipment failures could result in lost profits or other indirect or consequential damages to our customers and may expose us to additional legal liability and impair our brand image. We depend on our landlords and other third-party providers to properly maintain the buildings in which our facilities are located. Improper maintenance by such landlords and third parties increase the risk of service interruptions and equipment damage.

Additionally, certain of our facilities, including those in New York, California, Florida and Texas, are located in areas particularly susceptible to terrorist activity and natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes. The occurrence of any terrorist activity or natural disaster could shut down one or more of our facilities and result in a material adverse effect upon our results of operations. Moreover, we may not have adequate property or liability insurance to cover catastrophic events.

We may not be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors. If we fail to differentiate our facilities and products and services from those of our competitors, we may not be able to compete successfully and our business and results of operations may be adversely affected.

We compete with network neutral interconnection and colocation service providers and other service providers, including U.S.-based communications service providers, Internet service providers, managed service providers and web hosting companies. Many of our competitors have longer operating histories and significantly greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources than us, and some have a greater presence in our markets and in other markets across the United States and around the world. Because of their greater financial resources, some of our competitors have the ability to adopt aggressive pricing policies. As a result, we may suffer from pricing pressure that would adversely affect our ability to generate revenues and adversely affect our operating results. In addition, most of these competitors currently offer interconnection and colocation products and services in the same markets and buildings where we have facilities, and other competitors may start doing so in the future. Some of these competitors may also provide our current and potential customers with additional benefits and may do so in a manner that is more attractive to our potential customers than our products and services. These competitors may be able to provide bundled interconnection and colocation products and services at prices lower than our cost structure allows. If, as a result of such efficiencies, these competitors are able to adopt aggressive pricing policies for interconnection and colocation products and services, our ability to generate revenues would be materially and adversely affected.

In addition, our competitors may operate more successfully or form alliances to acquire significant market share. Once businesses locate their networking and computing equipment in competitors’ facilities, it may be extremely difficult to convince them to relocate to our facilities. Furthermore, a business that has already invested substantial resources in such arrangements may be reluctant or slow to replace or limit its existing services by becoming our customer. Finally, we may also experience competition from our landlords. Rather than leasing available space in our buildings to us or other large single tenants, they may decide to convert the space instead to smaller units designed for multi-tenant interconnection and colocation use. Landlords may enjoy a cost advantage in providing products and services similar to those provided by us, and this could also reduce the amount of space available to us for expansion in the future.

We depend upon a limited number of communications service providers in certain of our facilities, and the loss of one or more of these providers in those facilities could adversely affect our business.

Because we do not own or operate our own network, we depend upon communications service providers to interconnect and/or colocate as customers in our facilities and contribute to the network density that attracts our other customers. In some of our smaller markets, we have agreements with only a limited number of communications service providers. In these smaller market facilities, we expect that we will continue to rely upon a limited number of communications service provider customers to maintain network density within those facilities. Our agreements with these customers are generally for one to three year terms (if not renewed). A loss of one or more of these providers could have a material and adverse effect on the operations of one or more of our smaller facilities.

We may make acquisitions of complementary businesses, customers, products or service lines or technologies, and such acquisitions may pose integration and other risks that could harm our business.

We may acquire complementary businesses, product or service lines and technologies in the future as we did in March 2007 when we acquired certain assets owned by NYC Connect, LLC. There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully integrate any such acquisitions. To finance these acquisitions, we may incur additional debt and issue additional shares of our stock, which will dilute existing stockholders’ ownership interests in us, and such debt may adversely affect our business and operations.

Specific challenges we have encountered in our acquisition of certain assets owned by NYC Connect, LLC include the following:

Future acquisitions may expose us to the challenges set forth above and other risks such as:

The failure to successfully integrate acquired businesses, customers, products, service lines or technologies could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Successful integration will depend on our ability to manage acquired operations, realize revenue growth from an expanded customer base and eliminate duplicative and excess costs, among other factors.

Our products and services have a sales cycle that may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The sales cycle may lengthen due to the current macroeconomic environment.

A customer’s decision to license cabinet or cage space in one of our facilities and to purchase interconnection products typically involves a significant commitment of our time and resources. Many customers are reluctant to commit to purchasing our interconnection and colocation products and services until they are confident that our facility has adequate available communications service provider connections and network density. As a result, we may experience a longer than average sales cycle for our products and services. Furthermore, we may expend significant time and resources in pursuing a particular sale or customer that does not generate revenue. Delays due to the length of our sales cycle or costs incurred that do not result in sales may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our success largely depends upon retaining the services of our management team.

We are highly dependent on our management team. We expect that our continued success and future growth will largely depend upon the efforts and abilities of members of our management team. The loss of services of any key executive for any reason could have a material adverse effect upon us. Our success also depends upon our ability to identify, develop and retain qualified employees. The loss of some of our management and other employees could have a material adverse effect on our operations. We do not maintain key man insurance on any members of our management team.

Government regulation of dark fiber is largely unsettled, and depending on its evolution, may adversely affect our business.

The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing a transformation as it moves from a traditional dedicated circuit network architecture to a design where all forms of traffic—voice, video, and information—are transmitted as digital bits over IP-based networks. With the advent of these digital data transmissions and the growth of the Internet, data networks are becoming the networks over which all communications services can be offered. Determining the appropriate regulatory framework for these data networks is one of the most significant challenges facing federal and state telecommunication policy makers. As a result of this fundamental shift in the telecommunications industry’s underlying technology, various laws and governmental regulations at the federal, state and local level in the U.S. and in Canada, governing IP-based services, related communications services and information technologies remain largely unsettled.

Although we do not offer telecommunications services on a common carrier basis, and thus are not subject to federal regulations, there is a risk that we will become subject to regulation. For example, the Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, has not yet made a final determination of its intent or ability to regulate the provision and sale of so-called “dark fiber,” which we use to connect certain of our facilities, such as our facilities in New York and New Jersey, and offer to our customers for use as part of the larger Telx product and service offerings. The FCC presently considers dark fiber to be a “network element” and not a “telecommunications service” regulated by the FCC. We currently do not believe that we are subject to regulation due to our use of dark fiber in the interconnection between certain of our facilities, although we cannot be certain that the FCC would adopt this position. Additionally, the FCC may change its position in the future. Due to changing technology and applications of that technology, it is uncertain whether and how existing laws or regulations or new laws or regulations will be applied by the FCC and other regulatory bodies in the future to other currently unregulated products and services we offer, or to new products or services that we may offer in the future. Future regulatory, judicial and legislative changes may have a material adverse effect on our ability to deliver products and services within various jurisdictions.

We may not be able to continue to add new customers and increase sales to our existing customers, which could adversely affect our operating results.

Our growth is dependent on our ability to continue to attract new customers while retaining and expanding our products and services to existing customers. Growth in the demand for our products and services may be inhibited and we may be unable to sustain growth in our customer base, for a number of reasons, such as:

A substantial amount of our past revenue growth was derived from purchases of additional interconnection and colocation products and services by existing customers. Our costs associated with increasing revenue from existing customers are generally lower than costs associated with generating revenue from new customers. Therefore, a reduction in the rate of revenue increase from our existing customers, even if offset by an increase in revenue from new customers, could reduce our operating margins.

Any failure by us to continue attracting new customers or grow our revenue from existing customers could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.

Our brand is not as well known as that of some of our competitors. Failure to develop and maintain brand recognition could harm our ability to compete effectively.

Many of our competitors are large companies that promote their brands with significantly larger budgets than we have for brand promotion. If we fail to develop and maintain brand recognition through sales and marketing efforts and a reputation for high quality service, we may be unable to attract new customers and risk losing existing customers to competitors with better known brands.

We have significant debt obligations which include restrictive covenants that limit our flexibility to manage our business; failure to comply with these covenants could trigger an acceleration of our outstanding indebtedness.

As of December 31, 2009, outstanding indebtedness under our credit facilities totaled approximately $130 million. Our credit facilities require that we maintain specific financial ratios and comply with covenants, including various financial covenants, which contain numerous restrictions on our ability to incur additional debt, pay dividends or make other restricted payments, sell assets, enter into affiliate transactions and take other actions. Furthermore, our existing financial arrangements are, and future financing arrangements are likely to be, secured by all of our assets. If we are unable to meet the terms of the financial covenants or if we breach any of these covenants, a default could result under one or more of these agreements. A default, if not waived by our lenders, could result in the acceleration of outstanding indebtedness and cause our debt to become immediately due and payable.

If we are unable to generate sufficient cash available to repay our debt obligations when they become due and payable, we will have to refinance such obligations, or otherwise we will not be able to repay our debt. If new financing is made available, its terms may not be favorable to us and our business may be adversely affected.

We could incur substantial costs as a result of violations of or liabilities under environmental laws.

We are subject to various environmental and health and safety laws and regulations, including those relating to the generation, storage, handling and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes. Certain of these laws and regulations impose liability, without regard to fault or the lawfulness of the disposal activity, for the entire cost of the investigation and cleanup of contaminated sites on current and former owners and operators of real property and persons who have disposed of or released hazardous substances at any location. Our facilities contain tanks for the storage of diesel fuel and significant quantities of lead acid batteries to provide back-up power. Any leak or spill of hazardous materials could result in interruptions to our operations and expenditures that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Moreover, hazardous substances or regulated materials of which we are not aware may be present at facilities we operate and lease. To the extent any such contaminants are discovered at our facilities, we may be responsible under applicable laws, regulations or leases for any required removal or cleanup at substantial cost. In addition, non-compliance with or liabilities under existing environmental or health and safety laws and regulations, or the adoption of more stringent requirements in the future, could result in fines, penalties, third-party claims and other costs that could be material.

We may require additional capital and may not be able to secure additional financing on favorable terms to meet our future capital needs, which could adversely affect our financial position and result in stockholder dilution.

We may need to raise additional funds through equity or debt financings in the future in order to meet our operating and capital needs. We may not be able to secure additional debt or equity financing on favorable terms, or at all, at the time when we need such funding. If we are unable to raise additional funds, we may not be able to pursue our growth strategy and our business could suffer. If we raise additional funds through further issuances of equity or convertible debt securities, our existing stockholders could suffer significant dilution in their

percentage ownership of our company, and any new equity securities we issue could have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of holders of our common stock. In addition, any debt financing that we may obtain in the future could have restrictive covenants relating to our capital raising activities and other financial and operational matters, which may make it more difficult for us to obtain additional capital and to pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions.

Terrorist activity throughout the world could adversely impact our business, particularly in regards to our operations located in New York City.

The continued threat of terrorist activity may increase our costs due to the need to provide enhanced security, which would have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. These circumstances may also adversely affect our ability to attract and retain customers, our ability to raise capital and the operation and maintenance of our facilities. We may not have adequate property and liability insurance to cover catastrophic events or attacks brought on by terrorist activity. In addition, we depend heavily on the physical infrastructure, particularly as it relates to power, that exists in the markets in which we operate. Any damage to such infrastructure in these markets, and particularly in New York City, a market where we operate that is likely to be more prone to terrorist activity as a principal financial and technology center of the United States, may materially and adversely affect our business.

We may expand internationally and operate in foreign markets, which would expose us to risks associated with international sales and operations.

We may expand our customer base internationally and operate in foreign markets. In the past, we have not had operations in foreign jurisdictions. Managing a global organization is difficult, time consuming, and expensive. Our inexperience in operating our business globally increases the risk that any potential future international expansion efforts that we may undertake will not be successful. In addition, conducting international operations subjects us to new risks that we have not generally faced. These risks include:

Operating in international markets also requires significant management attention and financial resources. The investment and additional resources required to establish operations and manage growth in other countries may not produce desired levels of revenue or profitability.

We may be vulnerable to security breaches which could disrupt our operations and have a material adverse effect on our financial performance and operating results.

A party who is able to compromise the security of our facilities could misappropriate either our proprietary information or the personal information of our customers, or cause interruptions or malfunctions in our operations. We may be required to expend significant capital and financial resources to protect against such threats or to alleviate problems caused by breaches in security. As techniques used to breach security change frequently, and are generally not recognized until launched against a target, we may not be able to implement security measures in a timely manner or, if and when implemented, these measures could be circumvented. Any breaches that may occur could expose us to increased risk of lawsuits, loss of existing or potential customers, harm to our reputation and increases in our security costs, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial performance and operating results.

The telecommunications industry is currently undergoing consolidation. As our customers consolidate, there may be fewer communications service providers available in our facilities and, with less network density in our facilities, our network neutral interconnection and colocation products and services may become less attractive to our customers. Further, our customers may require fewer interconnection and colocation products and services as they combine businesses. In addition, consolidation of our competitors may provide them with greater efficiencies of scale than we are able to manage, placing us at a competitive disadvantage. For example, two of our significant competitors, Equinix, Inc. and Switch & Data Facilities Company, Inc., both of which are also significant customers, recently announced a merger. Given the competitive and evolving nature of this industry, further consolidation of our customers and competitors may present a risk to our network neutral business model and have a material adverse effect on our revenues and results of operations.

The markets for the products and services we offer are characterized by rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards, frequent new service introductions, shifting distribution channels and changing customer demands. We may not be able to adequately adapt our products and services or acquire new products and services that can compete successfully. We risk losing customers to our competitors if we are unable to adapt to this rapidly evolving marketplace. Furthermore, advances in technology, such as ethernet exchange products, may limit the need for, or displace the revenue that we receive from, other, more profitable, products, such as physical interconnections or may shift business away from us to our competitors.

In addition, our large communications service provider customers that may be colocated at our facilities and our competitors’ facilities may, for reasons that are beyond our control, decide to upgrade the equipment in our competitors’ facilities but not at our facilities. This could lead to the phasing out of our facilities as a marketplace for communications services, making our products and services less desirable for our customers. Such an occurrence would adversely affect our financial condition, our ability to retain existing customers and our ability to attract new customers.

Growth forecasts are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates which may not prove to be accurate. Forecasts relating to the expected growth in the global interconnection and colocation market, datacenter supply and demand, consumer and business Internet traffic, the Ethernet market, Internet video applications, the cloud computing market and the proximity hosting and low latency networking market may prove to be inaccurate. Even if these markets were to experience the forecasted growth, we may not

grow our businesses at similar rates, or at all. Our growth is subject to many factors, including our success in implementing our business strategy, which is subject to many risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, the forecasts included in this prospectus should not be taken as indicative of our future growth.

Our costs will increase significantly as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be required to devote substantial time to complying with public company regulations.

We have never operated as a public company. As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, and The Nasdaq Global Market have imposed various requirements on public companies, including requiring changes in corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to comply with these rules and regulations. Moreover, these rules and regulations relating to public companies will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect these new rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain and maintain director and officer liability insurance. These rules and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as executive officers.

In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain and periodically evaluate our internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures. In particular, we must perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management and our independent registered public accounting firm to report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Our compliance with Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management efforts. We currently do not have an internal audit function, and we will need to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company experience and technical accounting knowledge to satisfy SEC rules and the ongoing requirements of Section 404. If our finance and accounting organization is unable for any reason to respond adequately to the increased demands that will result from being a public company, the quality and timeliness of our financial reporting may suffer and we could experience internal control weaknesses. Any consequences resulting from inaccuracies or delays in our reported financial statements could have an adverse effect on the trading price of our common stock as well as an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Failure to design, implement and maintain effective internal controls could have a material adverse effect on our business and stock price.

As a public company, we will have significant requirements for enhanced financial reporting and internal controls. The process of designing and implementing effective internal controls is a continuous effort that requires us to anticipate and react to changes in our business and the economic and regulatory environments and to expend significant resources to maintain a system of internal controls that is adequate to satisfy our reporting obligations as a public company. If we are unable to establish appropriate internal financial reporting controls and procedures, it could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations on a timely basis, result in material misstatements in our financial statements and harm our operating results. In addition, we will be required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting for the first fiscal year beginning after the effective date of this offering. This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting, as well as a statement that our auditors have issued an attestation report on effectiveness of our internal controls. As described above, in connection with prior audits of our consolidated financial statements for certain prior periods, our independent

registered public accounting firm identified several significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. In the future, we may discover additional deficiencies, which we may not be able to remediate in time to meet our deadline for compliance with Section 404. Testing and maintaining internal controls may divert our management’s attention from other matters that are important to our business. We may not be able to conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 or our independent auditors may not issue a favorable assessment. We cannot be certain as to the timing of completion of our evaluation, testing and remediation actions or their effect on our operations. If either we are unable to conclude that we have effective internal control over financial reporting or our independent auditors are unable to provide us with an unqualified report, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a negative effect on the trading price of our stock.

There is no existing market for our common stock, and you cannot be certain that an active trading market or a specific share price will be established.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for shares of our common stock. We will apply to list our common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market. We cannot predict the extent to which investor interest in our company will lead to the development of a trading market on The Nasdaq Global Market or otherwise or how liquid that market might become. The initial public offering price for the shares of our common stock will be determined by negotiations between us and the underwriters, and may not be indicative of the price that will prevail in the trading market following this offering. The market price for our common stock may decline below the initial public offering price, and our stock price is likely to be volatile.

If our stock price fluctuates after this offering, you could lose a significant part of your investment.

The market price of our stock may be influenced by many factors, some of which are beyond our control, including those described above under “Risks Related to Our Business and Industry” and the following:

As a result of these factors, investors in our common stock may not be able to resell their shares at or above the initial offering price. These broad market and industry factors may materially reduce the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance.

A significant portion of our total outstanding shares are restricted from immediate resale but may be sold into the market in the near future. If there are substantial sales of our common stock, the price of our common stock could decline.

The price of our common stock could decline if there are substantial sales of our common stock in the public stock market after this offering. After this offering, we will have shares of common stock outstanding. This includes shares being sold in this offering, all of which may be resold in the public market immediately following this offering. The remaining shares, or approximately % of our outstanding shares after this offering, including owned by the GI Partners Funds, are currently restricted as a result of securities laws or lock-up agreements but will be able to be sold in the near future as set forth below:

After this offering and the expiration of the lock-up period, the holders of an aggregate of shares of our common stock will have rights, subject to some conditions, to require us to file registration statements covering their shares or to include their shares in registration statements that we may file for ourselves or other stockholders. We also intend to register the issuance of all shares of common stock that we have issued and may issue under our option plans. Once we register the issuance of these shares, subject to lock-up restrictions, they can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance. Furthermore, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. may, at their discretion and at any time without notice, release all or any portion of the securities subject to lock-up agreements with the underwriters. Due to these factors, sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. These sales, or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell shares, could reduce the market price of our common stock.

Investors in this offering will suffer immediate and substantial dilution.

The initial public offering price of our common stock is substantially higher than the net tangible book value per share of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering. Therefore, if you purchase our common stock in this offering, you will incur an immediate dilution of $ in net tangible book value per share from the price you paid. In addition, following this offering, purchasers in the offering will have contributed % of the total consideration paid by our stockholders to purchase shares of common stock. The exercise of outstanding options will result in further dilution. For a further description of the dilution that you will experience immediately after this offering, see the section entitled “Dilution.”

The issuance of additional stock in connection with acquisitions, our stock incentive plans or otherwise will dilute all other stockholdings.

After this offering, we will have an aggregate of shares of common stock authorized but unissued and not reserved for issuance under our equity incentive plans or otherwise. We may issue all of these shares without any action or approval by our stockholders. We intend to continue to actively pursue strategic acquisitions. We may pay for such acquisitions, partly or in full, through the issuance of additional equity. Any issuance of shares in connection with our acquisitions, the exercise of stock options or otherwise would dilute the percentage ownership held by the investors who purchase our shares in this offering.

Your ability to influence corporate matters may be limited because a small number of stockholders beneficially own a substantial amount of our common stock and will continue to have substantial control over us after the offering.

Upon completion of this offering, the GI Partners Funds will beneficially own approximately % of our common stock. As a result, these stockholders will be able to exert significant influence over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets, and may have interests that are different from yours and may vote in a way with which you disagree and which may be adverse to your interests. In addition, this concentration of ownership may have the effect of preventing, discouraging or deferring a change of control, which could depress the market price of our common stock. For information regarding ownership of our outstanding stock by the GI Partners Funds, see the section entitled “Principal and Selling Stockholders.”

Our authorized but unissued common stock and preferred stock may prevent a change in our control.

Upon the consummation of this offering, our restated certificate of incorporation will authorize us to issue additional authorized but unissued shares of our common stock or preferred stock. In addition, our board of directors may classify or reclassify any unissued shares of our preferred stock and may set the preferences, rights and other terms of the classified or reclassified shares. As a result, our board may establish a series of preferred stock that could delay or prevent a transaction or a change in control that might involve a premium price for our common stock or otherwise be in the best interest of our stockholders.

Our management will have broad discretion over the use of the proceeds we receive in this offering and might not apply the proceeds in ways that increase the value of your investment.

Our management will have broad discretion to use our net proceeds from this offering, and you will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of these proceeds. Our management may not apply our net proceeds from this offering in ways that increase the value of your investment. We expect to use the net proceeds from this offering primarily for capital expenditures, for working capital and for other general corporate purposes. In addition, we may also use a portion of the remaining net proceeds to acquire or invest in businesses, products, services or technologies complementary to our current business, through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures or otherwise. Our management might not be able to yield a significant return, if any, on any investment of these net proceeds. You will not have the opportunity to influence our decisions on how to use our net proceeds from this offering.

Anti-takeover provisions in our organizational documents could delay a change in management and limit our share price.

Upon the consummation of this offering, certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire control of us even if such a change in control would increase the value of our common stock and prevent attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current board of directors or management.

We will have a number of anti-takeover devices in place that will hinder takeover attempts and could reduce the market value of our common stock or prevent sale at a premium. Our anti-takeover provisions will include:

After the completion of this offering, we do not expect to declare any dividends in the foreseeable future.

After the completion of this offering, we do not anticipate declaring any cash dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. In addition, our existing credit facilities prohibit us from paying cash dividends, and any future financing agreements may prohibit us from paying any type of dividends. Consequently, investors may need to sell all or part of their holdings of our common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investment. Investors seeking cash dividends should not purchase our common stock.

If we do not obtain a waiver from CIT Lending Services Corporation, or CIT, upon the completion of this offering, a “change of control” under our credit agreement with CIT may occur, which may accelerate our obligations under such agreement.

Pursuant to our credit agreement with CIT, a “change of control” is deemed to occur if, among other things, (i) GI Partners ceases to own and control at least 66²/3% of our voting securities, subject to certain exceptions, or (ii) the composition of our board changes such that GI Partners controls less than a majority of our board of directors. If we do not obtain a waiver from CIT (which would require permission by certain of the lenders under the agreement), upon the completion of this offering, a “change of control” under this agreement may occur, if one of the above conditions are satisfied, which may accelerate our obligations under the agreement.

Our ability to use net operating loss carryforwards to reduce future tax payments may be limited if we experience a change in ownership, or if taxable income does not reach sufficient levels.

Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change” (generally defined as a greater than 50% change (by value) in its equity ownership over a three year period), the corporation’s ability to use its pre-change net operating loss carryforwards and other pre-change tax attributes (such as research tax credits) to offset its post-change income may be limited.

We experienced ownership changes in 2003 and 2006 that triggered the limitations of Section 382 of the Code on our net operating loss carryforwards. We may also experience ownership changes in the future as a result of this initial public offering and subsequent shifts in our stock ownership. As a result, we are limited with respect to net operating loss carryforwards accrued prior to 2006 and may be further limited in the portion of net operating loss carryforwards that we can use in the future to offset taxable income for U.S. Federal income tax purposes.

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements convey our current expectations or forecasts of future events. All statements contained in this prospectus other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy and plans, use of the net proceeds of this offering, and our objectives for future operations, are forward-looking. You can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “project,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “plan,” “expect,” “estimate,” “intend,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “will,” “can,” “continue,” or “may,” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes. Forward-looking statements in this prospectus may include statements about:

There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements. These important factors include those that we discuss in this prospectus under the caption “Risk Factors.” You should read these factors and the other cautionary statements made in this prospectus as being applicable to all related forward-looking statements wherever they appear in this prospectus. If one or more of these factors materialize, or if any underlying assumptions prove incorrect, our actual results, performance or achievements may vary materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

This prospectus also contains statistical data and estimates, including those relating to market size and growth rates of the markets in which we participate, that we obtained from industry publications and reports generated by Tier1 Research, Cisco, Gartner, The Insight Research Corporation and Nemertes Research. These publications include forward-looking statements made by the authors of such reports. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. Actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements. We have not independently verified any third-party information and cannot assure you of its accuracy or completeness.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus. We and the selling stockholders have not authorized anyone to provide information different from that contained in this prospectus. We and the selling stockholders are offering to sell, and seeking offers to buy, shares of common stock only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock.

We estimate that our net proceeds from the sale of the shares of common stock by us will be approximately $ million, assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share, the mid-point of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, the net proceeds to us will be approximately $ million. We will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling stockholders. Assuming no change in the number of shares offered by us as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, a $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by $ million, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

We intend to use our net proceeds for capital expenditures, working capital and other general corporate purposes. In addition, we may also use a portion of the net proceeds to finance growth through the acquisition of, or investment into, businesses, products, services or technologies complementary to our current business, through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures or otherwise. However, we have no agreements or commitments for any specific acquisitions at this time.

Since our acquisition by the GI Partners Funds in 2006, we have not declared or paid any dividends. We currently intend to retain all of our future earnings, if any, to finance the growth and development of our business and do not anticipate paying cash dividends for the foreseeable future. Our existing credit facilities prohibit us from paying cash dividends, and any future financing agreements may prohibit us from paying any type of dividends. For more information about these restrictions, see “Description of Indebtedness.”

The following table sets forth our consolidated capitalization as of December 31, 2009:

The pro forma as adjusted information set forth in the table below is illustrative only and will adjust based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of the offering determined at pricing.

This table should be read with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Assuming no change in the number of shares offered by us as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, a $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share would increase (decrease) each of cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital and total stockholders’ equity by $ million, would decrease (increase) long term debt, including current portion, by $ million and would increase (decrease) total capitalization by $ million, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

If you invest in our common stock your interest will be diluted to the extent of the difference between the public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after the completion this offering. We calculate net tangible book value per share by dividing our net tangible book value, which equals total assets less goodwill, net other intangible assets and total liabilities, by the number of common shares outstanding, including shares of common stock issued upon the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock upon the completion of this offering. The pro forma net tangible book value of our common stock as of December 31, 2009 (assuming conversion of our outstanding preferred stock given our enterprise value implied by the assumed initial public offering price per share set forth below) was approximately $ million, or $ per share, based upon shares outstanding. After giving effect to the sale of shares of common stock by us in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, the mid-point of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma net tangible book value as of December 31, 2009 would have been $ million, or $ per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $ per share to existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $ per share to investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering. The following table illustrates this dilution on a per share basis:

If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of our common stock in full, the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering would be $ per share, and the dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering would be $ per share.

The following table summarizes on a pro forma as adjusted basis as of December 31, 2009, after giving effect to the completion of this offering, the total cash consideration paid to us and the average price per share paid by existing stockholders for their common stock and by new investors purchasing common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and estimated expenses payable by us.

A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share would increase or decrease, respectively, total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $ million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same.

If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, our existing stockholders would own % and our new investors would own % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.

Sales by selling stockholders in this offering will cause the number of shares held by existing stockholders to be reduced to , or % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering, and will increase the total number of shares held by new investors to , or % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.

The foregoing discussion and tables are based upon the number of shares issued and outstanding on December 31, 2009, assumes the conversion of all outstanding shares of our preferred stock as of December 31, 2009 into common stock and assumes no exercise of options or warrants outstanding as of December 31, 2009. As of that date, there were:

For a description of our equity incentive plans, see the section entitled “Management—Equity Incentive Plans.”

If all our outstanding options and warrants (excluding warrants without any economic value) had been exercised, the pro forma net tangible book value as of December 31, 2009 would have been $ million, or $ per share, and the pro forma net tangible book value after this offering would have been $ million, or $ per share, causing dilution to new investors of $ per share.

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus. The selected consolidated financial data in this section are not intended to replace the financial statements and are qualified in their entirety by the consolidated financial statements and related notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Our selected consolidated financial data as of and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements that are included elsewhere in this prospectus. Our selected consolidated financial data as of December 31, 2006 and for the three months ended December 31, 2006 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements that are not included elsewhere in this prospectus. Our selected consolidated financial data as of and for the year ended December 31, 2005 and for the nine months ended October 3, 2006 have been derived from our audited consolidated financial statements of our predecessor that are not included in this prospectus.

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with “Prospectus Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial Data,” “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to historical data, this discussion contains forward-looking statements about our business, operations and financial performance based on current expectations that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including but not limited to those discussed in the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Forward-Looking Statements” included elsewhere in this prospectus.

As a network neutral provider, we do not own or operate our own network, allowing us to act as an unbiased intermediary in providing the necessary interconnection products and related services that facilitate the exchange of communications network traffic between our customers. Customers within a Telx facility are able to connect to any other customer within the facility, including up to 290 communications service providers, depending on the facility. These interconnections effectively allow a customer to replace their existing and more expensive network alternatives. Through these interconnections, our facilities host diverse and densely populated ecosystems of communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, and other entities. Our customers benefit from a wide choice of networks, reduced network costs, improved capital budget efficiency, improved performance and access to revenue opportunities with accelerated time to market.

Our customers rely on our offerings to support their mission-critical communication and information technology (IT) infrastructure needs. Our products and related services enable the exchange of increasing volumes of content and information from across the globe, creating a global connectivity marketplace to support and accelerate our customers’ business growth. With 763 customers and 28,272 total physical interconnections within our facilities as of December 31, 2009, our interconnection-centric model targets customers that value the interconnection density in our secure and reliable environments. We evaluate market leadership based on publicly available information for physical interconnections per customer and our experience in the industry. Based on this framework, we believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer as of December 31, 2009 makes us a leading network neutral, global interconnection and colocation solutions provider in the United States. We believe that the interconnection density within our facilities creates a network effect that increases the value proposition of our products and related services with each additional customer added to the ecosystems, enhancing our ability to both retain existing customers and attract new customers. Our 15 interconnection and colocation facilities are located in the New York Metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte and Miami.

We will seek attractive opportunities to grow our interconnection and colocation market share by growing our relationships with existing and new customers. To support these relationships we may selectively expand our footprint and introduce new related product and service offerings. Consistent with our historical expansion

activities, our expansion criteria include several factors such as the demand from existing and new interconnection-centric customers, access to communications service providers, availability of sufficient space and power, amount of incremental investment required and expected return on capital invested. In addition, we intend to continuously develop our interconnection and colocation offerings and introduce new products and related services to meet our customers’ needs across multiple industry sectors including communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, government agencies and cloud and SaaS providers. We are committed to our interconnection-centric business model because we believe it provides a differentiated value proposition to both our new and existing customers as compared to other colocation-centric providers. Furthermore, we believe our interconnection-centric model enables us to monetize our physical footprint and deploy our capital more efficiently as we can generate incremental revenue without material consumption of additional space or power resources.

While our independent registered public accounting firm did not identify any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal controls over financial reporting for the year ended December 31, 2009, we did not perform an assessment of our internal controls over financial reporting nor did our auditors perform an audit over our internal controls over financial reporting; we therefore cannot assure you that internal control issues will not arise in future periods. In connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008, our independent registered public accounting firm did not identify any material weaknesses but did identify two significant deficiencies in our internal controls relating to (i) an inadequate system of internal controls during 2008 for the timely reconciliations of bank accounts and physical inventories, and errors in recording fixed asset depreciation expense and installation revenues, and (ii) inadequate controls and procedures around access and security around programs and data, segregation of duties and operations in certain IT systems. A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those responsible for oversight of our financial reporting.

During the audit of our consolidated statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2007, our independent registered public accounting firm identified a deficiency that constituted a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. This material weakness related to an inadequate system of internal controls during the first half of 2007 (as we documented a comprehensive set of accounting policies and procedures and implemented certain controls in the second half of the year) and several control deficiencies related to inadequate controls and procedures around access and security around programs and data, segregation of duties, and operations in certain IT systems. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry.”

We have taken steps to remediate the material weaknesses that existed in 2007 and significant deficiencies that existed in 2008. In 2007, we documented, issued and implemented a set of accounting policies and procedures and implemented additional controls to establish an internal control environment and discipline that will continue to ensure the completeness and accuracy of accounting and reporting. We believe this manual includes procedures for all significant policies, business practices, and routine and non-routine procedures performed by each functional area. We plan to periodically review this manual and outlined policies and procedures and update as appropriate for emerging accounting issues. During 2008 and 2009, we also implemented remedial control procedures to address: (i) IT back-up and recovery, (ii) operating systems access, (iii) firewall protections, and (iv) control policies and procedures in certain transaction cycles. We have also implemented additional monitoring activities, as well as evaluated job responsibilities, in order to improve internal controls related to (i) our information security and access to non-financial reporting software applications, (ii) the ability to access and change the management controls, policies and procedures for our

customer management and billing systems, and (iii) the initiation, authorization, review and transaction recording for certain transaction cycles and non-routine transaction processing. We plan to conduct further periodic reviews and evaluations of our IT control environment to ensure we prevent any control deficiencies. Additionally, as part of our on-going efforts to improve our financial accounting organization and processes, from 2007 to the present we have hired several senior and supporting accounting personnel, including a controller, assistant controller, director of technical accounting and three accounting clerks. We believe that the corrective actions described above will remediate the internal control weaknesses and deficiencies identified, however, there are no assurances that the measures we have taken to remediate these internal control weaknesses and deficiencies were completely effective or that similar weaknesses will not recur. We plan to continue to assess our internal controls and procedures and intend to take further action as necessary or appropriate to address any other matters we identify. Because of these prior material weaknesses and significant deficiencies, there is heightened risk that a material misstatement of our financial statements relating to the years ended as of December 31, 2007 and December 31, 2008, respectively, was not prevented or detected. While no material weaknesses were identified during the course of our audit for the year ended December 31, 2009, we cannot assure you that these or other similar issues will not arise in future periods.

To date, the audits of our consolidated financial statements by our independent registered public accounting firm have included a consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis of designing their audit procedures, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting. If such an evaluation had been performed or when we are required to perform such an evaluation, additional material weaknesses and other control deficiencies may have been or may be identified. Ensuring that we have adequate internal financial and accounting controls and procedures in place to help produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis is a costly and time-consuming effort that needs to be evaluated frequently. We will incur increased costs and demands upon management as a result of complying with the laws and regulations affecting public companies relating to internal controls, which could materially adversely affect our operating results. If we fail to implement and maintain effective internal controls going forward, our ability to produce accurate and timely financial statements could be impaired, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and stock price.

Our operations and financial results are exposed to certain risks and uncertainties that may impact our financial condition and results of operations. See “Risk Factors” for further discussion of these risks.

Customer demand and industry trends. We have benefited from strong growth in customer demand for our products and related services over the last several years. Our growth in the past has been aided by a limited supply of interconnection and colocation facilities in the markets we serve. An increase in the supply of interconnection and colocation facilities may result in an increased number of competitive offerings and reduce the overall demand for our products and related services, and therefore cause a decline in our revenues. The growth of customer demand for our products and related services has also been supported by many other factors, including the continuing increases in Internet traffic, enterprise datacenter outsourcing, network-based business application adoption, adoption of Ethernet technologies, growth in Internet video, demand for proximity hosting and low latency interconnection and the emergence of new internet-based computing technologies, such as cloud computing. Our future growth will depend in part on the continued prevalence of these industry trends. If, however, these trends slow or reverse, it would slow or reverse the pace of both our new customer acquisition and revenue growth.

