Equinix

Infobox_Company
company_name = Equinix, Inc.
company_
company_type = Public (NASDAQ: [http://quotes.nasdaq.com/asp/SummaryQuote.asp?symbol=EQIX&selected=EQIX EQIX] )
foundation = 1998
company_slogan = The Home of the Internet
location = Foster City, CA, USA
key_people =Jay Adelson, Founder
num_employees = 1000 (est) (2008)
products = Data Centers
homepage = [http://www.equinix.com/ www.equinix.com]
industry = Internet
revenue = $419.44 million USD (2007)

Equinix, Inc. nasdaq|EQIX, is a U.S. public corporation that provides carrier-neutral data centers and internet exchanges. Equinix provides network-neutral data centers (IBX or "Internet Business Exchange") and interconnection services. The company offers colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions to enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network service providers.

Equinix went public August 11,2000 [ [http://www.networkworld.com/edge/news/2000/0811edgeeq.html Equinix makes mild debut on stock market ] ] and soon after announced the Equinix Foundation charitable fund [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64832651.html Equinix Establishes $1,000,000 Charitable Foundation. | Article from PR Newswire | HighBeam Research ] ] .

Data center locations

38 IBX centers located in 17 markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

European data centers

*France - (2 locations) Paris Roissy, Paris Saint-Denis
*Germany - (6 locations) 3 in Frankfurt (City, North, Morfelden), Dusseldorf, 2 in Munich
*Netherlands - (3 locations) Amsterdam (to be completed in 2008), Enschede and Zwolle
*Switzerland - (4 locations) 3 in Zurich and 1 in Geneva
*UK - (4 locations) 4 in London (City, West, Park Royal, Slough)

American data centers

*Chicago, Illinois (3 Locations) 2 of them in the City of Chicago and one of them located in Elk Grove Village, one of the suburbs of the City of Chicago.
*Ashburn, Virginia (Washington, D.C. Metro Area) (4 locations, 5th opening in 2008)
*Dallas, Texas, in the Infomart
*Los Angeles, California (3 Locations)
*New York City Metro Area (3 Locations)
*Silicon Valley, California (4 Locations)

Asia-Pacific datacentres

*Hong Kong, China
*Singapore
*Tokyo, Japan (2 locations)
*Sydney, Australia (2 locations)

Customers

More than 200 different carriers and ISPs now participate in Equinix IBX centers, including the world’s largest IP backbone networks.

*Abovenet
*Adobe
*Agile Communications
*Amazon.com
*AOL
*AT&T / SBC
*Work the Beat Films
*Centauri Communications
*Comcast
*Electronic Arts
*EWE TEL
*GAP
*General Electric
*Global Crossing
*Giganews
*Google
*Live365
*Vonage
*Internet Initiative Japan
*IBM
*Internode Systems
*Level 3
*Microsoft
*MSN
*NTT Communications
*SAVVIS
*Sony
*Sprint
*Sun Microsystems
*UnitedLayer
*United Online
*UUNET
*Verizon
* Voxel dot Net
* [http://www.walkertek.com/ WalkerTek]
*Yahoo!

See also

* Data center
* Internet exchange

References

* [http://www.abovenet.com/newsandevents/pressreleases/pr031119.html
* [http://www.centauricom.com/company/pr/2008/pro031108.asp

External links

* [http://www.equinix.com/ Official Website]
* [http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AEQIX Equinix Stock Quote] (Google Finance)