PARIS and REDWOOD
CITY, Calif., Aug. 30,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Orange and
Equinix announced today a collaboration to expand the Orange
Telco Cloud footprint, using Equinix's Bare Metal as a Service
capability—Equinix Metal®—to speed the deployment of
Orange's New Generation International Network. The new model
enables Orange to provide business and wholesale customers with
powerful on-demand Telco Cloud Points of Presence (PoPs),
delivering essential services such as SD-WAN, CDN, 5G roaming and
voice services, with an expected latency below ~10 milliseconds.
Three locations will be deployed by the end of this year:
Amsterdam, Madrid and Seattle.
The advancement of network-based services, largely driven by
evolving customer requirements around speed of deployment and
flexibility, is compelling network providers to deploy a new class
of connectivity and infrastructure platform. Indeed, the Equinix
2022 Global Tech Trends Survey found 72% of companies surveyed
around the world are planning to expand in the next 12 months,
despite economic concerns and supply chain challenges—and they're
relying on digital strategies to achieve that.
By integrating with Equinix's automated dedicated Bare Metal as
a Service located in proximity to its existing networks at Equinix,
Orange can quickly meet customer demand for growth, deploying in
weeks from inception (instead of months).
Courtney Munroe, Vice President
for Telecommunications Research at IDC, commented: "This
partnership between Orange and Equinix is a smart move enabling
Orange to enhance its existing platform and its ability to
facilitate reliable, agile digital capabilities for its
customers—all while being able to more quickly meet customer demand
by using Equinix Metal. IDC research shows that enterprises look to
Telcos and digital infrastructure providers as key partners for
hybrid IT infrastructure and cloud networking requirements.
Furthermore, the enhanced Telco Cloud Platform will improve
Orange's operational efficiency, and flexibility, and most
importantly will allow it to offer enhanced low latency performance
and on-demand requirements for enterprises around the world."
Leveraging Equinix Metal, Orange accelerates its next-generation
services without the up-front CAPEX or complexities of global
supply chains, while retaining full choice and control over IT
infrastructure and digital transformation projects.
"We are delighted to partner with Equinix to deploy Orange Telco
Cloud PoPs technology on top of Equinix Metal," explained
Jean-Luc Vuillemin, Executive Vice
President, International Networks at Orange. "By embracing an 'as a
service' infrastructure model and focusing investment in our SDN
and VNF capabilities, Orange can provide a fully flexible and
elastic solution to customers, speed up the deployment of our
planned 100 Telco Cloud PoPs, and quickly adapt capacity to meet
demand. This confirms Orange's position as a trusted infrastructure
partner, optimizing application performance with secured and
consistent connectivity, regardless of end user location, and
supporting cloud management and transformation."
Through its Telco Cloud Platform, Orange uniquely provides
customers with end-to-end optimized levels of performance, security
and flexibility. Powered by industry-leading innovation in
virtualized network functions and software-defined networks (SDN),
Orange already has 40 SDN PoPs around the world and is targeted to
reach 100+ "Telco Cloud PoPs" by 2024 as part of its eNGINe (New
Generation International Network) transformation program. Each
Telco Cloud PoP can host virtualized network service functions such
as voice, 5G, CDN, SD-WAN or Security Services, as well as connect
customers to key content and cloud service providers. With its
Telco Cloud PoP architecture, Orange's customers can access and
manage applications in the cloud with reliable, fast connectivity,
and choose from an expanded portfolio with on-demand and adapted
services.
"We have a rich 20-year history of collaboration with Orange and
are pleased to see them accelerate innovation for their customers
by becoming the first provider to combine their extensive global
network footprint at Equinix with the new possibilities provided by
our investments in automated digital infrastructure capabilities.
We're excited to see them expand this offering into additional
markets in 2023," said Zachary
Smith, Global Head of Edge Infrastructure Services at
Equinix.
Since its founding in 1998, Equinix has helped the world's
networks connect and deploy services for their customers. Today,
digital leaders like Orange are looking to move even faster. This
has fueled Equinix's strategy to help unlock value from their
existing network presence in its data centers, with an as a Service
model that delivers choice and control of dedicated infrastructure,
powered by clean and renewable energy. This approach to cleaner
energy consumption was also determinant for Orange to choose to
partner with Equinix, in line with its 2040 carbon neutral
objective, on top of its strategy to avoid energy consumption where
there is no customer demand.
About Orange
Orange is one of the world's leading
telecommunications operators with sales of 42.5 billion euros in 2021 and 137,000 employees
worldwide at 30 June 2022, including
76,000 employees in France. The
Group has a total customer base of 282 million customers worldwide
at 30 June 2022, including 236
million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers.
The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading
provider of global IT and telecommunication services to
multinational companies under the brand Orange Business Services.
In December 2019, the Group presented
its "Engage 2025" strategic plan, which, guided by social and
environmental accountability, aims to reinvent its operator model.
While accelerating in growth areas and placing data and AI at the
heart of its innovation model, the Group will be an attractive and
responsible employer, adapted to emerging professions.
Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New
York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). For more information on the
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Orange and any other Orange product or service names included
in this material are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services
Limited.
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's
digital infrastructure company™, enabling digital
leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and
interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their
success. Equinix enables today's businesses to access all the right
places, partners, and possibilities they need to accelerate
advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the
launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and
multiply their value.
Equinix Metal® provides developer-friendly physical
compute, storage and networking infrastructure services to help
digital leaders move faster and more easily access Equinix's unique
ecosystem of thousands of enterprises, clouds, services and
networks.
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pandemic; the current inflationary environment; foreign currency
exchange rate fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and
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of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX and xScale 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
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generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
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upcoming 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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