REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Sept. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced
significant momentum in the company's involvement as a strategic
partner in submarine cable projects. Equinix's most recent win with
the Monet consortium (announced today), represents an industry
first for deploying an open submarine cable architecture together
with an integrated cable landing station; colocation and
interconnection inside a network-dense, multi-tenant data center.
In addition to this most recent win, Equinix has been selected as
an interconnection partner in more than 10 of the current submarine
cable projects, and will provide direct access to an aggregation of
networks and clouds at Equinix International Business Exchange™
(IBX®) data centers that are located in proximity to the
coastal termination points. Equinix global IBX data centers are
ideal for landing submarine cables, providing a one-stop shop for
operators' needs from cable landing station to backhaul and
interconnection. Additionally, Equinix has extended its
support model to meet the unique needs of submarine cable systems,
supplying a turnkey solution for all the requirements of submarine
cables including the cable landing station, power, colocation and
interconnection.
Current submarine cable projects that Equinix is engaged with
and has publically announced include: Southern Cross Cable
Network (California - Sydney); Aqua Comms (New York - London); Hibernia Express (New York - London); Cinia (Germany - Finland); Trident (Australia - Indonesia - Singapore); Globenet (Florida - Brazil); Asia Pacific Gateway (China - Hong
Kong - Japan - South Korea - Malaysia - Taiwan - Thailand - Vietnam - Singapore); Hawaiki Cable Limited (U.S. –
Australia – New Zealand); Gulf Bridge International
(Middle East - Europe); FASTER (U.S. West Coast -
Japan); Seaborn Networks
(New York - Sao Paulo); and Monet (Florida - Brazil), the newest project announced
today.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Hosting Monet's Florida cable
landing equipment directly into Equinix's MI3 IBX represents a new
innovative design in submarine cable infrastructure. For the
cable owners, the deployment will eliminate a separate cable
landing station and simplifies network design -- speeding up
the deployment and reducing the need for dedicated
cable station construction. For cable users,
termination at a multi-tenant data center with rich interconnection
opportunities greatly eases onward transport.
- Equinix is collaborating with CSPs and introducing key
innovations in submarine cable design and operations that leverage
interconnection and data centers. Monet will provide
state-of-the-art connectivity technology to enable the development
of value-added and new generations of cloud services, including
content distribution to the Latin American Market. The new
architecture is developed to meet the needs of large CSPs for
speed, efficiency and open system design.
- The submarine cable industry is experiencing explosive growth
driven primarily by exponential increases in data
traffic. According to SubTel Forum, 93,000 miles of cable will
be laid in 2016, more than in the last five years combined, and
more than three and a half times the circumference of the earth at
the equator. Because most intercontinental Internet traffic
traverses submarine cables, a greater proliferation of submarine
cables is essential in this digital age, when organizations depend
on instant connectivity to people, locations, clouds and data
worldwide.
- Cloud growth is driving the surge in data traffic and is the
most important factor increasing the importance of submarine
cables. Worldwide demand for cloud services is increasing, and
telcos are no longer the only companies with a major interest in
building and operating submarine networks. Cloud providers and
major content companies are now investors in new submarine cables,
as the demand for real-time access continues to grow and service
providers need to stage content closer to end users.
- Equinix is home to 1,400+ networks and 2,500+ cloud and IT
service providers on its global platform across 40 top markets on
five continents. This makes it the home of the interconnected cloud
and a natural destination for submarine cable systems. Once a
company or consortium commits to developing a submarine cable
system, they can reach their goals faster by using Equinix as a
gateway to the interconnection required by themselves and their
customers. Because Equinix is carrier-neutral, submarine system
operators can offer excess capacity to customers who otherwise
couldn't as quickly or efficiently reach the markets being served
by new submarine architecture.
Quote
- Ihab Tarazi, CTO,
Equinix:
"As data traffic continues to grow, from
Facebook videos and Instagram selfies to Office 365 sessions and
IoT connected devices, there is an unprecedented surge in
construction of new submarine cables that currently carry 99
percent of this and all Internet traffic between continents. The
investors in these new submarine cable systems, which now include
large cloud service providers and content companies, are finding
that when these submarine cables terminate on land, Equinix data
centers are the optimal location to immediately connect these point
to point submarine cables into a single location that directly
connects to thousands of networks."
Additional Resources
- Monet Submarine Cable Selects Equinix for Landing Station and
Next-Generation Digital Gateway to Latin America [press
release]
- Talk of Subsea Cables and the Growing Cloud on Tap at PTC '16
[blog post]
- Cinia Connects to Equinix Data Centers in Frankfurt and
Helsinki [press release]
- Equinix Data Centers Anchor Southern Cross Cable Network
between Australia and North America [press release]
- AquaComms and Equinix to Create High Capacity Connection
between New York and London [press release]
- Equinix Connects Hibernia Express Sub-Sea Cable between New
York and London [press release]
- GlobeNet Opens Fastest US – Brazil IP Traffic Route Via
Platform Equinix [press release]
- Equinix Supports FASTER Cable System in North America [press
release]
- Hawaiki Chooses Equinix for Australian Cable Landing Station
[press release]
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 40
markets worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. http://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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