Achieve Your Network Expansion Goals with Equinix

They’ve got to keep building capacity to meet ever-growing demands and also extend geographic coverage to serve new markets and drive new revenue streams. Additionally, they need to harness the AI revolution and maximize emerging opportunities—all in the most cost-effective and pragmatic way possible. Equinix.com Cost-conscious NSPs cannot afford to take a scattershot approach and overbuild or gamble on infrastructure deployments that might not pay off. It is important that they make the right long- term investments today, for strategic and financial benefits to their company in the years to come.

It comes down to four key imperatives:

• Expand and modernize core infrastructure to keep pace with the market’s increasing demand for bandwidth and connectivity.
• Extend geographic coverage to serve new and emerging markets around the world.
• Capitalize on the AI boom, whose enormous needs for data transport are creating new opportunities for NSP services.
• Optimize cost efficiencies, minimize operational burdens and ensure that every dollar is well spent.

NSPs face a number of challenges while expanding networks efficiently

Capacity limitations

NSPs may be working with data center partners that lack the scalability to meet future capacity demands.

Geographic constraints

NSPs may not have sufficient access to markets that are critical to their growth strategies.

Indirect access to clouds and customers

NSPs may have to rely on a diverse set of providers and systems for secure and efficient connections to the cloud and other important destinations. This limits scalability and flexibility.

Complex operations

Many NSPs grapple with fragmented infrastructure spread across hundreds or thousands of locations. This patchwork of disparate systems and vendors creates enormous operational overheads.

Future-proof network expansion with Equinix

NSPs can deploy mission-critical infrastructure at the world’s most trusted, extensive and interconnected data centers to minimize the risks of modernization, new market investments and network growth.

Our 270+ global data centers provide unmatched scalability, geographic reach and access to industry ecosystems worldwide—including a thriving AI ecosystem. We maximize efficiency and minimize latency with densely connected facilities located at convergence points where the world’s top NSPs, cloud service providers (CSPs), internet service providers (ISPs), content providers and enterprises come together. As a result, customers can seamlessly connect to practically anyone, anywhere.

We provide a globally consistent service and management experience that significantly simplifies infrastructure deployment. NSPs benefit from our industry-leading capacity and uptime, advanced automation and recognized sustainability leadership (including being awarded CDP’s Climate Change A-list ranking and achieving 100% renewable energy coverage in over 250 sites). Our unrivaled foundation for sustained and cost-effective growth sets us apart.

Tap into a vast global AI ecosystem

• AI accelerators: Our global ecosystem empowers innovation— from collaboration with high-performance computing leaders like NVIDIA, Dell and HPE to quantum computing pioneers.
• Clouds: Leverage strategic partnerships with hyperscalers (including an investment of US$15 billion in hyperscale data centers) and new GPU as a Service clouds.
• Enterprises: Equinix enables interconnection with 4,900+ enterprise customers—including verticals like healthcare, finance, retail, automotive and manufacturing—with accelerated AI adoption rates.
• AI-ready data centers: Support high-density AI workloads with liquid cooling and advanced air cooling at our high-performance facilities, with 100% renewable energy coverage in 250+ sites and 96% coverage globally

Key capabilities to bolster network expansion

• Largest global footprint: 270+ data centers strategically located across 77 metros and 36 countries.
• AI ecosystem hubs: AI-ready data centers for high-density AI workloads with advanced liquid and air cooling—and partnerships with AI and high-performance computing leaders.
• Collaboration: A vast global ecosystem including 2,000+ network service providers, ~3,000 cloud and IT providers, 10,000+ customers, and specialized ecosystems for AI, financial services, payments and commerce, manufacturing and more.
• High-performance interconnection: Secure, low-latency physical cross connects, as well as software-defined interconnections (Equinix Fabric®) for rapid and easy deployment; boundless connectivity with 499,000+ interconnections.
• Industry-leading uptime: A 99.999% average uptime record.

Discover unmatched benefits for your business

• Scale flexibly: Overcome capacity constraints with the world’s digital infrastructure company.
• Improve cloud connectivity: Securely connect your customers to clouds, content providers and industry-specific ecosystems.
• Capture the AI opportunity: Strategically position advanced network infrastructure close to AI specialist providers and hyperscalers.
• Streamline operations: Take advantage of a unified management experience across 270+ data centers, reducing the complexity and costs of infrastructure deployment.
• Increase revenue: Expand your geographic reach and grow your total addressable market.
• Future-proof your network: Minimize risk and maximize long-term returns on your infrastructure investments.

“Equinix’s deep industry knowledge and robust digital ecosystems—where businesses come together to exchange data, unlock collaboration opportunities, and form new markets—enables us to provide innovative technology and network solutions to minimize latency and improve performance for our customers.”
- Craige Sloots, Director, Marketing & Strategy, Southern Cross

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