About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. provides colocation space and related offerings. Worldwide enterprises, content providers, financial companies and network service providers rely upon the company’s insight and expertise to safehouse and connect their valued information assets. The company operates International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers, or IBX data centers, across the Americas; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and the Asia-Pacific geographic regions where customers directly interconnect with a network ecosystem of partners and customers. Approximately 1,800 network service providers offer access to the world's internet routes inside the company's IBX data centers. As of December 31, 2019, the company operated 204 IBX data centers in 53 markets across five continents. The company connects enterprises and service providers directly to their customers and partners across the interconnected data center and interconnection platform in the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, and EMEA. Platform Equinix combines a worldwide footprint of IBX data centers, interconnection solutions, edge services, business and digital ecosystems, and expert consulting and support. In 2019, the company entered into a joint venture in the form of a limited liability partnership with GIC Private Limited, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, to develop and operate xScale data centers in Europe to serve the needs of the improving hyperscale data center market, including the world's major cloud service providers. xScale data centers are engineered to meet the technical and operational requirements and price points of core hyperscale workload deployments; and also offer access to the company’s suite of interconnection and edge services. The company offers an integrated suite of data center, interconnection and edge services and products to approximately 9,700 enterprise and service provider customers worldwide. Data Centers Solutions The company’s worldwide data centers meet standards of security, certification and sustainability. Offerings in these data centers are billed based on the space and power a customer consumes, are delivered under a fixed duration contract and generate monthly recurring revenue (MRR). IBX Data Centers – Approximately 200 IBX vendor-neutral colocation data centers worldwide provide the company’s customers with secure environments that are necessary to aggregate and distribute information and connect digital and business ecosystems worldwide. IBX data centers provide access to vital ecosystems where enterprises, network, cloud and SaaS providers, and business partners directly and securely interconnect to each other. xScale Data Centers - xScale data centers are designed to serve the core workload deployment needs of a targeted group of hyperscale companies, which include the world's major cloud service providers. With xScale data centers, hyperscale customers add to their core hyperscale data center deployments and existing customer access points at the company, allowing streamlined expansion with a single worldwide vendor. Interconnection Solutions The company’s interconnection solutions connect businesses directly and securely within and between the company’s data centers across its worldwide platform. The company’s interconnection services are billed based on the outbound connections from a customer and generate MRR. Cross Connects - Provide a point-to-point cable link between two customers in the same IBX data center. They deliver fast and convenient connectivity and data exchange with business partners and service providers within the company’s ecosystem. Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric) – Directly and securely connects distributed infrastructure and ecosystems across the company’s data centers worldwide using software-defined interconnection. Customers could establish data center-to-data center network connections on demand between any two ECX Fabric locations within a metro or worldwide and move information within a dense digital and business ecosystem. Equinix Internet Exchange - Enables networks, content providers and major enterprises to exchange internet traffic through the major worldwide peering solution. Service providers could aggregate traffic to multiple counterparties, called peers, on one physical port and handle multiple small peers while moving high-traffic peers to private interconnections. This reduces latency for end-users when accessing content and applications. Edge Services The company’s edge services help businesses deploy as-a-service networking, security and hardware across the company’s worldwide data center footprint - as an alternative to buying, owning and managing the physical infrastructure. The company’s edge services are billed based on the number of instances and the capacity used by a customer and generate MRR. Network Edge - Allows customers to modernize networks quickly, by deploying network functions virtualization from multiple vendors across the company’s metros. Companies could select, deploy and connect virtual network services at the edge quickly, with no additional hardware requirements. Equinix SmartKey - Helps customers simplify data protection across any cloud architecture through a worldwide SaaS-based, hardware security module management and cryptography service that provides on-premises and hybrid multicloud cloud encryption key management. Bare Metal - The company’s announced acquisition of Packet in January 2020, once completed, and the company’s own organic bare metal service also in development, are expected to help enterprises deploy hybrid multicloud architectures on Platform Equinix. Enablement Offerings The company offers various remote support and professional services designed to speed and streamline digital transformation and data center deployments for its customers. These services are billed based on consumption and generate non-recurring revenue. Equinix Infrastructure Services - Combines the company’s data center expertise with the skills and scale of certified technology partners worldwide. The company’s colocation expertise helps customers achieve a data center deployment design that optimizes space and enables easy service access. Equinix Professional Services - Helps enterprises and service providers design and deploy IT solutions. The company’s worldwide teams of network transformation, hybrid multicloud and digital edge solution experts help companies design and manage technology solutions, which are deployed on the company’s worldwide platform. Customers and Partners The company’s customers include telecommunications carriers, mobile and other network services providers, cloud and IT services providers, digital media and content providers, financial services companies, and worldwide enterprise ecosystems in various industries. History Equinix, Inc. was founded in 1998. The company was incorporated in Delaware in 1998.