Hello All !
Our next meeting will be held:
6:30 PM, Wed, June 22, 2011
1102 Grand
Downtown Kansas City
Sponsor: 1102 Grand
Food and door prizes will be provided by : 1102 Grand

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NOTE: Location for this month's meeting is :: Downtown Kansas City :: 1102 Grand

This month's topic is:
1102 Grand Internet Provider / Data Center (speaker: Greg Elliott)

Companies from around the world utilize 1102 GRAND for data center operations, colocation services, and to connect to our impressive list of 32 carriers and internet providers. Bootstrapping startups to Inc. 500 and Fortune 500 companies count on 1102 GRAND around the clock to grow their business and successfully achieve operational objectives.

Long haul fiber- Met! ro fiber- Dark Fiber- Lit services- MPLS Networks? 1102 GRAND is a major Midwestern internet hub and the most fiber dense network neutral interconnection and colocation facility in the Kansas City region. Being uniquely positioned essentially equidistant between New York and Los Angeles as well as Chicago and Dallas provides network advantages for our customers. Major cross country fiber routes pass through Kansas City, and the majority pass through our carrier neutral Meet Me Room.

Information about the meeting: 1102 GRAND will provide dinner and drinks. There will also be giveaways and door prizes.

Parking suggestions and directions to the 1102 GRAND conference room: 1102 GRAND conference room is on the 20th floor (1102 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64106). You can enter through 11th Street or Grand lobby doors. We lock down the lobby so please be patient if there is not someone there to let you in right away. After 5:00 PM the meters are n! o charge downtown, so feel free to park there. If you cannot ! find street parking, you can park in the parking garage just south of us (Wall Street Towers Garage / 1112 Grand). Be advised, large SUVs and Trucks may not fit in the garage. Other parking options include a self-pay surface parking lot on the east side of Grand across from the garage or another surface lot on the northeast corner of 11th and Grand. Google Maps has occasionally led people to the wrong location a couple miles north of our actual location. 1102 GRAND is two blocks north of the Sprint Center on the corner of 11th and Grand. If you have any questions or problems, please call me, Greg Elliott, at 816-213-7731.