Equinix SDN-Based Cloud Exchange Fabric Goes Global

This includes Amsterdam; Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Culpeper, Virginia; Dallas; Denver; Dublin, Ireland; Dusseldorf, Germany; Frankfurt, Germany; Geneva; Helsinki; Hong Kong; Houston; London; Los Angeles; Madrid; Manchester, England; Melbourne, Australia; Miami; Milan; Munich; New York; Osaka, Japan; Paris; Perth, Australia; São Paulo; Seattle; Silicon Valley, California; Singapore; Stockholm; Sydney; Tokyo; Toronto; Warsaw, Poland; Washington, D.C.; and Zurich.

The company first launched ECX Fabric in December 2017. A year and a half later, more than 1,400 customers including enterprises, cloud providers, and network service providers use the fabric to privately interconnect clouds, networks, and services and have established more than 14,900 active virtual connections to it.

“When we announced it we said this is what we’re aspiring to be: this vision where any Cloud Exchange customer could connect to any other Cloud Exchange customer anywhere in the world,” said Bill Long, vice president of interconnection services at Equinix. “What we’re announcing now is that we’re there.”

Customers can use the platform to connect to clouds in other regions, and they can also establish on-demand network connections between the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Brazil. This global nature has led to a couple prominent use cases, Long said.

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