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Equinix and AMS-IX, the World’s Largest Single Metro Area Internet Exchange, Announce Interconnection and Peering Partnership
2008-04-24
Foster City, CA and Amsterdam, Netherlands — April 23, 2008 — Equinix,
Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and
Internet exchange services, and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the
world’s largest single metro area Internet exchange, today announced a
partnership agreement that will extend AMS-IX’s peering fabric into Equinix’s
Amsterdam-1 (AM1) Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) data center. As a part of
the agreement, AMS-IX will establish a point-of-presence in Equinix’s AM1 IBX
center, which is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2008 and was obtained
in the acquisition of Netherlands network-neutral data center provider Virtu
earlier this year. Equinix customers will be able to directly exchange traffic,
or “peer,” with AMS-IX’s critical mass of diverse Internet service providers and
high-quality traffic exchange participants to increase reliability, improve
performance, and reduce the costs of network traffic exchange.
Equinix and AMS-IX are leaders in providing network-neutral platforms for the
interconnection of enterprise, service provider and content company networks.
Located in Amsterdam, AMS-IX is a non-profit, neutral and independent Internet
exchange that currently connects over 290 international parties. AMS-IX is the
largest European Internet Exchange measured by traffic volume. Equinix is the
global interconnection and peering leader, serving the world’s leading ISPs,
broadband providers, international networks, content delivery networks,
enterprises and major content providers.
“Our relationship with Equinix goes back several years, and we are pleased to
now have a formal agreement where the aggregation of networks from each of our
organizations can interconnect in the most efficient and reliable manner
possible,” said Job Witteman, CEO of AMS-IX. “With the increasing need for
businesses to exchange data across a wide variety of networks -- from partners
to customers to vendors -- this agreement between AMS-IX and Equinix will ensure
additional options for rich interconnection across both of our respective
network-neutral platforms.”
“Peering relationships are a strategic foundation for network and Internet
traffic, from email to video,” said Margie Backaus, chief business officer of
Equinix. “As Equinix expands its global service offering across the U.S., Europe
and Asia-Pacific, the company is committed to providing high-performance
platforms for exchanging Internet traffic. Partnering with top-tier Internet
exchanges like AMS-IX, who have a well-served existing critical mass of
high-quality Internet service providers and connected parties operating within
their system, will enable Equinix customers to scale their peering relationships
to reduce costs and increase performance.”
About AMS-IX
AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral and independent Internet
exchange providing services since the early 1990's. AMS-IX is one of the largest
Internet hubs worldwide. Close to 300 Internet related parties come together in
Amsterdam from all over the world to exchange Internet traffic amongst them. The
AMS-IX platform provides professional, high quality, non-blocking peering
services for Internet traffic with a diverse profile be it regular IP data such
as e-mail but also video/TV, as well as voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the
first mobile peering points worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX)
and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX). (www.ams-ix.net)
About Equinix
Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and
interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic exchange and
outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global enterprises, content companies,
systems integrators and network service providers look to Equinix Internet
Business Exchange (IBX®) centers for world-class reliability and network
diversity. Equinix IBX centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and
Internet operations worldwide. With 39 IBX centers located in 18 strategic
markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables customers
to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis.
Press Contacts
Equinix Media Contact:
David Fonkalsrud
K/F Communications, Inc.
(415) 255-6506
AMS-IX Media Contact:
Cara Mascini
+31 (20) 305 89 99
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