REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Oct. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced it has been selected by
Laser Light Communications (US) and its affiliate firm, Laser Light
Global, LTD (UK), as its strategic interconnection provider for
Laser Light's All Optical Hybrid Global Network, or "HALO," the
world's first hybrid optical network exclusively utilizing laser
technology. As part of the initial agreement, Laser Light will
establish its inaugural global Point of Presence (PoP) at Equinix's
DC11 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in
the Washington, D.C.
area.
With its deployment at DC11, Laser Light will commence
installation, testing and demonstration of its leading-edge laser
communications and SD-WAN equipment. Once operational, the HALO
satellite constellation will offer its Optical Satellite as a
Service (OSaaS) - SpaceCable™ services to carriers,
enterprises and government customers at Equinix facilities around
the globe, providing a seamless all-optical communications system,
through its hybrid satellite-terrestrial network, capable of
quickly and cost-effectively connecting any two points on the globe
with 100Gbps service links.
Highlights / Key Facts
- The initial deployment in Equinix's DC11 IBX is expected to
grow with additional Points of Presence planned globally, including
Equinix facilities in the UK, Japan, Brazil, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe.
- Space-based laser communication technology – known as Free
Space Optics – stems from 20+ years of civil science and federal
investments and deployments by government entities such as
Department of Defense (DOD), National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese
Space Agency (JSA). It is now being commercialized for the first
time by private firms, such as Laser Light.
- Equinix is home to 1,400+ networks and 2,500+ cloud and IT
service providers on its global platform with 145+ data centers
across 40 top markets on five continents. This makes it the home of
the interconnected cloud and a natural partner for Laser Light's
HALO Network. By leveraging Equinix's rich ecosystem of customers,
Equinix provides Laser Light a marketplace enabling it to offer its
capacity to Equinix customers, who require low latency, high data
volume transmission services for their global market
destinations.
- An Equinix partnership will permit Laser Light to access global
facilities, which will aid in its need for interconnection with
local and terrestrial fiber infrastructure as necessary to bypass
atmospheric interference and deliver its OSaaS directly to its
customers.
Quotes:
- Ihab Tarazi, chief technology
officer, Equinix:
"We are excited to work with Laser Light as the
interconnection provider for this cutting-edge satellite technology
that greatly increases access to many parts of the world that are
underserved by current fiber and wireless networks. By adding
'SpaceCable' as an equivalent offering together with terrestrial
and submarine cables, Equinix customers looking for low latency
solutions to reach new or emerging markets will have access to a
full suite of data transport options."
- Robert Brumley, CEO, Laser
Light:
"A partnership with Equinix permits Laser Light to become a
truly tier 1 global carrier with access to facilities, and
incumbent local fiber providers, in a 'one stop shop' partnership.
Also, Equinix's mix of enterprise, global carriers, and government
customers, permits Laser Light to be present in the marketplace for
high volume data services in the key regional markets around the
globe. We are excited that Equinix and Laser Light have formed this
partnership in this stage of our development to draw on their
extensive experience as a global facilities provider, and cooperate
with us in our deployment of a unique, SDN global network."
- John Hannah, Director of
the New IP Agency (NIA):
"We applaud Laser Light and Equinix for pioneering the commercial
deployment of OSaaS and providing the communications industry with
another example of the capabilities and benefits of virtualized IP
networks and how network convergence is redefining the way
communication services are delivered to end-users. The
virtualization of IP networks and the adoption of SDN has the
ability to deliver benefits to the communications industry beyond
just CAPEX and OPEX savings, including the ability to bridge
traditional communications networks together in order to introduce
novel network designs that meet end-users' increasing need for
high-bandwidth connectivity." www.newipagency.com.
- Maureen Rhemann – Sr.
Strategist, Trends Digest (Reperi Analysis Center)
"We are entering a new era where data could be all dressed up with
no place to go, and the party could be ending sooner than we think.
With 60 billion devices connected to the internet by 2020, petabyte
level processing, and zettabyte level data growth, global networks
face being imperiled by the sheer onslaught of massive data
traffic. Lasercom is the most viable solution because it's rapidly
deployable, secure, can be optically integrated ubiquitously with
terrestrial and satellite networks, and has proven its resiliency
and reliability for high speed transport of large data sets. Like
the evolution of cloud computing, lasercom is the next logical
progression in communications transport technology and firms
like Laser Light are leading the pack."
http://www.trendsdigest.com/ .
About Laser Light Communications (US)
Laser
Light™ intends to deploy an All Optical Global Communications
Network - HALO™. The service capacity of the planned HALO™
constellation of 8-12 Medium Earth Orbit satellites will be 7.2
Tbps, comprised of 48 sat-sat 200Gbps optical crosslinks and
72 sat-ground 100Gbps optical up/down links, without reliance on
regulated radio frequency spectrum. Laser Light™ intends to
interconnect its proposed HALO™ satellite system with over 100
customer Points of Presence clustered within 20-25 SD-WANs across
the globe. The HALO™ network - satellite and SD-WANs - will be
cross-connected to Laser Light's proprietary extended ground
network and its patented operating system, ensuring carrier grade
service, enhanced redundancy, resiliency, and unprecedented
security. HALO™ is designed to support its "Optical Satellite as a
Service" (OsaaS) product suite - Global Access 100Gbps Circuits and
its proprietary HALO™ Direct Connect service - to global
enterprises, data centers, media, finance firms, carriers, and
government entities. http://www.laserlightcomms.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 40 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.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc.
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