REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
June 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global
interconnection and data center company, today announced the
next phase in the evolution of Platform Equinix® with
the unveiling of Network Edge services, a new product innovation
enabling companies to modernize networks virtually, within minutes,
by deploying network functions virtualization (NFV) from multiple
vendors to connect their digital supply chains at Equinix.
Designed to accelerate digital transformation for global
businesses, Network Edge offers enterprises a new way to deploy
network services on Equinix's global interconnection platform,
without a physical data center deployment or hardware requirements.
As an additional option within Equinix's broad portfolio of
physical and virtual interconnection services, Network Edge enables
enterprises to reduce capital expenses and scale IT and network
services globally by virtually deploying a digital-ready
infrastructure.
Offered as a broad suite of vendor-neutral, virtual network
services, Network Edge allows customers to select, configure and
connect network and security devices in real time and from a choice
of industry-leading vendors including Cisco, Juniper Networks and
Palo Alto Networks. By bringing seamless, ultra-low latency network
services closer to end users, clouds and valuable ecosystems in
more locations, Network Edge can dramatically improve network
optimization efforts in an economical way.
Network Edge also includes built-in integration to Equinix's
global on-demand, SDN-enabled interconnection service, Equinix
Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™). By combining Network
Edge with ECX Fabric, customers can deploy virtual edge devices and
interconnect them to clouds and network providers located in new
global markets, extending their reach to potentially thousands of
new business partners around the world. This empowers companies to
be everywhere they need to be to interconnect everyone and
integrate everything that matters to their businesses.
Highlights/Key Facts
- As global businesses digitally transform, they require
modernized global IT infrastructures in proximity to digital
services in order to succeed. They also require high levels of data
security and the ability to connect globally with multiple partners
across various business ecosystems.
- With Network Edge, enterprises can deploy virtual network
services within Equinix International Business Exchange™
(IBX®) facilities without upfront capital expenses for
additional equipment and infrastructure. Network Edge is also
compatible with existing physical deployments on Platform Equinix,
further accelerating the path to digital business on a global
scale.
- Network Edge offers customers the choice of virtual network
services from multiple vendors. Current Network Edge devices
available include the Cisco® Cloud Services Router
1000v, the Juniper® vSRX Virtual Firewall and Palo Alto
Networks® VM-Series Firewall, with additional edge
devices, including the Cisco SD-WAN, being added soon onto Platform
Equinix.
- Network Edge is ideal for specific digital business uses cases,
such as:
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- Cloud-to-cloud routing—As cloud adoption continues to
grow, many applications now span multiple clouds. To maximize data
moving from one cloud to another, virtual routers deployed using
Network Edge can seamlessly route data with ultra-low latency
between two clouds.
- Migrating from one cloud to another—Deploying a virtual
router with Network Edge can create a private connection between
two clouds, allowing for more efficient data transfers when moving
large amounts of data from one cloud to another for backups,
migrations or analytics.
- Hybrid cloud firewall—To help protect networks with
public-facing endpoints created when public-facing applications are
hosted on public clouds, Network Edge can be used to deploy virtual
cloud firewalls within minutes. Network Edge can also deploy a
virtual firewall in conjunction with physical firewalls.
- Branch-to-cloud SD-WAN—To accelerate the transformation
of branch offices, Network Edge will soon offer the ability to
quickly build interconnection hubs at Equinix and optimize
connectivity between branch locations, cloud providers, SaaS
providers and thousands of potential business partners via ECX
Fabric.
Quotes
- Sachin Gupta, Senior Vice President,
Product Management, Enterprise Networking Business,
Cisco
"As the consumption of applications from multiple
clouds continue to grow, enterprise networks are tasked with
delivering a fast and secure application experience for their
users, wherever they are. Working with Equinix's Network Edge
services allows our enterprise customers to achieve proximity to
SaaS and cloud providers for their global locations. The service
will also provide the ability to automatically deploy and manage
Cisco SD-WAN services to ensure an optimal application
experience."
- Mike Taylor, Chief Technology
Officer, World Wide Technology
"Our customers' legacy
network designs were built to provide connectivity to their
centralized private data centers. Today, applications are
rapidly moving to the cloud, and those legacy architectures
struggle to scale and address the performance demands of their
users. The need for a low-latency, interconnected architecture
is driving cloud-edge designs that bring end users and
business-critical apps closer together, helping them achieve a
faster time to market with a network that can match the agility,
pace and reach of cloud-native infrastructures. We believe by
using Equinix's new Network Edge services, we can quickly build
distributed multicloud infrastructures that help our customers
realize the full value of their cloud-based
applications."
- Eric Hanselman,
Chief Analyst, 451 Research
"Digital
transformation is driving enterprises to modernize their global IT
infrastructures, and the continued adoption of hybrid and
multicloud strategies further accentuates this need. As
applications become more distributed, residing in both data centers
and multiple public clouds, the network must also become
distributed, capable of providing consistent policies
governing network and security services. Virtual network services
like Network Edge, offered in a vendor-neutral fashion and
integrated with ECX Fabric, will accelerate global interconnection
opportunities for customers. We think these
services provide distinct value to enterprises and
differentiation for Equinix in the market as well."
- Bill Long, Vice President,
Interconnection Services, Equinix
"As we continue
evolving the Equinix global interconnection platform, we are
introducing new product innovations to help enterprises transform
their global businesses at the digital edge. With Network Edge,
we're providing both an extraordinary suite of virtual network
services, and a compelling value proposition to help enterprises
scale globally by deploying digital-ready infrastructures at the
edge, within a matter of minutes. By seamlessly integrating Network
Edge with our ECX Fabric service, customers can also tap into the
world's largest interconnection ecosystem, virtually, and unlock
enormous business value through our platform."
Additional Resources
- Learn more about Network Edge [website]
- Learn more about Platform Equinix [website]
- Virtually Modernize Your Network in Minutes [blog]
- Modernize Your Network, Virtually, With Network
Edge [webinar]
- Considerations when Deploying an NFV Network
Solution [blog]
- How SDN and NFV Technologies are Transforming Network
Management [blog]
- Why Network Functions Virtualization Should Be Part of Your
Infrastructure Strategy [blog]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most-interconnected data centers. On this
global platform for digital business, companies come together
across more than 50 markets on five continents to reach everywhere,
interconnect everyone and integrate everything they need to create
their digital futures. 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 data
centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products
and solutions; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a 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; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix 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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