REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Sept. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced support for the new FASTER
sub-sea cable system which has the largest design capacity ever
built on the trans-Pacific route – one of the longest routes in the
world. The cable will be backhauled in to four of Equinix's
International Business Exchange (IBX®) data centers on the West
Coast of the United States
including Silicon Valley, Los
Angeles and Seattle, to
Chikura and Shima in Japan.
Highlights / Key Facts
- In May 2015, Cisco released its
VNI Global IP Traffic Forecast, 2014 – 2019. Global highlights from
the updated study include the following projections:
- By 2019, there will be nearly 3.9 billion global Internet users
(more than 51 percent of the world's population), up from 2.8
billion in 2014
- By 2019, there will be 24 billion networked devices and
connections globally, up from 14 billion in 2014
- Globally, the average fixed broadband connection speed will
increase 2.2-fold, from 20.3 Mbps in 2014 to 42.5 Mbps by 2019
- Globally, IP video will represent 80 percent of all traffic by
2019, up from 67 percent in 2014.
- Networks are an essential part of business, education,
government, and home communications. Many residential, business,
and mobile IP networking trends are being driven largely by a
combination of video, social networking, and advanced collaboration
applications, termed visual networking. 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.
- FASTER will feature the latest high-quality 6-fiber-pair cable
and optical transmission technologies, with an initial design
capacity of 60Tb/s (100Gb/s x 100 wavelengths x 6 fiber-pairs).
This new cable system will be landed at Chikura and Shima in
Japan and will feature seamless
connectivity to many neighboring cable systems to extend the
capacity beyond Japan to other
Asian locations.
- The FASTER cable system has the largest design capacity ever
built on the Trans-Pacific route, which is one of the longest
routes in the world. By connecting to Equinix data centers, FASTER
and its users can leverage Equinix's mature business ecosystems and
interconnection platform – Platform Equinix™ – which connects more
than 6,300 global businesses in 33 markets around the globe.
- Global businesses are increasingly using more capacity to run
IT operations including cloud-based applications. In both the
Silicon Valley and Seattle,
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 on four
continents including North America
and Asia. 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.
- The FASTER consortium is comprised of six parties, including
China Mobile International, China Telecom Global, Global Transit,
Google, KDDI and Singtel. The system is expected to begin operating
during the second quarter of 2016.
Quotes
- Jim Poole, vice president,
global service providers, Equinix:
"Equinix remains
committed to accelerating business performance by connecting
companies to their customers, employees and partners inside the
world's most interconnected data centers. We believe that the
FASTER cable system will increase the opportunity for
interconnection between North
America and Asia and we are
excited to be supporting this new venture."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Accelerates Interconnected Era with Global Launch of
Five New Data Centers [press release]
- Shaping the Interconnected Era [blog]
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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