Equinix has completed one of its largest expansions of the Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric), moving into seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses and service providers to simplify their hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
With the expansion of the interconnection service to Barcelona, Brussels, Geneva, Istanbul, Lisbon and Sofia, and extending into Hamburg during this quarter, more enterprises and service providers can easily interconnect to an ecosystem of clouds, networks, partners and customers to support their digital businesses.
ECX Fabric is a global interconnection service now available in about 45 strategic markets. It allows businesses to exchange their data on demand and between metros through private connections, providing scalability, agility and connectivity over a self-service portal or APIs.
“By extending ECX Fabric from Lisbon in the West to Istanbul in the East, Equinix is making it easier for digital businesses to increase their global reach by gaining broad access to the ecosystems they need for scaling their businesses globally,” said the provider. Eugene Bergen Henegouwen, president of EMEA at Equinix, said: “Most of the organisations we work with around the world are already on a digital transformation journey, and are using the cloud to improve their global reach and seamlessly connect with the customers, partners and suppliers that matter to them.
“Covid-19 has accelerated this trend for businesses that have had to rapidly virtualise their services to respond to the extremely fast-changing nature of business during this crisis. Our expansion of ECX Fabric will help them to not only successfully navigate the difficult months ahead, but come out the other side fit for the future and ready to seize the opportunities the cloud offers.”
