REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
Sept. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the world's digital
infrastructure company™, today announced it has deployed a
first-of-its-kind, fully functional 5G and Edge Technology
Development Center which includes a fully operational,
non-standalone 5G network from Nokia to test and validate various
5G services and use cases. Equinix is investing in helping service
providers and network operators bring innovative concepts to market
by providing an agile production framework for assessing,
incubating and testing 5G and edge solutions for end-to-end secure
applications.
The 5G and Edge Technology Development Center—located at the
Equinix DA11 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)
data center in Dallas—brings together select ecosystem participants
to develop end-to-end edge solutions by providing a
production-ready interconnection sandbox environment from the radio
network to the cloud. Mobile network operators (MNOs), cloud
platforms, technology vendors and enterprises come together at
Equinix to test, demonstrate and accelerate complex 5G and edge
scenarios—key activities that will make 5G deployments available to
enterprises in the future. Equinix Fabric™ directly, securely and
dynamically connects distributed infrastructure and digital
ecosystems on Platform Equinix®. Customers can establish data
center-to-data center network connections on demand between any two
Equinix Fabric locations within a metro or globally via
software-defined interconnection.
"As we look to a future where 5G is ubiquitous, the way that IP
traffic moves between networks around the world will change
completely, and interconnected data centers will play a crucial
role in this new 5G-dominated future," said Sean Hemphill, VP Webscale Business at Nokia.
"Equinix's approach to digital infrastructure enables access to a
large ecosystem of end users and service providers. Nokia IP
solutions underpin Equinix Fabric, providing seamless
interconnection between its global data centers. We're pleased that
Equinix Fabric will bring the power of interconnection to help
customers test real-world 5G and edge deployments."
The Dallas-based 5G and Edge
Technology Development Center will initially focus on the following
use cases:
- Mobile Hybrid Multicloud Connectivity: Assessing
strategies for ensuring that 5G user traffic can reach multiple
clouds and hybrid edge computing resources, effectively and
efficiently.
- Network Slicing: Aiming to facilitate private
wireless enterprise networks supporting secure, predictable,
end-to-end quality of experience.
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Machine
Learning: Investigating the optimization of AI/ML
applications and infrastructure distributed across the edge,
directly connected to 5G, and interconnected to clouds for enabling
data-dense capabilities, such as scene and video analytics.
- Enablement and Orchestration of Infrastructure:
Exploring optimal deployment strategies for 5G RAN, fronthaul, core
and edge computing infrastructure and functions management across
domains.
- Augmented and Virtual Reality: Validating a uniform
experience, consistent quality and anywhere usage with high
mobility and high motion.
- Gaming: Demonstrating responsive hosted-gaming,
low-latency peripherals leveraging the metro edge for
delivery.
Equinix is actively standing up novel 5G use cases. The first
use case is Secure Edge from Exium, which enables highly secure,
seamless multi-access edge compute functionality with tightly
integrated security and network functions from the cloud, to edge
locations, to the devices themselves. With Exium deployed at
Equinix data centers, customers get close to on-prem performance
with the benefits of cloud aggregation and also manage
enterprise-grade traffic breakout in real time.
"Applications and artificial intelligence are moving to the
edge, whether we're ready or not," said Farooq Muzaffar, COO, Exium. "As enterprises
embrace digital transformation, automation and intelligence
at the edge, it's crucial to have a partner like Equinix. The
5G and Edge Technology Development Center has been an incredible
resource for us and our customers as we incubate, develop and
deploy secure edge AI services with 5G access."
The Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey—which surveyed
2,600 IT decision makers—uncovered a crucial need for
infrastructure technology exploration in this area. While most
respondents agreed that the biggest impact of 5G is the ability it
gives businesses to take advantage of new technologies, more than a
third worried about the need to re-architect infrastructure to take
advantage of 5G capabilities.
"As companies develop new 5G technologies and services, they
need a real-world environment to test and bring their concepts to
life," said Justin Dustzadeh, CTO, Equinix. "With Equinix's rich
ecosystem of service providers, partners and clouds, the 5G and
Edge Technology Development Center is an ideal place to fully test
their concepts in a real way, enabling them to bring new
capabilities to market, accelerate adoption and deliver new revenue
streams faster."
Jim Poole, VP Business
Development, Equinix added, "We're excited to invite private
enterprises, commercial organizations and researchers across
industries to Dallas to test,
validate and accelerate complex 5G deployments and interoperability
scenarios."
Additional Resources
- Equinix 5G and Edge Tech Development Center Drives
Innovation [blog]
- 5G is changing the game – right now. Is your infrastructure
ready? [whitepaper]
- Learn more about Equinix Fabric™ [website]
- Equinix 2020-21 Global Tech Trends Survey [ebook]
- Equinix Expands Dallas Infomart Campus with New $142M Data Center and 5G Proof of Concept
Center [press release]
About Equinix
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the
world's digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to
harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the
foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix
enables today's businesses to access all the right places,
partners, and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With
Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital
services, deliver world-class experiences, and multiply their
value.
Forward-Looking Statements
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forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties.
Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in
such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such
differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of
acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data centers and
developing, deploying and delivering Equinix products and
solutions, unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the
integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenues from customers
in recently built out or acquired data centers; a failure to
complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; risks related to our taxation as a REIT;
and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent
Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request
from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the
forward-looking information contained in this
press release.
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