Ability to expand into new facilities and markets. To meet our customers’ increasing demand for our products and related services, we operated facilities consisting of 478,412 total gross square feet as of December 31, 2009. We have expanded our footprint through the addition of three new facilities and the expansion of our existing facilities over the past three years. Our future growth is dependent on our ability to

identify new space within existing facilities, new facilities with attractive adjacencies to our primary interconnection and colocation facilities or new markets in which to build our facilities. If we cannot obtain adequate new space to meet the demand for our products and related services, our rate of growth will decline. Additionally, our future profit margins may be materially impacted, either positively or negatively, by the material conditions of the manner in which we expand into this new space. Material conditions that could impact our financial results include construction costs and lease costs, including lease incentives such as rent abatements and construction allowances.

Ability to align expansion with customer demand growth. We build out the infrastructure in our facilities to accommodate anticipated future demand for our products and related services. While we attempt to minimize the amount of excess capacity in our facilities and the associated operating costs, we do consider the necessary lead times for these facility expansions, which require us to build ahead of actual customer demand and revenue growth. When we begin such build-outs, we typically do not have any guarantees regarding the scope or timing of this anticipated growth which exposes us to risks related to excess capacity and the associated negative impact to our profitability. Additionally, long lead times of build-out periods can expose us to periods of increased costs related to expansion before new revenue can be generated from expansion which depress our operating margins. While we make efforts to minimize this impact by negotiating lease incentives, there can be no guarantee that we will be successful and our results may be negatively impacted in future periods.

Energy costs. We have been exposed to the recent increases in energy costs. See “—Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.” While most of our datacenters operate in regulated energy markets, power cost increases or decreases are possible. To the extent that there is an increase, we generally have the option to pass along such increase to our customers, but we may choose not to do so for a variety of commercial reasons. To the extent that we do not pass these costs along, or that we delay in passing them along, we will pay higher energy prices without incremental revenue, increasing our operating costs and depressing our margins. In addition, even if we do pass these power costs along, this will effectively increase the price for our products and related services, which could reduce overall demand. Conversely, to the extent that power costs decrease and such decease is not passed along to our customers, our costs will fall and consequently our profit margins will improve. Furthermore, if the cost reduction were to be passed to our customers, this could result in increased demand for our products and related services.

Type of customer and product sold. A significant amount of our new customer growth in 2008 and 2009 resulted from further extension of our customer base beyond communications service provider customers. We believe that increasing enterprise adoption of datacenter outsourcing and network based business applications are key factors that make our products and related services attractive to a wide range of enterprises. However, should these factors change, a reduction in customer demand could occur and slow our revenue growth. In addition, a significant amount of our revenue growth and profit margin expansion is driven by increased utilization of our interconnection products by our existing customers relative to the colocation products they purchase. Whereas our colocation products consume both space and power, our interconnection products consume insignificant amounts of space and power, thereby providing higher operating margins and attractive return opportunities. As revenue from interconnection products increases compared to colocation revenue, our profitability should improve. However, if we sell fewer interconnection products and more colocation products, our profit margins will fall.

Expanding and maintaining our talent base. We rely heavily on knowledgeable and experienced employees to provide a high level of service on a continuous basis in a complex technology-driven environment. This requires us to hire and retain professionals, many of whom may have employment opportunities elsewhere. We may have to adjust salary levels in the future to remain competitive in the market for talent which may increase our cost structure and may depress our margins. As we expand, we will need to identify and attract additional suitably qualified employees to maintain our level of service in both our existing and future footprint.

Public company operating expenses. As a public company, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we have not incurred as a private company, including costs associated with public company

reporting requirements. We also have incurred and will incur costs in order to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and related rules implemented by the SEC and Nasdaq. The expenses incurred by public companies generally for reporting and corporate governance purposes have been increasing. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some activities more time-consuming and costly, although we are currently unable to estimate these costs with any degree of certainty.

Our revenues consist of recurring and non-recurring revenues. We generate recurring revenue from our interconnection and colocation products. We generate non-recurring revenue from our installation and technical support services. Installation services are directly related to providing interconnection and colocation products. To review our revenue recognition policies for our recurring and non-recurring revenues, see “—Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” below.

We use several primary metrics to analyze our revenues and measure our performance as set forth below.

Number of customers. The amounts in the table above represent the number of customers as of December 31 of each year. The number of customers is a measure of our growth in our customer base year over year.

Number of physical interconnections (cross connects). The amounts in the table above represent the total number of connections between our customers as of December 31 of each year. The number of physical interconnections is a measure of the connectivity density of our ecosystems. By increasing connection densities within our interconnection and colocation facilities, we are able to increase the utility of facilities for information exchange and enhance our value proposition to our customers. We target customers with significant requirements for information and bandwidth exchange with multiple counterparties. Each additional customer added to our facilities adds connectivity options and opportunities for themselves and all other customers in our ecosystems.

Cabinet equivalents billed. The amounts in the table above represent the total cabinet equivalents billed as of December 31 of each year. Cabinet equivalents billed is an indication of how much space in our interconnection and colocation facilities is generating revenue. Our interconnection and colocation facilities have a certain amount of space and power that can be utilized to provide colocation services which includes cabinet and cage products. Each cabinet is estimated at 18 square feet. Our cage product, on the other hand, is sold in square foot increments to customers who typically want a more significant amount of space to store their equipment. Accordingly, cabinet equivalents billed is the sum of the number of cabinets occupied by customers plus the square footage of cage space occupied by customers divided by 18.

Utilization rate. The amounts in the table represent the utilization rate as of the end of each period. The utilization rate represents the percentage of our interconnection and colocation facility sellable space that has been sold to customers. The number fluctuates due to increases in capacity (new interconnection and colocation

facility expansion space), new sales, and the loss of customers. The utilization rate is calculated as a percentage, the numerator of which is the total square footage occupied by our customers and the denominator of which is equal to the total sellable square footage of our facilities (which takes into account power and cooling capacity limitations and excluding space occupied by our infrastructure and equipment). Power and cooling capacity are assessed to ensure that distributed power and cooling load requirements are not exceeded by power usage capabilities of the customers.

Percentage of incremental revenues attributable to existing customers. The amounts in the table above represent the percentage of incremental revenues attributable to existing customers for each period. We measure the amount of incremental revenues in a given period that results from new customers to a Telx facility as compared to additional service to a customer with an existing presence in the Telx facility. We view this measure as important to our understanding of our customers’ organic growth requirements once present in a Telx ecosystem.

Average monthly churn as a percentage of monthly recurring revenues. The amounts in the table above represent the average monthly churn for each period. Churn represents lost monthly recurring revenues (MRR) from existing customers during a given period due to either the loss of a customer or a reduction in services provided to existing customers. We define churn as lost recurring revenues during a current month divided by the total recurring revenues from the prior month. Our business is based on a recurring revenue model, therefore lost revenues in a period affect future periods.

Our business is characterized by significant monthly recurring revenue streams and low churn rates. In 2009, monthly recurring revenue represented 94% of total revenue, and we had average monthly churn rates that approximated 0.6%. We generate recurring revenues from the following products.

Interconnection. Our interconnection products include our cross connect (a physical interconnection), Internet exchange (connectivity facilitated through an Internet switching device), and other interconnection related products. Our cross connect products enable our customers to connect directly to any communications service provider, enterprise or other customer in our facilities. These products are typically provided for a recurring monthly fee per connection. Our Internet exchange products enable our customers to connect directly to our Internet exchange, which provides for public or private peering with other customers on an intermediary switch device. Our customers license connections to our Internet exchange for a recurring monthly fee, based on needed bandwidth. Our interconnection products are predominantly direct connections via physical interconnections. We also generate recurring revenues from providing customers with Internet access as an additional product offering, which is billed as a recurring monthly fee.

Colocation. We generate recurring revenue from providing colocation space and power as further described below.

Colocation Space. We provide colocation space for a recurring monthly fee for a cabinet or on a per square foot basis for cage space. Customers that license cage space typically use between 50 and 500 square feet in one of our facilities, and often license such space in multiple facilities. In 2009, 95% of our top 20 customers by revenue and 65% of our top 100 customers by revenue utilized our products and related services in multiple facilities. Customers sign a service order, governed by the terms and conditions of a master services agreement, with a typical term of one to three years.

Power. We provide access to A/C or D/C power for a recurring monthly fee under our standard colocation contracts. Our customers pay for power on a per amp basis, typically in 20 to 30 amp increments.

Our inventory of sellable colocation space within each interconnection and colocation facility is limited by the space equipped by our existing power and cooling infrastructure, as well as customer requirements for power

and cooling. Power and cooling requirements at each facility continue to grow on a per cabinet or square foot basis as the speed and power of computing equipment continues to increase relative to its physical footprint. We carefully monitor the power and cooling usage in each of our interconnection and colocation facilities and continue to invest in our power and cooling infrastructure to maximize the amount of utilizable space in our interconnection and colocation facilities.

Installation Services. We provide installation services to assist our customers in accessing our interconnection and colocation services. We receive one-time installation fees determined by the complexity of the installation. Colocation installation fees are typically billed per cabinet or square foot of cage space installed and per amp of power installed. Colocation installation fees are billed at the time of the installation and are recognized as non-recurring revenue on a straight-line basis over the estimated life of the customer relationship. Interconnection installation fees are typically in the form of port services which are typically sold on one or multi-year terms and recognized over the estimated life of the customer relationship or as cross connect services which are provided on a month-to-month basis and recognized in the period the installation is provided and complete. The earnings process from cross connect installation is culminated in the month the installation is complete.

Technical Support Services. Technical support services are provided by our technicians, who are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. These services include system reboots, hardware and software troubleshooting, circuit, loop and fiber troubleshooting, equipment installation and provisioning and infrastructure installations. We generally charge customers for these services for a minimum of one hour and thereafter in 15 minute increments.

The following table presents our revenues and percentage of revenues for the periods presented.

Our cost structure includes expenses which are highly predictable, such as rent expense and personnel expenses, and variable costs, such as electricity expenses for which we generally have the ability to pass on cost increases to our customers.

Cost of Revenues. Cost of revenues is comprised primarily of colocation costs for our interconnection and colocation facilities including rent expense and other lease costs, and real estate taxes. It also includes utilities, labor and materials, depreciation and amortization of fixed assets, repairs and maintenance, wholesale network and telecommunication services that support our customers, and security. Labor includes the cost of personnel who perform the installations and technical support services including both external contractors and internal technicians. Internal labor costs also include non-cash stock-based compensation expenses related to internal technicians. The largest components of our cost of revenues, such as rent and compensation expense, are mostly fixed in nature and do not vary significantly from period to period. However, certain components of our cost of

revenues, such as utilities, are variable in nature and are directly related to the growth of our revenues. We expect our utilities expenses to increase in the future on a per unit basis due to increases in rates from our utility providers and increased power usage by our customers. Further, we experience seasonality in our utilities expenses based on temperatures and seasonal rate adjustments, which causes the amount of these expenses to fluctuate during the year. In connection with our expansion into new facilities, we typically incur lease, utilities, and labor related expenses prior to being able to accept customers for, and generate revenue from, new interconnection and colocation facilities. As we expand our interconnection and colocation facilities, we expect cost of revenues to increase.

Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of personnel related expenses for our sales and marketing employees, including wages, benefits, bonuses, commissions, non-cash stock-based compensation, and travel, in addition to the cost of marketing programs such as sales support, trade shows, corporate communications, promotional events, and advertising. Sales and marketing expense also includes bad debt expense and the amortization of customer relationship intangible assets related to the October 2006 acquisition of us by the GI Partners Funds and the March 2007 acquisition of customer relationships from NYC Connect, LLC. We expect our sales and marketing expenses to increase as we increase the headcount of our sales staff and increase our marketing and promotional efforts. This increase, however, will be offset by a reduction of amortization expense related to customer relationship intangible assets as they become fully amortized in the first quarter of 2010.

General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses include personnel related expenses, corporate office rent, legal, accounting, and consulting expenses, insurance, taxes, phone and network expenses for our internal systems, office expenses and depreciation and amortization expenses related to our corporate fixed and intangibles assets. Personnel related expenses include wages, benefits, bonuses, non-cash stock-based compensation, as well as travel expenses for our corporate employees. We expect our general and administrative expenses to increase as we incur additional costs to support our growth, including higher personnel, legal, insurance, and financial reporting expenses. However, we expect general and administrative expenses to decrease as a percentage of revenues over time.

The following is a more detailed discussion of our financial condition and results of operations for the periods presented. The year-to-year comparison of financial results is not necessarily indicative of future results.

The following table presents our historical costs and operating expenses as a percentage of revenues for the periods indicated.

Revenues increased by $28.3 million, or 40%, to $98.3 million for 2009 compared to $70.0 million for 2008. Recurring revenues increased by $24.7 million from the sale of our products and services to new and existing customers. The increase in recurring revenues consisted of $14.5 million of colocation revenues and $10.2 million of interconnection revenues. The increase in revenues reflected an increase in the number of customers as well as higher average revenue per customer, driven in part by (i) facilities expansions during 2008 and 2009 which created additional capacity available for sale, and (ii) increasing interconnection growth between new and existing customers. Existing customers continue to drive revenue growth and comprised 70% of incremental revenues in 2009 compared to 72% in 2008. Cabinet equivalents billed increased 30% to 5,987 at December 31, 2009 compared to 4,595 at December 31, 2008. The number of cross connects was 28,272 at December 31, 2009, which reflects an 18% increase over December 31, 2008 cross connects of 23,867. Non-recurring revenues increased by $3.6 million primarily related to interconnection installations and technical support services as a result of the increase in customer installations and support services for an increased customer base.

Cost of revenues increased by $18.9 million, or 45%, to $60.6 million for 2009 compared to $41.7 million for 2008. Total rent expense increased $8.4 million primarily due to the expansion of 21,910 square feet of space in our Los Angeles, Chicago and Phoenix markets in 2009, and the full year impact of the 2008 expansion of 85,974 square feet at our New York, New Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco, and Dallas facilities. Utilities increased $3.4 million due to the addition of new customers, additional usage by our existing customers, and rate increases. Due to the growth of our customer base and the expansion of our facilities, labor and materials increased by $2.3 million, repairs and maintenance increased $0.7 million, and cost related to interconnection services increased $0.4 million as we connected several of our facilities together in 2009. Depreciation and amortization of fixed assets increased $3.6 million to $5.5 million from $1.9 million, due to expansion of our colocation and interconnection facilities. We anticipate our cost of revenues will increase in absolute dollars as we continue our expansion efforts.

Sales and marketing expenses decreased by $13.1 million, or 35%, to $23.8 million for 2009 compared to $36.8 million for 2008. The decrease in expenses was attributable to the reduction of amortization expense related to our customer relationship intangible assets to $14.0 million in 2009 from $28.2 million in 2008, or a $14.2 million decrease, as certain of these intangible assets became fully amortized. Excluding the amortization of intangible assets, sales and marketing expenses increased $1.1 million in 2009 from 2008, and were 9.9% and 12.3% of revenue, respectively, for 2009 and 2008. This $1.1 million increase was mainly the result of increased personnel related expenses resulting from an increase in headcount. We expect sales and marketing expenses to increase consistent with revenue growth as we continue to invest in sales distribution and marketing to achieve that growth.

General and administrative expenses increased by $0.8 million, or 5%, to $15.6 million for 2009 compared to $14.8 million for 2008. The increase was attributed to an increase in personnel related expenses of $1.2 million resulting from an increase in headcount, offset by a $0.4 million reduction in other general and administrative expenses. We expect general and administrative expenses to increase as we add corporate support resources for our expansion efforts.

The decrease in interest expense, net was due to lower interest rates on the mortgages on our 56 Marietta Loans (as defined under our Debt Obligations below) offset by higher interest rates and higher debt balances on our NY Credit Agreement (as defined below under our Debt Obligations below) as we borrowed an additional $25 million in two transactions in March and October of 2009. Also, 2009 interest expense includes $0.4 million of fees associated with the amendments to our loan facilities in 2009. Interest expense was offset by $0.4 million in interest income in both 2009 and 2008.

In 2009 we recorded deferred and current income tax expense of $1.0 million and $0.5 million, respectively. The deferred tax expense of $1.0 million was primarily due to amortization of goodwill associated with our acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of NYC Connect, LLC over a 15 year life for tax purposes. This creates a deferred tax liability which is not anticipated to reverse in the foreseeable future and cannot be offset against our deferred tax assets under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP. The $0.5 million current tax expense in 2009 was due primarily to federal alternative minimum tax and California franchise tax which could not be offset by net operating losses.

The deferred tax expense of $0.8 million in 2008 was primarily due to amortization of goodwill associated with our acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of NYC Connect, LLC over a 15 year life for tax purposes. This creates a deferred tax liability which is not anticipated to reverse in the foreseeable future and cannot be offset against our deferred tax assets under GAAP.

Net loss decreased by $21.5 million or 68%, to $9.9 million for 2009 compared to a net loss of $31.4 million for 2008. The improvement was the result of a $21.7 million improvement in operating income resulting from an increase in revenue of $28.3 million and a decrease in sales and marketing expense of $13.1 million offset by an increase in cost of revenues of $18.9 million and an increase of general and administrative expenses of $0.8 million. In addition there was a reduction of $0.5 million on interest, net and other expenses due to reduced interest rates and an increase in taxes of $0.7 million.

Revenues increased by $19.3 million, or 38%, to $70.0 million for 2008 compared to $50.8 million for 2007. Recurring revenues increased by $21.3 million from the sale of our services to new and existing customers. The increase in recurring revenues consisted of $13.5 million of colocation revenues and $7.8 million of interconnection revenues. 2008 revenues reflect a full year of revenue from our 111 8^th Avenue facility which was acquired in connection with our acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of NYC Connect, LLC in March of 2007. The increase in revenues also reflects an increase in the number of customers, as well as higher average revenue per customer, driven in part by (i) facilities expansions during 2008 and 2007 which created additional capacity, and (ii) increasing interconnection growth between new and existing customers. Cabinet equivalents billed increased 30% to 4,595 at December 31, 2008 compared to 3,542 at December 31, 2007. The number of cross connects was 23,867 at December 31, 2008, which reflects a 21% increase over December 31, 2007 cross connects of 19,692. Non-recurring revenues decreased by $2.0 million primarily related to installation services and technical support. The installation services revenue reduction is directly related to pricing reductions.

Cost of revenues increased by $9.9 million, or 31%, to $41.7 million for 2008 compared to $31.8 million for 2007. Total rent expense increased $7.0 million primarily due to the expansion of 85,974 square feet at our New York, New Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco, and Dallas facilities in 2008, and the full year impact of the 2007 expansion of 58,783 square feet at our New York, Chicago, and Dallas facilities, along with rent increases. Utilities increased $2.4 million due to the addition of new customers, additional usage by our existing customers, and rate increases. Due to the growth of our customer base and the expansion of our facilities, costs related to labor and materials, repairs and maintenance, interconnection services, and security costs increased by $0.5 million.

Sales and marketing expenses increased by $4.9 million, or 15%, to $36.8 million for 2008 compared to $32.0 million for 2007. The increase in expenses was attributable to increase in amortization expense of $1.4 million related to a full year of amortization expense for our customer contract intangible assets from the March 2007 NYC Connect, LLC acquisition. Excluding amortization expense, sales and marketing expenses were 12.3% and 10.1% of revenue, respectively, for 2008 and 2007, and increased $3.5 million in 2008 from 2007. This $3.5 million increase was mainly the result of increased personnel related expenses of $2.6 million as we increased headcount in sales and marketing department and $1.0 million in additional bad debt expense.

General and administrative expenses increased by $0.5 million, or 3%, to $14.8 million for 2008 compared to $14.3 million for 2007. The increase was attributed mainly to personnel related expenses of $1.3 million resulting from increased headcount offset by a reduction of $0.9 million for one-time data migration costs.

The decrease in interest expense, net, was due to lower interest rates on our 56 Marietta Loans (as defined under “—Debt Obligations” below) and our NY Credit Agreement (as defined under “—Debt Obligations below) as LIBOR rates decreased. Interest expense was offset by $0.4 million and $0.6 million in interest income in 2008 and 2007, respectively.

The $0.8 million income tax benefit in 2007 resulted from net reductions to deferred tax liabilities (primarily regarding GI Partners Funds acquisition related intangibles), which were not fully offset by the valuation allowance increase for the year.

Net loss decreased by $5.0 million, or 14%, to $31.4 million for 2008 compared to a net loss of $36.4 million for 2007. The improvement was the result of a $4.0 million improvement in operating income resulting from an increase in revenue of $19.3 million offset by an increase in cost of revenues of $9.9 million, an increase in sales and marketing expense of $4.9 million and an increase of general and administrative expenses of $0.5 million. In addition to the operating income, we improved $2.6 million on interest, net and other expenses which was offset by increase in provision for taxes of $1.6 million.

We believe we have sufficient cash on hand, coupled with anticipated cash generated from operating activities to meet our operating and debt service requirements, and to complete our expansion plans for at least the next twelve months. As of December 31, 2009, we had $40.7 million of cash on hand (excluding restricted cash of $4.7 million). Our principal sources of additional cash are from our operating activities and additional financing activities we may pursue, including this offering of common stock. Our principal uses of cash are capital expenditures for our existing and expansion sites, and funding our operating expenses, including any cash flow shortfalls from operating our expansion sites until they generate positive cash flow. We also may consider expenditures on certain internal systems and applications to support our growth requirements. While we expect that our cash inflows from operations will continue to increase, we expect our cash used in investing activities, primarily as a result of our expansion efforts, will continue to be greater than our cash inflows generated from operating activities for at least the next twelve months. In March and October, 2009 we amended our NY Credit Agreement (see “—Debt Obligations” below) to obtain an additional $25.0 million in term loan financing to assist in achieving our expansion plans. The majority of this capital has not been spent and remains available for use as of December 31, 2009, however we have plans in place to expend this capital over the next twelve months. As of December 31, 2009, there were $50.0 million of outstanding borrowings under our NY Credit Agreement, and there is no remaining borrowing availability under this facility.

The U.S. economy is currently undergoing a period of economic uncertainty, and the related financial markets are experiencing unprecedented volatility. Despite the continued adverse general economic conditions, we have not experienced any material liquidity issues. While we believe we have sufficient liquidity and capital resources to meet our current operating requirements and expansion plans, we may want to pursue additional expansion opportunities within the next year which could require additional financing, either debt or equity. If we are unable to secure additional financing at favorable terms in order to pursue such additional expansions opportunities, our ability to maintain our desired level of revenue growth could be materially adversely affected.

The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows for the periods indicated:

Net cash provided by operating activities was $27.9 million and $14.8 million for 2009 and 2008, respectively, and $4.7 million was used to support operating activities in 2007. The increase in net cash provided by operating activities was primarily due to improved operating results as discussed above and improved working capital management including the collections of accounts receivable. We expect that we will continue to generate cash from our operating activities as a principal source of cash.

Net cash used in investing activities was $29.0 million, $14.5 million and $55.7 million for 2009, 2008, and 2007 respectively. In 2009, our primary use of cash was for capital expenditures associated with our expansion efforts across our New York, Chicago and New Jersey facilities. In 2008, our primary use of cash was for capital expenditures associated with our expansion efforts across our New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Dallas facilities. In 2007, our primary use of cash was for the purchase of certain assets and liabilities from NYC Connect, LLC for $46.0 million and for capital expenditures for all our facilities. We expect to continue to prudently expand our facilities and therefore capital expenditures will continue to be our primary use of cash.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $19.1 million, $14.6 million and $61.2 million for 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. In 2009 our financing activities included additional borrowings under the NY Credit Agreement (as defined below) in March for $15.0 million and October for $10.0 million in addition to capital leases entered into to finance equipment related to our expansion efforts, offset by repayments against the NY Term Loan (as defined below), other loans, and capital leases. In 2008, our financing activities included the addition of $15.0 million of equity investment by the GI Partners Funds and $0.2 million of equity investment by Telxinvest, LLC, offset by repayments against the NY Term Loan (as defined below), other loans, and capital leases. In 2007, our financing activities included the addition of $50.0 million of equity investment by the GI Partners Funds to fund the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities from NYC Connect, LLC, $0.8 million of equity investment by Telxinvest, LLC, the financing of the Atlanta Mortgage Loans (as defined below) and, the NY Credit Agreement (as defined below) and related costs, offset by repayments of a $98.0 million bridge loan from the GI Partners Funds.

On October 3, 2006, in connection with our acquisition by the GI Partners Funds, we entered into a $70.0 million demand note with GI Partners Fund II, L.P. and a $28.0 million demand note with GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P. (collectively, the Demand Notes). The Demand Notes were payable on demand, and bore interest at 10% per annum, which was also due and payable upon demand. In March 2007, $78.0 million of the Demand Notes were refinanced with proceeds from the 56 Marietta Loans (as defined below) and in September 2007, the remainder of the Demand Notes were refinanced with proceeds from the NY Credit Agreement (as defined below).

On March 8, 2007, (i) Colo Properties Atlanta, LLC (“Colo Properties”), our indirect, but wholly owned subsidiary, entered into a Loan Agreement with UBS Real Estate Securities, Inc. (the “Colo Properties Mortgage Loan”) pursuant to which UBS made a $60.0 million mortgage loan to Colo Properties secured by Colo Properties datacenter facility at 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Georgia, and (ii) CP Atlanta, LLC, the parent entity to Colo Properties, entered into a Mezzanine Loan Agreement with UBS pursuant to which UBS made a $20.0 million mezzanine loan to CP Atlanta, LLC. On August 10, 2007, these agreements were amended to bifurcate the mezzanine loan into two separate $10.0 million mezzanine loans (the “56 Marietta Mezzanine Loans”), one to CP Atlanta, LLC and the other to CP Atlanta II, LLC the parent of CP Atlanta, LLC, and to reflect certain minor changes. Collectively and as amended, we refer to these three loans as the 56 Marietta Loans.

In September 2007, telx—New York Holdings, LLC (our wholly owned subsidiary) and three of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “New York Borrowers”) entered into a senior secured credit agreement with CIT Lending Services Corporation, as agent (“CIT”), and certain lenders (as amended, the “NY Credit Agreement”). The credit agreement initially permitted the NY Borrowers to borrow up to $31.0 million, comprised of a $25.0 million term loan and a $6.0 million revolving credit facility, including letters of credit. In March 2009, the NY Borrowers amended and restated these agreements to provide for an additional $15.0 million of term loan

borrowings. In June and September 2009, the New York Borrowers entered into amendments to these agreements, under which the lenders extended certain deadlines to request further expansions to the facility, among other things. On October 9, 2009, the New York Borrowers entered into another amendment to these agreements to further increase the term loan borrowings under the NY Credit Agreement by $10.0 million. The term loan facility provided by the NY Credit Agreement is sometimes referred to herein as the “NY Term Loan.”

As of December 31, 2009, we had $80.0 million in principal outstanding under the 56 Marietta Loans. As of December 31, 2009, $44.0 million in term loans and $6.0 million in revolving loans and letters of credit were outstanding under the NY Credit Agreement.

The Colo Properties Mortgage Loan is secured by a mortgage, fixture filing and assignment of leases and rents with respect to our data facility and certain related property and improvements at 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta. The assignment of leases and rents includes an assignment of all leases, licenses and other agreements related to the use of occupancy of the 56 Marietta facility and all rents and proceeds thereof. The 56 Marietta Mezzanine Loans are secured by a pledge of the direct and indirect ownership interests in Colo Properties, which owns that facility. Substantially all of the assets of the New York Borrowers are pledged as collateral under the NY Credit Agreement.

The non-default interest rates under the 56 Marietta Loans are calculated at a rate equal to LIBOR plus a spread. The spreads are 142.5 basis points for the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan, 450 basis points for the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan and 375 basis points for the CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan, for a blended spread of 210 basis points for the 56 Marietta Loans on an aggregated basis. Interest is payable monthly under each of the 56 Marietta Loans.

The non-default interest rates under the NY Credit Agreement are determined either by (i) LIBOR (for the applicable interest period) plus the applicable margin (a “LIBOR Loan”), or at our election, (ii) a prime-based rate (equal to the greatest of (a) the Federal Funds effective rate plus 0.50%, (b) the prime rate published in the Wall Street Journal and (c) LIBOR (using a one-month period) based rate plus 1.0%), plus the applicable margin (a “Base Rate Loan”). The applicable margin is 5.25% for a Base Rate Loan and 6.25% for a LIBOR Loan. The NY Credit Agreement provides for an interest rate floor of 2.75%. Under the NY Credit Agreement, the New York Borrowers are required to pay annually an unused revolving commitment fee of 0.50% times the amount by which the revolving loan commitment exceeds the average daily balance of the outstanding revolving loans and letters of credit. The New York Borrowers are also required to pay CIT an annual administrative management fee of either $35,000 or $50,000, depending on the number of lenders then party to the NY Credit Agreement. Borrowings under the 56 Marietta Loans are due March 2011. However, we have the option to extend the maturity by one year to March, 2012.

Repayments of principal under the NY Term Loan are due in scheduled quarterly installments. The final payment is due and payable on December 30, 2011. The revolving loans provided for under the NY Credit Agreement are currently fully drawn and all outstanding amounts will be due and payable on December 30, 2011. The credit agreement provides for certain mandatory principal prepayments including certain payments if the New York Borrowers’ cash flow exceeds certain levels. We made $0.5 million, $1.9 million, $2.5 million and $3.7 million excess cash flow payments in August 2008, February 2009, August 2009 and February 2010, respectively.

The 56 Marietta Loans require compliance with certain financial covenant ratios including consolidated debt to total assets and net worth, as measured for The Telx Group, Inc. We were in compliance with all such financial covenant ratios as of December 31, 2009. A 10% change in the ratios would not change our compliance status. The lenders may require the respective borrowers to make mandatory principal reduction payments in the aggregate amount of $10.0 million if (i) our leverage ratio (ratio of total debt to total assets) exceeds fifty percent (50%) or (ii) the revenue derived from the 56 Marietta project for a quarter declines by more than fifteen percent (15%) from the previous quarter. The NY Credit Agreement requires compliance with certain financial covenant ratios including our consolidated leverage ratio, annualized consolidated interest coverage ratio and annualized

consolidated fixed charge coverage ratio. We were in compliance with all such financial covenant ratios as of December 31, 2009 and anticipate compliance with all covenants for at least the next twelve months. A 10% change in the ratios would not change our compliance status.

The NY Credit Agreement also requires that we comply with certain other covenants, which among other things, restrict our ability to incur additional debt, pay dividends and make other restricted payments, sell assets, enter into affiliate transactions and take other actions. We were in compliance with all such covenants as of December 31, 2009 and anticipate compliance with all covenants for at least the next twelve months.

However, the ability to comply with these provisions may be affected by events beyond our control. The breach of any of these covenants could result in a default, subject to customary cure rights, under the 56 Marietta Loans and NY Credit Agreement and, if not cured within any applicable cure period or waived by our lenders, could trigger acceleration of repayment and the exercise of remedies against the collateral and otherwise, thus adversely affecting the business.

We are required by the 56 Marietta Loan agreements to manage the interest rate risk on the 56 Marietta Loans. Each of the borrowing entities under the 56 Marietta Loans entered into interest rate cap agreements to lock in a maximum cost of funds for its respective loan. As required by the 56 Marietta Loan agreements, three rate cap agreements have been procured and maintained which provide for a LIBOR cap rate of 6.5% with respect to the full principal amount of each of the 56 Marietta Loans. The current agreements expire on March 15, 2011. The effect of the arrangements is to reduce interest rate risks and to manage interest expense by placing a cap on the interest rate payable under the loans. Each of the borrowing entities under the 56 Marietta Loans has assigned as collateral its interests under the interest rate cap agreements for the benefit of the respective lenders of the 56 Marietta Loans.

As required by the NY Credit Agreement, the New York Borrowers have entered into certain interest rate hedging agreements to reduce interest rate risks and to manage interest expense. These hedging agreements hedge the interest rate with respect to at least 50% of the principal amount of the term loan under the credit agreement.

We have entered into various lease agreements for equipment. These lease agreement terms are for three years and the base terms expire at the end of 2011, after which the leases will continue until terminated by either party on 90 days notice. The lease agreements also include a bargain purchase option. Payments under these lease agreements are $0.2 million quarterly.

The following table summarizes, as of December 31, 2009, our minimum payments for long-term debt and other obligations for the next five years and thereafter:

In addition, pursuant to a management agreement with the managing partner (“GI Manager”) of the GI Partners Funds, as amended, we are obligated to pay an annual management fee, not to exceed $0.8 million, as determined by our board of directors, plus reasonable expenses. In each of the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, GI Manager has waived this fee. In addition to the annual management fee, GI Manager is also entitled to a 1.5% transaction closing fee with respect to any refinancing (other than a refinancing involving an acquisition or distribution), restructuring, equity or debt offering, acquisition, merger, consolidation, business combination, sale or divestiture. The management agreement will terminate immediately upon the date that this registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part, is declared effective by the SEC.

Interest Rate. We are required by our NY Credit Agreement to manage the interest rate risk on our debt portfolio. The borrowing entities under the NY Term Loan entered into interest rate cap agreements to lock in a maximum cost of funds for portions of its debt. A LIBOR cap rate of 3.75% on a notional amount of $17.5 million was put in place on September 2, 2009 (effective September 30, 2009). The agreement requires the counterparty to pay us the amount of additional interest required for the loan on this notional amount when the LIBOR rate exceeds the 3.75% cap. This agreement expires December 31, 2011. A LIBOR cap rate of 5.75% on a notional amount of $12.5 million was put in place on December 24, 2007 (effective December 28, 2007). The agreement requires the counterparty to pay us the amount of additional interest required for the loan on this notional amount when the LIBOR rate exceeds the 5.75% cap. This agreement expires December 28, 2010. We are required by the 56 Marietta Loans to manage the interest rate risk on our debt portfolio. The borrowing entities under the 56 Marietta Loans entered into interest rate cap agreements to lock in a maximum cost of funds for portions of its debt. As required by the 56 Marietta Loan, a LIBOR cap rate of 6.5% on a notional amount of $60 million was put in place on February 27, 2009 (effective March 15, 2009). The agreement requires the counterparty to pay us the amount of additional interest required for the loan on this notional amount when the LIBOR rate exceeds the 6.5% cap. This agreement expires March 15, 2011. As required by the Mezzanine A and B Loans, a LIBOR cap rate of 6.5% on a notional amount of $10 million was put in place on February 27, 2009 (effective March 15, 2009). The agreement requires the counterparty to pay us the amount of additional interest required for the loan on this notional amount when the LIBOR rate exceeds the 6.5% cap. This agreement expires March 15, 2011. As required by the Mezzanine A and B Loans, a LIBOR cap rate of 6.5% on a notional amount of $10 million was put in place on February 27, 2009 (effective March 15, 2009). The agreement requires the counterparty to pay us the amount of additional interest required for the loan on this notional amount when the LIBOR rate exceeds the 6.5% cap. This agreement expires March 15, 2011. An immediate 10% increase or decrease in current interest rates from their position as of December 31, 2009 would not have a material impact on our debt obligations due to the spread of our interest rate caps and labor floor provisions in excess of the current markets LIBOR bases.

Fair Value. We do not have material exposure to market risk with respect to investments, as all such investments are kept in money market accounts. We do not use derivative financial instruments for speculative or trading purposes; however, this does not preclude our adoption of specific hedging strategies in the future.

Commodity Price Risk. Operating costs incurred by us are subject to price fluctuations caused by the volatility of underlying electricity prices at our facilities. We monitor the cost of electricity at our interconnection and colocation facilities closely. In a limited number of our facilities, we enter into power purchase agreements to fix the price at which we acquire electricity, typically over a one-year period. An immediate 10% increase or decrease in current power rates from their price as of December 31, 2009 would not have a material impact on our results of operations and would represent less than $1 million difference in our aggregate power expense or approximately 1% of our cost of sales for the year ended December 31, 2009. Power costs vary by geography and the source of the power generation and they further exhibit substantial seasonal fluctuation, however, we have not experienced fluctuations of this magnitude in the past across all facilities.

