REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Jan. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced that
Telstra, Australia's leading
telecommunications and information services company, is enhancing
its integration with Platform Equinix® to provide
its enterprise customers flexible, secure, on-demand multicloud
network connectivity to more than 170 service providers in 38
markets globally.
In today's digital economy, customers want on-demand, secure
connectivity to the cloud providers of their choice. To meet these
needs Telstra's Programmable Network (TPN) is leveraging Equinix
Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric™) to enable customers to
create private multicloud network connections to cloud providers in
just minutes, instead of weeks or months that more traditional
cloud connectivity approaches often require.
By building deeper integration with ECX Fabric, Telstra is also
enabling its customers to privately access the full range of cloud
service providers available via ECX Fabric including IaaS, PaaS,
SaaS, UCaaS, DDoS mitigation, data storage as-a-service providers
and more. A single integration with ECX Fabric enables Telstra to
offer its customers faster connectivity to a broad range of cloud
services than integrating directly with individual cloud
providers.
Telstra is also utilizing ECX Fabric to expand the geographical
reach of TPN into new markets—especially in North America and Europe—increasing the total
number of accessible markets from eight to 38. By leveraging
the global infrastructure of ECX Fabric, Telstra has been able to
expand TPN cloud connectivity at a rapid pace into new countries
and metros around the world.
Key Highlights:
- ECX Fabric is a software-defined interconnection service that
enables any business to connect between its own distributed
infrastructure and that of any other business, including the
world's largest network service and cloud providers, on Platform
Equinix.
- Telstra's API integration with ECX Fabric enables streamlined
access to the world's largest cloud providers, including Amazon Web
Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google
Cloud on Platform Equinix via global, software-defined
interconnection. Now available across 38 locations, ECX Fabric is
designed for scalability, agility and connectivity over a
self-service portal or APIs. Through a single portal, customers
create and manage connections on demand to the cloud provider of
their choice.
- Telstra's TPN is a software-defined network service platform
designed to help businesses embrace digital transformation and
quickly respond to customers and changing market dynamics with
next-generation agility, flexible consumption of services and
automated provisioning of network services. Telstra provides a wide
range of network, security, cloud and application services that can
be managed via a customer portal with a single unified view or
customer systems interfaced via APIs.
- The expanded multicloud connectivity now available to TPN
customers leverages API integration with ECX Fabric on Platform
Equinix to directly, securely and dynamically connect distributed
infrastructure and digital ecosystems globally. By interconnecting
TPN to ECX Fabric, the number of cloud service providers TPN
customers can access within a few minutes has increased from 60 to
more than 170+ cloud providers.
- NSP-enabled private connectivity to strategic cloud service
providers, as well as other enterprises or businesses, is essential
as digital transformation fuels higher demand for localized digital
services at the edge. According to the recently
released Volume 3 of the Global Interconnection Index (GXI), a
market study published by Equinix, private interconnection to
multiple clouds and IT services across multiple edge locations and
clouds is predicted to grow 13x by 2022.
Quotes:
- Sanjay Nayak, Product and
Service Design Director, Global Connectivity and Platforms, Product
and Technology, Telstra
"As customers scale delivery of
their enterprise applications by leveraging leading cloud providers
across new markets, the deeper integration of Telstra Programmable
Network (TPN)—our SDN platform—with Platform Equinix provides our
customers a unique ability to provision cloud connectivity services
within minutes to 170 providers across 38 locations globally. TPN
allows our customers to build secure, reliable and predictable
performance for their applications, which in turn drives
acceleration of business outcomes through improved employee
productivity."
- Lawrence
Pan, Technical Director,
Cloudmax
"With TPN we're able to connect to all the
clouds we need in a matter of minutes. This is a huge
improvement over the more traditional ways Taiwan customers used to connect to clouds.
Gone are the days of waiting weeks to connect to a new cloud or to
upgrade our bandwidth."
- Greg Adgate, Vice President,
Global Partnerships & Alliances, Equinix
"With a
large density of cloud providers, including the major cloud
providers available via ECX Fabric, Platform Equinix is an ideal
global interconnection platform for partners to connect privately
and securely to multicloud solutions. By partnering with Telstra to
combine TPN with our global interconnection capabilities and rich
ecosystems of cloud providers, customers can accelerate digital
transformation projects with on-demand access to multiple clouds
and other service and IT providers anytime, anywhere and on any
device."
Additional Resources:
- Learn more about ECX Fabric [website]
- Learn more about Platform Equinix [website]
- Equinix Telstra Joint Value Proposition [website]
- Telstra on Platform Equinix [website]
- Network Service Providers Turning to Equinix Cloud Exchange
Fabric For On-Demand, Private Multicloud Connectivity [press
release]
- Global Interconnection Index Volume 3 [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
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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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