The ambition is breathtaking: Using tools from Taser International Inc. (primarily a tiny camera worn on a police officer’s head), networking pipes from Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO), and a private cloud built by Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), Evidence.com means to do nothing less than revolutionize street law enforcement by
capturing and saving every important moment in a cop’s day.
From arguments over speeding tickets through live-action footage of
shootouts, the intent is to record it, then uplift it to a private
cloud, all the time ensuring that the footage cannot be altered in any
way by the police officers involved. This means the data becomes
evidence that can decide how court cases play out.
NOVEMBER 19, 2009 – BusinessWorld Online [North America]
OVUM research indicates data center customers increasingly rely on these
facilities to deliver low-latency resources that support the products and
services they deliver to their own customers. Data center vendors can lower
their wholesale customers’ transaction times by building or acquiring facilities
close to the ultimate end users.
Equinix might not be the first service provider that would immediately come
to mind as a global Ethernet player.
All that changed with the debut of its Equinix's Carrier Ethernet Exchange
platform, which it offers on its International Business Exchange (IBX) data
centers. Now, Equinix is right in mix of the Ethernet-Network to Network
(E-NNI) ecosystem.
Equinix
did not have to really look that far to develop its platform to enable global
E-NNI arrangements. Taking a leverage and extend approach, Equinix found
inspiration right in the data system program it provides for Internet peering
and other applications.
Light Reading (http://www.lightreading.com), the leading integrated media
company serving the worldwide communications industry, today reveals its Top
Picks for communications technologies, services, and products. Light Reading's
editors, after weeks of discussions with readers, analysts, and industry
sources, have each come up with their picks of communications products and
services from all over the world that could potentially shake up the industry.
Business Services (fixed or wireless)
- Verizon Communications Inc.'s Computing as a Service (CaaS)
- Comcast Corp.'s 100-Mbit/s Business Internet Service Bundle
Carriers can exchange bandwidth and connect networks Alcatel-Lucent and data services provider Equinix have developed a program aimed at helping Ethernet carriers interconnect their networks.
The Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange platform is being billed as an easier way for carriers to connect their Ethernet networks with one another without going through the time-consuming process of setting up complex interconnection agreements. The platform uses Alcatel-Lucent's service router portfolio to let carriers exchange bandwidth and interconnect their networks to more easily share data across different Ethernet systems.
It looks as if hosting specialist Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) will be the first company to set up an Ethernet peering exchange.
The company, which already plays host to Internet exchange points between carriers, aims to do the same for Ethernet services by launching the Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange platform, being announced today at ITU Telecom World 2009 in Geneva. (See Equinix, AlcaLu Create Ethernet Exchange.)
An Ethernet peering point has been a missing link in the industry's attempts to spread the Ethernet services to the corners of the universe. Such a facility would make it easier for carriers to hand off services to one another -- which, in turn, would let them expand the reach of their Ethernet services. (See MEF Peers Consider Ethernet Exchange.)
OCTOBER 5, 2009 – DatacenterDynamics [North America]
Data center services provider Equinix is developing a 'first-of-its-kind platform' for traffic exchange between Ethernet service providers. The Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange platform will be enabled by Alcatel-Lucent service routers.
“In broad strokes, it will allow carriers to interconnect on a one-to-many or on a many-to-many basis,” Equinix Director of Innovation Jonathan Lin said. “We’ve seen various carrier technologies come and go. Ethernet is number one topic on everyone’s mind. It’s definitely a huge growth area for (carriers).”
OCTOBER 5, 2009 – Banking Business Review [Europe]
Equinix, a provider of global data centre services, has revealed plans to build a new 4,500 square meter (48,400 square foot) data centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The new GV2 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre is part of Equinix’s continuing expansion strategy to meet growing global demand for data centre services and will be the company’s second data centre located in Geneva.
The Business of Data Management
Demand for data management continues to grow despite the economic downturn -- one of the reasons why Equinix was able to turn in forecast beating quarterly results. Its CEO Stephen Smith tells CNBC's Chloe Cho how else he plans to grow his business.
Fiber Optic Security
Telephone service has returned to normal in Santa Clara County. Yesterday, vandals opened manhole covers and cut fiber optic lines that provide cell phone, land line and Internet service to some 50,000 customers. Security experts say physical sabotage of the nation's networks is extremely rare, but yesterday's vandalism does raise questions about security of fiber optic cables.