The discussion of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. In preparing our consolidated financial statements, we make estimates and assumptions that can have a significant impact on our financial position and results of operations. The application of our critical accounting policies requires an evaluation of a number of complex criteria and significant accounting judgments by us. In applying those policies, our management uses its judgment to determine the appropriate assumptions to be used in the determination of certain estimates. Actual results may differ significantly from these estimates under different assumptions, judgments or conditions, and these differences could be material.

Critical accounting policies are defined as those policies that require significant judgments and assumptions about matters that are highly uncertain at the time of the estimate and could potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions. See Note 3 of the Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

Revenue Recognition. We follow the provisions of SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 104, Revenue Recognition, and Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) FASB ASC Topic 605-25, Multiple-Element Arrangements.

We generate recurring revenue from providing colocation and interconnection services. More than 90% of our revenues are provided from these recurring revenues. The remaining revenues are nonrecurring and consist of installation services and technical support.

Revenue is recognized only when the service has been provided and when there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, the fee is fixed or determinable and collection of the receivable is reasonably assured. Our customers generally have the right to cancel their contracts by providing prior written notice to us of their intent to cancel the remainder of the contract term. However, in the event that a customer cancels its contract, it remains obligated to the service commitments for the reminder of the term.

Allowance for Doubtful Accounts. We make judgments as to our ability to collect outstanding receivables and provide allowances when collection becomes doubtful. Judgment is required to assess the likelihood of ultimate realization of recorded accounts receivable. If the financial condition of our customers were to deteriorate, resulting in an impairment of either their ability or willingness to make payments, an increase in the allowance for doubtful accounts would be required. Similarly, a change in the payment behavior of customers generally may require an adjustment in the calculation of the appropriate allowance. Each month, management reviews customer payment patterns, historical data and anticipated customer default rates of the various aging categories of accounts receivables in order to determine the appropriate allowance for doubtful accounts. We write off customer accounts receivable balances to the allowance for doubtful accounts when it becomes likely that we will not collect from the customer.

Property and Equipment and Other Long Lived Assets. We have a substantial amount of property and equipment recorded on our balance sheet at cost. The vast majority of our property and equipment represents the costs incurred to build out or acquire our interconnection and colocation facilities. The majority of facilities are in properties that are leased. We commence depreciation when the assets are placed in service. We depreciate our property and equipment using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the respective assets (subject to the term of the lease in the case of leased assets or leasehold improvements).

Accounting for property and equipment involves a number of accounting issues including determining the appropriate period in which to depreciate such assets, making assessments for leased properties to determine whether they are capital or operating leases and assessing the initial asset retirement obligations required for certain leased properties that require us to return the leased properties back to their original condition at the time we decide to exit a leased property. We determine estimated useful lives based on established accounting guidelines. Leasehold improvements are amortized on a straight-line basis over the lesser of the term of the related lease (including renewal periods, which are reasonably assured) or the estimated life of the asset.

Periodically we assess potential impairment of our property and equipment, primarily located at our facilities, and intangible assets with finite useful lives, in accordance with the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 360, Property, Plant and Equipment. We perform an impairment review whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. Factors we consider important that could trigger an impairment review include, but are not limited to, significant under-performance relative to historical or projected future operating results, significant loss of customers within a facility, significant changes in the manner of our use of the acquired assets or our overall business strategy, and significant industry or economic trends. When we determine that the carrying value of a long-lived asset may not be recoverable based upon the existence of one or more of the above indicators, we determine the recoverability by comparing the carrying amount of the asset to net future undiscounted cash flows that the asset is expected to generate. We recognize an impairment charge equal to the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the fair market value of the assets.

Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets. Goodwill, which consists of the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of identifiable net assets of businesses acquired, is evaluated for impairment on an annual basis, or whenever events or circumstances indicate that impairment may have occurred. We follow the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 350, Intangibles-Goodwill and Others when evaluating goodwill for impairment.

Intangible assets, including tradenames, contracts, customer relationships, and non-compete agreements arising principally from acquisitions, are recorded at cost less accumulated amortization. Intangible assets deemed to have indefinite useful lives, such as goodwill, are not amortized and are subject to annual impairment

tests or whenever events or circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred. An impairment exists if the carrying value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeds its fair value. For other intangible assets subject to amortization, impairment is recognized if the carrying amount is not recoverable and the carrying amount exceeds the fair value of the intangible asset.

There are many assumptions and estimates used that directly impact the results of impairment testing, including an estimate of future expected revenues, earnings and cash flows, and discount rates applied to such expected cash flows in order to estimate fair value. We use both the income and market approach in step one of our goodwill impairment reviews and weight the results of both equally. Under the income approach, we develop an eight-year cash flow forecast and use our weighted-average cost of capital applicable to our reporting unit as discount rates. This requires assumptions and estimates derived from a review of our actual and forecasted operating results, approved business plans, future economic conditions and other market data. These assumptions require significant management judgment and are inherently subject to uncertainties.

Future events, changing market conditions and any changes in key assumptions may result in an impairment charge. While we have never recorded an impairment charge against our goodwill or intangible assets to date, the development of adverse business conditions in our reporting units, such as higher than anticipated churn or significantly increased operating costs, or significant deterioration of our market comparables that we use in the market approach, could result in an impairment charge in future periods.

Operating and Capital Leases. We occupy and operate facilities and offices under various leases. The leases include scheduled base rent increases over the terms of the leases. We recognize rent expense from operating leases with periods of free and scheduled rent increases on a straight-line basis over the applicable lease term. We consider lease renewals in the useful life of its leasehold improvements when such renewals are reasonably assured. From time to time, we may receive construction allowances from our lessors. These amounts are recorded as deferred liabilities and amortized over the remaining lease term as a reduction of rent expense.

We lease certain property and equipment under capital lease agreements. The assets held under capital lease agreements and the related obligations are recorded at the lesser of the present value of aggregate future minimum lease payments, including estimated bargain purchase options, or the fair value of the assets held under capital lease. Such assets are amortized over the shorter of the terms of the leases, or the estimated useful lives of the assets.

Accounting for Income Taxes. We account for income taxes in accordance with the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes. Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. We measure deferred tax assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates that will apply in the years in which we expect the temporary differences to be recovered or paid. We periodically assess the realizability of deferred tax assets and the adequacy of deferred tax liabilities, including the results of local state, and federal statutory tax audits or estimates and judgments used.

Realization of deferred tax assets associated with net operating loss and credit carryforwards is dependent upon generating sufficient taxable income prior to their expiration in the applicable tax jurisdiction. We periodically review the recoverability of tax assets recorded on our balance sheet and provide valuation allowances as we deem necessary. Deferred tax assets could be reduced in the near term if our estimates of taxable income during the carryforward period are significantly reduced or alternative tax strategies are no longer viable.

Our income tax returns are periodically audited by the Internal Revenue Service and state and local jurisdictions. We reserve for tax contingencies when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the contingent amount is reasonably estimable. These reserves are based upon our best estimation of the potential exposures associated with the timing and amount of deductions, as well as various tax filing positions.

Effective January 1, 2009, we adopted FASB ASC Topic 740. FASB ASC Topic 740 provides guidance for the recognition threshold and measurement attribute for financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. The adoption of FASB ASC Topic 740 resulted in no cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle being recorded on our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009. See Note 11 to our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2009, for more information on income taxes.

Prior to 2009 and the adoption of FASB ASC Topic 740, reserves were recorded when management determined that it was probable that a loss would be incurred related to these matters and the amount of the loss was reasonably determinable. Subsequent to the adoption of FASB ASC Topic 740, we are required to recognize, at the largest amount that is more likely than not to be sustained upon audit by the relevant taxing authority, the impact of an uncertain income tax position on our income tax return. An uncertain income tax position will not be recognized if it has less than a 50% likelihood of being sustained. The tax positions are analyzed periodically (at least quarterly) and adjustments are made as events occur that warrant adjustments to those positions.

Effective January 2006, we adopted the fair market value method of recording stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation, which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all stock-based payment awards made to employees and directors. Under the fair-value recognition provisions of FASB ASC Topic 718, stock-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair market value of the award using an option-pricing model and is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period.

Information regarding our stock option grants for 2009, 2008 and 2007, is summarized as follows:

Prior to this offering, in evaluating the fair market value of our common stock, we followed procedures that are consistent with the recommendations of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Practice Aid regarding “Valuation of Privately-Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation”. Our management and board of directors made its determinations as to the fair market value in connection with the grant of stock options exercising its best reasonable judgment at the time. In the absence of a public market for our common stock, numerous objective and subjective factors, referred to as the key valuation considerations, were analyzed to determine the fair market value at each grant date, including the following:

The major drivers and assumptions used in calculating the fair market value of our shares include:

For the 2008 and 2009 grants, we determined that there was sufficient data to develop reasonable income and cash flow estimates, and therefore we utilized the income and market approach under a probability-weighted expected return method to estimate grant-date fair value of the awards. Under this methodology, the enterprise value of the Company and the common stock is estimated based upon an

analysis of future value for the entire enterprise assuming various future outcomes. Share value is based upon the probability-weighted present value of these expected outcomes, as well as the rights of each class of preferred and common stock. For purposes of these probability-weighted present values, we contemporaneously modeled our future outcomes to include six different potential future scenarios all of which involved an initial public offering, a strategic merger or sale event within one to four years of the respective valuation date, with a consistent weighting of 40% to the scenarios assuming an initial public offering in one to two years from the respective valuation date. We did not allocate any probability to a long term “stay private” scenario as the likelihood of this occurring was estimated to be very small in consideration of the majority shareholder’s investment strategy. Critical assumptions required to perform the probability-weighted expected return method included the following:

Valuations – Expected valuations under each future event scenario were estimated based upon consideration of management’s performance and projections, review of capital market data and review of changes in comparable company multiples.

Timing – Expected dates of each event were estimated based upon discussion with our management and analysis of public market and economic conditions. Exit events ranged from one to four years in the future depending on the valuation date, for an estimated event date between 2009 and 2012.

Discount rates – Risk-adjusted rates of return were standardized across scenarios at the cost of equity as determined under capital asset pricing models. Discount rates ranged from 18.7% to 21.1% depending on the event timing under consideration.

Event probabilities – Estimates of the probability of occurrence of each event were based on discussions with our management and an analysis of market conditions as discussed above. Generally, a higher probability of achievement means a lower risk of achieving the operating projection or event timing objective and vice versa.

Discounts – Appropriate marketability discounts, required to estimate the per share value of the various share classes in each scenario. For marketability discounts, we considered both qualitative and quantitative methods to estimate the discount for lack of marketability, including (i) qualitative assessment based on Company characteristics and restricted stock studies, (ii) statistical regression analysis based on restricted stock studies and (iii) protective put option analysis. Discount for lack of marketability ranged from 19.8% to 39.8% depending on the event timing under consideration.

All of our valuations were performed at or near the grant dates of the awards and there were no material changes to our business or value drivers between the valuation date and the grant dates.

Although our board of directors carefully considered the key valuation considerations, the primary factors impacting the valuations are (i) our periodic assessment of execution risk in achieving our operating and exit objectives, (ii) the steady and continued improvements in our financial performance primarily in revenue and operating income growth, (iii) the fluctuations resulting in favorable and unfavorable comparisons to our public company comparable set and prevailing economic conditions impacting the capital markets, and (iv) the dynamics of our preferred and common equity class structure which impacts value allocations as a result of certain preferred returns and dividend entitlements.

Our board of directors includes individuals with significant business, finance and/or venture capital experience. During the periods set forth in the table, our board of directors was comprised of several individuals with experience in valuing technology companies and pricing stock options. These board members are familiar with the valuations of technology companies entering into initial public offerings, as well as with the market for the acquisition of technology companies similar to our stage of development.

Our consideration of the valuations from the independent third party valuation firm at the time of the determination of fair market value is consistent with the guidance set forth in the AICPA because:

Consistent with the AICPA and the Staff Commentary, the independent third party valuation firm’s valuations utilized historical and prospective discussions of our performance. The prospective analysis was based on financial plans provided to the independent third party valuation firm by management.

The independent third party valuation firm also selected companies utilized for the market valuation approach, and we and the independent third party valuation firm agreed these were comparable peers due to the nature of their products and services, size and current market positions. In the analyses, factors that distinguished us from the peer companies were noted and taken into account.

Information regarding the third party valuations of our common stock during the period beginning December 31, 2006 and ending on July 1, 2009 is summarized as follows:

In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, we use the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair market value of the stock options on the grant dates for share awards made on or after January 1, 2006. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the use of highly subjective and complex assumptions to determine the fair market value of stock-based awards, including the deemed fair market value of the underlying common stock on the date of grant and the expected volatility of the stock over the expected term of the related grants. The value of the award is recognized as expense over the requisite service periods on a straight-line basis in our consolidated statements of income, and reduced for estimated forfeitures. FASB ASC Topic 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.

Based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, the aggregate intrinsic value of options outstanding as of December 31, 2009 was $ million, of which $ million related to vested options and $ million to unvested options.

Claims and Contingencies. We are subject to various claims and contingencies related to legal, regulatory, and other matters arising out of the normal course of business. Our determination of the treatment of claims and contingencies in the consolidated financial statements is based on management’s view of the expected outcome of the applicable claim or contingency. Management may also use outside legal advice on matters related to litigation to assist in the estimating process. We accrue a liability if the likelihood of an adverse outcome is probable and the amount is estimable. If the likelihood of an adverse outcome is only reasonably possible, or if an estimate is not determinable, disclosure of a material claim or contingency is disclosed in the Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements. We re-evaluate these assessments on a quarterly basis or as new and significant information becomes available to determine whether a liability should be established or if any existing liability should be adjusted. However, the ultimate outcome of various legal issues could be different than management’s estimates and, as a result, adjustments may be required.

In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging. FASB ASC Topic 815 enhances required disclosures regarding derivatives and hedging activities, including enhanced disclosures regarding how: (a) an entity uses derivative instruments; (b) derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for, and (c) derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. FASB ASC Topic 815 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after November 15, 2008. Accordingly, we adopted FASB ASC Topic 815 beginning in fiscal 2009. The adoption of FASB ASC Topic 815 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In April 2008, the FASB issued FASB ASC Topic 350-30, General Intangibles Other than Goodwill. FASB ASC Topic 350-30 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions

used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FASB ASC Topic 350-10. This change is intended to improve the consistency between the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FASB ASC Topic 350-10 and the period of expected cash flows used to measure the fair value of the asset under FASB ASC Topic 805-10 and other GAAP. The requirement for determining useful lives must be applied prospectively to intangible assets acquired after the effective date and the disclosure requirements must be applied prospectively to all intangible assets recognized as of, and subsequent to, the effective date. FASB ASC Topic 350-30 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of FASB ASC Topic 350-30 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Effective January 1, 2009, we adopted the remaining provisions of FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, related to fair-value measurements of certain nonfinancial assets and liabilities. The adoption of the remaining provisions of FASB ASC Topic 820 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In May 2009, the FASB issued new guidance for subsequent events. The new guidance, which is part of FASB ASC Topic 855, Subsequent Events is intended to establish general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. Specifically, this guidance sets forth the period after the balance sheet date during which management of a reporting entity should evaluate events or transactions that may occur for potential recognition or disclosure in the financial statements, the circumstances under which an entity should recognize events or transactions occurring after the balance sheet date in its financial statements, and the disclosures that an entity should make about events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. The new guidance is effective for fiscal years and interim periods ended after June 15, 2009 and will be applied prospectively. Our adoption of the new guidance did not have a material effect on our consolidated financial statements. We evaluated subsequent events through the date the accompanying consolidated financial statements were issued, which was March 18, 2010.

In August 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-05, Measuring Liabilities at Fair Value. Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2009-05 amends FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, by providing additional guidance clarifying the measurement of liabilities at fair value. ASU 2009-05 applies to the fair value measurement of liabilities within the scope of FASB ASC Topic 820 and addresses several key issues with respect to estimating fair value of liabilities. Among other things, ASU 2009-05 clarifies how the price of a traded debt security (an asset value) should be considered in estimating the fair value of the issuer’s liability. ASU 2009-05 is effective for the first reporting period beginning after its issuance. The adoption of ASU 2009-05 did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

In September 2009, we adopted FASB ASC Topic 105, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. FASB ASC Topic 105 establishes the FASB Accounting Standards Codification^TM (Codification) to become the source of authoritative GAAP recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative GAAP for SEC registrants. FASB ASC Topic 105 and the Codification are effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

multiple deliverables subject to ASU 2009-13. ASU 2009-13 must be adopted no later than the beginning of the first fiscal year beginning on or after June 15, 2010, with early adoption permitted through either prospective application for the revenue arrangement entered into, or materially modified, after the effective date or through retrospective application to all revenue arrangements for all periods presented. We are currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU 2009-13 will have on our consolidated financial statements.

In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-06 Improving Disclosure about Fair Value Measurements, which amends the use of fair value measures and the related disclosures. ASU 2010-06 requires new disclosures for transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements. ASU 2010-06 is effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after December 15, 2009. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Our customers rely on our offerings to support their mission-critical communication and information technology (IT) infrastructure needs. Our products and related services enable the exchange of increasing volumes of content and information from across the globe, creating a global connectivity marketplace to support and accelerate our customers’ business growth. With 763 customers and 28,272 total physical interconnections within our facilities as of December 31, 2009, our interconnection-centric model targets customers that value the interconnection density in our secure and reliable environments. We evaluate market leadership based on publicly available information for physical interconnections per customer and our experience in the industry. Based on this framework, we believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer as of December 31, 2009 makes us a leading network neutral, global interconnection and colocation solutions provider in the United States. We believe that the interconnection density within our facilities creates a network effect that increases the value proposition of our products and related services with each additional customer added to the ecosystems within our facilities, enhancing our ability to both retain existing customers and attract new customers. Our 15 interconnection and colocation facilities are located in the New York Metropolitan area, the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte and Miami.

The global Internet datacenter market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19% from $9.2 billion in 2008 to $15.5 billion in 2011 according to Tier1 Research’s Internet Datacenter Global Markets Overview—2010 report. Increasing demand for our network neutral interconnection and colocation products and related services is being driven by powerful trends, including:

Our revenue growth since 2007 is primarily the result of organic growth, consisting of increasing amounts of our products and related services provided to existing and new customers. From December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2009, we have grown our customer base from 495 to 763 customers representing a 24% compound annual growth rate and our total physical interconnections from 19,692 to 28,272 representing a 20% compound annual growth rate. Over the same period, to meet our customers’ increasing demand for our products and related services, we have expanded our footprint from 370,543 gross square feet to 478,412 gross square feet representing a compound annual growth rate of 14%. The growth in our facility footprint was accomplished through the addition of three new facilities and the expansion of our existing space within our other facilities. We believe that our existing customer base, products and services will continue to grow which will enhance the ecosystems within our facilities and in turn support our ability to attract new customers.

The increased adoption of network centric applications such as SaaS, on-line video, social networking, cloud computing services, and enterprise IT systems requires an increasing number of connections among the networks that provide the underlying infrastructure. Interconnection and colocation providers have secure and reliable facilities that enable those connections to be made. In the markets we serve, we believe that our facilities offer the greatest number of interconnection options due to their strategic locations in dense, urban population centers where global communications networks intersect.

No single communications network connects every origin and destination point, and as a result, networks must connect with other networks to reach beyond the physical infrastructure of an individual network. Historically, the numerous networks that comprise the Internet initially connected with each other through public network access points that were established by non-profit organizations and government entities. Later, during the 1990s, ownership of the network access points transferred to telecommunications carriers. However, limited investment by the telecommunications carriers, difficulties scaling the various networks, and increased competition among telecommunications service providers resulting from the deregulation of the communications industry, then led Internet service providers to establish independent links connecting their facilities.

Ultimately, the expense associated with implementing, maintaining and upgrading these independent links led to the creation of commercial, network neutral Internet exchanges and interconnection facilities to accommodate the growing global data transfer needs of the Internet as well as private networks. The increasing amount of data exchanged across the Internet and private networks resulted in increasing demands on enterprise IT systems and datacenters that necessitated expanding levels of related expenditures. The development of colocation facilities allowed datacenter equipment to be housed in secure and reliable offsite facilities operated by third parties, providing access to competencies and capital efficiencies that were attractive from both a financial and business continuity perspective.

Interconnection facilitates the cost efficient exchange of information between communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers and other entities either directly between two parties (referred to as physical interconnection) or within an intermediary device among multiple parties (referred to as peering). Direct connections most commonly take the form of a fiber optic or Ethernet cable connected between the communications equipment of the two parties. Peering requires the use of an intermediate device, such as an Ethernet switch, to connect one network to many networks. With datacenter equipment of numerous communications services providers and enterprises located in close proximity, thousands of interconnections can be made without the need to add incremental space or to incur significant cost.

Interconnection generally provides a more cost-effective, lower latency, more rapidly deployed method of network traffic exchange than the metro fiber or local loop alternatives, which generally require the deployment of underground fiber to physically connect the datacenter facilities of entities. Parties interconnecting within a common interconnection facility can connect directly, do not require a third party to manage the connection once initially established, and can exchange data over shorter distances with lower capital requirements. Furthermore, the proximity of numerous interconnection customers within a single facility generates network efficiencies that result in cost savings and shorter time to market.

Colocation offers the space and power required by customers which locate their datacenter equipment (including routers, switches, servers and storage arrays) within offsite facilities. Colocation facilities are usually characterized by temperature controlled environments for optimal equipment operation as well as redundant power supplies and network access. Colocation space is generally sold as units of cabinets or cages, which hold multiple cabinets. In order to promote more efficient methods of network access, colocation facilities are generally located near a clustering of communications service providers and offer interconnection products and services between the enterprises, online media, video and content providers, communications service providers and others housed within them.

Colocation facilities are generally divided into two groups: non-network neutral and network neutral.

Non-network neutral colocation facilities are run by companies that own or operate one or more networks. Generally they require companies located within their facilities to use their networks and services. These limitations on a customer’s network options can result in higher pricing for network access, as well as an

inability to easily change network providers to achieve efficient operating results by altering network providers when required by technology. In addition, the use of a single network provider limits disaster recovery capabilities should the network fail.

Network neutral colocation facilities are run by companies that do not own or operate a network. As a result, they offer customers access to multiple networks and allow customers to select the networks best suited to their communications needs. We believe network neutral facilities provide the customer with a choice of providers and therefore lower costs, improved disaster recovery capabilities and better operational performance than non-network neutral providers.

Customer requirements for colocation products vary due to the nature of the underlying customer application and their associated space and latency requirements. Generally, applications within the communications service provider, online media, video and content provider, and certain other sectors require low latency interconnection to multiple parties. To meet these requirements, numerous entities must be colocated in proximity to each other, which places a premium on space. On a relative basis, applications such as shared hosting, data storage and business continuity/disaster recovery, place a greater emphasis on their need for physical space to accommodate equipment that houses large volumes of data. To meet their primary volume requirement at reasonable cost levels, owners of these applications generally tolerate higher latency thresholds and do not require the same diversity of interconnections. We believe that our customers are willing to pay a premium for colocation space within our facilities given the robust, low latency interconnection products and related services we provide.

The global Internet datacenter market is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 19% from $9.2 billion in 2008 to $15.5 billion in 2011 according to Tier1 Research’s Internet Datacenter Global Markets Overview—2010 report. We believe that principal drivers of this growth include favorable datacenter supply and demand dynamics, continued growth in Internet traffic, increasing enterprise adoption of datacenter outsourcing and network based business applications, continued adoption of Ethernet technologies, continued growth of Internet video, emerging computing technologies such as cloud computing, and increasing demand for proximity hosting and low latency enablement. Additionally, the increasing power and cooling requirements of datacenter equipment may result in increasing demand for colocation products and related services.

Favorable Datacenter Supply and Demand Dynamics. We believe that the demand dynamics in the colocation industry are attractive relative to supply expectations as a result of consolidation, historical underinvestment and accelerated demand growth. From 2008 through 2012, growth in supply for datacenters is forecast to vary between 3.5% and 6.5% according to Tier1 Research, significantly below expectations for growth in demand for datacenters, which Tier1 Research expects to grow at annual rates varying between 8% and 17% over the same time period. We believe this favorable supply and demand dynamic will continue to support a stable pricing environment for our products and related services.

Continued Growth in Internet Traffic. According to Cisco Visual Networking Index, from 2008 to 2013, worldwide consumer Internet traffic is forecasted to grow at a 40% compound annual growth rate while worldwide business Internet traffic is forecasted to grow at a 33% compound annual growth rate. This growth is attributed to a number of trends including increased broadband penetration, popularity of online video content, use of peer-to-peer web applications and smartphone adoption. We believe this ongoing growth in the amount of data created, transferred and exchanged will continue to drive demand in interconnection and colocation products and related services.

Increasing Enterprise Adoption of Datacenter Outsourcing and Network Based Business Applications. We believe enterprises are reassessing the management of their IT requirements and will increasingly elect to outsource their datacenters to facilities operated by third parties that have superior

infrastructure and increased access to interconnection opportunities for communicating with customers, suppliers and peers. Previously, companies often purchased datacenter systems and placed them locally on premises which required significant capital expenditures to support the infrastructure necessary to house the datacenter equipment. On average, the cost to construct a datacenter is $1,300 per square foot according to the Tier 1 Internet Datacenter Supply Midyear 2009 Update. Moreover, depending on the communications service providers in the area, companies constructing their own datacenters were also potentially limited in the networks they could access. Furthermore, as the uninterrupted access to data becomes increasingly important, datacenter outsourcing allows for increased redundancy opportunities that are supportive of business continuity and disaster recovery needs. According to a December 2008 poll conducted at the Gartner Datacenter Conference, although 84% of respondents primarily used datacenters that they own, 66% indicated that they expected to have at least 1,000 square feet of colocation space within the next twenty-four months (Source: Gartner, Dataquest Insight: The Changing Colocation and Data Center Market, January 23, 2009).

In addition, enterprises are increasingly integrating network-based business applications into their IT environments to drive scale economies and achieve greater processing capabilities at lower costs. These applications can cover a host of mission-critical business processes, such as human resource and accounting functionality, sales and customer response management tools and operational efficiency databases. These network-based applications lead to increased requirements for the breadth and depth of the interconnection options that are available at interconnection and colocation facilities, but more difficult to obtain and manage on an in-house basis.

Continued Adoption of Ethernet Technologies. U.S. enterprises and consumers are expected to spend more than $27 billion over the next five years on Ethernet services provided by telecommunications carriers, according to The Insight Research Corporation. With metro-area and wide-area Ethernet services now available from virtually all major data service providers, the market is expected to grow at a compounded rate of over 25%, increasing from $2.4 billion in 2009 to nearly $7.8 billion by 2014, according to The Insight Research Corporation. We believe that the growth of Ethernet technologies will drive even more data traffic through the networks within our customer base, increasing the demand for our products and related services.

Continued Growth in Internet Video. According to Cisco Visual Networking Index, in 2013, Internet video traffic will be nearly 700 times the U.S. Internet backbone in 2000, and will account for over 60% of all consumer Internet traffic in 2013. We believe that this increasing prevalence of video Internet traffic will drive more data traffic through the networks that make up our customer base and consequently increase the demand for our products and services.

Emerging Computing Technologies Such as Cloud Computing. Enterprises are increasingly reconsidering how they purchase software and IT infrastructure. Rather than purchasing a local version of a program which is installed on an individual user’s computer and is limited to the data available on such computer, a company may opt to purchase a web based service or cloud version accessible by any computer. As the program or application is housed on a remote server, accessing it requires more data transfer over a network than accessing a local version. Enterprises are increasingly using cloud computing as it provides flexible, scalable and ubiquitously available applications with charges based on actual usage rather than long-term commitments. According to Gartner, the cloud computing market was estimated to be approximately $56 billion in 2009 and is expected to reach $150 billion by 2013 (Source: Gartner, Dataquest Forecast: Sizing the Cloud; Understanding the Opportunities in Cloud Services, March 18, 2009). We believe the movement towards cloud computing will increase the amount of data housed in colocation facilities as well as increase the demand for interconnection products and related services due to increased connectivity requirements of cloud computing.

Increasing Demand for Proximity Hosting and Low Latency Networking. We believe that as enterprise applications are becoming increasingly dependent on high speed, low latency data exchange capabilities, the demand for strategically located interconnection and colocation facilities will increase rapidly. For example, financial companies that utilize trading strategies that demand these high speed connections require close proximity to other, similarly situated companies, market data providers and service providers to achieve desired results.

Increasing Datacenter Power and Cooling Requirements. Computers operating at faster speeds within smaller physical dimensions have resulted in increased power and cooling infrastructure requirements. According to Nemertes Research, at the end of 2009, 25% of datacenters between 5,000 square feet and 50,000 square feet had insufficient power, and this figure is projected to increase to 50% within the next five years. Since upgrading power capacity at an existing datacenter generally is expensive and in some cases impossible, enterprises may increasingly pursue colocation as an alternative. In addition, power and cooling infrastructure requirements are generally greater for colocation products than for interconnection products due to the nature of the equipment employed. Given this lower power requirement for interconnection products, we believe that interconnection-centric providers will be able to increase the number of customers served within a given facility relative to a colocation-centric business within a similar facility.

Customers typically use our products and related services because we provide them with a level of interconnection access, quality of service, reliability and flexibility that is difficult to replicate independently or with another interconnection and colocation provider. We believe our key competitive strengths, which are described below, position us well to take advantage of the favorable trends in our industry.

Strategically Focused Footprint. Our 15 facilities in nine tier-1 markets across the United States are located at the primary intersections of multiple, major international and domestic fiber routes where we believe Internet and private network traffic is most concentrated and interconnection demand is highest. These markets are major population centers covering 22% of the U.S. population and generating 29% of U.S. GDP in 2008. We are focused on maintaining a geographic footprint that supports the needs of our customers and provides an appropriate return on our invested capital. In 2009, 95% of our top 20 customers by revenue and 65% of our top 100 customers by revenue utilized our products and related services in multiple facilities. In February 2010, we entered into a services agreement with Tata Communications Limited, a leading international interconnection service provider, which enables us to provide access to interconnection and colocation products and related services for our customers in key non-U.S. markets including London, Singapore and Mumbai.

The map below indicates the geographic locations of our 15 interconnection and colocation facilities in the United States and the population per square mile in those locations.

Industry Leader in Physical Interconnections. As of December 31, 2009, we facilitated a total of 28,272 physical interconnections between our customers, which represent an average of 37 physical interconnections per customer. This allows our customers to achieve the seamless exchange of information across hundreds of communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, government agencies, cloud computing providers and SaaS providers. We believe that our average of 37 physical interconnections per customer as of December 31, 2009, represents greater physical interconnection density than our peers in the United States. We believe these high network densities are a result of our strategically focused footprint and value of the ecosystems that these interconnections create.

Network Neutral Business Model. We do not own or operate our own network. The ecosystems in our facilities provide our customers with the flexibility to optimize their connection partners based on their individual application and connectivity requirements. We believe the ability to directly and immediately connect with a dense network of communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers and other entities allows our customers to optimize both their revenue opportunities and expenditures as well as accelerate the deployment of new applications to market.

High Barriers to Entry. We believe our network neutral interconnection-centric model has high barriers to entry primarily resulting from the difficulty in replicating the ecosystems that exist within our facilities and the resulting network effect that exists among our customers. Significant time and resources are required to develop these ecosystems. Infrastructure and implementation barriers also exist, including the lack of suitable space in proximity to major network service providers, adequate power supply levels, regulatory and environmental approvals and the capital intensity and time-consuming nature of greenfield projects. In addition, the buildings in which we operate are already the primary landing points and crossroads for global fiber networks and the ability to replicate this network proximity would be cost prohibitive for both emerging colocation products and services providers as well as communications service providers. While significant barriers to entry exist, we believe that our experience, relationships with a critical mass of communities of interest and leading communications service providers, reputable brand, associated track record and proven business model enable us to pursue expansion opportunities more effectively than potential competitors.

Exclusive Operator of Interconnection Areas within 10 Digital Realty Trust Wholesale Datacenter Buildings. Our relationship with Digital Realty Trust, one of the leading datacenter real estate investment trusts, generally provides us with the exclusive ability to operate the interconnection areas in 10 tier-1 wholesale datacenter buildings across the United States. The initial terms of these Digital Realty Trust leases expire in 2026, and we have options to extend them through 2046. With the exception of certain legacy arrangements, these interconnection areas are the primary way in which Digital Realty Trust tenants or subtenants in such buildings interconnect to other tenants within such buildings. As a result of this exclusivity, we provide both interconnection for customers in Telx facilities as well as inter-suite connections for the other colocation providers with facilities within these buildings, making us uniquely positioned to meet customer interconnection needs.

Engineering and Operational Excellence. Our facilities provide the structural integrity and redundant power and cooling infrastructure required for a secure, reliable and effective networking and computing environment. Since 2003, we have been able to provide over 99.999% uptime on our overall power and cooling systems. We believe that we also offer best-in-class installation and technical support services that enhance networking opportunities and maximize exposure to the marketplace. We also provide our customers with numerous tools such as the Telx Portal, which is a web-based solution that allows seamless ordering by our customers and implementation of our products and related services over the Internet. In 2009, over 41% of our new sales orders came through the Telx Portal, and with the release of our new portal in 2010, we expect the percentage of new sales from the Portal to increase.

Continue to Expand our Relationships with Existing Customers. We will continue to offer our existing customers best-in-class interconnection and colocation products and related services to meet their growing requirements. Over 70% of our revenue growth during 2008 and 2009 resulted from revenues from existing customers. As of December 31, 2009, 95% of our top 20 customers by revenue and 65% of our top 100 customers by revenue had space in multiple Telx facilities. We will strive to continue to provide the quality of service and interconnections that have resulted in low average monthly churn of 0.8% and 0.6%, respectively, during 2008 and 2009.

Continue to Acquire Profitable New Customers. We recognize the ability of additional customers to enhance the value proposition of our interconnection ecosystems. We will continue to target and develop relationships with customers that will benefit most from their inclusion in a Telx ecosystem and that will increase the value proposition to our other customers due to their expected demand for interconnections. During the years ended December 31, 2008 and 2009, we successfully increased our customer base by 131 and 137 customers, respectively. We intend to continue to price our products and services at a level that reflects both the market demand for our products and related services, as well as our short and long term profitability goals and return on invested capital expectations.

Further Penetrate Attractive Industry Sectors. A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from communications service providers that require the high level of interconnections we offer. Revenue from other industry sectors, however, has grown as a percentage of our revenues, from 15% in 2007 to 24% in 2009. The enterprise, online media, video and content provider, government, cloud computing provider and SaaS provider industry sectors have grown significantly within the ecosystems that exist within our facilities and provide attractive opportunity for further ecosystems development and growth. We also believe other industry sectors, such as healthcare, will provide additional long-term opportunities for ecosystems development and growth. We intend to continue to focus our efforts to further penetrate these sectors.

Selective Expansion in Existing and New Markets. As we grow our business, we aim to grow efficiently by increasing our gross square footage to satisfy the demand for our products and related services in existing facilities and by selectively identifying domestic and international opportunities for expansion into new markets. We only begin new expansions once we have identified customers and we have the capital to fully fund the build out. Our expansions are done in phases in order to manage the timing and scale of our capital expenditure obligations, reduce risk and improve our return on capital. We intend to offer global interconnection and colocation products and related services and will focus our expansion efforts on major population centers with extensive fiber routes and where network traffic is most concentrated. In some markets where we already operate an interconnection facility, we may choose to expand our footprint with a new colocation facility (which we refer to as an “Annex”) and we will connect it to the interconnection facility through a private fiber network. To date, we have successfully deployed Annexes in Clifton, New Jersey and Dallas, Texas. We are also considering operating interconnection and colocation facilities in other companies’ wholesale datacenter buildings similar to our arrangement with Digital Realty Trust.

Pursue Selective Acquisitions. We believe our industry has favorable consolidation characteristics and expect this trend to continue in the foreseeable future. Given the limited availability of interconnection and colocation facilities within tier-1 markets, acquisitions of existing businesses may provide a cost-effective method of increasing network densities, expanding our customer base and broadening our geographic footprint. We intend to pursue attractive opportunities as they arise.

