REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Dec. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center
company, today announced that EarthLink is leveraging the Equinix
Cloud Exchange™ for direct connectivity to cloud and enterprise
customers as part of the EarthLink Cloud Express™
product. As a leading managed network, security and cloud
solutions provider EarthLink has been able to increase time to
market and scale where the Equinix Cloud Exchange is available to
meet their changing business needs.
Highlights / Key Facts
- EarthLink has been working with Equinix for over a decade,
having utilized the Equinix expanding footprint of data
centers to interconnect and peer with bandwidth providers, backbone
networks and large content providers. Today EarthLink operates a
nationwide network spanning more than 28,000 fiber route miles,
with 90 metro fiber rings and secure data centers that provide
ubiquitous data and voice IP service coverage. The Equinix Cloud
Exchange means that EarthLink can connect to many participants
(clouds, networks, enterprise customers), while enabling dynamic
bandwidth allocation among various parties, and all over redundant
high-speed network interconnects.
- EarthLink leveraged Equinix Global Solution Architects and the
Equinix Solution Validation Centers to develop an API and custom
portal development for its myLink® portal, providing
Cloud Express customers real time information on their cloud
connections, via a single pane of glass. This increased flexibility
helps EarthLink reach enterprise customers that are increasingly
turning to cloud-based solutions to meet their IT needs while also
addressing application performance issues. According to a recent
Forrester study1, enterprises have experienced on
average of a 40% reduction in bandwidth costs by using
Equinix.
- EarthLink's portfolio of secure services improve cloud and
business application performance while protecting against security
threats. The Equinix Cloud Exchange improves end-user experience
through predictable network performance, which is increasingly
important for EarthLink's retail customers who now experience added
benefits as they continue to adopt cloud-based point-of-sale
solutions.
- The Equinix Cloud Exchange allows businesses to deploy hybrid
cloud architectures for essential business applications by
providing access to leading cloud service providers such as AWS,
Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Platform and IBM
SoftLayer, via a private, high-speed, low-latency connection that
bypasses the public Internet.
- By providing access on the Equinix Cloud Exchange, EarthLink
Cloud Express delivers secure, direct high-performance connections
to leading cloud service providers. Easy to deploy and operate,
these virtual network circuits are quickly provisioned, scalable,
and have no traditional access costs.
Quotes
- Stephen Currie, vice
president of Managed Services Product Management,
EarthLink:
"Companies turn to EarthLink
for design of custom networks that match their unique operational
demands, obtain better performance from their existing investments,
and privately connect to cloud resources. By leveraging the Equinix
Cloud Exchange through Cloud Express we can rapidly and securely
connect to the top cloud providers that matter most to our
customers, while also optimizing their cloud-based
performance."
- Ryan Mallory, vice president,
Technology:
"It is great to see existing
customers such as EarthLink continue to leverage Equinix and our
resources such as our Global Solution Architects to innovate in new
ways. The deployment of their API and portal on Cloud Exchange
allows them to connect to the top cloud service providers and
ultimately drive competitive advantage."
About EarthLink
EarthLink (EarthLink Holdings Corp., NASDAQ: ELNK) provides
managed network, security and cloud solutions for multi-location
businesses. We help thousands of specialty retailers, restaurants,
financial institutions, healthcare providers, professional service
firms and local governments deliver a reliable and engaging
customer experience in their stores and branch offices. We do so by
building and managing MPLS WAN networks, by providing virtualized
infrastructure, security, hosted voice, secure WiFi and compliance
solutions, and by offering exceptional customer care. We operate a
nationwide network spanning more than 28,000 fiber route miles,
with 90 metro fiber rings and secure data centers that provide
ubiquitous data and voice IP service coverage. Our EarthLink
Carrier™ division sells facilities-based wholesale
telecommunications to other providers and our award-winning
Internet services connect hundreds of thousands of residential
customers across the U.S. For more, visit www.earthlink.com and
follow @earthlink, LinkedIn and Google+.
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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Inc.
1 The Total Economic Impact™ Of Equinix
Interconnection Solutions, August
2015
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