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Equinix Launches the First Roaming Mobile Data Exchange Service in the U.S.
2008-12-01
Expansion of Service Currently Offered in the Asia-Pacific Market Comes After
Equinix D.C. Area Center Selected by GSMA as One of Three GRX Peering Hubs in
the World
Foster City, CA ? December 1, 2008 ? Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a
provider of global data center services, today announced the expansion of its
GRX Peering @ Equinix (GPE) service to customers located in the company?s
Washington, D.C. area International Business Exchange (IBX®) data center campus.
The service, currently offered to customers located in Equinix?s Singapore IBX,
will represent the only service in the U.S. that enables the exchange of mobile
Internet traffic between telecommunications service providers.
The expansion of GPE to the U.S. market comes after the GSM Association (GSMA),
the global trade association representing more than 750 GSM mobile phone
operators, selected the Equinix Washington, D.C. area IBX as the first Global
Roaming Exchange (GRX) peering hub in North America. It joins two other GRX
peering hubs located at Equinix?s Singapore IBX center and at AMS-IX in
Amsterdam. The hubs serve as scalable platforms for the interconnection of
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) roaming networks. Within these centralized
locations, GRX operators can interconnect their networks within a neutral
environment to ensure cell phone data applications work seamlessly across
different networks around the globe.
Currently offered to GRX operators in the Asia-Pacific region from Equinix?s
Singapore IBX center, GPE features a resilient, fully-managed, Ethernet-based
switching platform designed to ensure the seamless interconnectivity between
mobile networks. The service is available for all GRX operators and qualified
customers that are located within the Equinix Washington, D.C. area IBX campus
that wish to exchange mobile Internet traffic with their peer of choice.
The GPE switching platform provides a redundant architecture designed for
improved resiliency and greater port density. Specific features include:
- Redundant Infrastructure: Equinix provides GRX operators with fully redundant
LAN infrastructure for improved service delivery;
- Private Bilateral Peering: Freedom to negotiate private peering arrangements
without any restrictions;
- Dedicated GPE portal: Full service transparency with access to port-level
statistics, including traffic utilization graphs, and service availability and
quality.
Some of the current participants on the GPE platform in the Equinix Singapore
IBX include Aicent, Belgacom ICS, Comfone AG, Neustar, Sybase 365, Telenor
Global Services, Telekom Austria TA AG and TeliaSonera.
?After a successful introduction of a GRX peering point in Asia with Equinix, we
are pleased that the North American peering point in the Washington, D.C. area
is ready for service and a number of GRX service providers are concluding
contractual agreements,? said Robindhra Mangtani, Director, Interworking and
Roaming at the GSM Association. ?The GRX is a success story with over 25
international GRX carriers providing data roaming services to mobile customers.
Peering in three geographic regions (Europe, Asia and now U.S.) enables the
provision of QoS and provides an improvement in latency and resilience of the
data roaming networks. In addition the peering points lay down a solid framework
for migration to IPX.?
?Most people that have traveled outside of the coverage area of their mobile
data service provider have experienced delays and performance issues in the
transfer of data to their PDAs or other mobile devices,? said Eric Troyer,
director of peering services at Equinix. ?The GRX Peering initiative has
addressed this issue and significantly enhanced performance. With the expansion
of GRX Peering to the Equinix Washington, D.C. area data center campus, mobile
data transfer for users in the U.S. will be further enhanced, as it can now
occur inside the U.S., as opposed to being routed through the other GRX Peering
hubs in Amsterdam and Singapore.?
In 2001, the first GRX peering hub was established at AMS-IX in Amsterdam after
a cross-industry working group implemented a multi-party peering agreement. This
agreement was a breakthrough in laying the groundwork for developing an
interconnectivity infrastructure supporting roaming mobile Internet and data
services on a global basis.
For information about the GSMA and its activities, visit
www.gsmworld.com.
Press Contacts
North America
David Fonkalsrud
K/F Communications, Inc
(415) 255-6506
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 centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix
services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of
IXEurope into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers
in recently built out data centers; 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; the results of any litigation relating to past stock
option grants and practices; and other risks described from time to time in
Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular,
see Equinix's recent 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.
Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. Internet Business
Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
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 40 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.
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