Infinera, provider of Intelligent Transport Networks, announced that Equinix, a global interconnection and datacenter company has selected its Cloud Xpress to interconnect its Hong Kong datacenters. Equinix operates International Business Exchange (IBX) datacenters in 33 markets across 15 countries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions.
According to Infinera, Equinix selected the Infinera Cloud Xpress to serve the growing need for high capacity customer interconnectivity between Equinix facilities in the same metro area, empowering its customers to efficiently grow and extend their ecosystems beyond the confines of a single building.
The Cloud Xpress also simplifies operations using only a single fiber to deliver a full super-channel of DWDM line-side capacity. In addition, Infinera said that the Cloud Xpress is designed with the flexibility to fit into any datacenter operational model and offers multiple management options including plugging into existing SDN Cloud provisioning systems, aded the company.
Raphael Ho, senior director, network engineering and operations at Equinix
Equinix is growing rapidly across the globe and Hong Kong is no exception. Our three Hong Kong-based IBX datacenters already support over 340 customers and we recently announced expansions at two of these sites. Cloud Xpress is an ideal solution for us to expand network capacity between our sites, with its high density, low power consumption and a very simple rack-and-stack operations model.
TStu Elby, senior vice president of Cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera
Equinix and growing datacenter operators alike continue to see a tremendous demand for bandwidth, especially in space and power-limited metro locations. Cloud Xpress is a purpose-built rack and stack DWDM datacenter platform that addresses these needs and continues to gain traction in networks across the globe.
