LANSING – ACD.net is moving its headquarters to downtown Lansing where the company will build the largest data center in the region at the Metro Internet Exchange Building. ACD.net serves the telephone, networks and Internet needs of businesses and residents in Lower Michigan.

The Meridian Township based company will expand its phone, networks and systems integration business with this move. ACD.net currently has 30 employees in the Lansing area and 10 more throughout the state. ACD is expected to add 20-30 more employees in the next two years.

ACD.net is a telecommunications and broadband provider, with networks in Grand Rapids, Lansing, Jackson, Ann Arbor, St. Joe/Benton Harbor, and Saginaw metropolitan areas. ACD.net provides DSL, fiber, hosting, Voice over Internet, and Wireless services.

The Metro Internet Exchange Building will house high-technology web hosting and voice over Internet equipment protected by a large bunker for secure datacenter service constructed in the center of the building. In addition it will include a high-tech office space and technology incubator open to established and upstart enterprises. In addition, this facility will serve as a hot site for corporate and government customers for disaster recovery.

The building will be a:

Secured facility with biometric access

Dual underground fiber entrances on ACD?s MidMIX Metro Fiber Network

Long-haul fiber with access to many Michigan cities

Redundant Internet backbones

Direct peering with many organizations

Redundant battery

Emergency generators

Full 24x7x365 Network Operations Command Center

Exciting housing, jobs and entertainment are an important part of attracting people to the region, according to local and state economic developers.

?Only major metropolitan areas like Chicago or San Francisco typically have this type of infrastructure. We are excited to bring a new high-technology facility to the Lansing region,? said ACD.net CEO Kevin Schoen. ?We are investing in the Lansing region?s high-tech economy. Downtown Lansing is growing new neighborhoods that will be the homes for people whose careers bring them to the region. We want to be a part of that by helping to create jobs for the new downtown.?

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