We provide network neutral interconnection and colocation products and certain related installation and technical support services to our customers. To access our products and related services, customers purchase and install their datacenter equipment within space in our facilities. We believe that the majority of our customers buy colocation products from us due to the network density in the facility, the ecosystems that exist within the facility, and the proximity and low latency interconnection access to numerous communications service providers and other customers within our facilities. We do not sell colocation products without the accompanying sale of interconnection products.

Our facilities enable our customers to interconnect and exchange network traffic with each other, and a number of ecosystems have developed in our facilities from this interconnection. Examples of ecosystems that have developed in one or more of our facilities include:

Our interconnection products, including our cross connect (a physical interconnection), Internet exchange and other related products, generated 36% of our recurring revenues during the year ended December 31, 2009. Our cross connect products enable our customers to connect directly to any communications service provider, enterprise or other customer in our facilities. These products are typically provided for a recurring monthly fee per connection. Our Internet exchange products enable our customers to connect directly to our Internet exchange, which provides for public or private peering with other customers on an intermediary switch device. Our customers license ports to connect to our Internet exchange for a recurring monthly fee per port, based on port bandwidth capacity. Our interconnection products are predominantly direct connections via cross connects, however, we also provide Internet peering exchanges for the convenience of our customers. We also generate recurring revenues from reselling Internet access, which we sell to accommodate certain customers’ requests for these products. We contract with certain Internet service providers and then resell their Internet access service to customers typically in one megabit per second to one hundred megabits per second increments. Customers typically sign a contract for this offering that matches the term of their order for space and pay us a recurring monthly fee per megabits per second.

Our facilities provide our customers with a reliable, secure and climate controlled environment to house their networking and computing equipment and facilitate interconnections. Our colocation products, consisting of customized space options, redundant power and cooling systems, physical security, fire suppression and water leak detection systems, generated 64% of our recurring revenue in 2009.

Colocation Space. We provide colocation space for a recurring monthly fee for a cabinet or on a per square foot basis for cage space. Our customers that license cage space typically use between 50 and 500 square feet in an interconnection and colocation facility, and often license such space in multiple interconnection and colocation facilities. As of December 31, 2009, 95% of our top 20 customers by revenue and 65% of our top 100 customers by revenue had space in multiple Telx facilities. Customers sign service orders, governed by the terms and conditions of a master services agreement, with a typical term of one to three years.

Power. We provide access to power for a recurring monthly fee under our standard colocation contract. We provide both alternating current and direct current power circuits. Our customers pay for power on a per amp basis, typically in 20 to 30 amp increments. Our redundant power and cooling systems have enabled us to provide over 99.999% uptime since 2003.

In addition to our core interconnection and colocation products, we offer customers certain related installation and technical support services on a 24 hours per day, 365 days per year basis to all customers located within our facilities. Designed to provide our customers with an always-available presence, our services allow our customers faster access to their equipment, minimizing cost and time to resolution. Depending on the nature of the services, revenues from these services may be either recurring or non-recurring.

Installation Services. We provide installation services to assist our customers in accessing our interconnection and colocation products. We receive one-time installation fees determined by the complexity of the installation. We typically receive fees per interconnection circuit or port installed, per cabinet or square foot of cage space installed and per amp of power installed.

Technical Support Services. Technical support services are provided by our technicians, who are available 24 hours per day, 365 days per year. These services include system reboots, hardware and software troubleshooting, circuit, loop and fiber troubleshooting, equipment installation and provisioning, and infrastructure installations. We charge customers for these services using 15 minute increments (with 1 hour minimums), or under contractual subscription arrangements for a certain number of hours of technical support per month.

The diagram below is just an example of how customers that are colocated in a Telx facility can interconnect, both physically and via our Telx Internet Exchange, to other Telx customers through our interconnection areas.

Our customers include communications service providers, enterprises, online media, video and content providers, government agencies, cloud computing providers and SaaS providers who utilize our interconnection-centric offering. Our communications service providers include leading global and domestic telecommunications networks, multi-system operators, Internet Service Providers and wireless providers. Our online media, video and content provider customers consist of businesses that deliver content and content based services over the Internet. Our enterprise, government, cloud computing and SaaS customers include entities that are dependent on the Internet as well as private networks. For the year ended December 31, 2009, our top ten customers represented 25% of our monthly recurring revenue and our largest customer represented approximately 5% of our total revenue. As of December 31, 2009, we had 763 customers and 95% of our top 20 customers by revenue and 65% of our top 100 customers by revenue had space in multiple Telx facilities.

Our communications service provider customers represented approximately 78% of revenues for the year ended December 31, 2009. Our enterprise customers represented approximately 15% of revenues for the same time period, while our online media, video and content provider customers and government, cloud, SaaS and other customers represented approximately 5% and 1% of revenues, respectively.

The majority of our customer agreements are structured as master service agreements that contain all of the general terms and conditions, including payment terms, termination provisions, indemnity provisions and limitations on liability. The master agreements do not have any specific products and related services or associated prices or terms of specific products and services as those terms are all set forth in separate service orders. The services order sets forth the type of service and the monthly, hourly, one-time charge or subscription fee, as applicable, for the service. We typically have the ability to pass through increased power costs to our customers, although we do not always elect to do so. In general, customers may not terminate their agreements without providing advance notice, generally 60 to 90 days, of their intent to terminate and paying all remaining amounts due under the contract. Failure to provide notice of termination typically results in an automatic extension of the contract for an additional year. Our liability is generally limited to amounts paid under the contract, and we are not generally liable for any consequential damages. Furthermore, customers are required to name us as an additional insured with rights of subrogation on their insurance policies.

We sell our products and related services through our direct sales force and through indirect channel sales.

Direct Sales. As of December 31, 2009, our direct sales organization was comprised of 18 sales representatives and five sales engineers. Our direct, commission-based sales team generates leads primarily from customer referrals, unsolicited outbound calls and our marketing efforts. Our direct sales effort also includes a strategic accounts sales force to target opportunities with large existing customers. We utilize a combination of sales representatives and sales engineers to efficiently provide our customers with technical solutions tailored to their individual requirements.

Indirect Channel Sales. As of December 31, 2009, our channel sales organization was comprised of two employees who direct and organize our indirect channel sales efforts. Our channel sales program consists of over 132 third-party sales agents worldwide. These third-party sales agents include communications service providers, management and technical consultancies, technology integrators and software application providers. Third-party sales agents are typically paid a percentage of the customer’s monthly recurring fees for the length of the customer contract.

Marketing. Our marketing efforts communicate the advantages of our products and related services and generate customer demand. Our marketing activities include web-based paid and natural search, participation in

technology trade shows, conferences and customer events, web-based and mail-based advertisements, advertisements in business and technology publications, and targeted regional public relations activities. For the benefit of our customers, we operate an online global marketplace with advanced customer portal capabilities that allow our customers to access important information and connect with each other seamlessly and efficiently. We believe our reputation for providing efficient cross connects has generated a significant amount of word-of-mouth recommendations and referrals. In addition, in 2003 we introduced our annual Customer Business Exchange (CBX) tradeshow, which attracted over 700 industry professionals annually for the past three years, including approximately 1,000 industry professionals at the 2009 event. This event serves as an opportunity for us to enhance the value proposition to our customers, as they have the opportunity to exhibit their product portfolio to each other, and enhances our marketing efforts by allowing us to offer additional products to existing customers and/or attract new customers.

Our corporate headquarters are located in New York, New York. We typically locate our operating facilities in buildings with a significant concentration of communications service providers or buildings located near primary communications sites, which reduce the cost and complexity of connecting our facilities to communications networks. The number of customers and availability of interconnections varies from facility to facility, depending primarily on the market and its potential customer base as well as on the stage of our development in such market.

As of December 31, 2009, we operated 15 facilities with 478,412 total gross square feet. Due to infrastructure requirements, gross square footage is greater than the total square footage we have available for sale. All of our facilities are leased except our Atlanta facility, which we own. We constantly monitor the space and power utilization of our facilities relative to market opportunity to manage our facilities requirements appropriately. In addition, we continue to review and implement green technologies. The table below shows the number, address, gross square footage and lease expiration date of our facilities in each of our markets as of December 31, 2009.

Generally, interconnection and colocation facilities consist of a number of suites, or segmented floorplans, which are leased, managed or utilized by various communications service providers, network neutral interconnection and colocation service providers, and managed service providers, web hosting companies and Internet service providers. While physical interconnections can be implemented intra-suite by the manager of a suite, physical interconnections between multiple suites (which we refer to as inter-suite physical interconnections) generally occur within a specific physical location in the datacenter called an interconnection area. Multiple providers may provide interconnection products within a given interconnection area.

Our relationship with Digital Realty Trust, one of the leading datacenter real estate investment trusts, generally provides us with the exclusive ability to operate the interconnection areas in 10 tier-1 wholesale datacenter buildings across the United States. Subject to certain exceptions described below, these interconnection areas are the primary way in which Digital Realty Trust tenants or subtenants in such buildings interconnect to other tenants within such buildings. In addition to our operation of such interconnection areas, we also lease space from Digital Realty Trust for our own offerings. As a result of these arrangements, we provide both interconnection for customers in Telx facilities as well as inter-suite connections for other colocation providers who have facilities within these buildings. Generally, our interconnection area leases with Digital Realty Trust provide that we pay Digital Realty Trust monthly rental fees along with a certain percentage of facility specific annual gross revenue that exceeds a stipulated threshold.

Although Digital Realty Trust has designated us as its exclusive interconnection area operator, certain legacy tenants within Digital Realty Trust buildings continue to be able to facilitate certain inter-suite connections that existed prior to our arrangement with Digital Realty Trust. In addition, Digital Realty Trust itself operates its own interconnection facility where it can facilitate inter-suite connections. Typically, the Digital Realty Trust interconnection facilities are used for the purpose of connecting tenants to our interconnection areas and rarely facilitate more than one or two physical interconnections per tenant.

We operate in a highly competitive market that is evolving rapidly. Our principal competitors include the providers described below. Several of the companies with which we compete are also our customers.

Network Neutral Interconnection and Colocation Providers. These competitors offer products and services that are similar to ours, including interconnection and colocation products and related services. We consider Equinix, Switch and Data, Coresite and Terremark our peers when analyzing our performance against our primary competitors.

During the initial stage of the sales cycle, we also compete with the service providers described below.

U.S.-based Communications Service Providers. Communications service providers, such as AT&T, Level 3 Communications and Verizon, typically provide interconnection products and services through their owned networks. We believe these competitors operate colocation facilities primarily to cross-sell their core services including communications and Internet access and typically benefit from brand recognition and financial resources.

Managed Service Providers, Web Hosting Companies and Internet Service Providers. Businesses may choose to use a hosting provider other than us to provide products and services and support for their IT systems in addition to the interconnection and colocation products and related services we offer. Our competitors in this category usually take control over a company’s network, and may provide the actual hardware and software. Companies in this category include IBM, Rackspace and SAVVIS.

In addition to the above, we compete with other regional, typically non-network neutral providers. As we expand domestically and internationally, we expect to encounter additional competition in the respective markets we select to enter.

We hold the following trademarks/service marks: Telx Virtual Xchange, telx, TELX | VISION, Managed Hub and TELXVAULT. We consider our trademarks to be materially important to our business and the registered trademarks are renewable for their statutory terms.

As of March 1, 2010, we had 175 employees in the United States. We believe our relations with our employees are good. Our employees are not represented by a labor union and are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

From time to time, we are involved in various legal proceedings arising from the normal course of business activities. We are not presently a party to any litigation the outcome of which, we believe, if determined adversely to us, would individually or in the aggregate have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results or financial condition.

Set forth below is the name, age and position of each of our directors and executive officers as of March 18, 2010:

Set forth below is biographical information for our directors and executive officers.

Mr. Park has been a member of our board of directors since April 2009 and our chairman since March 2010. Mr. Park has been a Managing Director at GI Partners since 2003. Prior to joining GI Partners, Mr. Park was an investment banker with SG Cowen, Smith Barney and Nomura Securities. From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Park was with SG Cowen in its leveraged and high-yield finance group covering the West Coast private equity community. Previously, he worked from 1990 to 1996 at Nomura Securities in the High Yield/Principal Finance Group. He has also worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as a strategy consultant from 1988 to 1990. Mr. Park received his B.A. cum laude in Economics from Rice University and his M.B.A from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Mr. Park sits on the board of directors of Ladder Capital Finance, AdvoServ, The Planet, Plum Healthcare and PC Helps.

Mr. Shepcaro has been our chief executive officer and a member of our board of directors since January 2007. Mr. Shepcaro was the chairman of our board of directors from January 2007 until March 2010. Mr. Shepcaro is responsible for leading and directing the strategy, growth and operations of the company. Mr. Shepcaro has over 25 years of experience working in the Network/IT industries. Prior to joining us, Mr. Shepcaro held several positions at AT&T between 2002 and 2007, including Senior Vice President of Business Development and Emerging Services and chairman of the Emerging Technology Customer Board, where he was responsible for identifying and launching new lines of business by leveraging new and existing technologies. He also served as Vice President of Business Strategy/Development and Emerging Technologies and Chief Strategist, leading AT&T’s transformation into a premier integrator of enterprise and application network solutions, and as the overall Transformation Officer of AT&T, accountable for programs to build shareholder value and create a framework for the future. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Shepcaro managed hosting and applications businesses at Digital Island and Netelligence, and spent 17 years at Sprint in a variety of positions in marketing, sales and operations. Mr. Shepcaro received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.

Mr. Downie has been our president, chief financial officer and treasurer since November 2007. From May 2007 until November 2007, Mr. Downie was our chief financial officer and treasurer. Mr. Downie was a member of our board of directors from April 2009 until March 2010. Mr. Downie is responsible for the company’s finance, human resources, procurement, IT, marketing and administration initiatives. Prior to joining us, Mr. Downie was Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Principal Executive Officer at Motient Corporation from 2004 to 2006, and prior to that served as their Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2004. Mr. Downie was a financial consultant and interim Chief Financial Officer for Communications Technology Advisors, LLC from 2002 to 2003, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BroadStreet Communications Inc. from 2000 to 2002, a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Daniels & Associates, LP from 1993 to 2000 and an analyst in the corporate finance/mergers and acquisitions department at Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Downie received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Mr. Raymond serves as our senior vice president, facility acquisition and is responsible for leading our facilities acquisition team. Mr. Raymond served as our senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary from November 2007 until March 2010. In addition, Mr. Raymond served as our general counsel and secretary from 2002 until March 2010; president and chief operating officer from March 2007 to November 2007; president and interim chief executive officer from October 2006 to February 2007; and controller from 2001 to 2004. Mr. Raymond was a member of our board of directors from March 2007 until March 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Raymond was a founder, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Stratus Services Group Inc., a managing attorney at a New Jersey law firm and in-house counsel to a New Jersey accounting firm from 1993 to 2001. Mr. Raymond has a B.S. in finance from Fairfield University, a J.D. from Albany Law School of Union University and is completing a L.L.M. in Finance law from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Mr. Kolman has been our executive vice president of sales since May 2007 and is responsible for directing and implementing all aspects of our sales strategy. Mr. Kolman has over 31 years in technology-based senior sales management positions and extensive knowledge and experience in the telecom sector managing large sales units and providing services and hardware to global enterprises. Prior to joining us, Mr. Kolman was Vice President of Strategic Accounts at SAVVIS from August 2005 to May 2007, an officer at AT&T from 2000 to 2005, where he was responsible for the large global accounts in the Northeast, and a sector head at Concert, the AT&T and British Telecom joint partnership. Mr. Kolman’s prior experience also includes leading the Nortel Networks organization in New York City, managing multiple sales organizations in the Northeast for Sprint and co-founding Tri-State Telephone, where he marketed customer premise-based communications. Mr. Kolman holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dominican College and was a member of the inaugural Telecom Master’s program at New York University.

Mr. Terlizzi has been our executive vice president and director of engineering and operations since March 2002, and is responsible for facility construction and day-to-day operations. Prior to joining us, Mr. Terlizzi was Director of Operations for ARBROS Communications from September 2000 to February 2002 and Director of Network Planning and Engineering for Network Plus from August 1999 to September 2000. He has also held technical positions at AT&T and WorldCom/MFS. Mr. Terlizzi received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Albany.

Mr. Harrison has been a member of our board of directors since October 2006. Mr. Harrison has been a partner and Portfolio Manager at Luminous Capital since January 2009. Mr. Harrison has spent the vast majority of his career as a principal investor, principally focused on the technology sector. From October 2008 to December 2009, Mr. Harrison was a consultant to GI Partners. From March 2001 to October 2008, Mr. Harrison served as a Managing Director of GI Partners, where he was involved in all aspects of the business, including deal sourcing, structuring, investment management, fund raising, and managing the internal operations of the firm. Prior to working at GI Partners, Mr. Harrison served as a Partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, he worked at InnoCal Ventures for five years, where he sourced, analyzed, and managed investments. He also previously worked in business development at Hewlett-Packard and corporate development at Ricoh Corporation. Mr. Harrison earned a B.S. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. from The UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mr. Harrison currently also serves on the Board of Directors of South Central Scholars and Confianza.

Mr. Schulman was elected to our board of directors in February 2010. Since November 2009, Mr. Schulman has served as President of the Sprint Prepaid Division. Prior to that, Mr. Schulman served as Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Mobile USA, LLC since September 2001. Prior to joining Virgin Mobile USA, Mr. Schulman served as the Chief Executive Officer of priceline.com. Prior to that, Mr. Schulman served in various positions for more than 18 years at AT&T, including as a member of the AT&T Operations Group and President of the long distance division. He also currently serves on the board of directors of Symantec Corporation (Nasdaq: SYMC), where he chairs the compensation committee, and Flextronics International Ltd. (Nasdaq: FLEX). In addition, Mr. Schulman serves on the board of Autism Speaks, the advisory committee of Greycroft, an early stage private equity company, and serves on the board of governors of Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, and is the chair of the intercollegiate athletics committee. Mr. Schulman has a B.A. in economics from Middlebury College and an M.B.A., majoring in finance from New York University.

Our board of directors currently has four members. Pursuant to the existing stockholders agreement between us and our existing stockholders, the GI Partners Funds have the right to elect at least four directors. The GI Partners Funds designated Howard Park and Eric Harrison to our board of directors. We expect that the existing stockholders agreement will be amended or terminated in connection with our initial public offering such that the right to elect board members, as referenced above, will no longer exist. Upon completion of this offering, we anticipate that our board of directors will have seven members, a majority of whom will be independent under The Nasdaq Marketplace Rules.

As of the closing of this offering, our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will provide for a staggered, or classified, board of directors consisting of three classes of directors, each serving staggered three-year terms, as follows:

Upon expiration of the term of a class of directors, directors for that class will be elected for three-year terms at the annual meeting of stockholders in the year in which that term expires. Each director’s term continues until the election and qualification of his successor, or his earlier death, resignation or removal. Any increase or

decrease in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of the directors. This classification of our board of directors may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control of our company.

Our board of directors has established an audit committee and a compensation committee. Prior to the completion of this offering, our board of directors plans to establish a corporate governance and nominating committee. Our board of directors may also establish such other committees as it deems appropriate, in accordance with applicable law and regulations and our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws.

Our audit committee currently consists of Eric Harrison and Howard Park. Upon completion of this offering, we expect that will serve as the chairperson of the audit committee and expect that our board of directors will determine that , and are “independent” as defined under and required by the federal securities laws and The Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. We also expect that our board of directors will determine that is an “audit committee financial expert,” as that term is defined by the SEC. Within one year of the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, we intend that the audit committee will be fully independent as required by the federal securities laws, and The Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. The audit committee has direct responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work of our independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP. In addition, approval of the audit committee is required prior to our entering into any related-party transaction. It is also responsible for “whistle-blowing” procedures and certain other compliance matters.

Our compensation committee currently consists of Daniel Schulman, the committee chairperson, and Eric Harrison. All of the directors on this committee will be independent under The Nasdaq Marketplace Rules within one year of the completion of this offering. Among other things, the compensation committee will review, and will make recommendations to the board of directors regarding, the compensation and benefits of our executive officers. The compensation committee will also administer the issuance of stock options and other awards under our equity incentive plans and will establish and review policies relating to the compensation and benefits of our employees and consultants.

We plan to establish a corporate governance and nominating committee prior to the completion of this offering comprised of members who satisfy the requirements for independence under The Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. The corporate governance and nominating committee will be responsible for, among other things, developing and recommending to our board of directors our corporate governance guidelines, identifying individuals qualified to become board members, overseeing the evaluation of the performance of the board of directors, selecting the director nominees for the next annual meeting of stockholders, and selecting director candidates to fill any vacancies on the board of directors.

No member of the compensation committee is an officer or employee of the company. None of our executive officers serves, or has served during the past fiscal year, as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any other company that has one or more executive officers serving as a member of our board of directors.

Our current code of conduct and ethics applies to all of our employees and officers, including our chief executive officer and senior financial officers. Upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, we will amend our code of conduct and ethics to apply to all of our employees, officers and directors, including our chief executive officer, our chief financial officer, and other executives and senior financial officers and post a full text of the code on our website at www.telx.com under the Investor Relations section. We intend to disclose future amendments to our code of conduct and ethics, or certain waivers of such provisions, at the same location on our website identified above and also in public filings. The inclusion of our website address in this prospectus does not include or incorporate by reference the information on our website into this prospectus.

Prior to March 15, 2010, our directors did not receive any compensation for their service as directors or as board committee members. Prior to the closing of this offering, we expect to implement a director compensation program that will provide for compensation to be paid to our non-employee directors (Mr. Park intends to waive any such compensation).

Below is an explanation of how our compensation program was designed and operated in 2009 with respect to the following individuals who, based on applicable securities laws, were our named executive officers, or NEOs, for 2009: (i) Eric Shepcaro, as our principal executive officer, (ii) Christopher W. Downie, as our principal financial officer, and (iii) J. Todd Raymond, William Kolman, and Michael Terlizzi, as our three other most highly compensated executive officers for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009. For the titles, ages, and biographical information of our NEOs, please refer to “Management” above. The Summary Compensation Table and separate tables below disclose each NEO’s total compensation for fiscal year 2009.

In 2009, our executive compensation program for NEOs reflected our practices as a privately-held company, and accordingly our board of directors made all decisions in the course of regularly-scheduled meetings. Through having Messrs. Shepcaro, Downie and Raymond serving as board members throughout 2009, management participated in board meetings at which executive compensation decisions were made, but no NEO participated in or voted on any compensatory decision that affected him personally. The independent members of our board of directors accordingly controlled all of compensation decisions for our NEOs, although our CEO (and prior to March 2, 2010, the chairman of our board) fully participated (from a discussion and voting perspective) in compensation decisions for our NEOs other than himself. We believe that those decisions, as disclosed below, were appropriate based on our 2009 financial performance, on general economic conditions, and on our board of directors’ subjective assessments of individual and corporate performance as other factors relevant to our board of directors’ annual salary and bonus determinations. In particular, our NEOs received target-level bonuses and total compensation, principally because we achieved financial and other operating results in 2009 that accomplished the principal objectives identified in our business plan. For 2010 and future years, we expect to revise our executive compensation practices in the manner described below under the heading “2010 Changes to Executive Compensation.”

As a general matter, our board of directors undertakes to provide our NEOs with compensation that is highly performance-based and competitive in our industry. We are engaged in a very competitive industry, and our success depends on attracting and retaining qualified executives through providing them with a subjectively considered balance of fixed and variable (performance-based) compensation. To that end, our board of directors provided our NEOs with total compensation in 2009 through a combination of the following components that reflect our consistent practices for past years:

Base Salary. In general, we provide base salary as fixed compensation for services rendered in the position that the NEO serves. With this in mind, our board of directors determines base salaries in its discretion (subject to the terms of each NEO’s employment agreement), after considering a variety of factors including each NEO’s qualifications and experience, prior employment, industry knowledge, scope of responsibilities, individual

performance, and general industry practices as informally observed. Specific weightings are not applied to these factors. Base salaries are generally set when an NEO begins employment and are adjusted annually, if necessary in our board of directors’ discretion, and are intended to provide competitive and fair compensation for basic job performance.

Annual Bonus. For 2009, our board of directors followed its past practice of establishing corporate and individual performance targets based on our business plan, and then making cash bonus awards shortly after year end, in all cases based on our board of directors’ subjective and qualitative assessment of how our financial results and the NEO’s individual performance compared to targeted performance and the NEO’s individual performance-based goals, with further discretionary adjustment for factors such as the NEO’s technical expertise, leadership and management skills over the performance period. As a result, although we follow a general formula as a guide for determining bonuses, our board of directors has made final bonus determinations solely at its discretion. The target bonuses for all NEOs and employees were targeted to fall within a range of 10%-100% of base salary for the years 2007 through 2009. Our board of directors typically has made annual bonus determinations shortly after the end of our fiscal year, with payments made soon afterward, and in 2008 paid an additional mid-year bonus to all employees, including our NEOs, due to generally favorable business conditions and in order to provide our employees with additional motivation by sharing in our success.

Stock-based Awards. In 2006, 2007 and 2008, our NEOs received stock-based compensation in the form of grants of shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock (referred to herein as restricted stock awards) that generally vest in 48 monthly installments, and that were intended to provide stock-based compensation for the ensuing four years. Our board of directors believes that these awards will have served their intended purpose when we complete this offering, and that regular stock-based awards will occur in 2010 and future years. See “2010 Changes to Executive Compensation.” Immediately prior to our initial public offering, each outstanding share of Series B Contingent Preferred stock will convert into between zero and one share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. (The precise rate of conversion will be based on the internal rate of return of the GI Partners Funds investment in Telx as set forth in our current amended and restated certificate of incorporation.) The outstanding shares of Series B Convertible Preferred will then immediately convert into our common stock. However, in the event that the GI Partners Funds does not reach a minimum return threshold as provided for in our current amended and restated certificate of incorporation, the Series B Contingent Preferred Stock will not convert at all.

Executive Loans. In 2007 and 2008, we made arms-length loans to our NEOs (and certain other employees) in order to enable them to pay the tax liability associated with making tax elections under Section 83(b) of the Internal Revenue Code. These loans bore interest at a fixed rate at the time the loan was made, with 10% of the principal, and accrued interest, being payable in each of the ensuing five years, and with the remaining balance being due in the sixth year. These loans have been eliminated in connection with our initial public offering in order to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act’s prohibition on such loans.

Perquisites. In order to provide and to maintain a competitive benefits package to attract and retain our NEOs, we have provided them with life insurance policies upon commencement of employment and adjusted the policies as necessary to meet the changing needs of management for life insurance. We do not otherwise provide our NEOs with any perquisites or other fringe benefits than those available on equivalent terms to our employees generally.

Retirement and Welfare Plan Benefits. Our NEOs participate in our broad-based 401(k), health, and other welfare plans on the same terms and conditions that apply to other employees. Regarding the 401(k) plan, our NEOs are eligible to make before-tax contributions, within the limits imposed under applicable tax laws. We do not currently make any employer matching or other contributions to the 401(k) plan.

Severance Protections. Each of our NEOs is entitled to severance benefit protections pursuant to an employment agreement entered into at the time of hire for Messrs. Shepcaro, Downie, and Kolman, and at the time of our acquisition in 2006 by the GI Partners Funds in the case of Messrs. Raymond and Terlizzi. These

employment agreements are substantially similar, and generally provide that if the NEO’s employment is terminated by us without cause, then the NEO shall receive the following, with no duty to mitigate: (i) 12 months of base salary continuation for NEOs other than Mr. Shepcaro, who is entitled to receive $37,500 per month for 18 months; and (ii) up to twelve months of company-paid health insurance benefits, increased to 18 months for Mr. Shepcaro. Messrs. Shepcaro, Raymond, Kolman, and Terlizzi are entitled to the same severance benefits upon a resignation from employment for “good reason” as defined in their employment agreements. These severance benefits were provided in order to attract or retain our NEOs, and because we understand that severance arrangements are common in our industry. We expect to enter into new employment agreements (that will replace the existing agreements) with all of our NEOs in connection with the consummation of our initial public offering as described under “2010 Changes to Executive Compensation.”

Our board of directors made the following decisions in 2009 with respect to each distinctive component of executive compensation for our NEOs:

Base Salary. The annual base salary as of the end of fiscal year 2009 for each NEO is presented in the table below. Salaries for each NEO were the same in 2009 as in 2008, except in the case of Mr. Downie, whose salary was increased by our board of directors due to his increasing responsibilities and workload as our President.

Annual Bonus. In 2009, we made cash bonus awards under a program designed to reward the achievements of our NEOs and employees over the fiscal year. For our NEOs, forty percent of their bonuses for 2009 reflected how our Adjusted EBITDA and revenue results compared to those in our overall business plan, twenty percent reflected those financial results for two of our facilities, and forty percent reflected our board of directors’ assessment of personal goals and objectives, as outlined for each NEO on a case by case basis at the start of 2009. The actual bonuses that our NEOs received were based on the following subjective determinations that our board of directors made after receiving recommendations from its members who are NEOs (but with those members abstaining from voting):

Stock Awards. As a result of the restricted stock awards that our NEOs received in 2007 and 2008, none of them received, or were considered for, stock-based awards during 2009. This reflects the determinations by our board of directors that each NEO has had sufficient stock-based incentives for the period from 2007 through 2009.

Other Benefits. Other than to increase the life insurance coverage for our NEOs, there were no changes to our severance, retirement, welfare, or fringe benefit plans or practices in 2009, on the premise that these arrangements satisfied current corporate needs and objectives for retaining employees.

We are currently reevaluating the executive compensation structures and systems that we will provide for our NEOs in 2010, under the supervision of an ad hoc committee that we expect to formalize prior to the completion of this offering. Our compensation committee is expected, in 2010 and future years:

Philosophy. Our compensation program for executives will be based on our business needs and challenges in creating shareholder value. To support the achievement of our business strategies and goals, we expect to:

Risk Monitoring. Our compensation committee will be responsible for assuring that our compensation structures for NEOs and other employees do not encourage excessive or otherwise undesirable risk-taking.

Tax Considerations. For 2010 and future years, we expect to structure our annual bonus program and stock-based awards in a manner that both exempts them from Internal Revenue Code section 409A, and that maximizes our ability to qualify all awards for an exemption from the limitations imposed by Internal Revenue Code section 162(m), thereby preserving their potential deductibility by us.

2010 Stock Incentive Plan. In anticipation of our initial public offering, our board of directors is considering a new 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, referred to herein as the 2010 Plan, having the key terms as set out below. See “—Equity Incentive Plans.”

Employment Agreements. In connection with the consummation of our initial public offering, we intend to enter into new employment or severance agreements with each of our NEOs. These new agreements will supersede the existing agreements that are described above. Pursuant to these new agreements, Messrs. Shepcaro, Downie, Raymond, Kolman, and Terlizzi will receive annual base salaries and short and long-term incentives, in the form of cash or equity compensation.

The following table sets forth summary information concerning certain compensation awarded to, paid to, or earned by, our NEOs for all services rendered to us for fiscal years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007.

The following table sets forth information regarding stock awards that were outstanding with respect to our NEOs as of December 31, 2009:

The following table sets forth information regarding stock awards that vested with respect to our NEOs during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009:

The following table sets forth the additional amounts that could have been realized by each NEO if (i) termination of his employment were to occur as of December 31, 2009 under the following circumstances, and (ii) the NEO executes a claims release and abides by applicable post-employment covenants concerning confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation.

Set forth below are summaries of all of our employment agreements and arrangements with our named executive officers. The following summaries do not contain all of the terms of such agreements, and we refer you to the agreements, which are included as exhibits to this registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part of, for a complete understanding of the terms thereof. Discussion of the number of shares granted in the summaries below calculates share issuances giving effect to our July 2008 1-for-10 reverse stock split.

Eric Shepcaro. On January 8, 2007, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Shepcaro, whereby he became chairman of our board of directors and our Chief Executive Officer (Mr. Shepcaro is no longer the chairman of our board but is a member of our board of directors). The employment agreement has an initial term of four years and will renew automatically for successive one-year periods (unless either party gives prior written notice). Pursuant to this employment agreement, Mr. Shepcaro receives an annual base salary of

$300,000. Mr. Shepcaro is also entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount up to $300,000 (prorated if less than a full year), payable quarterly, at the discretion of our board of directors. In addition, he shall be eligible to participate in an additional bonus pool of which he will be eligible to earn up to an additional $200,000 annually (prorated if less than a full year) at the discretion of the board of directors. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Shepcaro was entitled to receive 66,177 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock although Mr. Shepcaro’s employment agreement was effectively amended when our board of directors agreed to grant him 76,103 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of a stock award agreement. We agreed to make loans in an amount that would be necessary to pay the tax liability attributable to filing a Section 83(b) election under the Code with respect to the shares of Series B Contingent Preferred Stock Mr. Shepcaro received. If we terminate Mr. Shepcaro’s employment Without Cause (as defined in the employment agreement), or Mr. Shepcaro terminates for Good Reason (as defined in the employment agreement), then we will pay Mr. Shepcaro $675,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for 18 months. If we terminate due to Permanent Disability (as defined in the employment agreement) then we will pay Mr. Shepcaro $450,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for 12 months. In exchange, Mr. Shepcaro must execute a (i) release of claims agreement and (ii) a non-competition and non-solicitation agreement for 18 months. If Mr. Shepcaro’s employment is terminated by us for Cause or because of Mr. Shepcaro’s death we will have no further obligations, except for payment of any base salary compensation and expense reimbursement accrued and unpaid. Upon termination of Mr. Shepcaro’s employment for any reason, Mr. Shepcaro will also be subject to customary 18-month post-termination non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and restriction on the unauthorized disclosure of confidential and proprietary information.

Christopher W. Downie. On May 25, 2007, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Downie, whereby he became our Chief Financial Officer. Subsequently, Mr. Downie was appointed President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Mr. Downie’s employment agreement provided for an annual base salary of $240,000. Mr. Downie’s current annual base salary is $264,600. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Downie was also entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount up to $160,000 at the discretion of our board of directors. With respect to 2009, Mr. Downie is entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount of up to 100% of his annual base salary at the discretion of our board of directors. In addition, he shall be eligible to participate in an additional bonus pool of which he will be eligible to earn up to an additional $160,000 annually at the discretion of the board of directors. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Downie was also granted 20,589 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock and we agreed to make loans in an amount that would be necessary to pay the tax liability attributable to filing a Section 83(b) election under the Code with respect to the Series B Contingent Preferred Stock. Mr. Downie was subsequently awarded an additional 9,500 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock in April 2008. Mr. Downie’s employment can be terminated at any time, with or without notice. If we terminate Mr. Downie’s employment Without Cause (as defined in the employment agreement), then we will pay Mr. Downie $240,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for up to 12 months provided Mr. Downie executes a separation agreement containing a full release of claims in favor of us. If Mr. Downie’s employment is terminated by us for Cause (as defined in the employment agreement) or because of Mr. Downie’s permanent disability or death we will have no further obligations, except for payment of any base salary compensation and expense reimbursement accrued and unpaid. Upon termination of Mr. Downie’s employment for any reason, Mr. Downie will also be subject to customary 12-month post-termination non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and restriction on the unauthorized disclosure of confidential and proprietary information.

