REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Feb. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data
center company, today announced CALLR, which provides a global
carrier-grade cloud communications platform for voice and
messaging, has deployed in Equinix's Paris, New
York and Singapore International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)
data centers to create an international presence across
Europe, the United States and Asia. Platform Equinix™ has provided CALLR
with rapid time to market to meet performance requirements and
customer demand. CALLR is also planning an additional deployment in
Los Angeles for increased
performance gains and proximity to end user customers on the West
Coast of the United States.
Highlights / Key Facts
- CALLR's unique platform allows its customers to reach users in
over 220 countries using its voice and messaging API. To achieve
this, CALLR needs access to network service providers in key
markets, as well as access to cloud service providers and
enterprises. Equinix's global interconnection platform enables
CALLR to tap into these business ecosystems for maximum
connectivity to customers and partners across CALLR's digital
supply chain.
- By collocating its IT infrastructure in Equinix's IBX data
centers in key metros across three regions, CALLR strategically
combines a physical Point of Presence (POP) and virtual cloud POPs
to get closer to customers and carriers, at the network edge. These
virtual POPs provide CALLR the ability to service customers in a
particular geography without a full scale data center deployment or
incurring overhead, to minimize cost. Today CALLR leverages virtual
POPs hosted by leading cloud service providers, such as IBM
Softlayer or Microsoft Azure.
- CALLR offers a combination of voice and messaging API
technology with the power of AI to build smarter customer
engagement capabilities and innovative IoT interactions. This
enables CALLR's customers to bridge between communications and IT
on a single platform, integrating voice and SMS across a virtual
media gateway to automate interactions with customers in a seamless
way.
- Businesses such as CALLR continue to be challenged by issues
facing mobile technology regardless of the application. As these
businesses expanded there is an increased need to globally
interconnect with people, locations, cloud services and data to
maximize performance and user experience. With 150 data centers
across 41 markets, Equinix customers benefit from operating on a
global interconnection platform to process, store and distribute
larger volumes of latency sensitive data and applications at the
digital edge, closer to end-users and local markets.
Quotes
- Taoufik Zagdoud, CEO, CALLR:
"CALLR has continued to grow
rapidly on Equinix's interconnection platform, with Singapore being our most recent addition. Data
centers underpin our business and we are confident that Equinix's
global footprint of interconnected data centers will provide the
proximity to our customers to deliver optimal performance and the
ability to rapidly enter new markets to meet future business
demand."
- Jim Poole, vice president,
business development, Service Providers:
"At Equinix, companies can
architect a globally consistent platform within local metros,
keeping their critical data and processing capabilities as close as
possible to the digital edge and end users. We continue to see
companies such as CALLR come to us in one market and easily expand
into new markets as their business needs change."
Additional Resources
- The IoT Is the Next Massive, Disruptive Wave [blog]
- Enabling the Mobile Ecosystem [white paper]
- Platform Equinix Drives Business Innovation [video]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside some of the most interconnected data centres. In 41
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 centres
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 centres; 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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