Equinix Selects Infinera Cloud Xpress for Datacenter Interconnect in Hong Kong
(firmenpresse) - SUNNYVALE, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 07/21/15 -- Infinera, provider of , announced that Equinix has selected the Infinera to interconnect its Hong Kong datacenters. The Infinera Cloud Xpress offers Equinix a platform with hyper-scale density, operational simplicity and low power consumption.
Equinix is a global interconnection and datacenter company, operating International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) datacenters in 33 markets across 15 countries in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. The Equinix IBX datacenters provide major networks and businesses a place to interconnect, building business ecosystems that have become vital for service providers, enterprise companies, and emerging businesses alike.
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.
Ideal for high performance datacenter interconnection, the Cloud Xpress leverages Infinera''s unique photonic integrated circuit technology to support up to one terabit per second (Tb/s) of input and output capacity in just two rack units. The Cloud Xpress also simplifies operations using only a single fiber to deliver a full super-channel of DWDM line-side capacity. The ultra-low power and rack-and-stack form factor of Cloud Xpress enables Equinix to scale while using the least amount of space and power compared to other similar platforms. In addition, 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.
"Equinix is growing rapidly across the globe and Hong Kong is no exception," said Raphael Ho, senior director, network engineering and operations at Equinix. "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."
"Equinix and growing datacenter operators alike continue to see a tremendous demand for bandwidth, especially in space and power-limited metro locations," said Stu Elby, senior vice president of Cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera. "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."
Infinera introduced the Cloud Xpress family in 2014 delivering a Cloud-optimized DWDM solution to Cloud service providers, Internet content providers, Internet Exchange service providers and other large-scale datacenter operators. Infinera recently expanded the Cloud Xpress family by announcing the (Gb/E) offering customers the choice of 10 GbE, 40 GbE and 100 GbE interfaces to meet their specific requirements.
Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN) provides Intelligent Transport Networks for network operators, enabling reliable, easy to operate, high-capacity optical networks. Infinera leverages its unique large scale photonic integrated circuits to deliver innovative optical networking solutions for the most demanding network environments. Intelligent Transport Networks enable carriers, Cloud network operators, governments and enterprises to automate, converge and scale their datacenter, metro, long-haul and subsea optical networks. To learn more about Infinera visit , follow us on Twitter (at)Infinera and read our latest blog posts at .
Infinera is a trademark of Infinera Corporation.
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements relating to the benefits that the Cloud Xpress offers to Infinera customers and the success that the Cloud Xpress has gained in the marketplace. These statements are not guarantees of results and should not be considered as an indication of future activity or future performance. Actual results may vary materially from these expectations as a result of various risks and uncertainties. Information about these risks and uncertainties, and other risks and uncertainties that affect Infinera''s business, is contained in the risk factors section and other sections of Infinera''s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 28, 2015 as filed with the SEC on May 1, 2015, as well subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the SEC. These reports are available on Infinera''s website at and the SEC''s website at . Infinera assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements.
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