J. Todd Raymond. On September 20, 2006, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Raymond, whereby he became our Acting Chief Executive Officer, President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Subsequently, Mr. Raymond was appointed Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Mr. Raymond currently serves as our Senior Vice President, Facility Acquisition. Pursuant to this employment agreement, Mr. Raymond receives an annual base salary of $200,000. Mr. Raymond is also entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount up to $200,000 in the discretion of our board of directors. In addition, he shall be eligible to participate in an additional bonus pool of which he will be eligible to earn up to an additional $200,000 annually in the discretion of the board of directors. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Raymond was granted 38,238 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock and we agreed to make loans in an amount that would be necessary to pay the tax

liability attributable to filing a Section 83(b) election under the Code with respect to the Series B Contingent Preferred Stock. Mr. Raymond was subsequently awarded an additional 5,736 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock in 2007. Mr. Raymond’s employment can be terminated at any time, with or without notice. If we terminate Mr. Raymond’s employment Without Cause (as defined in the employment agreement), or Mr. Raymond terminates for Good Reason (as defined in the employment agreement), and provided Mr. Raymond executes a separation agreement containing a full release of claims in favor of us, we will pay Mr. Raymond $200,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for up to 12 months. If Mr. Raymond’s employment is terminated by us for Cause or because of Mr. Raymond’s permanent disability or death, we will have no further obligations, except for payment of any base salary compensation and expense reimbursement accrued and unpaid. Upon termination of Mr. Raymond’s employment for any reason, Mr. Raymond will also be subject to customary 12-month post-termination non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and a 24-month restriction on the unauthorized disclosure of confidential and proprietary information.

William J. Kolman. On May 7, 2007, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Kolman, whereby he became our Executive Vice President of Sales. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Kolman receives an annual base salary of $200,000. Mr. Kolman is also entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount up to $200,000 in the discretion of our board of directors. In addition, he is eligible to participate in an additional bonus pool and receive sales commission up to an additional $200,000 annually. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Kolman was granted 15,000 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock and we agreed to make loans in an amount that would be necessary to pay the tax liability attributable to filing a Section 83(b) election under the Code with respect to the Series B Contingent Preferred Stock. Mr. Kolman’s employment can be terminated at any time, with or without notice. If we terminate Mr. Kolman’s employment Without Cause (as defined in the employment agreement) then we will pay Mr. Kolman $200,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for up to 12 months provided Mr. Kolman executes a separation agreement containing a full release of claims in favor of us. If Mr. Kolman’s employment is terminated by us for Cause or because of Mr. Kolman’s permanent disability or death, we will have no further obligations, except for payment of any base salary compensation and expense reimbursement accrued and unpaid. Upon termination of Mr. Kolman’s employment for any reason, Mr. Kolman will also be subject to customary 12-month post-termination non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and restriction on the unauthorized disclosure of confidential and proprietary information.

Michael Terlizzi. On September 20, 2006, we entered into an employment agreement with Mr. Terlizzi, whereby he became our Executive Vice President, Operations of the Company. Subsequently, Mr. Terlizzi was appointed Executive Vice President, Engineering and Construction. Mr. Terlizzi’s employment agreement provided for an annual base salary of $160,000. Mr. Terlizzi’s current annual base salary is $190,800. Mr. Terlizzi is also entitled to an annual target bonus in an amount up to $50,000 in the discretion of our board of directors. In addition, he is eligible to participate in an additional bonus pool of which he will be eligible to earn up to an additional $50,000 annually in the discretion of the board of directors. Pursuant to his employment agreement, Mr. Terlizzi’s was granted 7,354 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock and we agreed to make loans in an amount that would be necessary to pay the tax liability attributable to filing a Section 83(b) election under the Code with respect to the Series B Contingent Preferred Stock. Mr. Terlizzi was subsequently awarded an additional 7,021 shares of our Series B Contingent Preferred Stock in 2007. Mr. Terlizzi’s employment can be terminated at any time, with or without notice. If we terminate Mr. Terlizzi’s employment Without Cause (as defined in the employment agreement) or Mr. Terlizzi terminates for Good Reason (as defined in the employment agreement), then we will pay Mr. Terlizzi $160,000 and his COBRA health insurance premiums for up to 12 months provided Mr. Terlizzi executes a separation agreement containing a full release of claims in favor of us. If Mr. Terlizzi’s employment is terminated by us for Cause or because of Mr. Terlizzi’s permanent disability or death, we will have no further obligations, except for payment of any base salary compensation and expense reimbursement accrued and unpaid. Upon termination of Mr. Terlizzi’s employment for any reason, Mr. Terlizzi will be subject to customary 12-month post-termination non-compete and non-solicitation provisions and a 24-month restriction on the unauthorized disclosure of confidential and proprietary information.

Prior to the completion of this offering, we expect to adopt The Telx Group, Inc. 2010 Stock Incentive Plan, which we refer to herein as the 2010 Plan. The terms and conditions set forth below are preliminary, and may not be incorporated into the 2010 Plan. Additionally, we may never implement the 2010 Plan. Following our initial public offering, we expect that equity awards will occur only under the 2010 Plan. Stockholder approval of the 2010 Plan will primarily enable us to satisfy Nasdaq listing requirements, and to make awards that qualify as performance-based compensation that is exempt from the deduction limitation set forth under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, referred to herein as the Code. Section 162(m) generally limits the corporate income tax deduction to $1,000,000 annually for the non performance-based compensation paid to each of the Chief Executive Officer and the three other highest paid executive officers of the Company (other than the CFO).

We do not anticipate that any awards under the 2010 Plan will occur before we complete our initial public offering. Although the amount and nature of future awards have not yet been determined, the 2010 Plan authorizes discretionary awards in the form of stock options, stock appreciation rights, or SARs, restricted shares or units, unrestricted shares, deferred share units, performance awards, and dividend equivalent rights. Our board of directors believes that the 2010 Plan will be an important factor in attracting, retaining and motivating employees, consultants, and directors of the Company and its affiliates, collectively referred to herein as eligible persons. Our board of directors believes that we need the flexibility, acting primarily through our compensation committee, both to have an ongoing reserve of common stock available for future equity-based awards, and to make future awards in a variety of forms.

Pursuant to the 2010 Plan, we may issue up to shares of our common stock or, if greater, percent ( %) of the shares outstanding immediately after our initial public offering closes (in either case with such total number of shares being adjusted for future stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations, and other similar transactions). The shares of our common stock that are subject to any award that expires, or is forfeited, cancelled, settled, or becomes unexercisable without the issuance of shares, will again be available for subsequent awards. In addition, future awards may occur with respect to shares of our common stock that we refrain from otherwise delivering pursuant to an award as payment of either the exercise price of an award or applicable withholding and employment taxes. We receive no cash consideration for the granting of awards under the 2010 Plan. However, if a stock option were to be exercised, we would receive the exercise price for the shares being purchased, unless the exercise occurs pursuant to a cashless alternative that we approve.

Administration of the 2010 Plan will be carried out by our compensation committee or our board of directors if no such committee is appointed; provided that our board may act in lieu of the compensation committee at any time. Either our compensation committee or our board of directors may delegate its authority under the 2010 Plan to one or more officers but it may not delegate its authority with respect to making awards to individuals subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act. As used in this summary, the term administrator means the compensation committee or the board of directors or its delegate, if any. With respect to decisions involving an award intended to satisfy the requirements of section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, the administrator is to consist solely of two or more directors who are “outside directors” for purposes of that Code section, and with respect to awards to individuals subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the administrator is to consist solely of two or more directors who are “non-employee directors” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act. The 2010 Plan provides that we and our affiliates will indemnify members of the administrative committee and their delegates against any claims, liabilities, or costs arising from the good faith performance of their duties under the 2010 Plan. The 2010 Plan will release these individuals from liability for good faith actions associated with the 2010 Plan’s administration.

Subject to the terms of the 2010 Plan, the administrator has express authority to determine the eligible persons who will receive awards, the number of shares of our common stock to be covered by each award, and the terms and conditions of awards. The administrator has broad discretion to prescribe, amend, and rescind rules

relating to the 2010 Plan and its administration, to interpret and construe the 2010 Plan and the terms of all award agreements, and to take all actions necessary or advisable to administer the 2010 Plan. Within the limits of the 2010 Plan, the administrator may accelerate the vesting of any awards, allow the exercise of unvested awards, and may modify, replace, cancel, or renew any awards. In addition, the administrator may buy-out, or replace, any award, including a stock option or SAR having an exercise price that is above the current fair market value of the underlying shares, with shareholder approval not being required although the administrator may decide to seek it.

The administrator may grant options that are intended to qualify as incentive stock options, which we refer to as ISOs, only to employees, if any, and may grant all other awards to eligible persons. Stock options granted under the 2010 Plan will provide award recipients, or participants, with the right to purchase shares of our common stock at a predetermined exercise price. The administrator may grant stock options that are intended to qualify as ISOs or that are not intended to so qualify, which we refer to as Non-ISOs. The 2010 Plan also provides that ISO treatment may not be available for stock options that become first exercisable in any calendar year to the extent the value of the shares that are the subject of the stock option exceed $100,000, based upon the fair market value of the shares of our common stock on the option grant date.

A SAR generally permits a participant who receives it to receive, upon exercise, cash and/or shares of our common stock equal in value to the excess of the fair market value, on the date of exercise, of the shares of our common stock with respect to which the SAR is being exercised, over the exercise price of the SAR for such shares. The administrator may grant SARs in tandem with options, or independently of them. SARs that are independent of options may limit the value payable on its exercise to a percentage.

The exercise price of ISOs, Non-ISOs, and SARs may not be less than 100% of the fair market value on the grant date of the shares of our common stock subject to the award, although the exercise price of ISOs may not be less than 110% of the fair market value on the grant date of the underlying shares of our common stock subject to the award for participants who own more than ten percent of our shares of common stock on the grant date. To the extent vested and exercisable in accordance with the agreement granting them, a stock option or SAR may be exercised in whole or in part, and from time to time during its term, subject to earlier termination relating to a holder’s termination of employment or service. With respect to stock options, unless otherwise provided in an award agreement, payment of the exercise price may be made in any of the following forms, or combination of them: cash or check in U.S. dollars, certain shares of our common stock, cashless exercise under a program the administrator approves.

The term over which participants may exercise stock options and SARs may not exceed ten years from the date of grant; five years in the case of ISOs granted to employees who, at the time of grant, own more than 10% of our outstanding shares of common stock. Under the 2010 Plan, no participant may receive stock options and SARs that relate to more than percent of the maximum number of shares of our common stock that are authorized for awards under the 2010 Plan.

Under the 2010 Plan, the administrator may grant restricted stock that is forfeitable until certain vesting requirements are met, may grant RSUs that represent the right to receive shares of our common stock after certain vesting requirements are met or cash under certain circumstances, and may grant unrestricted stock as to which the participant’s interest is immediately vested. For restricted awards, the 2010 Plan provides the administrator with discretion to determine the terms and conditions under which a participant’s interests in such awards become vested. The 2010 Plan authorizes unrestricted stock awards that vest in full upon the date of a grant or other date determined by the administrator.

The 2010 Plan also authorizes awards of deferred share units in order to permit certain directors, officers, consultants, or select members of management to defer their receipt of compensation payable in cash or shares of our common stock, including shares that would otherwise be issued upon the vesting of restricted stock and RSUs. Deferred share units represent a future right to receive shares of our common stock.

The 2010 Plan authorizes the administrator to grant performance-based awards in the form of performance units that the administrator may, or may not, designate as “performance compensation awards” that are intended to be exempt from Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m) limitations. In either case, performance units will vest and/or become payable based upon the achievement, within the specified period of time, of performance objectives applicable to the individual, us, or any affiliate. Performance units will be payable in shares of common stock, cash, or some combination of the two, subject to an individual participant limit of (determined at the time of payout) and percent of the maximum number of shares of our common stock that are authorized for awards under the 2010 Plan. The administrator will decide the length of performance periods, but the periods may not be less than one fiscal year.

With respect to performance compensation awards, the 2010 Plan requires that the administrator specify in writing the performance period to which the award relates, and an objective formula by which to measure whether and the extent to which the award is earned on the basis of the level of performance achieved with respect to one or more performance measures. Once established for a performance period, the performance measures and performance formula applicable to the award may not be amended or modified in a manner that would cause the compensation payable under the award to fail to constitute performance-based compensation under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m). Under the 2010 Plan, the possible performance measures for performance compensation awards may include one or more of the following, applied in total or on a per share basis:

Each performance measure will be, to the extent applicable, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles as consistently applied by us, or such other standard applied by the administrator and, if so determined by the administrator, and in the case of a performance compensation award, to the extent permitted under Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m), adjusted to omit the effects of extraordinary items, gain or loss on the disposal of a business segment, unusual or infrequently occurring events and transactions and cumulative effects of changes in accounting principles. Performance measures may vary from performance period to performance period, and from participant to participant, and may be established on a stand-alone basis, in tandem or in the alternative.

As a condition to the issuance of shares of our common stock pursuant to awards, the 2010 Plan requires satisfaction of any applicable federal, state, local, or foreign withholding tax obligations that may arise in connection with the award or the issuance of shares of our common stock.

Finally, the 2010 Plan authorizes the awarding of dividend equivalent rights to any eligible person. These rights may be independent of other awards, or attached to awards (other than stock options and SARs), and in all cases represent the participant’s right to collect any dividends that we declare and pay to our stockholders during

the term of the dividend equivalent right. Unless an award agreement provides otherwise, the distributions attributable to dividend equivalent rights that are attached to other awards shall occur when shares of our common stock are issued to settle the underlying award.

Awards may not be sold, pledged, assigned, hypothecated, transferred, or disposed of other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, except to the extent the administrator permits lifetime transfers to charitable institutions, certain family members, or related trusts, or as otherwise approved by the administrator.

The administrator will equitably adjust the number of shares covered by each outstanding award, and the number of shares that have been authorized for issuance under the 2010 Plan, but as to which no awards have yet been granted or that have been returned to the 2010 Plan upon cancellation, forfeiture, or expiration of an award, as well as the price per share covered by each such outstanding award, to reflect any increase or decrease in the number of issued shares resulting from a stock split, reverse stock split, stock dividend, combination, recapitalization or reclassification of the shares of our common stock, or any other increase or decrease in the number of issued shares effected without receipt of consideration by us. In the event of any such transaction or event, the administrator may provide in substitution for any or all outstanding options under the 2010 Plan such alternative consideration, including securities of any surviving entity, as it may in good faith determine to be equitable under the circumstances and may require in connection therewith the surrender of all options so replaced. In any case, such substitution of securities will not require the consent of any person who is granted options pursuant to the 2010 Plan.

In addition, in the event or in anticipation of a change in control, as defined in the 2010 Plan, the administrator may at any time in its sole and absolute discretion and authority, without obtaining the approval or consent of our stockholders or any participant with respect to his or her outstanding awards, except to the extent an award provides otherwise, take one or more of the following actions: (i) arrange for or otherwise provide that each outstanding award will be assumed or substituted with a substantially equivalent award by a successor corporation or a parent or subsidiary of such successor corporation; (ii) accelerate the vesting of awards for any period, and may provide for termination of unexercised options and SARs at the end of that period, so that awards shall vest (and, to the extent applicable, become exercisable) as to the shares of our common stock that otherwise would have been unvested and provide that our repurchase rights with respect to shares of our common stock issued upon exercise of an award shall lapse as to the shares of our common stock subject to such repurchase right; or (iii) arrange or otherwise provide for payment of cash or other consideration to participants in exchange for the satisfaction and cancellation of outstanding awards.

Notwithstanding the above, an award may provide that in the event a participant holding an award assumed or substituted by the successor corporation in a change in control is involuntarily terminated, as defined in the 2010 Plan, by the successor corporation in connection with, or within 12 months following consummation of, the change in control, then any assumed or substituted award held by the terminated participant at the time of termination shall accelerate and become fully vested, and exercisable in full in the case of options and SARs, and any repurchase right applicable to any shares of our common stock shall lapse in full. The acceleration of vesting and lapse of repurchase rights provided for in the previous sentence shall occur immediately prior to the effective date of the participant’s termination. Finally, if we dissolve or liquidate, all awards will immediately terminate, subject to the ability of our board of directors to exercise any discretion that the board of directors may exercise in the case of a change in control.

The term of the 2010 Plan is years from the date of approval by our stockholders. Our board of directors may from time to time, amend, alter, suspend, discontinue, or terminate the 2010 Plan; provided that no amendment, suspension, or termination of the 2010 Plan shall materially and adversely affect awards already granted unless it relates to an adjustment pursuant to certain transactions that change our capitalization or it is otherwise mutually agreed between the participant and the administrator. An amendment will not become effective without the approval of our stockholders if it increases the number of shares of common stock that may be issued under the 2010 Plan (other than changes to reflect certain corporate transactions and changes in

capitalization as described above). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the administrator may amend the 2010 plan to eliminate provisions which are no longer necessary as a result of changes in tax or securities laws or regulations, or in the interpretation thereof.

Certain of our employees hold awards that were made and continue to be outstanding under The Telx Group, Inc. 2007 Employee Stock Plan, which we refer to as the 2007 Plan, and which was initially effective May 1, 2007, and thereafter approved by our stockholders. The 2007 Plan has a ten year term, subject to earlier expiration by our board of directors. No awards will occur after our initial public offering because the 2010 Plan will be the sole source for future equity-based awards.

The 2007 Plan initially authorized grants for 125,000 shares of our common stock, and as of March 1, 2010, awards with respect to 118,235 shares have been issued and settled, and awards with respect to 6,158 shares remain outstanding (with each of the foregoing numbers having been adjusted to reflect our 1-for-10 stock split). All of these awards take the form of options that vest monthly over periods of, normally, 48 months following the employee’s hire date. Terminations of employment for any reason generally result in the forfeiture of all unvested shares. A change in control may result in full vesting of award, their continuation, or their immediate settlement (as determined by our board or the compensation committee).

Our board of directors administers the 2007 Plan except to the extent it delegates that authority to our CEO. Such administration involves broad discretion to interpret the 2007 Plan and to make all determinations that are necessary or advisable for its administration. Our board of directors or an authorized delegate may amend or terminate the 2007 Plan, subject to any applicable stockholder approval requirements. Outstanding awards may also be amended, but such amendments require the consent of any award holder who is adversely affected by the amendment.

Our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws, which will be in effect upon the completion of this offering, contain provisions that limit the personal liability of our directors for monetary damages to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Consequently, our directors will not be personally liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duties as directors, except liability for:

Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws to be in effect upon the completion of this offering provide that we shall indemnify our directors and officers, in each case to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Our amended and restated bylaws also provide that we are obligated to advance expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of any action or proceeding, and permit us to secure insurance on behalf of any officer, director, employee or other agent for any liability arising out of his or her actions in that capacity regardless of whether we would otherwise be permitted to indemnify him or her under the provisions of Delaware law. We expect to enter into agreements to indemnify our directors, executive officers and other employees as determined by our board of directors. With specified exceptions, these agreements will provide for indemnification for related expenses including, among other things,

attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by any of these individuals in any action or proceeding. We believe that these certificate of incorporation and bylaw provisions and indemnification agreements are necessary to attract and retain qualified persons as directors and officers. We also maintain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

The limitation of liability and indemnification provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against our directors and officers for breach of their fiduciary duties. They may also reduce the likelihood of derivative litigation against our directors and officers, even though an action, if successful, might benefit us and other stockholders. Further, a stockholder’s investment may be adversely affected to the extent that we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers as required by these indemnification provisions. At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors, officers or employees for which indemnification is sought, and we are not aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification.

In addition to the director and executive officer compensation arrangements discussed above under “Executive Compensation”, the following is a description of transactions since January 1, 2007 to which we have been a party in which the amount involved exceeded or will exceed $120,000 and in which any of our directors, executive officers, beneficial holders of more than 5% of our capital stock, or persons or entities affiliated with them, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

GI Partners affiliated funds, GI Partners Fund II, L.P. and GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P., which we refer to herein collectively as the GI Partners Funds, own a majority of our outstanding Series A Preferred Stock. The shares of Series A Preferred Stock owned by the GI Partners Funds, together with the shares of common stock owned by the GI Partners Funds, constitute a majority of our outstanding common stock on an as-converted to common stock basis. As of March 1, 2010, GI Partners Funds beneficially owned the substantial majority of our outstanding common stock on an as-converted basis. In connection with our acquisition by the GI Partners Funds in 2006, the GI Partners Funds are parties to several agreements, including, securities purchase agreements, contribution and subscription agreements and/or similar agreements, with us relating to the GI Partners Funds acquisition of our securities.

Howard Park of GI Partners currently serves as the chairman of our board of directors. In addition, Eric Harrison, a former managing director of GI Partners, also serves on our board of directors. Mr. Harrison also served in an uncompensated capacity as a Vice President of the company from January 2007 until February 2007. GI Partners personnel serving, or who have served, as directors and/or officers of us may have certain indemnification rights from us (including, without limitation, under indemnification agreements or other agreements, our certificate of incorporation and/or bylaws).

On October 3, 2006, we entered into a management agreement with GI Manager L.P., or the GI Manager, an affiliate of both GI Partners Funds, as amended on March 3, 2010, pursuant to which GI Manager agreed to perform certain advisory, financial and management consulting services at the reasonable direction of our board of directors.

Pursuant to the management agreement, as amended, among other things, GI Manager is entitled to an annual management fee, not to exceed $750,000, as determined by our board of directors plus reasonable expenses. In each of the years ended December 31, 2007, 2008 and 2009, GI Manager has waived this fee. In addition to the annual management fee, GI Manager is also entitled to a 1.5% transaction closing fee with respect to any refinancing (other than a refinancing involving an acquisition or distribution), restructuring, equity or debt offering, acquisition, merger, consolidation, business combination, sale or divestiture. Under the management agreement, we also have certain indemnification obligations.

In 2007, we paid GI Manager a closing fee of $500,000 for services in connection with the acquisition of certain assets from NYC Connect, LLC. There have been no other fees owed or paid to GI Manager in 2007, 2008 and 2009 under the management agreement.

The management agreement will terminate immediately upon the date that this registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part, is declared effective by the SEC.

On April 11, 2008, we sold an aggregate of 1,524,000 shares (not adjusted for our subsequent 1-for-10 reverse stock split) of Series A Preferred Stock at a per share purchase price of $10 pursuant to a securities purchase agreement. Purchasers of the Series A Preferred Stock were the GI Partners Funds and Telxinvest, LLC. Former and current executive officers and directors, including Mr. Shepcaro, our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Downie, our President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Mr. Raymond, our senior vice president, facility acquisition and Mr. Kolman, our executive vice president of sales, collectively own 89% of Telxinvest, LLC. Two of our former employees own the remainder. The following table summarizes purchases of Series A Preferred Stock by the above-listed investors:

On March 15, 2007, we entered into a contribution and subscription agreement with the GI Partners Funds pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell to the GI Partners Funds, in the aggregate, 5,000,000 shares (not adjusted for our subsequent 1-for-10 reverse stock split) of Series A Preferred Stock at a per share contribution price of $10 for a total of $50,000,000 in cash contribution in connection with the acquisition of certain assets from NYC Connect, LLC. In addition, on April 1, 2007, we entered into a contribution and subscription agreement with Telxinvest, LLC pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell to Telxinvest, LLC 80,000 shares (not adjusted for our subsequent 1-for-10 reverse stock split) of Series A Preferred Stock at a per share purchase price of $10 for a total of $800,000 in cash contribution. $100,000 of the purchase price was paid in April 2008. The following table summarizes the issues of Series A Preferred Stock to the above-listed investors:

In connection with our acquisition by the GI Partners Funds, we executed two notes on October 3, 2006 with the GI Partners Funds for an aggregate loan amount of $98,000,000 at an interest rate of 10% per year. In 2007, we paid GI Partners Funds $103,715,174 (principal and interest) in the aggregate to extinguish both notes.

In connection with certain 83(b) elections under the Code by former and current executive officers and directors, we extended loans to two of our former executive officers and Messrs. Shepcaro, Downie, Raymond, Kolman and Terlizzi for an aggregate total of $879,155 (as of March 5, 2010). These loans to our current executive officers are no longer outstanding.

We are a party to that certain Second Amended and Restated Stockholders Agreement, effective as of March 15, 2007, among us and certain holders of our common stock and preferred stock, including the GI Partners Funds. The stockholders agreement provides for, among other things, certain rights relating to the registration of the stockholders’ shares of common stock, including those shares issued upon conversion of their preferred stock. See “Description of Capital Stock—Registration Rights” below for additional information.

As of January 1, 2007, a fund affiliated with GI Partners beneficially owned approximately 12% of Digital Realty Trust. Currently, GI Partners owns 0% of Digital Realty Trust. 10 of our 14 leased facilities are leased to us by Digital Realty Trust, representing 28.1% of our total facility space. The initial terms of these Digital Realty Trust leases expire in 2026, and we have options to extend them through 2046. Generally, under these Digital Realty Trust leases, we are obligated to pay a certain percentage of facility specific annual gross revenue that exceeds a stipulated threshold. We paid Digital Realty Trust an aggregate total of $9.8 million in 2007, $12.3 million in 2008 and $16.3 million in 2009 in lease payments.

In connection with the lease agreements, we entered into an operating agreement with Digital Realty Trust and its affiliates, effective as of December 1, 2006, pursuant to which we agreed to joint sales and marketing efforts. In addition, Digital Realty Trust agreed to provide us with an option to lease certain newly acquired or converted buildings and provided us with a $2.4 million alteration allowance. This alteration allowance serves to fund any alterations we request to be made in the facilities we lease from Digital Realty Trust. We have agreed to repay the alteration allowance as supplemental rent payments over a 10 year period at an interest rate of 10% per annum compounded monthly upon substantial completion of the requested alteration. In addition, in connection with the lease agreements, we entered into a management agreement with Digital Realty Trust and its affiliates, effective as of December 1, 2007, pursuant to which we agreed to provide Digital Realty Trust with certain management services in exchange for a management fee of one percent of rents actually collected by us.

Pursuant to a stock option agreement effective as of November 20, 2006 and thereafter amended and restated on March 15, 2007, we granted Digital Realty Trust an option, and certain preemptive rights, to acquire approximately 10% of our Series A Preferred Stock. This option, and the preemptive rights, expired unexercised on October 3, 2008.

We expect to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and officers. The indemnification agreements and our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will require us to indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. See “Executive Compensation—Limitation on Liability and Indemnification Matters.”

For a discussion of the independence of our directors, please see “Management—Board of Directors” above.

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc., or The Planet, provides us with certain IT hosting services pursuant to a service agreement. GI Partners affiliated funds, directly or indirectly, own a supermajority of the outstanding Series A Preferred Stock of The Planet and the shares of Series A Preferred Stock and common stock owned by the GI Partners affiliated funds (directly or indirectly) constitute a majority of The Planet’s outstanding common stock on an as-converted to common stock basis. Our chairman of the board, Howard Park, sits on the board of directors of The Planet. We paid The Planet approximately $124,795, $75,355 and $0 in 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

We expect that pursuant to our audit committee charter, to be in effect upon completion of this offering, our audit committee will be responsible for reviewing and approving in advance any related party transaction. Prior to the completion of this offering, our full board of directors will review all material related party transactions.

Upon the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, we will amend our code of conduct and ethics, which we expect will include a formal policy that our executive officers, directors, and principal stockholders, including their immediate family members and affiliates, will not be permitted to enter into a related party transaction with us without the prior consent of our audit committee, or other independent members of our board of directors in the case it is inappropriate for our audit committee to review such transaction due to a conflict of interest. Any request for us to enter into a transaction with an executive officer, director, principal stockholder, or any of such persons’ immediate family members or affiliates, in which the amount involved exceeds $100,000 must first be presented to our audit committee for review, consideration and approval. All of our directors, executive officers and employees will be required to report to our audit committee any such related party transaction. In approving or rejecting the proposed agreement, our audit committee shall consider the relevant facts and circumstances available and deemed relevant to the audit committee, including, but not limited to, the risks, costs and benefits to us, the terms of the transaction, the availability of other sources for comparable services or products, and, if applicable, the impact on a director’s independence. Our audit committee shall approve only those agreements that, in light of known circumstances, are in, or are not inconsistent with, our best interests, as our audit committee determines in the good faith exercise of its discretion. All of the transactions described above were entered into prior to the adoption of this policy. Upon completion of this offering, we will post the full text of the code on our website.

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of , 2010, subject to certain assumptions set forth in the footnotes and as adjusted to reflect the sale of the shares of our common stock offered in this offering under this prospectus for:

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with rules of the SEC and generally includes any shares over which a person exercises sole or shared voting and/or investment power. Shares of common stock subject to options and warrants currently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of the person holding the options but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Except as otherwise indicated, we believe the beneficial owners of the common stock listed below, based on information furnished by them, have sole voting and investment power with respect to the number of shares listed opposite their names.

Applicable percentage ownership in the following table is based on shares of common stock outstanding as of , 2010, which gives effect to the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into shares of common stock upon completion of this offering.

The table and footnotes set forth the number of shares held by, and the percentage beneficial ownership of, each selling stockholder based on shares of common stock outstanding upon completion of this offering, assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option to purchase up to an aggregate of shares of our common stock.

Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each of the individuals named below is The Telx Group, Inc., 1 State Street, 21^st Floor, New York, New York 10004.

The following is a summary of our capital stock and certain provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, each of which will be in effect upon the closing of this offering. This summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of the restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws, copies of which will be filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and by the provisions of applicable law.

Upon the closing of this offering, our authorized capital stock will consist of million shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, and million shares of undesignated preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share.

As of , there were shares of common stock outstanding, held of record by approximately stockholders after giving effect to the conversion of all of our outstanding shares of preferred stock into shares of common stock. There will be shares of common stock outstanding (assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and no exercise of outstanding options) after giving effect to the sale of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus.

The holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, holders of a majority of the shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to preferences that may be applicable to any preferred stock outstanding at the time, the holders of outstanding shares of common stock are entitled to receive ratably any dividends declared by our board of directors out of assets legally available. See the section entitled “Dividend Policy.” Upon our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of our common stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of liabilities and the liquidation preference of any then outstanding shares of preferred stock. Holders of common stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock. All outstanding shares of common stock are, and all shares of common stock to be outstanding upon completion of this offering will be, fully paid and nonassessable.

Immediately prior to the closing of this offering, all outstanding shares of our preferred stock will be converted into shares of common stock. Pursuant to our restated certificate of incorporation, our board of directors will have the authority, without further action by the stockholders, to issue from time to time up to shares of preferred stock, in one or more series. Our board will determine the rights, preferences, privileges, and restrictions of the preferred stock, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences, sinking fund terms, and the number of shares constituting any series or the designation of any series, any or all of which may be greater than or senior to the rights of the common stock. The issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of common stock and reduce the likelihood that such holders will receive dividend payments and payments upon liquidation, and the likelihood that holders of preferred stock will receive dividend payments and payments upon liquidation may have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing a change in control, which could depress the market price of our common stock. We have no current plan to issue any shares of preferred stock.

In connection with our acquisition of certain assets of GreatAccess.com, Inc., on May 28, 2008, we issued a warrant to GreatAccess.com, Inc. to purchase 10,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $4.00

per share (after adjustment for our July 2008 1-for-10 reverse stock split, the warrant is exercisable to purchase 1,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $40.00 per share.) This warrant has an initial term of seven years from the issue date. It is anticipated that these warrants will be exercised prior to the closing of this offering.

In 2001, we issued a warrant to DSR Holdings III, LLC. After adjustments for reverse stock splits and taking into account the impact of our acquisition by the GI Partners Funds, this warrant has no economic value, since the exercise of the warrant, at a cost to the warrantholder of approximately $112,000, would yield less than $100,000 of cash as the warrantholder’s sale proceeds.

Upon completion of this offering, and after the expiration of the lock-up agreements described in the section entitled “Shares Eligible for Future Sale,” holders of the substantial majority of our common stock will be entitled to rights to register the shares held by them under the Securities Act pursuant to registration rights granted to such holders of these securities. If we propose to register any of our securities under the Securities Act, either for our own account or for the account of others, the holders of these shares are entitled to notice of the registration and are entitled to include, at our expense, their shares of common stock in the registration and any related underwriting, provided, among other conditions and limitations, that the underwriters may limit the number of shares to be included in the registration and in some cases exclude these shares entirely.

In addition, the holders of these shares may require us to file a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to their shares of common stock, and we will be required to use our best efforts to effect the registration. See the section entitled “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.”

Certain provisions of Delaware law, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws, which will be in effect upon the completion of this offering, contain provisions that could have the effect of delaying, deferring or discouraging another party from acquiring control of us. These provisions, which are summarized below, may have the effect of discouraging coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed, in part, to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our board of directors. We believe that the benefits of increased protection of our potential ability to negotiate with an unfriendly or unsolicited acquiror outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging a proposal to acquire us because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms.

We expect that our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws, which will be in effect upon the closing of this offering, will contain provisions that could have the effect of delaying, deterring or preventing another party from acquiring control of us. These provisions and certain provisions of Delaware law, which are summarized below, are expected to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed, in part, to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to negotiate first with our board of directors. We believe that the benefits of increased protection of our potential ability to negotiate more favorable terms with an unfriendly or unsolicited acquiror outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging a proposal to acquire us.

Undesignated Preferred Stock. As discussed above, our board of directors has the ability to issue, without stockholder approval, preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences as may be fixed by the board of directors that could impede the success of any takeover attempt. This and other provisions may have the effect of deferring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company.

Limitations on the Ability of Stockholders to Act by Written Consent or Call a Special Meeting. We expect to provide in our restated certificate of incorporation that our stockholders may not act by written consent. The inability of our stockholders to act by written consent may lengthen the amount of time required to take stockholder actions. As a result, a holder controlling a majority of our capital stock would not be able to amend our bylaws or remove directors without holding a meeting of our stockholders called in accordance with our bylaws.

In addition, our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws provide that special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by the chairperson of our board of directors, the chief executive officer, the president or the board of directors. A stockholder may not call a special meeting, which may delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or for holders controlling a majority of our capital stock to take any action, including the removal of directors.

Requirements for Advance Notification of Stockholder Nominations and Proposals. Our amended and restated bylaws establish advance notice procedures with respect to stockholder proposals and the nomination of candidates for election as directors, other than nominations made by or at the direction of the board of directors or a committee of the board of directors. These provisions may have the effect of precluding the conduct of certain business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed. These provisions may also discourage or deter a potential acquiror from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquiror’s own slate of directors or from otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company.

Board Classification. Our board of directors is divided into three classes, one class of which is elected each year by our stockholders. The directors in each class will serve for a three-year term. For more information on the classified board, see “Management—Board of Directors.” A third party may be discouraged from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us as it is more difficult and time-consuming for stockholders to replace a majority of the directors on a classified board.

Board Vacancies Filled Only by Majority of Directors. Vacancies and newly created seats on our board may be filled only by a majority of the number of then-authorized members of our board of directors. Only our board of directors may determine the number of directors on our board. The inability of stockholders to determine the number of directors or to fill vacancies or newly created seats on our board of directors makes it more difficult to change the composition of our board of directors, but these provisions promote a continuity of existing management.

No Cumulative Voting. The DGCL provides that stockholders are not entitled to the right to cumulate votes in the election of directors unless our restated certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws do not expressly provide for cumulative voting.

Directors Removed Only for Cause. Our restated certificate of incorporation provides for the removal of directors only for cause and only upon the affirmative vote of the holders of a supermajority of our outstanding capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

Amendment of Charter Provisions. The amendment of certain of the above provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws requires approval by holders of at least two-thirds of our outstanding capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute. We are subject to Section 203 of the DGCL, or DGCL Section 203, which regulates corporate acquisitions. DGCL Section 203 prevents certain Delaware corporations, including those whose securities are listed on The Nasdaq Global Market, from engaging, under certain circumstances, in a business combination with any interested stockholder for three years following the date that such stockholder became an interested stockholder. For purposes of DGCL Section 203, a business combination includes, among other things, a merger or consolidation involving us and the interested stockholder and the sale of 10% or more of our assets. In

general, DGCL Section 203 defines an interested stockholder as any entity or person owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock and any entity or person affiliated with or controlling or controlled by such entity or person. A Delaware corporation may opt out of DGCL Section 203 with an express provision in its original certificate of incorporation or an express provision in its certificate of incorporation or bylaws resulting from amendments approved by the holders of at least a majority of the corporation’s outstanding voting shares. We have not opted out of the provisions of DGCL Section 203. This provision has an anti-takeover effect with respect to transactions not approved in advance by our board of directors, including discouraging takeover attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for our shares.