MARCH 3, 2009 – Securities Industry News [North America]
Behind the façade of a non-descript building in an industrial area of Secaucus, N.J. is a response
from Equinix to the electronic trading community’s
seemingly insatiable demand for collocation services. In fact, Equinix is in the process of expanding the Secaucus data center—already the largest in the New York metropolitan area—as it prepares for an influx of cost-sensitive financial firms and trading venue clients such as Direct Edge and, as Securities Industry News has learned, the Chicago Board Options Exchange’s
forthcoming East Coast platform.
Another newcomer to Forbes' list of 25 Fast Tech companies is Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX - news - people ), which operates secure data storage facilities for commercial customers. Ranked 16th overall, with 39% annualized sales growth over the past five years, this was one of the companies that Sneak Peek analyst Chris Larsen recommended we watch in 2009.
Equinix, the largest pure-play maker of data centers, announced plans to build two pricey new facilities today, along with solid quarterly earnings which rose 77% from the year before. The centers, in London and Singapore, will cost a bit over $300 million by the time they’ve been fully stuffed with serves and such in the next few years.
One might think such big-ticket expansions would be the sort of projects that would get delayed in these troubled economic times. But Equinix CEO Steve Smith says that try as he might, he’s just not seeing any slowdown in demand so far. “We’re going to be eyes wide open for the next few quarters, but the demand really has not changed so far,” he says. “In fact, demand could accelerate in some cases.”
Equinix is a large data center colocation company with millions of square feet of data center space. Last month SearchDataCenter.com toured Equinix's newest Chicago — area data center, which is located in Elk Grove Village, a suburb about 20 miles west of the city.
There are data centers, and then there are data centers. The first kind ranges from the overheated, wire-tangled, cramped closets that sometimes also host cleaning supplies to the more standard glass-house variety of years past. The second kind--and the topic of this article--cool with winter air, run on solar power, automatically provision servers without human involvement, and can't be infiltrated even if the attacker is driving a Mack truck full-throttle through the front gate.
These "badass" data centers--energy efficient, automated, hypersecure--are held up as models of innovation today, but their technologies and methodologies could become standard fare tomorrow.
Inside the cavernous facility, past stern-looking security guards and multiple sets of doors protected by biometric hand readers, lie the guts of the Internet. In giant rooms linked by a series of corridors, banks of server computers owned by telecommunications companies like AT&T and content providers such as digital game seller Electronic Arts are housed in dozens of locked cages. They connect to other servers at the site and ultimately to the rest of the Web via bundles of cable that exit the building, linking to the fiber-optic trunk lines that speed digital bits and bytes around the world.
Stephen Smith, chief executive officer of Equinix Inc., talks with Bloomberg's Brian Sullivan from Palo Alto, California, about the company's focus, European expansion plans, and the outlook for growth and industry challenges. Equinix operates data centers for Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)
With everyone talking about global warming, “going green” is the trendy thing to do. For a large data center operator such as Equinix, green is a little harder to do when you're talking about the power requirements of a small city and a lot of heat that must be dissipated. Joining the program to discuss the company's efforts at being more energy efficient is Margie Backaus, chief business officer at Equinix and an employee since Day 1 of the company.
They’re ugly. They require a small city’s worth of electricity. And they’re where the web happens. Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, and others are spending billions to build them as fast as they can...
OFC/NFOEC—The World’s Largest Optical Communications & Networking Event
Dave Pickut, CTO, Equinix will be participating in a Service Provider Summit panel discussion titled, "The Rise of the Super Data Center and What it Means to the Network" on Wednesday, March 24 from 9:00-10:30AM.
Equinix is participating in this year's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, the digital media industry event for video, audio, film and communications professionals.
Equinix is a Platinum sponsor and presenter at the tenth annual event covering carrier Ethernet network
technologies and services in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).
Equinix Presentations: Day 1- 1:30-1:50 PM - Keynote, "Carrier Ethernet Service Interconnection/Exchanges"
Day 2 - 9:15 -10:15 AM - Keynote, "Carrier Ethernet Wholesale Service & Interconnection Trends: Global Perspective"
23 February - 5 March 2010 - APRICOT – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
