Equinix Builds Peering Relationship with Internet Exchange JPNAP

Scheduled to open in summer 2010, new IBX data center cabinets have the capacity to 1750, according to a report from the Washington Business Journal, this-152,000 square feet will Equinix Ashburn, Virginia campus data center, which currently operates five data centers, one of the richest of the points of interconnection of IP networks in the U.S.. Ashburn campus offers more than 470,000 square feet of data center space and access to over 130 networks.

The Washington Business Journal reported that Equinix will be designing the new facilities to meet the demands of its existing telecommunications customers and to government customers and contractors.

The Ashburn facility is part of Equinix’s expansion program for 15 of the 18 markets where it currently operates. In late 2009, it has invested more than $ 1 billion in the expansion since early 2007. Less than three weeks, Equinix opened its fourth International Business Exchange data center in the Los Angeles area, which was also part of the expansion.

Equinix has been very active in its 18 markets around the world in which business operates 45 international exchange of data centers. In July, Equinix unveiled plans to build its fourth IBX data center in Zurich, Switzerland. The new, 32,108 square foot facility will double ZH4 footprint Equinix Zurich, one of its major European markets of interconnection services. A week earlier, Equinix said it would offer high-performance placement and connectivity solutions for low latency to Japan’s largest futures exchange commodities, Tokyo Commodity Exchange (www.tocom.or.jp), through two Equinix Tokyo IBX data centers.