The provisions of Delaware law, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws could have the effect of discouraging others from attempting hostile takeovers and, as a consequence, they may also inhibit temporary fluctuations in the market price of our common stock that often result from actual or rumored hostile takeover attempts. These provisions may also have the effect of preventing changes in our management. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish transactions that stockholders may otherwise deem to be in their best interests.

We expect that the transfer agent and registrar for the common stock will be American Stock Transfer & Trust Company. The transfer agent’s address is 59 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 10038 and its telephone number is (800) 937-5499.

We will apply to list our common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “TELX.”

The key terms of our credit agreements, as amended, are described below. These descriptions are not complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the complete texts of the credit agreements and subsequent amendments, copies of which have been filed as exhibits to this registration statement, of which this prospectus forms a part.

On March 8, 2007, (i) Colo Properties Atlanta, LLC (“Colo Properties”), an indirect, but wholly owned subsidiary of Telx Real Estate Holdings, LLC (our wholly owned subsidiary), entered into a Loan Agreement with UBS Real Estate Securities, Inc. (“UBS”) pursuant to which UBS made a $60,000,000 loan to Colo Properties (the “Colo Properties Mortgage Loan”) and (ii) CP Atlanta, LLC (“CP Atlanta”), the parent entity to Colo Properties, entered into a Mezzanine Loan Agreement with UBS pursuant to which UBS made a $20,000,000 mezzanine loan to CP Atlanta (the “CP Atlanta Mezzanine Loan”).

On August 10, 2007, (i) Colo Properties and UBS entered into an Amended and Restated Loan Agreement with respect to the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan, (ii) CP Atlanta and UBS entered into an Amended and Restated Mezzanine A Loan Agreement with UBS pursuant to which the CP Atlanta Loan was reduced to $10,000,000 (the “CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan”), and (iii) CP Atlanta II, LLC (“CP Atlanta II”), the parent entity of CP Atlanta, entered into a Mezzanine Loan Agreement with UBS pursuant to which UBS made an additional $10,000,000 mezzanine loan to CP Atlanta II (the “CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan”), the proceeds of which were contributed to CP Atlanta and used to pay down CP Atlanta Mezzanine Loan as provided in (ii) above. The loan agreements for the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan and the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan were further amended on December 19, 2007 to reallocate the respective interest rates of the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan and the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan (although the blended rate for the loans remained the same). The Colo Properties Mortgage Loan, CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan and the CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan are sometimes referred to collectively herein as the “56 Marietta Loans.”

In or around December 2007, UBS’s interest as lender of the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan was transferred by UBS to Fillmore East UBS Finance Subsidiary, LLC, and UBS’s interest as lender of the CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan was transferred by UBS to I&G Mezzanine 17, LLC.

The original maturity date of the 56 Marietta Loans was March 9, 2009. The borrowers had three one-year extension options. The borrowers have exercised the first two of these extensions extending the current maturity date of the 56 Marietta Loans to March 9, 2011, with one option to extend the maturity for an additional year still remaining.

The non-default interest rates under the 56 Marietta Loans are calculated at a rate equal to LIBOR plus a spread. The spreads are 142.5 basis points for the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan, 450 basis points for the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan and 375 basis points for the CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan, for a blended spread of 210 basis points for the 56 Marietta Loans on an aggregated basis. Payments of interest only are payable monthly under each of the 56 Marietta Loans.

The entire initial principal balances of the 56 Marietta Loans remain outstanding as of March 1, 2010.

The Colo Properties Mortgage Loan is secured by a first priority mortgage encumbering the approximately 153,000 square foot datacenter facility owned by Colo Properties located at 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Georgia (the “56 Marietta Facility”) and corresponding assignments of lease, rents and proceeds.

The CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan is secured by a pledge by CP Atlanta of 100% of the member interests in Colo Properties. The CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan is secured by a pledge by CP Atlanta II of 100% of the member interests in CP Atlanta.

We have executed Guaranties of Recourse Obligations and Environmental Indemnities in favor of the lenders of the 56 Marietta Loans whereby we (i) guaranty any required Mandatory Repayments (as described below); (ii) guaranty certain standard non-recourse carve-out obligations of the borrowers under the loan documents for the 56 Marietta Loans and (iii) indemnify the lenders with respect to certain potential environmental liabilities related to the 56 Marietta Project.

The lenders may require the respective borrowers to make mandatory principal reduction payments of $6,000,000 for the Colo Properties Mortgage Loan and $2,000,000 for each of the CP Atlanta Mezzanine A Loan and the CP Atlanta II Mezzanine B Loan (the “Mandatory Repayments”) if (i) our leverage ratio (ratio of total debt to total assets) exceeds fifty percent (50%) or (ii) the revenue derived from the 56 Marietta Project for a quarter declines by more than fifteen percent (15%) from the previous quarter.

The loan agreements for the 56 Marietta Loans contain affirmative and restrictive covenants of the borrowers, including covenants to maintain single purpose entity status and certain operating and leasing covenants and restrictions with respect to the 56 Marietta Project.

Our guaranties include covenants by us to maintain a net worth of at least $25,000,000 and a leverage ratio (ratio of total debt to total assets) of no more than fifty percent (50%).

The events of default under each of the 56 Marietta Loans include payment defaults; failure to pay taxes or certain other charges; breaches of representations, warranties or covenants; cross defaults to certain other indebtedness or material contracts; failure to maintain certain insurance policies; failure to maintain a bankruptcy-remote structure; failure to cooperate with the lenders in a securitization of the loans; failure to obtain or maintain certain interest rate protection agreements; insolvency related proceedings; attempting to assign the loan agreements; and our failure to maintain a required net worth threshold. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the termination of the lenders’ obligation to make loans, acceleration of the loan parties’ obligations under the loan agreements, an increase in the interest rate, and foreclosure on the mortgaged property and other collateral.

We are required by the 56 Marietta Loan agreements to manage the interest rate risk on the 56 Marietta Loans. Each of the borrowing entities under the 56 Marietta Loans entered into interest rate cap agreements to lock in a maximum cost of funds for its respective loan. As required by the 56 Marietta Loan documents, three rate cap agreements have been procured and maintained that provide for a LIBOR cap rate of 6.5% with respect to the full principal amount of each of the 56 Marietta Loans. The current agreements expire on March 15, 2011. The effect of the arrangements is to reduce interest rate risks and to manage interest expense by placing a cap on the interest rate payable under the loans. Each of the borrowing entities under the 56 Marietta Loans has assigned as collateral its interests under the interest rate cap agreements for the benefit of the respective lenders of the 56 Marietta Loans.

In September 2007, telx—New York Holdings, LLC (our wholly owned subsidiary) and three of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “New York Borrowers”) entered into a senior secured credit agreement with CIT Lending Services Corporation (“CIT”), as agent, and certain lenders. The credit agreement initially permitted the New York Borrowers to borrow up to $31,000,000, comprised of a $25,000,000 term loan and a $6,000,000 revolving credit facility (including letters of credit). In March 2009, the New York Borrowers amended and restated the credit agreement to provide for an additional $15,000,000 of term loan borrowings. In June and September 2009, the New York Borrowers entered into amendments to the credit agreement, under which the lenders extended certain deadlines to request further expansions to the facility, among other things.

On October 9, 2009, the New York Borrowers entered into another amendment to the credit agreement to further increase the permitted term loan borrowings by $10,000,000. The credit agreement now permits the New York Borrowers to borrow up to $56,000,000, in total principal amount. As of December 31, 2009, $43,993,995 in term loans and $6,000,000 in revolving loans and letters of credit were outstanding under the credit agreement. As permitted by the credit agreement, telx – New York Holdings, LLC has distributed approximately $48,795,217 of the total borrowings to us, which we have used, or reserved for use, as expansion capital and for other corporate purposes. All outstanding amounts under the revolving loan facility will be due and payable December 30, 2011. All outstanding amounts under the term loan will be due and payable on December 30, 2011.

The New York Borrowers’ obligations under the credit facility are secured by a pledge of substantially all their personal property.

The non-default interest rates for the loans under the credit agreement are determined either by (i) LIBOR (for the applicable interest period) plus the applicable margin (a “LIBOR Loan”), or at our election, (ii) a prime-based rate (equal to the greatest of (a) the Federal Funds effective rate plus 0.50%, (b) the prime rate published in the Wall Street Journal and (c) LIBOR (using a one-month period) based rate plus 1.0%), plus the applicable margin (a “Base Rate Loan”). The applicable margin is 5.25% for a Base Rate Loan and 6.25% for a LIBOR Loan. The credit agreement provides for an interest rate floor of 2.75%. Under the credit facility, the New York Borrowers are required to pay annually an unused revolving commitment fee of 0.50% times the amount by which the revolving loan commitment exceeds the average daily balance of the outstanding revolving loans and letters of credit. The New York Borrowers are also required to pay CIT, an annual administrative management fee of either $35,000 or $50,000, depending on the number of lenders then party to the credit agreement.

The credit agreement provides for certain mandatory principal prepayments, including certain payments if the New York Borrowers’ cash flow exceeds certain levels. We made $500,000, $1,900,000, $2,500,000 and $3,700,000 excess cash flow payments in August 2008, February 2009, August 2009 and February 2010, respectively.

The credit agreement contains restrictive covenants, including financial covenants requiring the New York Borrowers, collectively, to maintain a maximum leverage ratio and a minimum fixed charge coverage and interest coverage ratios. The credit agreement restricts the New York Borrowers’ ability to, among other things, pay dividends, incur debt, grant liens, make investments, merge with or acquire other companies, sell assets or enter into affiliate transactions. The negative covenants in the credit agreement are subject to certain exceptions described in the agreement. We are in compliance with the covenants of the credit agreement as of March 15, 2010.

The events of default under the credit facility include payment defaults; breaches of representations, warranties or covenants; cross defaults to certain other indebtedness; challenging the validity or enforceability of the credit agreement and related documents; insolvency related proceedings; judgments for the payment of money; losses with respect to any pledged collateral in excess of $1,000,000 not covered by insurance; certain ERISA events; and changes of control. Under the terms of the credit agreement, a change of control is deemed to occur if (a) GI Partners ceases to own or control at least 66²/3% of our voting securities, subject to certain exceptions, (b) the composition of our board of directors changes such that GI Partners controls less than a majority of our board of directors or (c) all or substantially all of any of the New York Borrowers assets are sold or transferred. The occurrence of an event of default could result in the termination of the lenders’ obligation to make loans, acceleration of the New York Borrowers’ obligations under the credit agreement, an increase in the interest rate, a requirement to post cash collateral to secure outstanding letter of credit obligations, and foreclosure on the New York Borrowers’ pledged assets.

As required by the credit agreement, the New York Borrowers have entered into certain interest rate hedging agreements to reduce interest rate risks and to manage interest expense. These hedging agreements hedge the interest rate with respect to at least 50% of the principal amount of the term loan under the credit agreement.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. Future sales of substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market could adversely affect the prevailing price of our common stock from time to time or impair our ability to raise equity capital in the future.

Upon completion of this offering, we will have outstanding an aggregate of shares of common stock, assuming the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock into common stock immediately prior to the closing of this offering and assuming no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and no exercise of outstanding options or warrants. Of these shares, all of the shares sold in this offering by us and the selling stockholders, plus any shares sold upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option, will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, unless these shares are purchased by affiliates. The remaining shares of common stock held by existing stockholders are “restricted securities” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act or are subject to the contractual restrictions described below. Restricted securities may be sold in the public market only if registered or if the transaction qualifies for an exemption from registration described below under Rules 144 or 701 promulgated under the Securities Act.

“Restricted” shares and shares subject to the contractual restrictions described below will be available for sale in the public market as follows:

In addition, of the shares of our common stock that were subject to stock options outstanding as of March 1, 2010, options to purchase 58,091 shares of common stock were vested as of March 1, 2010 and will be eligible for sale 180 days following the effective date of this offering. In addition, as of March 1, 2010, warrants to purchase 1,000 shares of our common stock with a weighted average exercise price of $40.00 were outstanding (excluding warrants without any economic value).

Certain of our officers, directors and stockholders, who together hold % of our outstanding common stock as of , 2010, have agreed, subject to certain exceptions, not to offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right, or warrant to purchase, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of our common stock or any securities convertible into shares or exercisable or exchangeable for shares of our common stock, or enter into any swap or other arrangement for transfer to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of our common stock, for a period of at least 180 days after the date of this prospectus. Transfers or dispositions can be made sooner only in certain circumstances or with the prior written consent of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. may release any of the shares subject to these lock-up agreements at any time without notice.

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, a person (or persons whose shares are aggregated) who is not deemed to have been an affiliate of ours at any time during the three months preceding a sale, and who has beneficially owned restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144 for at least six months (including any period of consecutive ownership of preceding non-affiliated holders) would be entitled to sell those shares, subject only to

the availability of current public information about us. A non-affiliated person who has beneficially owned restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144 for at least one year would be entitled to sell those shares without regard to the provisions of Rule 144.

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, our affiliates or persons selling shares on behalf of our affiliates are entitled to sell upon expiration of the lock-up agreements described above, within any three-month period beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:

Sales under Rule 144 by our affiliates or persons selling shares on behalf of our affiliates are also subject to certain manner of sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about us.

Rule 701 of the Securities Act, as currently in effect, permits any of our employees, officers, directors, consultants or advisors who purchase or receive shares from us pursuant to a written compensatory plan or contract to resell such shares in reliance upon Rule 144, but without compliance with certain restrictions. Subject to any applicable lock-up agreements, Rule 701 provides that affiliates may sell their Rule 701 shares under Rule 144 beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus without complying with the holding period requirement of Rule 144 and that non-affiliates may sell such shares in reliance on Rule 144 beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus without complying with the holding period, public information, volume limitation or notice requirements of Rule 144.

Upon completion of this offering, the holders of an aggregate of shares of our common stock, or their transferees, will be entitled to rights with respect to the registration of their shares under the Securities Act. Registration of these shares under the Securities Act would result in these shares becoming freely tradable without restriction under the Securities Act immediately upon the effectiveness of such registration.

Following the completion of this offering, we intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register the shares of our common stock that are issuable pursuant to our equity incentive plans. See the section entitled “Management—Equity Benefit Plans.” Subject to the lock-up agreements described above, other contractual lock-up obligations set forth in the grant agreements under each such plan and any applicable vesting restrictions, shares registered under these registration statements will be available for resale in the public market immediately upon the effectiveness of these registration statements, except with respect to Rule 144 volume limitations that apply to our affiliates.

The following is a general discussion of material U.S. federal income and estate tax considerations relating to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of our common stock that may be relevant to holders who hold shares of our common stock as capital assets. This discussion is based on currently existing provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), existing and proposed Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, and administrative and judicial interpretations thereof, all as in effect or proposed on the date hereof and all of which are subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect, or different interpretations.

This discussion is for general information only and does not address all of the tax considerations that may be relevant to specific holders in light of their particular circumstances or to holders subject to special treatment under U.S. federal tax laws (such as certain financial institutions, regulated investment companies, real estate investment trusts, partnerships or other pass-through entities, insurance companies, tax-exempt entities, retirement plans, brokers or dealers in securities, traders in securities that elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for their securities holdings, persons liable for alternative minimum tax, persons owning, actually or constructively, 10% or more of our stock for United States federal income tax purposes, expatriates, persons who hold our common stock as part of a straddle, hedge, conversion transaction or other risk-reduction or integrated investment, controlled foreign corporations, passive foreign investment companies, foreign personal holding companies, companies that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, taxpayers whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar, and persons who hold or receive our common stock as compensation).

This discussion does not address the U.S. state and local or non-U.S. tax considerations relating to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of our common stock.

As used in this discussion, the term “U.S. holder” means a beneficial owner of our common stock that is for U.S. federal income tax purposes:

The term “non-U.S. holder” means a beneficial owner of our common stock that is not a U.S. holder.

An individual may, subject to certain exceptions, be deemed to be a resident of the United States for a calendar year by reason of being present in the United States for at least 31 days in such calendar year and for an aggregate of at least 183 days during a three-year period ending with such current calendar year (counting for such purposes all of the days present in such current calendar year, one-third of the days present in the immediately preceding calendar year, and one-sixth of the days present in the second preceding calendar year).

If a partnership (including an entity or arrangement treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes) holds our common stock, the tax treatment of a partner will generally depend on the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. If you are a partner of a partnership holding our common stock, we suggest that you consult your own tax advisor as to the particular U.S. federal income and estate tax consequences applicable to you.

Prospective purchasers are urged to consult their own tax advisors as to the particular tax considerations applicable to them relating to the acquisition, ownership and disposition of our common stock, including the applicability of U.S. federal, state or local tax laws or non-U.S. tax laws, any changes in applicable tax laws and any pending or proposed legislation or regulations.

Dividends paid on shares of our common stock will be treated as dividends for United States federal income tax purposes to the extent they are paid by us out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits and will be includible in gross income by a U.S. holder upon receipt. To the extent that the amount of any dividend paid on shares of our common stock exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits, such excess will be treated first as a return of capital, which will be applied against and reduce your adjusted tax basis (but not below zero) in such shares of our common stock. This reduction in tax basis will increase any gain, or reduce any loss, realized by you on a subsequent sale, exchange or other disposition of such shares. To the extent that the amount of any dividend paid on shares of our common stock exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits, the portion of such excess that is not treated as a return of capital will be taxed as capital gain.

Under current law, any dividend paid will be eligible for the dividends-received deduction, if received by a qualifying corporate U.S. holder that meets the holding period and other requirements for the dividends-received deduction. If you are an individual, dividends received by you on a share of our common stock will generally be subject to a reduced maximum United States federal income tax rate of 15% for taxable years beginning prior to January 1, 2011, after which the rate applicable to dividends is scheduled to return to the tax rate generally applicable to ordinary income. To qualify for such reduced rate, you must have held the shares of common stock for more than 60 days during the 121-day period beginning 60 days prior to the ex-dividend date.

In general, for purposes of meeting the holding period requirements for both the dividends-received deduction and the reduced maximum tax rate on dividends described above, you may not count towards your holding period any period in which you (a) have the option to sell, are under a contractual obligation to sell, or have made (and not closed) a short sale of shares of our common stock or substantially identical stock or securities, (b) are the grantor of an option to buy shares of our common stock or substantially identical stock or securities or (c) otherwise have diminished your risk of loss by holding one or more positions with respect to substantially similar or related property. United States Treasury Regulations provide that a taxpayer has diminished its risk of loss on stock by holding a position in substantially similar or related property if the taxpayer is the beneficiary of a guarantee, surety agreement or similar arrangement that provides for payments that will substantially offset decreases in the fair market value of the stock. In addition, the Code disallows the dividends-received deduction as well as eligibility for the reduced maximum tax rate on dividends if the recipient of a dividend is obligated to make related payments with respect to positions in substantially similar or related property. This disallowance applies even if the minimum holding period has been met. You are advised to consult your own tax advisor regarding the implications of these rules in light of your particular circumstances.

If you are a corporation, you should consider the effect of Section 246A of the Code, which reduces the dividends-received deduction allowed with respect to “debt-financed portfolio stock.” The Code also imposes a 20% alternative minimum tax on corporations. In some circumstances, a portion of dividends subject to the dividends-received deduction will serve to increase a corporation’s minimum tax base for purposes of the alternative minimum tax. In addition, a corporate shareholder may be required to reduce its tax basis in stock with respect to certain “extraordinary dividends”, as provided under Section 1059 of the Code, and individual United States holders will be subject to special rules in the event that they receive “extraordinary dividends” that are subject to the reduced maximum rate of tax for dividends. You should consult your own tax advisor in determining the application of these rules in light of your particular circumstances.

Upon a sale, exchange or other disposition of our common stock, a U.S. holder will recognize capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between the amount realized on the sale, exchange or other disposition and such U.S. holder’s adjusted tax basis in the share of our common stock. Such gain or loss will be capital gain

or loss and will be long-term capital gain or loss if your holding period for such share of our common stock exceeds one year. Under current law, if you are an individual, net long-term capital gain realized by you is subject to a reduced tax rate for United States federal income tax purposes of 15%. This rate is currently scheduled to increase after 2010. The deduction of capital losses is subject to limitations.

In general, dividends on our common stock and payments of the proceeds of a sale, exchange or other disposition of our common stock paid to a U.S. holder may be subject to information reporting. Certain U.S. holders may be subject to backup withholding tax (currently at a rate of 28% through 2010) on payments made on or with respect to our common stock if such U.S. holder fails to supply a correct taxpayer identification number or otherwise fails to comply with applicable U.S. information reporting or certification requirements. Certain persons are exempt from backup withholding including, in certain circumstances, corporations and financial institutions.

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules from a payment to a U.S. holder will be allowed as a refund or a credit against such U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided that the required information is furnished to the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”). U.S. holders should consult their own tax advisors regarding the filing of a U.S. tax return for claiming a refund of such backup withholding.

We or a withholding agent will have to withhold U.S. federal withholding tax from the gross amount of any dividends paid to a non-U.S. holder at a rate of 30%, unless (a) an applicable income tax treaty reduces or eliminates such tax, and a non-U.S. holder claiming the benefit of such treaty provides to us or such agent proper IRS documentation, or (b) the dividends are effectively connected with a non-U.S. holder’s conduct of a trade or business in the United States and the non-U.S. holder provides to us or such agent proper IRS documentation. In the latter case, such non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax, net of certain deductions, at the same graduated individual and corporate rates applicable to U.S. persons. A distribution will constitute a dividend for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent of our current or accumulated earnings and profits as determined under the Code. Any distribution not constituting a dividend will be treated first as reducing your basis in your shares of common stock and, to the extent it exceeds your basis, as capital gain.

Additionally, a non-U.S. holder that is a corporation could be subject to a branch profits tax on effectively connected dividend income at a rate of 30% (or at a reduced rate under an applicable income tax treaty). Dividends that are effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business but that under an applicable income tax treaty are not attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment maintained by you may be eligible for a reduced rate of U.S. withholding tax under such treaty, provided you comply with certification and disclosure requirements necessary to obtain treaty benefits.

In addition, where dividends are paid to a non-U.S. holder that is a partnership or other pass-through entity, persons holding an interest in the entity may need to provide certification claiming an exemption or reduction in withholding under an applicable income tax treaty. If a non-U.S. holder is eligible for a reduced rate of U.S. federal withholding tax pursuant to an income tax treaty, such non-U.S. holder may obtain a refund of any excess amount withheld by filing an appropriate claim for refund with the IRS.

Generally, a non-U.S. holder will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on gain realized upon the sale, exchange or other disposition of our common stock unless:

If the first exception applies, the non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at a rate of 30% (or at a reduced rate under an applicable income tax treaty) on the amount by which capital gains allocable to U.S. sources (including gains from the sale, exchange or other disposition of our common stock) exceed capital losses allocable to U.S. sources. If the second or third exception applies, the non-U.S. holder generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax with respect to such gain in the same manner as a U.S. citizen or corporation, as applicable, unless otherwise provided in an applicable income tax treaty, and a non-U.S. holder that is a corporation could also be subject to a branch profits tax on such gain at a rate of 30% (or at a reduced rate under an applicable income tax treaty). If the gain from the sale or disposition of your shares is effectively connected with your conduct of a trade or business in the United States but under an applicable income tax treaty is not attributable to a permanent establishment you maintain in the United States, your gain may be exempt from U.S. tax under the treaty.

We must report annually to the IRS the amount of dividends or other distributions we pay to you on your shares of common stock and the amount of tax we withhold on these distributions regardless of whether withholding is required. The IRS may make copies of the information returns reporting those distributions and amounts withheld available to the tax authorities in the country in which you reside pursuant to the provisions of an applicable income tax treaty or exchange of information treaty. Backup withholding tax (at a rate equal to 28% through 2010 and 31% after 2010) may also apply to payments made to a non-U.S. holder on or with respect to our common stock, unless the non-U.S. holder certifies as to its status as a non-U.S. holder under penalties of perjury or otherwise establishes an exemption, and certain other conditions are satisfied.

Information reporting and backup withholding generally are not required with respect to the amount of any proceeds from the sale of your shares of common stock outside the United States through a foreign office of a foreign broker that does not have certain specified connections to the United States. However, if you sell your shares of common stock through a U.S. broker or the U.S. office of a foreign broker, the broker will be required to report the amount of proceeds paid to you to the IRS and also perform backup withholding on that amount unless you provide appropriate certification to the broker of your status as a non-U.S. holder or you otherwise establish an exemption. Information reporting will also apply if you sell your shares of common stock through a foreign broker deriving more than a specified percentage of its income from U.S. sources or having certain other connections to the United States, unless such broker has documenting evidence in its records that you are a non-U.S. holder and certain other conditions are met or you otherwise establish an exemption.

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules from a payment to a non-U.S. holder will be allowed as a refund or a credit against such non-U.S. holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, if any, provided that the required information is furnished to the IRS. Non-U.S. holders should consult their own tax advisors regarding the filing of a U.S. tax return for claiming a refund of such backup withholding.

Common stock owned or treated as owned by an individual who is not a citizen or resident (as defined for U.S. federal estate tax purposes) of the United States at the time of his or her death generally will be included in the individual’s gross estate for U.S. federal estate tax purposes and therefore may be subject to U.S. federal estate tax unless an applicable estate tax treaty provides otherwise. Under current law for 2010 only, there is no U.S. federal estate tax. There is a possibility, however, of the retroactive reinstatement of the U.S. federal estate tax for 2010. Under current law, in 2011, the U.S. federal estate tax will be fully reinstated.

The company, the selling stockholders and the underwriters named below have entered into an underwriting agreement with respect to the shares being offered. Subject to certain conditions, each underwriter has severally agreed to purchase the number of shares indicated in the following table. Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are the representatives of the underwriters.

The underwriters are committed to take and pay for all of the shares being offered, if any are taken, other than the shares covered by the option described below unless and until this option is exercised.

If the underwriters sell more shares than the total number set forth in the table above, the underwriters have an option to buy up to additional shares from the company and/or the selling stockholders. They may exercise that option for 30 days. If any shares are purchased pursuant to this option, the underwriters will severally purchase shares in approximately the same proportion as set forth in the table above.

The following tables show the per share and total underwriting discounts and commissions to be paid to the underwriters by the company and the selling stockholders. Such amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares.

Shares sold by the underwriters to the public will initially be offered at the initial public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus. Any shares sold by the underwriters to securities dealers may be sold at a discount of up to $ per share from the initial public offering price. If all the shares are not sold at the initial public offering price, the representatives may change the offering price and the other selling terms. The offering of the shares by the underwriters is subject to receipt and acceptance and subject to the underwriters’ right to reject any order in whole or in part.

The company and its officers, directors, and holders of substantially all of the company’s common stock, including the selling stockholders, have agreed with the underwriters, subject to certain exceptions, not to dispose of or hedge any of their common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock during the period from the date of this prospectus continuing through the date 180 days after the date of this prospectus, except with the prior written consent of the representatives. This agreement does not apply to any existing equity incentive plans, securities issued upon the exercise of options or upon the exercise, conversion or exchange of exercisable, convertible or exchangeable securities outstanding as of the date hereof, issuances of

securities in connection with mergers or acquisitions we may make in an aggregate amount not to exceed 5% of our fully diluted stock outstanding after the closing of this offering and other customary exceptions. See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” for a discussion of certain transfer restrictions.

The 180-day restricted period described in the preceding paragraph will be automatically extended if: (1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day restricted period the company issues an earnings release or announces material news or a material event; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the company announces that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the 180-day period, in which case the restrictions described in the preceding paragraph will continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the announcement of the material news or material event.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the shares. The initial public offering price has been negotiated among the company and the representatives. Among the factors to be considered in determining the initial public offering price of the shares, in addition to prevailing market conditions, will be the company’s historical performance, estimates of the business potential and earnings prospects of the company, an assessment of the company’s management and the consideration of the above factors in relation to market valuation of companies in related businesses.

An application has been made to quote the common stock on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “TELX”.

In connection with this offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell shares of common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, stabilizing transactions and purchases to cover positions created by short sales. Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in this offering. “Covered” short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares from the company and/or the selling stockholders in this offering. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their option to purchase additional shares or purchasing shares in the open market. In determining the source of shares to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase additional shares pursuant to the option granted to them. “Naked” short sales are any sales in excess of such option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the common stock in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in this offering. Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of common stock made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of this offering.

The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representatives have repurchased shares sold by or for the account of such underwriter in stabilizing or short covering transactions.

Purchases to cover a short position and stabilizing transactions, as well as other purchases by the underwriters for their own accounts, may have the effect of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the company’s stock, and together with the imposition of the penalty bid, may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market price of the common stock. As a result, the price of the common stock may be higher than the price that otherwise might exist in the open market. If these activities are commenced, they may be discontinued at any time. These transactions may be effected on The Nasdaq Global Market, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a Relevant Member State), each underwriter has represented and agreed that with effect from

and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State (the Relevant Implementation Date) it has not made and will not make an offer of shares to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the shares which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of shares to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of shares to the public” in relation to any shares in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the shares to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe for the shares, as the same may be varied in that Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State and the expression Prospectus Directive means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

The shares may not be offered or sold by means of any document other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), (ii) to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a “prospectus” within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), and no advertisement, invitation or document relating to the shares may be issued or may be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to shares which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder.

This prospectus has not been registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Accordingly, this prospectus and any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the shares may not be circulated or distributed, nor may the shares be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, whether directly or

indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore (the “SFA”), (ii) to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.

Where the shares are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 by a relevant person which is: (a) a corporation (which is not an accredited investor) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or (b) a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary is an accredited investor, shares, debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or the beneficiaries’ rights and interest in that trust shall not be transferable for 6 months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the shares under Section 275 except: (1) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the SFA or to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA; (2) where no consideration is given for the transfer; or (3) by operation of law.

The securities have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law of Japan (the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law) and each underwriter has agreed that it will not offer or sell any securities, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used herein means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan), or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to a resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law and any other applicable laws, regulations and ministerial guidelines of Japan.

The underwriters do not expect sales to discretionary accounts to exceed five percent of the total number of shares offered.

The company and the selling stockholders estimate that their share of the total expenses of this offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $ .

The company and the selling stockholders have agreed to indemnify the several underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act.

Certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates have, from time to time, performed, and may in the future perform, various financial advisory and investment banking services for the company, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses. In particular, the affiliates of each of RBC Capital Markets Corporation and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc. are lenders under the company’s revolving credit facility and term loan and have received and will receive fees from the company.

Certain legal matters with respect to the validity of the shares of common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, LLP, New York, New York. Certain legal matters in connection with this offering will be passed upon for the underwriters by Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, New York.

The consolidated financial statements and schedule of The Telx Group, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2009, have been included herein and in the registration statement in reliance upon the report of KPMG LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, appearing elsewhere herein, and upon the authority of such firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act with respect to the shares of common stock we are offering under this prospectus. As permitted under the rules and regulations of the SEC, this prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and exhibits and schedules to the registration statement. You should refer to the registration statement and its exhibits and schedule for additional information. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract, agreement or any other document referred to are not necessarily complete, and in each instance, we refer you to the copy of the contract, agreement or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. Each of these statements is qualified in all respects by this reference.

Copies of the registration statement, including its exhibits and schedule, may be examined without charge at the Public Reference Room of the SEC, 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Information about the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0300. Copies of all or a portion of the registration statement may be obtained from the Public Reference Room of the SEC upon payment of prescribed fees. Our SEC filings, including our registration statement are also available to you, free of charge, on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Upon completion of this offering, we will be subject to the information and reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and we will file reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. We will make available to our stockholders annual reports containing financial statements audited by our independent registered public accounting firm and quarterly reports for the first three quarters of each fiscal year containing unaudited interim financial information.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of The Telx Group, Inc. and subsidiaries (“the Company”) as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the related consolidated statements of operations, stockholders’ equity and comprehensive loss, and cash flows for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2009. In connection with our audits of the consolidated financial statements, we also have audited the consolidated financial statement schedule II. These consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and the consolidated financial statement schedule based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of The Telx Group, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the three year period ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Also in our opinion, the related financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

The Telx Group, Inc. (the Company) operates secure, environmentally controlled facilities in which network providers and bandwidth consumers place their equipment and converge their networks to conduct business with each other (Interconnection Services). As of December 31, 2009, the Company operated leased facilities throughout the United States of America and owns and operates a building in Atlanta, Georgia. The Company’s customers include international and domestic telecommunication companies, Internet service providers, media companies, and enterprises.

The Company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on August 3, 2000 as CSP Holdings, Inc. (CSP). On December 1, 2000, CSP acquired certain assets of Telx Communications Corporation (renamed CRO Corp.) and began operations as Telx. In May 2004, the Company purchased a 12-story interconnection/datacenter facility in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and related customer leases and contracts, leasehold improvements, time deposits, and all intellectual property. In September 2006, the holders of the Company’s common stock and Class A Preferred Stock approved and adopted an agreement and plan of merger by and among the Company, GI Partners Fund II, L.P. (GI Fund II), GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P. (Side Fund II and together with GI Fund II, the GI Partners Funds), and a wholly owned subsidiary of the GI Partners Funds created specifically for the merger. On October 3, 2006, the wholly owned subsidiary of the GI Partners Funds merged into the Company and the Company was the surviving entity (the GI Transaction). In connection with this transaction, the GI Partners Funds issued a $98,000 demand note to the Company, which bore an interest rate of 10% per annum and had a maximum one year term. In 2007, this loan was fully repaid with proceeds of debt financing (see Note 10).

Prior to December 1, 2006, the Company’s operating facilities included leased premises at 60 Hudson Street in New York, New York and the Company’s owned building at 56 Marietta Street in Atlanta, Georgia. Effective December 1, 2006, the Company entered into lease agreements with affiliates of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (Digital Realty Trust), under which the Company’s subsidiaries leased space in certain buildings owned by Digital Realty Trust or its affiliates (the Digital Realty Trust Transaction). Under the terms of each lease agreement, the Company’s subsidiaries became the exclusive Interconnection Services provider for the building covered by such lease and the existing Interconnection customer agreements were assigned by Digital Realty Trust to the Company. Pursuant to this transaction, the Company leases and operates interconnection area facilities in the following Digital Realty Trust properties: 300 JFK Boulevard East, Weehawken, NJ; 113 North Myers Street, Charlotte, NC; 36 NE 2nd Street, Miami, FL; 350 East Cermak Road, Chicago, IL; 600 South Federal, Chicago, IL; 2323 Bryan Street, Dallas, TX; 200 Paul Avenue, San Francisco, CA; 600 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, CA; 1100 Space Park Drive, Santa Clara, CA, and; 120 East Van Buren Street, Phoenix, AZ (see Note 18).

On March 15, 2007, Telx – New York 111 8th, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company formed specifically for the purpose, entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire certain assets and assume certain related liabilities of NYC Connect, LLC located at 111 8th Avenue, New York, New York. The purchase price was $45,190 and was funded through the sale of $50,000 of additional Series A Preferred Stock to the GI Partners Funds (see Note 5).

Various additional leases were entered into during the normal course of business in 2007, 2008 and 2009 to expand the Company’s business operations (see Note 18).

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). The following is a summary of significant accounting policies used in the preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. The consolidated financial statements reflect the balances and results of operations of NYC Connect, LLC (acquired by Telx-New York 111 8th, LLC) from the acquisition date in March 2007 (see Note 5).

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements requires management of the Company to make a number of estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Significant items subject to such estimates and assumptions include the carrying amount of property and equipment, goodwill and intangible assets, valuation allowances for receivables, stock based payments, and deferred income taxes. These estimates and assumptions are based on management’s best estimate and judgment. Management evaluates its estimates and assumptions on an on-going basis using historical experience and other factors, including the current economic environment, which management believes to be reasonable under the circumstances. The Company adjusts such estimates and assumptions when facts and circumstances dictate. Illiquid credit markets, volatile equity markets, and declines in consumer spending have combined to increase the uncertainty inherent in such estimates and assumptions. As future events and their effects cannot be determined with precision, actual results could differ significantly from these estimates. Changes in those estimates resulting from continuing changes in the economic environment will be reflected in the financial statements in future periods.

