Equinix, Inc, the world’s digital infrastructure company, has announced the general availability of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router to its customers in Ireland. The service will help enterprises easily connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise deployments through virtual routing.
Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can help customers simplify their complex cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud networking challenges by providing an easy-to-configure, enterprise-grade, multicloud routing service that can be deployed in under a minute. Utilising Equinix’s secure private connectivity, customers can connect applications across public clouds in more locations than any other service, improving application performance, reducing cloud costs and accelerating services to market.
Customers can deploy Equinix Fabric Cloud Router in all 58 Equinix Fabric-enabled markets globally, including Ireland, with low latency connectivity to all major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as well as hundreds of other service providers like Akamai, ServiceNow and Zoom.
Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a key component of Platform Equinix®, helps customers meet those demands in four specific ways:
Multicloud Performance – Customers achieve the low latency between all major cloud providers with Equinix’s industry leading cloud-adjacent locations around the world, eliminating the need to backhaul traffic through a remote location. This superior cloud-to-cloud networking performance enables customers to quickly and easily support evolving infrastructure demands, like cloud migrations.
Private Connectivity – By easily deploying private network connections, customers can avoid exposing sensitive data and network infrastructure to the risks of the public internet and support data sovereignty requirements.
Enterprise-Grade – Customers can act with confidence knowing they are supported by a 99.999% uptime SLA and can scale bandwidth and connectivity across clouds without constraint using speeds up to 50Gbps, with hundreds of gigabits of aggregate throughput supported per router.
Lowering Costs – Enterprises can reduce cloud egress costs by up to 75% using private cloud connections rather than egress over the internet. Built-in Equinix Fabric Cloud Router resilience can save IT teams even more by eliminating the need for expensive redundant routers. Delivered as a service, customers can pay only for what they need without being locked into long-term contracts and have the flexibility to scale up and down as needed.
Delivered as a service on demand and in near real time, Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can remove the costs and complexities of owning and operating a physical router or licensing a virtual router. Enterprises can also accelerate their multicloud adoption by avoiding vendor lock-in with Equinix’s cloud agnostic service, eliminating networking constraints and enabling them to choose the right cloud environment and provider for specific workloads.
Peter Lantry, Managing Director for Equinix Ireland, said: “Equinix Fabric Cloud Router helps our customers in Ireland to easily connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise deployments. With data-heavy workloads on the rise, particularly as businesses start to unlock the power of AI, cutting-edge solutions like this will play a key role in the growth of our economy, removing routing limitations and enabling our customers to move data between different cloud providers with more ease than ever before”.