REDWOOD
CITY, CALIF., Jan. 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the world's digital infrastructure company®,
today announced the general availability of Equinix Fabric Cloud
Router, a new virtual routing service to help enterprises easily
connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise
deployments. Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can help customers
simplify their complex cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud networking
challenges by providing an easy-to-configure, enterprise-grade,
multicloud routing service that can be deployed in under a minute.
Utilizing Equinix's secure private connectivity, customers can
connect applications across public clouds in more locations than
any other service.
"Modern IT environments are highly digitized and distributed.
TechTarget's Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that in 2023,
94% of organizations are now using multiple unique public clouds
and the top drivers behind this adoption are to optimize
performance and to scale applications. The network connectivity
that supports these multicloud applications must provide the same
ability to scale and improve performance. Equinix, with its
extensive cloud on-ramp availability and low network latency
combined with the recently added Equinix Fabric Cloud Router is
well positioned to deliver these capabilities." – Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst, ESG
Customers can deploy Equinix Fabric Cloud Router in all 58
Equinix Fabric-enabled markets globally with low latency
connectivity to all major cloud providers, including Amazon Web
Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure, as well as hundreds of other service
providers like Akamai, ServiceNow and Zoom. Delivered as a service
on demand and in near real time, Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can
remove the costs and complexities of owning and operating a
physical router or licensing a virtual router. By removing these
limitations, customers can improve application performance, reduce
cloud costs and accelerate services to market. Enterprises can also
accelerate their multicloud adoption by avoiding vendor lock-in
with Equinix's cloud agnostic service, eliminating networking
constraints and enabling them to choose the right cloud environment
and provider for specific workloads.
"Multicloud networking is hard, but now with the launch of
Equinix Fabric Cloud Router we are simplifying it for businesses
everywhere by helping users connect different clouds in as little
as 45 seconds. This is what you'd expect from Equinix, the leader
in multicloud networking," said Arun Dev, Vice President of Digital
Interconnection at Equinix. "By combining Equinix's steadfast
commitment to cloud and network neutrality that has spanned more
than 25 years, our leading access to cloud on-ramps, and the
largest selection of cloud providers and services partners, Equinix
is uniquely positioned to provide the on-demand digital
infrastructure today's enterprises need."
Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a key component of Platform
Equinix®, helps customers meet those demands in four specific ways:
Multicloud Performance – Customers achieve the low
latency between all major cloud providers with Equinix's industry
leading cloud-adjacent locations around the world, eliminating the
need to backhaul traffic through a remote location. This
superior cloud-to-cloud networking performance enables
customers to quickly and easily support evolving infrastructure
demands, like cloud migrations.
Private Connectivity – By easily deploying
private network connections, customers can avoid exposing sensitive
data and network infrastructure to the risks of the public internet
and support data sovereignty requirements.
Enterprise-Grade – Customers can act with confidence
knowing they are supported by a 99.999% uptime SLA and can scale
bandwidth and connectivity across clouds without constraint using
speeds up to 50Gbps, with hundreds of gigabits of aggregate
throughput supported per router.
Lowering Costs – Enterprises can reduce cloud egress
costs by up to 75% using private cloud connections rather than
egress over the internet. Built-in Equinix Fabric Cloud Router
resilience can save IT teams even more by eliminating the need for
expensive redundant routers. Delivered as a service, customers can
pay only for what they need without being locked into long-term
contracts and have the flexibility to scale up and down as
needed.
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"The distributed cloud is increasingly important as
organizations need the flexibility to work with workloads and data
in specific locations and across multiple clouds. With Equinix
Fabric Cloud Router, customers can deploy and manage a
high-performance multicloud networking architecture more quickly
and cost-effectively."
-
Yogesh Kaushik, VP, Product
Management, Networking Services, Oracle
"Multicloud networking is a critical component of the networks
we build and run for our digitally transforming enterprise
customers. We achieve network cost optimization and operational
efficiencies by using Equinix Fabric. It is globally consistent and
enables us to achieve high levels of network automation to cloud
providers. We're excited about the launch of Equinix Fabric Cloud
Router, which will enable us to achieve even higher levels of cost
and performance efficiency and help advance our mission of becoming
a truly global Network as a Service (NaaS) provider."
- Kunal Thakkar, VP, Product and Solutions
Engineering, Apcela
Additional Resources
- Simplify Multicloud Networking with Equinix Fabric Cloud
Router
- Equinix Fabric Cloud Router Product Page
- Analyst Report: Streamline Multicloud Networking
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world's digital infrastructure
company®. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted
platform to bring together and interconnect foundational
infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to
access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale
with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver
world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting
their sustainability goals.
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materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, risks to our business and operating results
related to the current inflationary environment; foreign currency
exchange rate fluctuations; increased costs to procure power and
the general volatility in the global energy market; the challenges
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 Equinix; a failure
to receive significant revenues from customers in recently built
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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 and 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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