JPIX, the Largest Internet Exchange in Japan, Extends Peering Fabric to Equinix Tokyo Data Center
September 29 2008 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading global provider of
network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, and
Japan Internet Exchange Co. Ltd. (JPIX), the largest Internet
exchange in Japan, today announced that JPIX has extended its
peering fabric to the Equinix Tokyo-2 (TY2) Internet Business
Exchange (IBX�) data center located in Shinagawa. As a part of the
agreement, Equinix customers will be able to directly exchange
traffic, or �peer,� with JPIX�s diverse aggregation of Internet
service providers, cable TV service providers and content
providers, allowing high-quality traffic exchange participants to
increase reliability, improve performance and reduce the costs of
network traffic exchange. JPIX, with over 100 customers, including
Japan�s Tier-1 ISPs, cable TV service providers and content
providers, is a strategic exchange point for Internet traffic in
Japan. Through this agreement, JPIX will set up an Internet
Exchange (IX) switch at the Equinix TY2 center, and it will use
Equinix�s IBXLink service to directly connect to the Equinix TY1
center located in Heiwajima. Equinix is the global leader in
interconnection and peering, offering high-performance private and
public peering services. The peering relationships facilitated by
Equinix�s interconnection solutions help form the strategic
foundation for the growth of the Internet, from email to video to
virtually any other application that must traverse multiple
networks to get from origin to destination. �As the leading
advocate of peering in Asia since 2002 Equinix has been actively
encouraging peering relationships between international and
Japanese customers by providing innovative services and organizing
forums that foster greater interaction,� said David Wilkinson,
Managing Director of Equinix Japan. �This partnership with JPIX is
a milestone that enhances the peering fabric for both companies,
allowing customers the ability to further scale their peering
relationships with a larger aggregation of ISPs, content providers
and content delivery networks.� About Equinix Equinix is the
leading global provider of network-neutral data center and
interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic
exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global
enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network
service providers look to Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX�)
centers for world-class reliability and network diversity. Equinix
IBX centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and
Internet operations worldwide. With 41 IBX centers located in 18
strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific,
Equinix enables customers to reliably operate their
mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis. 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; the results of any litigation relating to past stock
option grants and practices; 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. Internet Business Exchange
is a trademark of Equinix, Inc. About JPIX Japan Internet Exchange
Co. Ltd. (JPIX) was founded in July 1997 with the goal of providing
Internet service providers (ISPs) with a neutral environment for
their traffic. It initiated IX services in November of the same
year after building its exchange facilities in Otemachi, Tokyo.
Exchanges are the backbone of the Internet. The first Internet
exchange in Japan � the NSPIXP Pilot Project started by a research
organization called WIDE � was highly successful. JPIX is a
commercial Internet exchange, benefitting from the fruits of the
WIDE project, and counts among its customers Japan�s tier-1 ISPs,
as well as ISPs from other countries. It is now the largest
Internet exchange in Japan in terms of traffic volume and number of
customers connected, and has become the heart of the Internet in
Japan.
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