REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Nov. 21, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the
global interconnection and data center company, today
announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc., a leading provider
of video-first unified communications, will leverage Platform
Equinix® to expand its globally distributed
footprint in order to support the company's worldwide growth
objectives.
Currently serving over 66,000 customers that have more than 10
employees, Zoom has become the leader in meeting solutions and
unified communications, dramatically changing the way people work.
Zoom has played an integral role in shifting the
communications culture to a robust video-first approach by
delivering a reliable, frictionless platform across devices for
users around the world.
As a key element to accelerate its global expansion strategy,
Zoom was in search of an industry-leading partner with whom they
could securely deploy, directly connect and effectively scale the
company's digital infrastructure. Equinix's global platform allowed
Zoom to meet its rapid growth requirements with consistency,
scalability and security. Zoom also selected Equinix to
directly connect with key business verticals, specifically the
financial services and government sectors, while at the same time
connecting to the wide range of network service providers and
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) digital business partners operating
within the global ecosystem of companies on Platform Equinix.
Today, portions of Zoom's digital infrastructure reside within
Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)
data centers in nine markets worldwide: Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hong
Kong, Melbourne,
New York, Tokyo, Toronto, Silicon Valley and Sydney. The company has also capitalized on
its reach by placing two data centers in each of the Americas, EMEA
and Asia-Pacific regions to create
sites for reliable disaster-recovery backup.
To enhance Zoom's inter- and cross-region capabilities, the
company leverages Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX
Fabric™), an on-demand, SDN-enabled interconnection service that
allows any business to connect between its own distributed
infrastructure and any other company's distributed infrastructure,
including the world's largest network service and cloud providers,
on Platform Equinix. This enables Zoom to achieve low-latency
access to its networks, clouds, partners and customers by
interconnecting in close proximity.
ECX Fabric allows Zoom to enable its enterprise SaaS and network
service provider customers to directly and privately connect their
networks to the Zoom network, enabling the Zoom network traffic to
bypass the public internet and establish private connections to its
technology partners and customers in real time, removing time
barriers and improving go-to-market speed, in a matter of
minutes.
Since its founding in 2011, Zoom's platform was engineered from
the ground up to be cloud-native and optimized for video, promising
simplicity, versatility and value. Zoom's path from startup to
public company with high revenue growth—up 96% year-over-year in
the last quarter—is a testament to the success of a
born-in-the-cloud digital business with a scalable and sustainable
business model.
Highlights / Key Facts:
- Equinix has been a strategic partner for Zoom since 2015,
enabling its rapid global expansion. Zoom has leveraged Equinix's
colocation and interconnection portfolio, and now partners with
Equinix for a presence in nine markets worldwide.
- Zoom hosts more than 80 billion annualized meeting minutes a
year. According to IDC, the voice and video segments will represent
a $43 billion market opportunity by
2022.
- By extending their reach to potentially thousands of new global
partners on Platform Equinix, Zoom can accelerate its global
expansion strategy to deliver top-quality conferencing services to
its customers free from lag or downtime across multiple
geographies.
- According to the recently released Volume 3 of the Global
Interconnection Index (GXI), a market study published by Equinix,
interconnecting to multiple network providers across multiple edge
locations is the most prominent use case for interconnection
bandwidth, making up 68% of all interconnection bandwidth, and is
expected to grow 4x by 2022. The GXI forecast and supporting
deployment data reveal that workloads are moving to the digital
edge, where business data can be exchanged in proximity to
customers, employees and partners.
Quotes:
- Oded Gal, Chief Product
Officer, Zoom
"Equinix has played a key role in Zoom's
success and its journey to accelerate international expansion. The
global presence of Platform Equinix has served as a meeting point
for various components of our infrastructure—from network to cloud
providers. As we continue broadening our digital footprint globally
and target enterprise organizations, ECX Fabric will help our
platform to deliver reliable, high-quality communications that
enable productivity, connectedness and trust."
- Milind Wagle, CIO,
Equinix
"As digital continues to transform the world, we
are witnessing a new era of really innovative companies being built
on the cloud. As a video-first, cloud-native company, Zoom has
disrupted the industry, revolutionizing the way people interact and
collaborate across geographies. At Equinix, Zoom has transformed
our collaboration experience for our entire global workforce. We
share Zoom's deep-rooted value to put the customer at the center of
everything we do and are committed to supporting Zoom's long-term
vision for growth."
Additional Resources:
- Zoom Global Case Study [case study]
- Zoom Australia Case Study [case study]
- Zoom Australia Use Case Video [video]
- Global Interconnection Index Volume 3 [report]
- Learn more about ECX Fabric [website]
- Learn more about Platform Equinix [website]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading
businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the
most-interconnected data centers. On this global platform for
digital business, companies come together across more than 50
markets on five continents to reach everywhere, interconnect
everyone and integrate everything they need to create their digital
futures. 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 data centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix products and solutions; unanticipated costs or
difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have
acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive
significant revenues from customers in recently built out or
acquired data centers; a 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; risks related to our taxation as a REIT; and other risks
described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent Equinix
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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