REDWOOD CITY, Calif.,
June 23, 2016 /PRNewswire/
-- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection
and data center company, today announced a strategic partnership
with Datang Telecom Group in China. As a part of the
partnership, Datang Telecom, which currently holds a cross regional
Internet Data Center (IDC) license in Beijing and Shanghai, will become the service delivery
partner for Equinix in China
enabling Equinix to expand further into the growing domestic
enterprise market. On behalf of Equinix, Datang will offer
Equinix customers in China a broad
range of interconnection services, including Equinix Cloud
Exchange, that leverage Equinix's years of operational expertise
and experience in delivering data center services around the
world.
This partnership comes as Equinix continues to extend the reach
of its global platform to 145 data centers. The company
continues to play a central role in advancing the digital
economy's interconnected era, in which businesses are
demanding increasing levels of interconnection to accelerate
business performance.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Equinix will continue to operate three International Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers in Shanghai via the partnership with Datang.
- Founded in 1999, Datang, is a state-owned market leader in
telecom equipment manufacturing with more than $3 billion in annual revenue.
- As the service delivery partner for Equinix in China, Datang will offer additional value
added services to Equinix customers in China – making for an easier and richer
experience for Equinix's global customer base to do business with
Equinix in China.
Quotes
- Samuel Lee, president,
Equinix Asia-Pacific:
"As the digital economy
continues to transform businesses in China and around the world, companies are
becoming increasingly interconnected, and Equinix is the place
where they come to physically connect to each other. The
China market is an important element of our global platform, and
our partnership with Datang Telecom Group enables greater expansion
into key vertical markets and locations within China. By
combining the strength of both companies, we will offer customers a
full suite of value-added services with the same levels of service
quality Equinix is known for throughout the world."
Additional
Resources
- Learn more about Equinix China IBX data centers [website]
- Virtual tour of the Equinix Shanghai 5 (SH5) IBX data center
[video]
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects
the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and
partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 40 markets
across five continents, Equinix is where companies come together to
realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and
cloud strategies. www.equinix.com.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release
contains 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 centers
and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services globally,
in particular in China; the
success of Equinix's partnership with Datang Telecom; unanticipated
costs or difficulties relating to Equinix's partnership with Datang
Telecom; adverse market and economic conditions generally, and in
China in particular; risks related
to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; unanticipated
costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we
have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive
significant revenue from customers in recently built out or
acquired data centers; 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; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular,
see Equinix's recent 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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SOURCE Equinix, Inc.