REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Aug. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced that it is working with
Aqua Comms Limited (AquaComms), a provider of scalable, subsea
capacity-based network solutions, on the deployment of its new
transatlantic fiber optic system, America Europe Connect
(AEConnect). Scheduled to be ready for service before the end of
2015, AEConnect, spanning more than 5,400 km across the Atlantic
between Long Island, NY and the
West Coast of Ireland with stubbed
branching units for future landings, will provide high capacity
connectivity from New York to
London and beyond to greater
Europe.
Equinix's New York and London
International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center campuses serve
as carrier-neutral network access points for AquaComms to connect
its low latency subsea cable route. This new connectivity between
North America and London allows network service providers to be
able to tap into economic opportunities stemming from a presence in
two of the biggest commercial centers in the world.
Highlights / Key Facts
- According to research by industry analyst firm TeleGeography,
London (2) and New York (5) are in the top five global metros
for peak international Internet traffic and the London to New
York route is the second largest international Internet
traffic route globally with multiple terabits of peak traffic. In
its 2015 Global Bandwidth Research Service report, TeleGeography
notes that private network bandwidth on the trans-Atlantic route
eclipsed Internet bandwidth for the first time in history, rising
to 13.9 Tbps and accounting for 56 percent of used bandwidth.
- Explosive growth in mobile, content delivery, video streaming,
tele-presence, social media, and cloud-based data traffic offers
tremendous revenue opportunities for high-margin corporate and
retail services such as Ethernet and MPLS. To remain competitive,
network operators are expanding their infrastructures to meet
demand for these new services—and are turning to colocation data
centers that not only offer all the network-to-network connectivity
of a telehouse, but also act as aggregation points for
concentrations of customers in network-centric industries.
- AquaComms' AEConnect is one of the first subsea cables between
New York City and London in nearly 15 years and was specifically
designed to meet the high growth of bandwidth requirements of
global data centers, cloud-based networks, financial services
market participants and content providers. With more than 52 Tbps
of available capacity, the 100G compliant system will utilize the
latest optical technologies to provide the most advanced subsea
system, coupled with a control plane based on a SDN platform to
serve bandwidth-intensive applications.
- Global businesses are increasing using more capacity to run IT
operations including cloud-based applications. In both the
New York and London markets Equinix offers direct
connectivity to leading cloud service providers including AWS,
Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform via the Equinix Cloud
Exchange™. These dedicated, private connections reduce network
costs and provide higher, more consistent network performance than
Internet-based connections for enterprise customers looking to
build hybrid clouds.
- Earlier this year Equinix announced that it is boosting
interconnection capacity by opening new data centers in five major
markets including New York and
London. Equinix's New York campus is the largest retail
colocation campus in the New York
metro and has a high interconnection rate, with more than 18,000
interconnections between businesses in this metro alone. By
providing this increased capacity, Equinix expands its role in
advancing the digital economy's interconnected era, in which
businesses are demanding increasing levels of interconnection to
accelerate business performance.
Quotes
- Greg Varisco, chief operating
officer, AquaComms:
"Responding to the demand
AquaComms is seeing for high capacity, high reliability
connectivity between North
America and Europe, we made
a strategic decision to deploy with Equinix. Their data centers in
New York and London act as major international hubs for
network traffic, offering our customers the ability to extend
existing networks or expand into new markets."
- Tim Stronge, vice president,
Research, TeleGeography:
"The international
bandwidth market is undergoing a transformation. The traditional
dynamic by which carriers link broadband users to global networks
is still a core part of the market, but on the largest routes,
content companies have overtaken carriers as the biggest bandwidth
consumers. The largest content providers have become major
customers of long-haul capacity as they expand their own internal
networks. Increasingly, these entities have capacity requirements
that exceed those of the largest carriers."
- Jim Poole, vice president,
global service providers, Equinix:
"Equinix has the
largest concentration of NSP/CSP's, financial, media and
entertainment, gaming, e-Commerce customers available in our
business ecosystems. This new bilateral submarine connectivity
gives both Equinix and AquaComms' customers yet another choice for
driving business advantage in today's global economy."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Accelerates Interconnected Era with Global Launch of
Five New Data Centers [press release]
- Equinix Expands New York Campus with State-of-the-Art Facility
[press release]
- Shaping the Interconnected Era [blog]
About Aqua Comms Limited
Aqua Comms Limited
(AquaComms) is the owner and operator of the transatlantic cable
AEConnect and the Irish Sea cable CeltixConnect, and was
established to build, acquire or merge with subsea fiber optic
cable networks to provide capacity networking solutions to the
global media, content providers and IT companies. To learn
more about Aqua Comms and its new transatlantic subsea cable
system, AEConnect, visit www.AquaComms.com.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 33 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from
expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors
that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to,
the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers
and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services;
unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of
companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure
to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out
or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing
arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from
existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient
cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding
indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key
customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular,
see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available
upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation
to update the forward-looking information contained in this press
release.
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