Equinix Launches Second Phase of State-of-the-Art London Data Center
July 11 2011 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), a provider of data center services,
today announced the opening of the second phase of its latest
London (LD5) International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center.
This expansion of Platform Equinix™ adds another 4,000 square
meters of customer space and capacity for 1,400 cabinet equivalents
in the London metropolitan area.
Russell Poole, managing director, Equinix UK, said, “London is
one of the largest and fastest growing data center markets in the
world and the opening of LD5’s second phase underlines our
commitment to support our customers’ growth. We have been focusing
our efforts on providing a global platform to meet the demand for
colocation and network exchange services from the whole market. At
the moment, this growth in demand is particularly strong from
financial services firms and cloud service providers.”
The LD5 facility was first opened in April 2010 and is built on
the same campus as Equinix’s existing LD4 IBX data center. The two
facilities are connected by more than 1,000 diverse dark fiber
links, enabling customers from across the campus to easily grow
their operations and directly exchange business information.
The LD4/LD5 campus gives customers access to more than 40
carriers providing network services and low latency diverse fiber
routes into Central London. This location is also attractive
because of its connectivity to direct transatlantic cables that
offer London clients the lowest possible latency to North America,
saving precious milliseconds in data exchange.
The campus is home to Equinix’s Financial Services offering, an
active community of execution venues and other financial market
participants, such as Chi-X, State Street Bank and Fixnetix, who
locate in close proximity to each other to directly exchange data,
speed up execution times and increase trading volumes. This new
phase reflects Equinix’s ongoing commitment to meeting the growing
demands of the trading community, as the adoption of high frequency
trading strategies across multiple-asset classes in Europe
continues to increase. Through high performance standards,
consistency of service and the ability to attract key participants,
Equinix continues to cement its position as the destination of
choice for the financial services sector.
The LD5 IBX data center has been created to provide customers
with highly resilient yet energy efficient data center services,
including a number of design features to maximize efficiency and
reduce the overall power consumption of the facility.
Tom Murphy, senior manager of data center’s infrastructure for
T-Systems, Deutsche Telekom’s outsourcing division, said, “The
launch of the second phase of LD5 has enabled us to strengthen our
relationship with Equinix and allows us to expand our footprint
with them within the LD4/LD5 campus. We have worked with Equinix
for a number of years now, with installations in several of
Equinix’s IBX data centers throughout Europe. The global reach and
consistently high level of service fits well with our corporate
strategy.”
The Equinix LD5 IBX data center is being built out in phases,
timed to meet market demand. On completion of all four phases, the
data center will spread over a total 27,800 square meters of gross
space, and have capacity for a total of 5,600 cabinet
equivalents.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects businesses with partners
and customers around the world through a global platform of high
performance data centers, containing dynamic ecosystems
and the broadest choice of networks. More
than 3,350 enterprises, cloud, digital content and
financial companies connect to more than 650 network
service providers and rely on Platform Equinix to grow their
business, improve application performance and protect their vital
digital assets. Equinix operates in 37 strategic markets across the
Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific and continually invests in
expanding its platform to power customer growth.
http://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.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
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