The Company considers all highly liquid investments with original maturity of three months or less from date of purchase to be cash equivalents. Cash equivalents consist of money market instruments.

Restricted cash represents deposits maintained with financial institutions as collateral for open letters of credit issued on behalf of the Company for certain operating leases and as collateral for its debt (see Note 10). The availability of the funds in those accounts is subject to restrictions for specific use. Deposit amounts held as collateral for debt obligations can vary on an ongoing basis and may require annual budget approval by the lender. The Company’s restricted cash balances were $4,694 and $4,713 as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively, and are reflected as Cash-restricted in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash, cash equivalents, and accounts receivable. The Company maintains cash and cash equivalents primarily with one financial institution, and such deposits may exceed federal deposit insurance limits.

The Company’s customers are concentrated in the United States of America. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and requires collateral from some customers where considered appropriate. Collateral is in the form of customer deposits, payments for services are generally due on the first day of the month to which services relate, and standard customer contracts contain a right to retain customer equipment in case of nonpayment of an accounts receivable balance.

For the years ended December 31, 2009 , 2008 and 2007, the top five customers accounted for 15%, 19% and 17% of revenues, respectively, and only one customer accounted for more than 5% of revenues or accounts receivable, respectively. No customer accounted for more than 10% of revenues or accounts receivables in any of these periods.

At December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008, the Company’s New York City operations accounted for 58% and 58% of the accounts receivable, respectively, and for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, the Company generated 53%, 56% and 55% of its revenues from the New York City operations, respectively.

As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had outstanding commitments of $135,530 and $113,939 due to lenders. These commitments are primarily for the Company’s mortgage and term loan (see Note 10). As described above, the Company leases ten of its facilities from Digital Realty Trust, which represents the major commitments under operating leases (see Note 18).

Receivables are stated net of the allowance for doubtful accounts of $578 and $349 as of December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively. The Company extends credit to its customers in the normal course of business. The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts to reserve for potentially uncollectible trade receivables. Bad debt is provided for on the allowance method based on historical experience and management’s periodic evaluation of outstanding accounts receivable for each individual customer. Management analyzes accounts receivable, bankruptcy filings, historical bad debts, customer credit-worthiness, and changes in customer payment patterns when evaluating revenue recognition and the adequacy of the Company’s reserves. Actual results could differ from these estimates. Receivables are charged against their respective allowance accounts when deemed to be uncollectible.

The Company collects security deposits from certain customers based on a credit review of the customer. Security deposits are classified as short term when the underlying customer contract is scheduled to renew within the next twelve months or the customer contract has a month-to-month term.

Property and equipment are stated at cost or fair value at date of acquisition for acquired property and equipment. Depreciation is calculated when the asset is placed in service on the straight-line method

over the estimated useful lives of the assets as shown below. In the case of leasehold improvements, depreciation is calculated on the straight-line method over the shorter of the estimated useful life of the asset or the lease term. Maintenance and repairs are expensed as incurred.

Long-lived assets such as property and equipment, and purchased intangibles subject to amortization, are reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset to the estimated undiscounted future cash flows expected to be generated by the asset. If the carrying amount of an asset exceeds its estimated future cash flows, an impairment charge is recognized in the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset exceeds the fair value of the asset. The Company had no impairments of long-lived assets in any of the periods presented.

Goodwill represents the amount by which the purchase price, including acquisition costs, exceeds the fair value of identifiable tangible and intangible assets and liabilities acquired in a purchase business combination. The Company accounts for its goodwill and other intangible assets under Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) FASB ASC Topic 350-20 Goodwill and FASB ASC Topic 350-30 General Intangibles Other than Goodwill. Goodwill and intangible assets acquired in a purchase business combination and determined to have an indefinite useful life are not amortized, but instead are tested for impairment at least annually or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value amount of these assets might not be fully recoverable. The goodwill impairment test involves a two-step approach. The first step involves a comparison of the fair value of each of the reporting units with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds it fair value, the second step is performed. The second step involves a comparison of the implied fair value and carrying value of that reporting unit’s goodwill. To the extent that a reporting unit’s carrying amount exceeds the implied fair value of its goodwill, an impairment loss is recognized. Besides goodwill, the Company has no other intangible assets with indefinite lives. Intangible assets with estimable useful lives are amortized over their respective estimated useful lives, and reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. The Company completed its annual impairment reviews as of September 30, 2009, 2008 and 2007 and determined that no impairment charge was required.

Deferred financing fees represent the direct costs of the issuance of the UBS Mortgage Debt and the CIT Loans (see Note 10). The deferred financing fees are amortized over the term of the respective financing arrangement as additional interest expense. The gross and accumulated amortization of deferred financing fees approximated $2,785 and $1,486, respectively, as of December 31, 2009 and

$1,258 and $597, respectively, as of December 31, 2008. The increase in the gross balances represents additional costs associated with the amendments to the CIT Loan in April and October 2009. Interest expense related to the amortization of these costs were $1,017, $1,143 and $697 for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

The Company occupies all but one of its operating facilities and offices under various leases, which are accounted for as operating leases in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 840 Leases. The leases include scheduled base rent increases over the term of the leases. The Company recognizes rent expense from operating leases with periods of free and scheduled rent increases on a straight-line basis over the applicable lease term. The Company considers lease renewals when such renewals are reasonably assured. From time to time, the Company may receive construction allowances from its lessors. In accordance with the requirements of FASB ASC Topic 840, these amounts are recorded as deferred liabilities and amortized over the remaining lease term as an adjustment to rent expense.

In connection with the Digital Realty Trust Transaction, the Company issued an option to purchase the Company’s preferred stock to Digital Realty Trust. This option has been accounted for as a lease incentive. The grant date fair value of the option is being recognized as rent expense over the 20-year term of the Digital Realty Trust leases in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718 Compensation—Stock Compensation. This option expired unexercised on October 3, 2008.

The Company leases certain equipment under capital lease agreements. The assets held under capital leases and the related obligations are recorded at the lesser of the present value of aggregate future minimum lease payments, including estimated bargain purchase options, or the fair value of the assets held under capital lease. The related assets are depreciated over the shorter of the terms of the leases, or the estimated useful lives of the assets.

The Company accounts for stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, which requires that all stock-based compensation be recognized as an expense in the consolidated financial statements and that such cost be measured as the fair value of the award at the grant dates and also requires that any excess tax benefits related to stock-based compensation exercises be reflected as financing cash flows rather than operating cash flows.

The Company recognizes compensation costs on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period for the entire award. The Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model to determine the fair value of stock-based awards. The determination of the fair value of stock-based awards is based on a number of complex and subjective assumptions. These assumptions include the dividend yield of the underlying security, the expected volatility of the underlying security, a risk-free interest rate, the expected term of the option, and the forfeiture rate for the award class. The Company engaged a third-party independent valuation specialist to assist the Company in estimating the fair value of the underlying securities for all stock-based awards issued in 2009, 2008 and 2007.

If factors change and if the Company employs different assumptions for estimating stock-based compensation expense in future periods, or if it decides to use a different valuation model in the future, the expense in future periods may differ significantly from what has been recorded in the current period, which may materially affect operating results, net income or loss, and net income or loss per share of common stock.

Derivative instruments are recorded in the consolidated balance sheet as either assets or liabilities and measured at fair value. Changes in fair value are recognized in earnings. Pursuant to the UBS Mortgage Debt and the CIT Loans, the Company utilizes interest rate derivatives to manage its interest costs and its balancing of floating rate and fixed rate financings. The counterparties to these agreements in each case are financial institutions with credit ratings acceptable to the lenders. The interest rate differentials to be paid or received under such derivatives and the changes in the fair value of the instruments are recognized and recorded as adjustments to interest expense. The principle objectives of the derivative instruments are to minimize the risks and reduce the expenses associated with financing activities. The Company did not enter into derivative instruments for trading purposes.

A derivative is an instrument whose value is derived from an underlying instrument or index such as a future, forward, swap, option contract, or other financial instrument with similar characteristics, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, or embedded derivatives, and for hedging activities.

The Company has entered into interest rate cap agreements to lock in a maximum cost of funds for portions of its debt (Interest Rate Cap Agreement). These transactions did not meet the requirements to be accounted for as “hedging”. FASB ASC Topic 815 Derivatives and Hedging (including Hybrid Financial Instruments) establishes accounting and reporting standards for derivative instruments, including certain derivative instruments embedded in other contracts, (collectively referred to as derivatives) and for hedging activities. It requires that an entity recognize all derivatives as either assets or liabilities in the statement of financial position and measure those instruments at fair value. At December 31, 2009, the Company had assets of $50 representing the fair market value of such derivatives. The Company has not entered into derivatives for trading purposes (see Note 19(c)).

Advertising costs are charged to expense in the period incurred. Advertising costs for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 were $161, $176 and $196, respectively, and are included in sales and marketing expenses.

Income taxes are accounted for under the asset and liability method. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the consolidated statements of operations in the period that includes the enactment date.

The Company adopted new accounting principles on accounting for uncertain tax positions in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 740 Income Taxes, which prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken on a tax return. It requires that the Company determine whether the benefits of its tax positions will more likely than not be sustained upon audit based on the technical merits of its tax

position. Guidance is also provided on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, and disclosure. The adoption of this principal under FASB ASC Topic 740 resulted in no cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle being recorded on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The Company continued its policy of recognizing penalties and interest related to recognized tax positions, if any, as a component of income tax expense.

The Company generates recurring revenue from providing colocation and interconnection services. More than 90% of its revenues are provided from these recurring revenues. The remaining revenues are nonrecurring and consist of installation services and technical support.

Colocation services are generally governed by the terms and conditions of a master service agreement (MSA). Customers typically execute an MSA for one to three year terms. The Company bills customers on a monthly basis and recognizes the revenue as those services are performed over the term of the agreement. Installation services for colocation services are recognized on a straight-line basis over the average life of the customer relationship.

Interconnection services are generally provided on either a month-to-month or one or multi-year term under an arrangement separate from those services provided under colocation services. Interconnection services include port and cross connect services. Port services are typically sold on a one year or multi-year term and revenue is recognized in a manner similar to colocation services. Cross connect services are typically sold on a month-to-month basis. These interconnection services are considered as a separate earnings process that is provided and completed on a month-to-month basis. The Company bills customers on a monthly basis and recognizes the revenue in the period the service is provided. Installation service revenue for these cross connect services is recognized in the period when the installation is complete. The earning process from cross connect installation is culminated in the month the installation is complete.

Technical support services are provided on a time and materials basis and are billed and recognized in the period services are provided.

Revenue is recognized only when the service has been provided and when there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, the fee is fixed or determinable, and collection of the receivable is reasonably assured. The Company regularly assesses collectability of accounts receivable from customers based on a number of factors, including prior history with the customer and the credit status of the customer. If the Company determines that collection of revenue from a customer is not reasonably assured, the Company does not recognize revenue until collection becomes reasonably assured, which is generally upon receipt of cash. Sales tax collected from customers on certain services and products are remitted to the applicable taxing authorities and accounted for on a net basis with no impact on revenue.

Basic net loss per common share is computed by dividing net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common stock shares outstanding during the period less the weighted average of the unvested common shares subject to the right of repurchase. Diluted net loss per common share is computed by giving effect to all potential dilutive common shares, including options, common stock subject to repurchase, warrants and convertible preferred stock. Basic and dilutive net loss per common share was the same for all periods as the impact of potentially dilutive securities was anti-dilutive.

Certain prior year balances were reclassified to conform to current year presentation.

The Company manages its business as one reportable segment. Although the Company provides services in several locations throughout the United States, these operations are considered one reportable segment because the chief operating decision maker manages the business and allocates resources as a single reporting unit. The nature of the business activities in each of the Company’s facilities, including the type of products and services provided and the type of customers purchasing such services are substantially the same.

In March 2008, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging. FASB ASC Topic 815 enhances required disclosures regarding derivatives and hedging activities, including enhanced disclosures regarding how: (a) an entity uses derivative instruments; (b) derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for, and (c) derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. FASB ASC Topic 815 is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after November 15, 2008. Accordingly, the Company adopted FASB ASC Topic 815 beginning in fiscal 2009. The adoption of FASB ASC Topic 815 did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In April 2008, the FASB issued FASB ASC Topic 350-30 General Intangibles Other than Goodwill. FASB ASC Topic 350-30 amends the factors that should be considered in developing renewal or extension assumptions used to determine the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FASB ASC Topic 350-10. This change is intended to improve the consistency between the useful life of a recognized intangible asset under FASB ASC Topic 350-10 and the period of expected cash flows used to measure the fair value of the asset under FASB ASC Topic 805-10 and other US GAAP. The requirement for determining useful lives must be applied prospectively to intangible assets acquired after the effective date and the disclosure requirements must be applied prospectively to all intangible assets recognized as of, and subsequent to, the effective date. FASB ASC 350-30 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and interim periods within those fiscal years. The adoption of FASB ASC Topic 350-30 did not have a significant impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Effective January 1, 2009, the Company adopted the remaining provisions of FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, related to fair-value measurements of certain nonfinancial assets and liabilities. The adoption of the remaining provisions of FASB ASC Topic 820 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

financial statements, and the disclosures that an entity should make about events or transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date. The new guidance is effective for fiscal years and interim periods ended after June 15, 2009 and will be applied prospectively. The adoption of the new guidance did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The Company evaluated subsequent events through the date the accompanying consolidated financial statements were issued, which was March 18, 2010.

In August 2009, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2009-05, Measuring Liabilities at Fair Value (ASU 2009-05). ASU 2009-05 amends FASB ASC Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures, by providing additional guidance clarifying the measurement of liabilities at fair value. ASU 2009-05 applies to the fair value measurement of liabilities within the scope of FASB ASC Topic 820 and addresses several key issues with respect to estimating fair value of liabilities. Among other things, ASU 2009-05 clarifies how the price of a traded debt security (an asset value) should be considered in estimating the fair value of the issuer’s liability. ASU 2009-05 is effective for the first reporting period beginning after its issuance. The adoption of ASU 2009-05 did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In September 2009, the Company adopted FASB ASC Topic 105, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. FASB ASC Topic 105 establishes the FASB Accounting Standards Codification^TM (Codification) to become the source of authoritative U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP) recognized by the FASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities. Rules and interpretive releases of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under authority of federal securities laws are also sources of authoritative U.S. GAAP for SEC registrants. FASB ASC Topic 105 and the Codification are effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In October 2009, the FASB issued ASU No. 2009-13, Multiple-Deliverable Revenue Arrangements. ASU 2009-13 supersedes certain guidance in FASB ASC Topic 605-25, Multiple-Element Arrangements and requires an entity to allocate arrangement consideration at the inception of an arrangement to all of its deliverables based on their relative selling prices (the relative-selling-price method). ASU 2009-13 eliminates the use of the residual method of allocation in which the undelivered element is measured at its estimated selling price and the delivered element is measured as the residual of the arrangement consideration, and requires the relative-selling-price method in all circumstances in which an entity recognizes revenue for an arrangement with multiple deliverables subject to ASU 2009-13. ASU 2009-13 must be adopted no later than the beginning of the first fiscal year beginning on or after June 15, 2010, with early adoption permitted through either prospective application for revenue arrangement entered into, or materially modified, after the effective date or through retrospective application to all revenue arrangement for all periods presented. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU 2009-13 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In January 2010, the FASB issued ASU No. 2010-06 Improving Disclosures about Fair Value Measurements (ASU 2010-06), which amends the use of fair value measures and the related disclosures. ASU 2010-06 requires new disclosures for transfers in and out of Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurements. ASU 2010-06 is effective for financial statements issued for interim and annual periods ending after December 15, 2009. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In connection with the GI Transaction, the Company entered into a management agreement with GI Manager L.P. (GI Manager) for transaction advisory, financial and management consulting services for a term of five years. The base fees for the services are determined by the board of directors during the first calendar month of each year of the term and are paid monthly. The board of the Company set the fees at $750 for the first year of the term; however, these fees were waived by GI Manager L.P. for 2009, 2008, and 2007. In addition to the base fees, under the management agreement, the Company is required to pay a transaction closing fee of 1% (prior to March 2010) of the transaction value for a variety of financial transactions and additional fees if the Company conducts an initial public offering. In the period ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, the Company paid $0, $0 and $500, respectively, in transaction closing fees under this agreement. The fees paid in 2007 were in connection with the NYCC Purchase Transaction and were capitalized as part of the NYCC Purchase Transaction (see Note 5). In March 2010, this agreement was amended (see Note 19).

FASB ASC Topic 820 defines fair value and establishes guidelines for measuring fair value and disclosures regarding fair value measurements. The Company follows the guidelines of FASB ASC Topic 820 for all of its financial assets and liabilities that are recognized or disclosed at fair value on a recurring basis. FASB ASC Topic 820 establishes a fair value hierarchy based on the input used in valuation techniques. There are three levels to the fair value hierarchy of inputs to fair value as follows:

The Company endeavors to utilize the best available information in measuring fair value. Financial assets are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company has determined that all of its financial assets and liabilities that are stated at fair value fall in levels 1 and 2 in the fair value hierarchy described above.

All other financial instruments (accounts receivable net of the allowance for doubtful accounts, other current assets, accounts payable, accrued expense and other current liabilities) are not carried at fair value, but are carried at amounts that approximate fair value due to their short-term nature and generally negligible credit risk. The fair value of the Company’s debt approximates the carrying value as generally, all debt carries interest at variable rates based on LIBOR.

On March 15, 2007 Telx – New York 111 8th, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company formed specifically for the purpose, entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire certain assets and assume certain related liabilities of NYC Connect, LLC located at 111 8th Avenue, New York, NY (the NYCC

Purchase Transaction). The purchase price was $45,190 and was funded through the sale of $50,800 of additional Series A Preferred Stock of the Company to the current Series A Preferred shareholders. The asset purchase agreement contained standard and customary adjustments for working capital and $2,275 of the purchase price was placed into escrow to serve as collateral for the indemnification obligations of the seller until April 1, 2008. Of the $50,800 of Series A Preferred Stock proceeds, $45,190 ($43,225 plus $2,275 less a working capital adjustment of $310) was purchase consideration paid to the sellers or sellers’ escrow for NYC Connect, LLC, $855 for fees and expenses associated with the purchase, and $3,955 was funded to the Company for working capital requirements.

The following table summarizes the fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of the effective date of the acquisition:

The assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at estimated fair values as determined by the Company’s management and an external appraisal based on available information and on assumptions as to future operations.

The identified intangible assets include customer relationships amounting to $13,760, which is being amortized based on a 30-month weighted average useful life. The excess of consideration paid over the fair value of net assets acquired of $31,304 is reflected as goodwill and is not subject to amortization. Goodwill is tested for impairment annually and the Company determined no impairment existed as of December 31, 2009.

On January 29, 2007, Telx Real Estate Holdings, LLC, (TREH), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, purchased the noncontrolling interest in its subsidiary, CPA Holdings, LLC (CPAH) from Astron Services, Inc. (Astron) for the negotiated purchase price of $2,250. TREH, which owned approximately 99.27% of the membership interests at December 31, 2006, now owns 100% as a result of the acquisition.

In connection with the acquisition of the noncontrolling interest by TREH, management applied the purchase method of accounting under the provisions of FASB ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations, and recorded the consideration paid less the fair value of net assets acquired as additional goodwill of $2,250.

Trade receivables are recorded at the invoice price and do not bear interest. Additions (reductions) to the allowance for doubtful accounts were approximately $229 and $131 at December 31, 2009 and 2008. Bad debt expense was $1,002, $1,226 and $231 for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

The weighted average useful life, gross carrying value, accumulated amortization, and net carrying value of intangible assets as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:

Aggregate amortization expense for identified intangible assets with definite useful lives for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 was $15,772, $29,959 and $28,649, respectively.

Estimated amortization expense for the next five years and thereafter is as follows:

Approximately $1,000 and $2,342 of fixed asset additions in 2009 and 2008, respectively, were funded through loans from landlords (see Note 10). Total depreciation and amortization expense for property and equipment from years ended December 31, 2009, 2008, and 2007 was $5,914, $2,297 and $2,911, respectively. Depreciation expense associated with assets under capital leases was $531, $0 and $0 for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

On March 8, 2007, CP Atlanta, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company (collectively with Colo Properties Atlanta, LLC, the Borrowers), entered into a $20,000 loan agreement with UBS Real Estate Securities, Inc. (the UBS Mezzanine Loan). On August 10, 2007 the UBS Mezzanine Loan was split into two $10,000 loans (UBS Mezzanine Loan A and UBS Mezzanine Loan B, collectively the Mezzanine Loans) and a new subsidiary of the Company, CP Atlanta II, LLC, was formed to be the Borrower of the UBS Mezzanine Loan B. The interest rate on the UBS Mezzanine Loan A is LIBOR plus 450 basis points and the interest rate on the UBS Mezzanine Loan B is LIBOR plus 375 basis points. In each case interest-only payments are due monthly with the full principal due upon maturity. The Mezzanine Loans have a term of two years with three one-year extension options. The Company exercised its first option to extend the Mezzanine Loans for an additional year on March 9, 2009 and its second extension option effective as of March 9, 2010 (see Note 19). The UBS Mezzanine Loan A is secured by a pledge by CP Atlanta, LLC of 100% of the member interests in Colo Properties. The UBS Mezzanine B Loan is secured by a pledge by CP Atlanta II, LLC of 100% of the member interest in CP Atlanta, LLC.

The UBS Mortgage Debt requires certain cash balances to be placed in restricted accounts and escrowed for taxes, insurance, and capital expenditures. At December 31, 2009 and 2008, the aggregate balances of those accounts were $216 and $217, respectively, which represented full funding of all requirements. In addition, the UBS Mortgage Debt requires the Borrowers to meet certain covenants relating to periodic reporting, budget delivery, and affirmative and negative covenants relating to Borrower good standing, compliance with laws, business purpose, tax payments, material lease approvals, and other normal and customary covenants for mortgage debt of this size and nature. Also, the UBS Mortgage Debt is partially guaranteed by the Company, which has to meet certain leverage and net worth covenants in addition to the normal and customary covenants for the guarantor of a mortgage debt of this size and nature. As of and for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company and the Borrowers were in compliance with all covenants required under the UBS Mortgage Debt.

The following short-term indebtedness of the Company was repaid with the proceeds of the UBS Mortgage Debt in 2007: 1) $55,745 of the $70,039, 10% demand note to GI Fund II due October 2, 2007. The remaining principal obligation due GI Fund II after the payment date was $17,583; and 2) $22,255 of the $27,961 10% demand note to GI Fund II due October 2, 2007. The remaining principal obligation due to GI Side Fund after the payment date was $7,019. The remaining principal obligations to GI Fund II and Side Fund were fully repaid (with all interest) in 2007 from proceeds of CIT Loans (section (ii)).

As part of the transaction, the Company formed three new legal entities, Telx-New York Management, LLC, Telx-New York Holdings, LLC, and Telx-New York, LLC and the ownership of an existing Telx subsidiary, Telx-New York 111 8th, LLC, was transferred to Telx-New York Management, LLC.

Telx-New York Management, LLC is a subsidiary of Telx-New York Holdings, LLC which is a direct, wholly owned subsidiary of The Telx Group, Inc. The CIT Loans are secured by all of the assets and equity of the Borrower Entities.

The interest rate was LIBOR plus 400 basis points for the first six months of the loan and then LIBOR plus 350 or 400 basis points based on the Borrower Entities leverage profile; however, this debt was refinanced in March 2009 (see below). As a requirement of the CIT Loans, the Company funded $3,000 into a blocked or restricted cash account put in place specifically to pay the rent due on the 60 Hudson Street and 111 8th Avenue leases. The Company concurrently funds the restricted cash account when the lease payments are made to ensure that the balance does not fall below $3,000. The balance of this restricted cash account was $3,000 as of December 31, 2009 and 2008. The maturity of the CIT Loans was March 21, 2010; however, this debt was refinanced in March 2009 (see below). The CIT Term Loan (before the refinancing discussed below) required mandatory principal repayment beginning in September 30, 2008 of $62 per quarter, with the balance of the CIT Term Loan and Revolver loan payable at maturity. The CIT Term Loan included a 1% prepayment fee if prepaid during the first year of its term. In addition, the CIT Term Loan had an excess cash flow payment requirement based on excess cash flows, as defined, beyond a $3,000 minimum cash balance on June 30, 2008 and December 31, 2008, and every six months thereafter until maturity that provides for 50% of excess cash flows to be paid to CIT to reduce the Term Loan and 50% to be distributed to the Telx.

Excess cash flow is defined as for any fiscal quarter or semi-annual period, as applicable, Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrowers for the fiscal quarter or semi-annual period, as applicable, plus any amounts deducted in calculating Consolidated EBITDA for the fiscal quarter or semi-annual period, as applicable, which were paid, incurred or accrued in violation of any of the provisions of the Agreement, minus the sum of (without duplication) (a) scheduled payments of principal on the Term Loan and Revolving Loans, (b) payments with respect to capital lease obligations, (c) payments in respect of capital expenditures, (d) all taxes paid in cash, (e) all interest paid in cash, (f) all upstream payments to the extent not deducted in determining EBITDA, (g) plus or minus the change in working capital during the period, and (h) plus distributions. Consolidated EBITDA is defined as, at any date, the EBITDA of the Company. EBITDA is defined as, for any period, an amount equal to, (a) net income plus (b) to the extent deducted in determining net income, (i) interest expense, (ii) expense for taxes paid, (iii) depreciation, and (iv) amortization of (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the amortization of deferred rent with respect to the facilities securing the loan) depreciation and other non-cash charges for such period, all as determined in conformity with GAAP. The CIT Loans required the Borrower Entities to meet certain financial covenants such as funded debt to consolidated net income plus interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, amortization, amortization of deferred rent and other noncash charges ratio, fixed charge coverage ratio, interest coverage ratio, and consolidated earnings before income tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) and other covenants that are standard and customary in loans of this size and nature. The Borrower Entities are limited by the CIT Loans in making distributions to the Company.

On March 31, 2009 the Borrower Entities entered into an Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement with the Lender whereby the Borrower Entities received an additional $15,000, less fees and expenses, and the maturity date on the new balance of the CIT Term and CIT Revolving Loans was extended to December 30, 2011. In addition, Royal Bank of Canada became a Lender to the Company. The interest rate on the CIT Term Loans was increased to LIBOR plus 6.25% for a LIBOR Loan and Base Rate plus 5.25% for a Base Rate Loan, applicable to the entire outstanding balance, with a LIBOR

floor of 2.75%. The agreement requires principal amortization payments and estimated variable periodic excess cash flow payments over the life of the loan. The Lender also provided the Borrower Entities with an option to request an additional $5,000 on the same terms and conditions. The Borrower Entities exercised the option on April 2, 2009. On October 9, 2009, Telx entered into a Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (the “Third Amendment”) where the Borrower Entities received an additional $10,000 increase of the Term Loan on the same terms and conditions as the March 31, 2009 financing. Scheduled repayments of the CIT Loans in 2009 were $1,057. In addition, the Company is required to make mandatory prepayments on a semi-annual basis based on the excess cash flows generated by the Borrower Entities. In 2009, the Company made $4,346 of excess cash flow payments for the semi-annual periods of July through December 2008 and January through June 2009, and the Company paid $3,733 in February 2010 for the semi-annual period of July through December 2009.

The following table provides the schedule of maturities and expected payments under excess cash flow sweep requirements, excluding capital lease obligations (see Note 18), extension options not yet exercised and the effects of the refinancing of the CIT Loans during 2009:

The Company is subject to income taxes only in the United States. Provision for income tax expense consists of the following:

The difference between income tax expense (benefit) and the amount resulting from applying the federal statutory rate of 34% to net loss before income taxes is attributable to the following:

The components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 2009 and 2008 are as follows:

In assessing the realizability of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the generation of future taxable income during periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and tax planning strategies in making this assessment. The valuation allowance increased from $25,462 as of December 31, 2008 to $30,266 as of December 31, 2009.

The Company’s net deferred tax liability increased by $988 and $772, in 2009 and 2008, respectively, primarily due to amortization of goodwill associated with our acquisition of certain assets and liabilities, of NYCC Connect, LLC over a 15-year life for tax purposes. This creates a deferred tax liability which is not anticipated to reverse in the future and cannot be offset against the Company’s deferred tax assets under U.S. GAAP.

At December 31, 2009, the Company has net operating loss carryforwards for federal and state income tax purposes of approximately $40,472 and $26,698, respectively, available to reduce future taxable income. The federal net operating loss carryforwards expire in various years from 2021 through 2027. The state net operating loss carryforwards expire in various years from 2021 through 2027.

The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and applicable state tax laws impose substantial restrictions on the ability of a company to utilize net operating losses and tax credits carryforwards in the event of an ownership change as defined in section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Company experienced ownership changes in 2003 and 2006, which triggered these limitations in its operating loss carryovers.

The Company adopted new accounting principles on accounting for uncertain tax positions in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 740. The adoption of this principle resulted in no cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle being recorded on the Company’s consolidated financial statement for the year ended December 31, 2009. The Company is adopting a policy to recognize interest and penalties related to income tax matters as a component of income tax expense, although it has no unrecognized tax positions upon adoption or additions or reductions regarding unrecognized tax positions for the year.

The Company conducts business in the U.S. and various state jurisdictions and, in the normal course of business, is subject to examination by taxing authorities. The Company’s tax years open for examination are generally 2006 and later for U.S. federal, and 2005 and later for state and local jurisdictions.

On July 1, 2008, the board of directors and the Company’s stockholders approved, by written consent, a 1-for-10 reverse stock split. The Company then filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The Certificate was approved by the State of Delaware, and the reverse stock split became effective, on July 28, 2008. After the effective date of the reverse stock split the official capitalization table was adjusted, old certificates were collected and new certificates issued, reflecting the new share numbers. In addition, the 2007 Employee Stock Plan (the Plan) was amended to reflect the new share numbers and all holders of Options under the Plan were provided notice as provided for in the Plan. All references in the consolidated financial statements to preferred or common shares par values, and share prices have been adjusted retroactively for all periods presented to reflect this reverse stock split.

The Fifth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Telx Group, Inc. was adopted on April 11, 2008 to increase the number of authorized shares of stock to accommodate the requirements for the sale of $15,240 of Series A Preferred Stock. The total number of shares was increased from 6,743,000 to 7,053,223. Common Shares remained at 4,500,000 but Series A Preferred Stock increased from 2,000,000 to 2,300,000 and Series B Contingent Preferred Stock increased from 243,000 to 253,223.

As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had outstanding 1,930,399 shares of Series A Preferred Stock. On March 15, 2007, 500,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were issued to the GI Partners Funds for $50,000 which was used to fund the NYCC Purchase Transaction. On April 1, 2007, 8,000 shares of the Series A Preferred Stock were issued to Telxinvest, LLC, an investment group owned by certain current and former members of the Company’s management team, for $800, of which $700 was paid in cash and $100 receivable, which was subsequently paid in full in August 2008. On April 11, 2008, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with the GI Partners Funds and

Telxinvest, LLC for the purchase of 152,400 shares of Series A Preferred Stock of the Company for $15,240. The purchase price and shares of Series A Preferred Stock are outlined below.

The purchase price of the stock was $100.00 per share (par value $0.0001). The equity investment was recorded based on the proceeds received from the sale, which the Company considers to approximate its fair value at the date of the transaction, as agreed between the parties to the transaction. The proceeds of the Series A Preferred Stock purchase was intended for general facility expansion and working capital purposes.

The Series A Preferred Stock is entitled to receive dividends at the rate of $10.00 per share per annum accruing daily, which accrued but unpaid amount shall also accrue additional dividends at the rate of 10% per annum, compounded quarterly. As of December 31, 2009, no dividends have been declared by the board of directors. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the accumulated balance of Series A Preferred Stock dividends undeclared was $66,956 and $42,503, respectively, or $34.68 and $22.02 per share outstanding, respectively. Additionally, the Series A Preferred Stock is entitled to participate in dividends paid on the common stock equal to the amount that would have been payable had such share been converted into common stock, carries a $100.00 per share liquidation preference plus any accrued and unpaid dividends and conversion (to common stock) price, and automatically converts to common stock on a 1:1 ratio upon a public offering at a price of $500 or greater per share of common stock and that results in aggregate proceeds of at least $200,000.

As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had outstanding 240,354 and 248,322 shares, respectively, of Series B Contingent Preferred Stock.

The Series B Contingent Preferred Stock is convertible to common stock pursuant to the calculation of a ratio based upon the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) achieved by the GI Partners, with reference to their cumulative investment made into the Company and the value realized upon certain transaction events, but excluding transaction or management fees. The ratio ranges from no conversion rights at a 10% IRR to a 1:1 conversion ratio at a 45% or greater IRR. The Series B Contingent Preferred Stock is also entitled to receive dividends under limited circumstances and, upon certain trigger events, participates in the proceeds of a liquidation of the Company on the same terms at the common stock. The Series B Contingent Preferred Stock does not have any voting rights.

From time to time, the Company has issued Series B Contingent Preferred Stock to certain of its employees as compensation for services. In 2008 and 2007, 12,000 and 142,686 shares of Series B Preferred Stock were issued to employees of the Company pursuant to employment agreements and as compensation for services. There were no shares of Series B Preferred Stock issued in 2009. In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, the Company records the intrinsic value of the nonvested stock

as additional paid in capital. Stock-based compensation expense is recognized ratably over the applicable service period. As of December 31, 2009, the future compensation expense related to Series B stock awards that will be recognized as they vest is approximately $967, and is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.6 years. The Company recognized approximately $611, $588, and $270 of stock-based compensation expense associated with Series B stock awards, during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, and changes during the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 are presented below:

A summary of the nonvested Series B shares from December 31, 2006 through December 31, 2009 is as follows:

As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had outstanding 706 and 224 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001, respectively. Each share of common stock is entitled to one vote. Through December 31, 2009, no dividends have been declared or paid on the common stock.

In 2007, the Company established the 2007 Employee Stock Plan (the Plan) and the board of directors authorized the reservation of up to 125,000 shares of the Company’s Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the Plan. The plan provides for the granting of Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), Non-qualified Options (NQOs), Stock Grants and Stock-Based Awards to employees and directors of, and certain consultants to, the Company and its affiliates. The 2007 Plan is administered by the board of directors, and the board of directors may terminate or amend the plan, with approval of the stockholders as may be required by applicable regulations, at any time. To date, the board of directors has only issued ISOs and NQOs under the plan. All options granted generally vest over 48 months with one fourth of the total number of shares subject to the option vesting on the first anniversary of the date of the employee’s hire date and thereafter, in 35 monthly installments of a defined amount in each employee option agreement commencing on the 13th month anniversary of the date of the employee option agreement, and a final installment of an amount defined in each employee agreement on the fourth anniversary of the employee’s hire date. The term of the options generally expire 10 years from the date of grant or 5 years from the date of the grant if the employee owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of capital stock of the Company. No employee owned such amount in 2008 or 2009.

Effective January 2006, the Company adopted the fair market value method of recording stock-based compensation in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all stock-based payment awards made to employees and directors. Under the fair value recognition provisions of FASB ASC Topic 718, stock-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair market value of the award using an option-pricing model and is recognized as an expense over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period.

Information regarding the Company’s stock option grants for 2007, 2008 and 2009, is summarized as follows:

All of the Company’s valuations were performed at or near the grant dates of the awards and there were no material changes to its business or value drivers between the valuation date and the grant dates.

Information regarding the valuations of the Company’s common stock during the period beginning December 31, 2006 and ending on July 1, 2009 is summarized as follows:

(1) Both of these valuation reports were reviewed in conjunction with determining the fair value of the Company’s common stock for the June 2, 2008 grants.

In accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718, the Company uses the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair market value of the stock options on the grant dates for share awards made on or after January 1, 2006. The Black-Scholes option pricing model requires the use of highly subjective and complex assumptions to determine the fair market value of stock-based awards, including the deemed fair market value of the underlying common stock on the date of grant and the expected volatility of the stock over the expected term of the related grants. The value of the award is recognized as expense over the requisite service periods on a straight-line basis in the Company’s consolidated statements of income, and reduced for estimated forfeitures. FASB ASC Topic 718 requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.

A summary of the Company’s stock option activity as of December 31, 2009, and changes during the year ended December 31, 2009 is as follows.

A summary of the nonvested common stock options from December 31, 2006 through December 31, 2009 is as follows:

As of December 31, 2009, the future compensation expense related to unvested options that will be recognized is approximately $1,053. The cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 1.21 years. The Company recognized approximately $567, $331 and $109 of stock-based compensation expense, associated with options, for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively. The total intrinsic value of stock options exercised for the years ended December 31, 2009, and 2008, was less than $8, and $2 respectively. The intrinsic value is calculated as the amount by which the fair value of the underlying stock exceeds the exercise price. The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding and exercisable in various price ranges at December 31, 2009.

The Company uses the Black-Sholes-Merton option pricing model to determine the fair value of stock options granted under the Company’s stock option plan. The determination of fair value of stock-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option pricing model is affected by the estimated fair market value of the Company’s underlying stock as well as assumptions regarding a number of complex and subjective variables. These variables include:

The Company engaged a third party independent valuation specialist to estimate the fair value of the underlying stock for each grant during 2009, 2008 and 2007. The Company estimates the expected term of options granted by taking the average of the vesting term and the contractual term of the option. Expected volatility was estimated based on the actual changes in the historical market price for public companies and the Company’s own historical volatility over a given time period. In 2009, 2008 and 2007, the expected volatility ranged from 60% to 77%. The Company’s risk-free interest rate that it uses in its option-pricing models on the U.S. Treasury Zero Coupon rate based on the expected term on its equity awards. The Company does not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future and therefore uses an expected dividend yield of zero in its option-pricing models. The estimated forfeiture rate used in 2009, 2008 and 2007 was 9% based on the Company’s historical forfeiture rate.

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common shareholders:

Dilutive net loss per share does not include the effect of the following antidilutive common equivalent shares:

In connection with the Digital Realty Trust transaction (see Note 1), the Company and Digital Realty Trust entered into a stock option agreement, effective December 1, 2006, between the Company and a Digital Realty Trust affiliate, whereby the Digital Realty Trust affiliate was granted the option to purchase 163,399 shares of the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock at $100.00 per share (the Digital Realty Trust Option). The option had a two-year term and was fully vested. The Digital Realty Trust Option also contained preemptive rights that allowed Digital Realty Trust to maintain its percentage of the fully diluted equity of the Company at the level on the date of the original issuance. As a result of the NYCC Purchase Transaction and the further issuance of Series A Preferred Stock, Digital Realty Trust was entitled to an option to purchase an additional 55,593 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, pursuant to the Digital Realty Trust Option. The fair value of the original option was estimated by management to be $5,320 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The following assumptions were used to determine the fair value: volatility of a 60%, risk-free interest rate of 4.52%, dividend yield of 0%, and an expected life of two years. The fair value of the additional option was estimated by management to be $1,835 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. The following assumptions were used to determine the fair value: volatility of 61.5%, risk-free interest rate of 4.54%, dividend yield of 0%, and an expected life of 1.71 years. The Digital Realty Trust Option has been accounted for as a lease incentive reflected as prepaid rent in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and is being recorded as rent expense over the 20-year term of the Digital Realty Trust leases. The Digital Realty Trust Option and preemptive rights expired unexercised on October 3, 2008.

As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company had outstanding the following warrants:

During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company issued 1,000 warrants for the purchase of common stock with an exercise price of $40.00 per share, as partial consideration for the purchase of certain fixed assets. The fair value of approximately $22 was accounted for as additional paid in capital based upon the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model using the following assumptions:

In connection with the Company’s acquisition by the GI Partners Funds, all outstanding warrants to purchase stock for an exercise price at or in excess of $182 per share were assumed by the Company. If exercised, such warrants are, pursuant to their terms, only entitled to the merger consideration amount provided to the common and the various classes of preferred stock the Company had prior to the acquisition. This merger consideration equates to approximately $150 per share (such merger consideration is less than the exercise price).

In December 2006, various wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company entered into ten leases with Digital Realty Trust pursuant to which the Company provides enhanced meet-me-room services to customers. During each of 2008 and 2009, various wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company entered into three leases for additional space within certain Digital Realty Trust facilities.

The Company was acquired by the GI Partners Funds in October 2006. The Company’s consolidated statements of operations include rent expense of approximately $14,804, $11,995 and $9,652, which represented 58%, 61% and 69% of total rent expense for December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, and revenue sharing expense of $1,574, $777 and $120 to Digital Realty Trust for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

On March 31, 2008, the Company entered into a Third Amendment to Master Meet-Me-Room lease dated November 20, 2006 for a loan of $2,400 towards leasehold improvements at 2323 Bryan Street site and other operating expenses. The term of the loan is ten years and is effective April 1, 2008 and expires March 31, 2018.

ThePlanet.com Internet Services, Inc., or The Planet, provides the Company with certain IT hosting services pursuant to a Service Agreement. GI Partners affiliated funds, directly or indirectly, own a majority of the outstanding Series A Preferred Stock of The Planet and the shares of Series A Preferred Stock and common stock owned by the GI Partners affiliated funds (directly or indirectly) constitute a majority of The Planet’s outstanding common stock on an as-converted to common stock basis.

The Company’s consolidated statements of operations include IT expense of approximately $125, $75 and $0 to The Planet for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively.

The Company made loans to certain executives to pay tax liabilities associated with the issuance of Series B Contingent Preferred Stock in 2008 and 2007. These loans bore interest at a rate fixed when the loan was made, with 10% of the principal, and accrued interest, being payable in each of the ensuing five years, and with the remaining balance being due in the sixth year. As of December 31, 2009 and 2008, there was $930 and $990, respectively, of outstanding loans receivable. Pursuant to loan termination agreements signed in March 2010 (see Note 19), 50% of these loans were repaid and the remaining 50% were cancelled in March 2010.

GI Partners affiliated funds, GI Partners Fund II, L.P. and GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P., which the Company refers to herein collectively as the GI Partners Funds, own a majority of its outstanding Series A Preferred Stock (see Note 12).

Howard Park of GI Partners currently serves as the chairman of the Company’s board of directors. In addition, Eric Harrison, a former managing director of GI Partners, also serves on our board of directors. Mr. Harrison also served in an uncompensated capacity as a Vice President of the Company from January 2007 until February 2007.

Pursuant to the Company’s acquisition by the GI Partners Funds on October 3, 2006, the Company entered into a Management Agreement with GI Manager L.P., or GI Manager, an affiliate of both GI Partners Funds, pursuant to which GI Manager agreed to perform certain advisory, financial and management consulting services at the reasonable direction of the Company’s board of directors. Pursuant to the management agreement, among other things, GI Manager is entitled to an annual base fee, not to exceed $750 as determined by the Company’s board of directors plus reasonable expenses. In each of the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, GI Manager has waived this fee. In addition to the base fee, GI Manager is also entitled to (i) a 1.0% transaction closing fee with respect to, in general, any refinancing not involving an acquisition or distribution and, (ii) an accelerated cash payment in an amount equal to the annual base fee currently in effect for a period of two years upon the effective filing date of a registration statement relating to an initial public offering of shares of the Company’s capital stock. Under the management agreement, the Company must indemnify GI Manager and its agents, officers, members, employees, principals and directors for any judgments, fines or penalties incurred by such parties related to the performance of their obligations under the Management Agreement. This agreement was amended on March 3, 2010 (see Note 19).

The Company leases its operating facilities and offices under various lease agreements expiring October 2013 through September 2029 with extension options on certain leases through March 2050.

During the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, the Company recorded capital leases in the amounts of $994 and $1,111 respectively. Payments under the capital leases are made on either a monthly or quarterly basis depending on the lease and will be made through September 2012 at an effective interest rate of 8.25% per annum. Future payments under capital leases at December 31, 2009 are listed below.

Minimum rent payments under operating leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease, including any periods of free rent. Future minimum lease payments under operating and capital leases that have remaining noncancelable lease terms in excess of one year at December 31, 2009 are listed below.

The operating leases for the Company’s operations facilities at 60 Hudson Street in New York, New York are secured by a $1,450 letter of credit issued for the benefit of 60 Hudson Owner, LLC, the Company’s landlord at 60 Hudson Street. The letter of credit is secured by cash deposits of at least the amount of the letter of credit held in a restricted account and is reflected in the line ‘Cash – restricted’ on the consolidated balance sheet. The Company has also guaranteed the payment obligations of its subsidiaries for the individual leases at the Digital Realty Trust locations, the 111 8th Avenue and 60 Hudson Street, NYC locations, the Clifton location and the Dallas Stemmons Freeway location.

Consolidated rent expense for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 was $33,276, $26,044 and $14,427 respectively. These amounts are net of sublease income for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007 of approximately $98, $96 and $48, respectively.

On December 28, 2009, Telx-Los Angeles, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Turn Key Datacenter Lease with GIP 7^th Street, LLC, a subsidiary of Digital Realty Trust, at 600 W. 7^th St. in Los Angeles, CA. The Lease commences on June 1, 2010 and the term is 198 months with two ten year extension options. The rest of the terms and conditions are consistent with those that are usual and customary for similar space in Los Angeles, CA and with the Company’s other Turn Key Datacenter leases with Digital Realty Trust.

The Company and its subsidiaries are parties in various lawsuits arising in the ordinary course of business. In the opinion of management, with the advice of its legal counsel, the ultimate disposition of these matters will not have a material adverse effect on the financial position and results of operations of the Company.

For 2008 and in prior years, the Company relied upon a professional employer organization for its human resources. Such organization provided services, administered payroll, and provided employee benefits. The relationship was terminated on January 1, 2009 and such services are now performed by the Company.

On January 15, 2010 Colo Properties Atlanta, LLC, CP Atlanta, LLC and CP Atlanta II, LLC gave notice of their intent to exercise their second extension right under the UBS Mortgage Loan and the UBS Mezzanine Loans. The extensions will be effective as of March 9, 2010. In connection with the extensions, Colo Properties Atlanta, LLC, CP Atlanta, LLC, and CP Atlanta II, LLC extended the existing Interest Rate Cap agreements as required under the loan documents.

Pursuant to the 2007 Plan, on January 8, 2010, the Company granted to employees an additional 19,440 options to purchase common stock at an exercise price of $45.00 per share.

On February 12, 2010, the Company amended its Interest Rate Cap Agreement (see Note 2(n)) to add an additional $2,650 to the terms and conditions as required under the Third Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement (see Note 10(ii)).

On March 3, 2010, the Company amended its management agreement with GI Manager to, among other things, provide that GI Manager is entitled to a 1.5% transaction closing fee with respect to, in general, any refinancing not involving an acquisition or distribution. Under the amendment, GI Manager is no longer entitled to the accelerated cash payment in an amount equal to the annual base fee currently in effect for a period of two years upon the effective filing date of a registration statement relating to an initial public offering of shares of the Company’s capital stock that they were entitled to before the amendment.

The Company made loans to certain executives to pay tax liabilities associated with the issuance of Series B Contingent Preferred Stock in 2008 and 2007. Pursuant to loan termination agreements signed in March 2010, 50% of these loans were repaid and the remaining 50% were cancelled in March 2010.

On March 1, 2010, Telx-New York 111 8^th, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into the Third Amendment of Lease, adding 21,481 square feet to the square footage under lease at 111 8^th Avenue in New York City. The Third Amendment of Lease expires February 28, 2022 and has two five year extension options. The rest of the terms and conditions are consistent with the Company’s other leases at 111 8^th Avenue.

The table below presents valuation and qualifying accounts for the periods presented.

No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representation. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

Through and including , 2010 ( the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.

The following table sets forth the various fees and expenses, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions, to be paid by us in connection with the sale of the common stock being registered hereby. All amounts are estimates except the SEC registration fee, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, filing fee and The NASDAQ Global Market listing fee.

Approximately $ of the legal fees and expenses set forth above will be borne by the selling stockholders in connection with the sale of the common stock being registered.

Section 145 of the DGCL, authorizes a corporation’s board of directors to grant, and authorizes a court to award, indemnity to officers, directors and other corporate agents.

As permitted by the DGCL, our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws which will be in effect upon the completion of this offering include provisions that eliminate the personal liability of our directors for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duty as directors, except liability for (i) any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty; (ii) acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; (iii) unlawful payments of dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions as provided in Section 174 of the DGCL; or (iv) any transaction for which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

To the extent the DGCL is interpreted, or amended, to allow similar protections for officers of a corporation, such provisions of our restated certificate of incorporation shall also extend to those persons. In addition, as permitted by the DGCL, our amended and restated bylaws to be effective upon completion of this offering provide, among other things, that:

We expect to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our current directors and officers to give these directors and officers additional contractual assurances regarding the scope of the indemnification set forth in our restated certificate of incorporation and to provide additional procedural protections. At present, there is no pending litigation or proceeding involving our directors, officers, or employees regarding which indemnification is sought, nor are we aware of any threatened litigation that may result in claims for indemnification.

The indemnification provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws and the indemnification agreements we intend to enter into with each of our directors and officers may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification of our directors and officers for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.

The underwriting agreement to be filed as an exhibit to this registration statement will provide for indemnification of us and our officers and directors by the underwriters for certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act and otherwise to the extent, but only to the extent, that such liability arose from an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to us by such underwriter specifically for use in the prospectus.

We currently maintain liability insurance for our officers and directors. We are seeking to obtain a new directors’ and officers’ liability insurance policy and expect the insurance to include coverage for securities laws matters.

Since January 1, 2007, we have sold and issued unregistered securities to a limited number of persons, as described below.

None of the foregoing transactions involved any underwriters, underwriting discounts or commissions, or any public offering, and the registrant believes the transactions were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 in reliance on Section 4(2) thereof, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, or Rule 701 thereunder, as transactions by an issuer not involving a public offering or transactions pursuant to compensatory benefit plans and contracts relating to compensation as provided under such Rule 701. The recipients of securities in such transactions represented their intention to acquire the securities for investment only and not with a view to or for sale in connection with any distribution thereof, and appropriate legends were affixed to the stock certificates and instruments or agreements issued in such transactions. All recipients had adequate access, through their relationships with us, to information about us.

See Schedule II—“Valuation and Qualifying Accounts” contained on page F-37. All other schedules are omitted as the information is not required or is included in the Registrant’s financial statements and related notes.

The registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters, at the closing specified in the underwriting agreement, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

1. For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

2. For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and this offering of these securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of New York, State of New York, on this 18th day of March, 2010.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:


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Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(2)	Amount of Registration Fee
Common Stock, par value $0.0001 per share	$100,000,000	$7,130


	Per Share	Total
Initial public offering price
Underwriting discounts and commissions
Proceeds, before expenses, to the company
Proceeds, before expenses, to the selling stockholders


	RBC Capital Markets

Oppenheimer & Co.	Piper Jaffray	SunTrust Robinson Humphrey


Number of shares and percentage of total outstanding*		Date available for sale into public market
shares, or %		Immediately after this offering.

shares, or %		Generally, 180 days after the date of this prospectus due to lock-up agreements between certain of the holders of these shares and the underwriters or to contractual arrangements between the other holders of these shares and us, subject to a potential extension under certain circumstances.

shares, or %		At various dates more than 180 days after the date of this prospectus.


		Page
Prospectus Summary		1
Risk Factors		9
Forward-Looking Statements		26
Use of Proceeds		28
Dividend Policy		29
Capitalization		30
Dilution		32
Selected Consolidated Financial Data		34
Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations		36
Business		63
Management		79
Executive Compensation		84
Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions		99
Principal and Selling Stockholders		103
Description of Capital Stock		105
Description of Indebtedness		109
Shares Eligible for Future Sale		113
Material U.S. Federal Tax Considerations		115
Underwriting		120
Legal Matters		124
Experts		124
Where You Can Find More Information		124
Index to Consolidated Financial Statements		F-1


	As of December 31, 2009
	Actual			Pro Forma (Unaudited)	Pro Forma Adjusted (Unaudited)
	(in thousands, except share data)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	40,655		$	$

Current capital lease and other financing obligations		916
Current portion of debt		13,301
Non-current capital lease and other financing obligations		4,620
Non-current debt		116,693
Stockholders’ equity:
Series A Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 2,300,000 shares authorized, 1,930,399 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares issued pro forma and pro forma as adjusted		—
Series B Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value; 253,223 shares authorized, 240,354 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares issued pro forma and pro forma as adjusted		—
Common stock, $0.0001 par value; 4,500,000 shares authorized, 706 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares outstanding, pro forma; shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted		—
Additional paid-in capital		204,682
Accumulated deficit		(84,352	)

Total stockholders’ equity		120,330

Total capitalization	$	255,860		$	$


	Shares Issued			Total Consideration			Average Price Per Share
	Number	Percent		Amount	Percent		Average Price Per Share
Existing stockholders			%	$		%	$
New investors			%			%

Total		100	%	$	100	%


	Successor⁽⁴⁾												Predecessor⁽⁴⁾
	Years Ended December 31,									Three Months Ended December 31, 2006			Nine Months Ended October 3, 2006			Year Ended December 31, 2005
	2009			2008			2007⁽⁵⁾			Three Months Ended December 31, 2006			Nine Months Ended October 3, 2006			Year Ended December 31, 2005
	(in thousands, except share and per share data)
Statement of Operations Data:^(1)(2)(3)
Revenues	$	98,335		$	70,038		$	50,762		$	7,963		$	22,248		$	24,081
Operating expenses		99,937			93,332			78,063			15,098			18,569			18,683

Operating income (loss)		(1,602	)		(23,294	)		(27,301	)		(7,135	)		3,679			5,398
Interest income		374			396			612			104			205			548
Interest expense		(7,221	)		(7,380	)		(9,769	)		(2,357	)		(11,374	)		(7,338	)
Other expense		(12	)		(330	)		(739	)		(1,098	)		(12,974	)		(2,031	)

Loss from continuing operations		(8,461	)		(30,608	)		(37,197	)		(10,486	)		(20,464	)		(3,423	)
Noncontrolling interest in net income of consolidated partnership		—			—			—			—			98			152
Income tax benefit (expense)		(1,458	)		(772	)		811			3,819			—			—

Net loss	$	(9,919	)	$	(31,380	)	$	(36,386	)	$	(6,667	)	$	(20,366	)	$	(3,271	)
Less: preferred dividends		(24,452	)		(21,743	)		(17,676	)		(3,084	)		—			—

Net loss available to common stock holders	$	(34,371	)	$	(53,123	)	$	(54,062	)	$	(9,751	)	$	(20,366	)	$	(3,271	)

Net loss per common share	$	(63,066	)	$	(290,290	)	$	(540,620	)	$	(97,510	)	$	(11	)	$	(2	)

Weighted average common shares outstanding		545			183			100			100			1,898,763			1,865,013

(1) Includes stock-based compensation expense of:	$	1,179		$	919		$	379		$	1,981		$	1,292		$	507
(2) Includes depreciation and amortization expense of:	$	21,686		$	32,256		$	31,560		$	6,656		$	4,190		$	5,446
(3) Includes non-cash rent of:	$	7,953		$	6,720		$	5,373		$	492		$	268		$	457

	Successor															Predecessor
	As of December 31,															As of December 31,
	2009			2008			2007			2006						2005
	(in thousands)															(in thousands)
Balance Sheet Data:
Cash and cash equivalents	$	40,655		$	22,638		$	7,705		$	6,830					$	1,925
Total assets		303,422			280,302			277,685			242,204						59,066
Long-term obligations		151,400			125,754			115,737			8,557						58,276
Total stockholder's equity (deficit)		120,330			129,060			144,283			127,655						(6,900	)


	Year Ended December 31,
	2009		2008		2007
Number of customers	763		626		495
Number of physical interconnections	28,272		23,867		19,692
Cabinet equivalents billed	5,987		4,595		3,542
Utilization rate	67	%	61	%	64	%
Percentage of incremental revenue attributable to existing customers ⁽¹⁾	70	%	72	%	NA
Average monthly churn as a percentage of monthly recurring revenue ⁽¹⁾	0.6	%	0.8	%	NA


	For the year ended December 31,				$ Change		% Change
	2009		2008		$ Change		% Change
	($ in Thousands)
Revenues	$	98,335	$	70,038	$	28,297	40	%


	2010		2011		2012		2013		2014		2015 and Thereafter		Total
	($ in Thousands)
Capital lease and other financing obligations	$	916	$	888	$	347	$	288	$	317	$	2,780	$	5,536
Long-term debt⁽¹⁾		13,301		116,693		—		—		—		—		129,994
Interest expense on long-term debt⁽²⁾		6,371		3,971		316		289		260		1,444		12,651
Operating lease obligations		27,132		28,732		29,581		29,342		29,518		571,036		715,341

Total contractual obligations	$	47,720	$	150,284	$	30,244	$	29,919	$	30,095	$	575,260	$	863,522


Grant Dates	Number of Options Granted	Exercise Price		Estimated Fair Market Value of Our Common Stock	Estimated Fair Value of Our Common Stock Options
May 1, 2007 – November 12, 2007	64,064	$	20.00	$16.90 - $36.20	$11.68 - $25.60
June 2, 2008	41,121	$	40.00	$39.70	$25.61
January 1, 2009	25,375	$	40.00	$37.26	$23.32 - $24.21
July 1, 2009	11,400	$	40.00	$39.65	$26.87 - $27.31


Date of Valuation Report	Effective Date of Valuation (as stated in the Valuation Report)	Value of Common Stock
March 27, 2007	December 31, 2006	$	16.90
April 8, 2008⁽¹⁾	September 30, 2007	$	36.20
June 11, 2008⁽¹⁾	May 1, 2008	$	39.70
April 2, 2009	September 30, 2008	$	37.26
July 14, 2009	May 1, 2009	$	39.65


Goldman, Sachs & Co.				Deutsche Bank Securities


Product		Description

Physical Cross Connect		Physically connects customer networks within our facilities.

Telx Internet Exchange		Facilitates the exchange of IP traffic between service providers through a peering platform.

Telx Virtual Exchange Platform		Provides customers the ability to exchange communications traffic that consists of different communications protocols. It also allows customers to combine multiple slow circuits into a single fast circuit, or vice versa.

Metro Cross Connect		Provides ability to interconnect between two Telx facilities in the same metro area, enabling seamless connectivity between customers within these facilities.

Virtual Meet Me Room (VMMR)		Provides virtual interconnections between Frankfurt and New York with other communications service providers, without having to invest in a physical point-of-presence with expensive hardware.

Telx Video Exchange		Provides video service providers the ability to exchange video traffic in a secure carrier-rich environment translating among various protocols.

Telx Managed Security Service		Protects colocated network equipment when accessing the Internet.


Market	Number of Our Facilities	Facilities Addresses	Gross Square Footage	Lease Expiration Dates⁽¹⁾
New York City Area⁽²⁾	4	60 Hudson Street, NY 111 8^th Avenue, NY 100 Delawanna Ave., Clifton, NJ 300 Blvd E., Weehawken, NJ (*)	162,057	2022 through 2050
Atlanta	1	56 Marietta St., Atlanta	152,650	Telx owned facility
Dallas⁽³⁾	2	2323 Bryan St., Dallas (*) 8435 Stemmons Frwy., Dallas	45,461	2028 through 2046
Chicago	2	600 S. Federal St., Chicago () 350 E. Cermak Rd., Chicago ()	41,329	2046
San Francisco Bay Area	2	200 Paul Ave., San Francisco () 1100 Space Park Dr., Santa Clara ()	24,789	2046
Miami	1	36 N.E. 2^nd St., Miami (*)	23,805	2046
Phoenix	1	120 E. Van Buren St., Phoenix (*)	13,484	2046
Los Angeles⁽⁴⁾	1	600 W. 7^th St., Los Angeles (*)	13,468	2046
Charlotte	1	113 N. Myers St., Charlotte (*)	1,369	2046

Total	15		478,412


Name	Age	Positions
Howard Park	47	Chairman of the Board⁽¹⁾
Eric Shepcaro	51	Chief Executive Officer and Director
Christopher W. Downie	40	President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer
J. Todd Raymond	41	Senior Vice President, Facility Acquisition
William Kolman	56	Executive Vice President, Sales
Michael Terlizzi	36	Executive Vice President, Operations
Eric Harrison	46	Director⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾
Daniel H. Schulman	52	Director⁽²⁾


Executive	2009
Eric Shepcaro
Chief Executive Officer and Director	$	300,000

Christopher W. Downie
President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer		264,600

J. Todd Raymond
Senior Vice President (SVP), Facility Acquisition		207,000

William Kolman
Executive Vice President (EVP), Sales		200,000

Michael Terlizzi
Executive Vice President (EVP), Operations	$	190,800


Name and Principal Position⁽¹⁾	Year	Salary ($)		Bonus ($)		Stock Awards ($)⁽²⁾		All Other Compensation ($)⁽³⁾		Total ($)
Eric Shepcaro	2009	$	300,000	$	375,000	$	—	$	13,817	$	688,817
CEO and Director	2008		300,000		331,870		—		169		632,039
CEO and Director	2007		292,217		255,279		1,219,904		91		1,767,491
Christopher W. Downie	2009		264,600		265,662		—		10,718		540,980
President, CFO and Treasurer	2008		252,000		176,997		209,950		85		639,032
President, CFO and Treasurer	2007		134,025		77,418		330,047		21		541,511
J. Todd Raymond	2009		207,000		155,046		—		14,997		377,043
SVP, Facility Acquisition	2008		207,000		195,133		—		91		402,224
SVP, Facility Acquisition	2007		200,000		154,000		91,943		107		446,050
William Kolman⁽⁴⁾	2009		200,000		199,861		—		10,324		410,185
EVP, Sales	2008		200,000		234,974		—		169		435,143
Michael Terlizzi	2009	$	190,800	$	119,557		—	$	8,782	$	319,139
EVP, Operations


Name	Award Date ₍₁₎	Number of shares or units of stock that have not vested (#)⁽²⁾	Market value of shares or units of stock that have not vested ($)⁽³⁾
Eric Shepcaro	7/8/2007	30,124	$	269,309
Christopher W. Downie	7/8/2007	8,149		117,087
	4/11/2008	4,948
J. Todd Raymond	12/18/2006	9,561		105,769
	7/8/2007	2,270
William Kolman	7/8/2007	5,938		53,086
Michael Terlizzi	12/18/2006	1,840	$	41,294
	7/8/2007	2,779


	Stock Awards
Name	Number of Shares Acquired on Vesting (#)	Value Realized on Vesting ($)
Eric Shepcaro	19,026	$	192,178
Christopher W. Downie	9,700		97,977
J. Todd Raymond	10,993		111,040
William Kolman	3,750		37,878
Michael Terlizzi	3,594	$	36,302


Name, Principal Position and Reasons for Potential Payments	Cash Severance ($)⁽¹⁾		Employer- Paid Health Insurance ($)			Stock Awards ($)
Eric Shepcaro, CEO and Director
Disability	$	450,000	$	24,451	⁽²⁾	$	—
Retirement, Death, For Cause, or Voluntary Resignation		—		—		$	—
Without Cause or for Good Reason	$	675,000	$	36,676	⁽³⁾	$	—

Christopher W. Downie, President, CFO and Treasurer
Disability	$	—	$	—		$	—
Retirement, Death, For Cause, or Voluntary Resignation		—		—		$	—
Without Cause or for Good Reason	$	240,000	$	23,513	⁽²⁾	$	—

J. Todd Raymond, SVP, Facility Acquisition
Disability	$	—	$	—		$	—
Retirement, Death, For Cause, or Voluntary Resignation		—		—		$	—
Without Cause or for Good Reason	$	200,000	$	24,451	⁽²⁾	$	—

William Kolman, EVP Sales
Disability	$	—	$	—		$	—
Retirement, Death, For Cause, or Voluntary Resignation		—		—		$	—
Without Cause or for Good Reason	$	200,000	$	24,451	⁽²⁾	$	—

Michael Terlizzi, EVP Operations
Disability	$	—	$	—		$	—
Retirement, Death, For Cause, or Voluntary Resignation		—		—		$	—
Without Cause or for Good Reason	$	160,000	$	24,451	⁽²⁾	$	—


Name of Stockholder		Number of Shares of Series A Preferred Stock*
GI Partners Fund II, L.P.		107,205
GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P.		42,795
Telxinvest, LLC		2,400


	Shares Beneficially Owned Prior to the Offering		Shares Being Offered⁽¹⁾	Shares Beneficially Owned After the Offering
Name of Beneficial Owner	Number	Percent (%)	Shares Being Offered⁽¹⁾	Number	Percent
5% Stockholders
GI Partners Fund II, L.P.⁽²⁾
GI Partners Side Fund II, L.P.⁽²⁾
Named Executive Officers and Directors
Eric Shepcaro⁽³⁾
Christopher W. Downie⁽³⁾
J. Todd Raymond⁽³⁾
William Kolman⁽³⁾
Michael Terlizzi⁽³⁾
Howard Park⁽²⁾
Eric Harrison
Daniel H. Schulman
All directors and executive officers as a group (8 persons)
Other Selling Stockholders
Telxinvest, LLC⁽⁴⁾


Underwriters		Number of Shares
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
RBC Capital Markets Corporation
Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
Piper Jaffray & Co
SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

Total


Paid by the Company	No Exercise	Full Exercise
Per Share	$	$
Total	$	$


Paid by the Selling Stockholders	No Exercise	Full Exercise
Per Share	$	$
Total	$	$


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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm		F-2

Financial Statements:

Consolidated Balance Sheets		F-3

Consolidated Statements of Operations		F-4

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows		F-5

Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity and Comprehensive Loss		F-6

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements		F-7

Financial Statement Schedules:

Schedule II — Valuation and Qualifying Accounts		F-37


	December 31,
	2009			2008
Assets
Cash and cash equivalents	$	40,655		$	22,638
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for bad debt of $578 and $349		5,429			7,801
Current deferred tax asset		314			153
Prepaid expenses		1,375			1,671
Loans due from officers, current		102			102
Other current assets		1,988			1,488

Total current assets		49,863			33,853
Property and equipment, net (Note 9)		70,078			46,017
Goodwill		149,153			149,153
Intangible assets, net (Note 8)		20,834			36,606
Cash—restricted		4,694			4,713
Prepaid rent		5,990			6,102
Loans due from officers, non-current		828			888
Other assets		1,982			2,970

Total assets	$	303,422		$	280,302

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Accounts payable	$	3,414		$	5,551
Accrued expenses		9,084			6,278
Customer security deposits		1,268			870
Deferred revenue		3,709			3,000
Current portion of capital lease and other financing obligations (Note 10)		916			437
Current portion of mortgage and loans payable (Note 10)		13,301			9,352

Total current liabilities		31,692			25,488
Customer security deposits, less current portion		270			483
Deferred rent		24,144			16,341
Deferred revenue, less current portion		1,750			2,006
Deferred tax liability, net		3,923			2,774
Capital lease and other financing obligations, less current portion (Note 10)		4,620			3,104
Mortgage and loans payable, less current portion (Note 10)		116,693			101,046

Total liabilities		183,092			151,242

Commitments and contingencies (see Note 18)

Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred stock, Series A, par value $0.0001 per share; 2,300,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2009 and 2008; 1,930,399 shares issued and outstanding shares at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively		—			—
Preferred stock, Series B, par value $0.0001 per share; 253,223 shares authorized at December 31, 2009 and 2008; 240,354 and 248,322 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively		—			—
Common stock, par value $0.0001 per share; 4,500,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2009 and 2008; 706 and 224 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.		—			—
Additional paid-in capital		204,682			203,493
Accumulated deficit		(84,352	)		(74,433	)

Total stockholders’ equity		120,330			129,060

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	303,422		$	280,302


	Series A preferred			Series B preferred				Common stock			Additional paid-in capital		Comprehensive loss			Accumulated deficit			Total
	Shares	Amount		Shares		Amount		Shares	Amount		Additional paid-in capital		Comprehensive loss			Accumulated deficit			Total
Balances at December 31, 2006	1,269,999	$	—	98,537		$	—	100	$	—	$	134,322	$	—		$	(6,667	)	$	127,655
Issuance of capital stock in NYCC transaction	500,000		—	—			—	—		—		50,000		—			—			50,000
Sale of shares to Telxinvest	8,000		—	—			—	—		—		800		—			—			800
Compensation expense for:
Issuance of Series B preferred stock	—		—	142,686			—	—		—		270		—			—			270
Issuance of common stock options to employees	—		—	—			—	—		—		109		—			—			109
Issuance of stock options for Series A preferred stock in connection with the lease agreement	—		—	—			—	—		—		1,835		—			—			1,835
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2007	—		—	—			—	—		—		—	$	(36,386	)		(36,386	)		(36,386	)

													$	(36,386	)

Balances at December 31, 2007	1,777,999	$	—	241,223		$	—	100	$	—	$	187,336				$	(43,053	)	$	144,283
Proceeds from issuance of Series A preferred stock, net of related costs	152,400		—	—			—	—		—		15,213		—			—			15,213
Exercise of common stock options	—		—	—			—	124		—		3		—			—			3
Compensation expense for:
Forfeitures of Series B preferred stock	—		—	(4,901	)		—	—		—		—		—			—			—
Issuance of Series B preferred stock	—		—	12,000			—	—		—		588		—			—			588
Issuance of common stock options to employees	—		—	—			—	—		—		331		—			—			331
Issuance of warrants to purchase fixed assets	—		—	—			—	—		—		22								22
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2008	—		—	—			—	—		—		—	$	(31,380	)		(31,380	)		(31,380	)

													$	(31,380	)

Balances at December 31, 2008	1,930,399	$	—	248,322		$	—	224	$	—	$	203,493				$	(74,433	)	$	129,060
Exercise of common stock options	—		—	—			—	482		—		10		—			—			10
Compensation expense for:
Forfeitures of Series B preferred stock	—		—	(7,968	)		—	—		—		—		—			—			—
Issuance of Series B preferred stock	—		—	—			—	—		—		611		—			—			611
Issuance of common stock options to employees	—		—	—			—	—		—		568		—			—			568
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2009	—		—	—			—	—		—		—	$	(9,919	)		(9,919	)		(9,919	)

													$	(9,919	)

Balances at December 31, 2009	1,930,399	$	—	240,354		$	—	706	$	—	$	204,682				$	(84,352	)	$	120,330


		Estimated useful life
Furniture and fixtures		5 years
Leasehold improvements		2 – 40 years
Building		25 years
Colocation equipment		3 – 15 years


Assets acquired:
Net receivables	$	810
Property and equipment		1,188
Other assets		182
Goodwill		31,304
Intangible assets – customer relationships		13,760

Total assets acquired		47,244

Liabilities assumed:
Deferred revenue		65
Other liabilities		1,134

Total liabilities assumed		1,199

Net assets acquired	$	46,045


		December 31, 2009
	Weighted average useful life	Gross carrying amount		Accumulated amortization			Net
Trademark	15	$	26,000	$	(5,636	)	$	20,364
Customers contracts	2.7		75,260		(74,790	)		470
Covenant not to compete	1		90		(90	)		—

		$	101,350	$	(80,516	)	$	20,834


		December 31, 2008
	Weighted average useful life	Gross carrying amount		Accumulated amortization			Net
Trademark	15	$	26,000	$	(3,902	)	$	22,098
Customers contracts	2.7		75,260		(60,752	)		14,508
Covenant not to compete	1		90		(90	)		—

		$	101,350	$	(64,744	)	$	36,606