Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets.
Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets
With regard to the transaction, I wonder if you can comment, qualitatively, on those areas where you expect either top-line synergies, or perhaps SG&A synergies.
And then from the anti-trust standpoint, are there any issues to consider given that both of you are significant players in the carrier neutral space and among the leading providers of cross connect and peering services.
Stephen M. Smith
I'm glad you started out with that question, because Keith and I today, and Keith Olsen, are not going to be able to discuss deal structure, returns, any post-integration strategies, synergies, or employee changes. And as Jason mentioned, anything about Switch and Data's Q3 performance.
So any deal specific that's not contained in the press release, we're just not in a position today to give you any more color.
In terms of the regulatory position, rest assured that we have looked very hard at this. We do not believe that the transaction presents any competitive concerns. We are taking the position that the North America data center market is a big market, as you guys know, pretty highly fragmented. And if you include all the hosting players in that space you know it's in excess of 17 and 17.5 billion. So there are in excess of 350 to 360 companies that are in this space. So our position is that we will let the regulatory case play itself out.
Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets
Moving away from the income statement, if you can comment on with respect to acquired assets, what types of investments do you typically make [inaudible] and are there any non-core data assets that would be candidates for divestiture?
Stephen M. Smith
I think we caught most of that. You broke up a little bit. But on the back-end of your question, we are still in the analysis phase of how we will combine the other data centers. And it will probably give us an opportunity to tier our services in the future. We've been looking at that. I think we've signaled that to you guys before.
So now that we are going to have a combination of 79 data centers in 34 markets globally, it sure provides us with the ability to service multiple requirement from multiple types of customers and possibly look at doing that. But any further color past that, we're just not in a position today to address that.
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