Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter™ Facility in Charlotte to Host Network Point of Presence for CogentDigital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR), a leading owner and manager of corporate datacenters and Internet gateways, has completed a lease agreement with Cogent Communications Group (NASDAQ: CCOI) to support a new point of presence for the Internet service provider. The Digital Realty Trust Turn-Key Datacenter™ facility, located in Charlotte, N.C., will house Cogent’s equipment and provide other tenants located within the datacenter the opportunity to purchase bandwidth from Cogent. The space leased through this agreement will supply Cogent Communications with another point of presence where it can continue to add customers and bandwidth to its network, which is the largest capacity IP network in existence at 160 Gbps across the United States.

“Digital Realty Trust team has provided a tremendous amount of effort in making sure our presence met both our technical and business needs,” said Dave Schaeffer, founder and CEO of Cogent Communications. “We look forward to providing the tenants at this location with the lowest pricing in the industry for bandwidth that is backed by one of the industry’s leading Service Level agreements.”

“Digital Realty Trust facilities offer advanced technical capabilities, redundancy features and physical security that are key requirements of companies like Cogent, which have very high standards for the facilities that house their datacenters. Cogent’s selection of our facility underscores our ability to provide premier datacenter environments for the world’s most respected companies,” said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty Trust.

Digital Realty Trust’s Turn-Key Datacenters™ are move-in ready, physically secure facilities with the power and cooling capabilities to support critical enterprise applications. Digital Realty Trust offers scalability from one hundred square feet to over one hundred thousand square feet in state-of-the-art facilities with true carrier and managed service provider neutrality and metered power. Its Critical Facilities Management™ services and team of technical engineers and datacenter operations experts support the 24/7 mission-critical applications of today’s technology and corporate enterprise tenants.

About Digital Realty Trust, Inc.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, repositions and manages technology-related real estate. Digital Realty Trust’s 62 properties, excluding one property held in an unconsolidated joint venture, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry tenants and corporate enterprise datacenter tenants. Comprising approximately 11.4 million rentable square feet, including 1.7 million square feet of space held for redevelopment, Digital Realty Trust’s portfolio is located in 25 markets throughout North America and Europe. For additional information, please visit the Digital Realty Trust’s website at http://www.digitalrealtytrust.com.