REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Jan. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced the Southern Cross Cable
Network has expanded its data center presence and now directly
connects between Equinix's International Business Exchange
(IBX®) data centers in Los Angeles
(LA1) and Silicon Valley (SV1 and SV8) to its existing deployment
in Sydney (SY1). The fiber optic
submarine cable provides a high-capacity fiber route between
Sydney, Australia and the West
Coast of the United States, with
up to 100G end-to-end connectivity for increased performance.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Explosive growth in mobile, content delivery, video streaming,
tele-presence, social media, and cloud-based data traffic offers
tremendous revenue opportunities for high-margin corporate and
retail services such as Ethernet and MPLS. To remain competitive,
network operators are expanding their infrastructures to meet
demand for these new services—and are turning to colocation data
centers that not only offer all the network-to-network connectivity
of a telehouse, but also act as aggregation points for
concentrations of customers in network-centric industries.
- The Southern Cross cable system offers protected trans-pacific
routes among Australia,
New Zealand, Hawaii and the West Coast of the US. The
cables are made up of three fiber-pairs, each capable of
transmitting wavelengths at 100G+ per second. This level of
high-performance connectivity is increasingly required by global
businesses running latency-sensitive applications that may suffer
and result end a poor end-user experience.
- Equinix's Sydney, LA and
Silicon Valley data centers serve as carrier-neutral Points of
Presence (PoP) locations for the Southern Cross cable which is a
direct fiber pathway under the Pacific ocean, connecting the two
continents with the high capacity to support growing bandwidth
needs between North America and
Australia.
- Platform Equinix™ is the home of many mature business
ecosystems, such as electronic trading which gives business the
ability to interconnect with partners, customers and employees
across geographies through direct, secure physical and virtual
connections, to accelerate business performance and create new
opportunities.
- Located near the Sydney Central Business District, Australia's largest corporate and financial
center, Equinix colocation facilities are the only place where
companies can set up direct links to both of the continent's two
largest peering points: the Southern Cross cable head, a
trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables, and the PIPE
Pacific Cable network that runs from Australia to Guam. The Southern Cross Cable system
facilitates low-latency applications such as financial trading and
growth of the finance community between both locations.
- Global businesses are increasing using more capacity to run IT
operations including cloud-based applications. Equinix offers
direct connectivity to leading cloud service providers in 21
markets globally ™ including Silicon Valley, LA and Sydney via the Equinix Cloud Exchange™. This
includes access to providers such as (but not limited to): Amazon
Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Office 365, Google Cloud
Platform, SoftLayer, and Oracle Cloud. These dedicated, private
connections reduce network costs and provide higher, more
consistent network performance than Internet-based connections for
enterprise customers looking to build hybrid clouds.
- Equinix and Southern Cross will be participating in the Pacific
Telecommunications Council Conference (PTC16) event taking place
January 17-20, 2016 in Honolulu, Hawaii. For more information about
the event, visit http://www.ptc.org/ptc16/.
Quotes
- Craige Sloots, director
marketing, Southern Cross:
"Southern Cross has been
experiencing increased demand for our connectivity services between
North America and Australia. We continue to looks for ways to
increase our customer experience, and Equinix provides an ideal
environment for customers to interconnect with other businesses
between these key content locations."
- Jim Poole, vice president,
Global Service Providers, Equinix:
"Equinix is
increasingly seeing cable system providers come into our facilities
because they house a host of business ecosystems that provide a
rich opportunity for businesses looking to move into new markets or
with new partners. We remain committed to providing fast, secure
and interconnected routes between key markets and the Southern
Cross Cable System is a great addition to help strengthen that
offering."
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.
International Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix,
Inc.
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