Tokyo is the second metro market after Hong Kong where Equinix is deploying the Infinera Cloud Xpress. The Infinera Cloud Xpress family offers hyper-scale density, operational simplicity and low power consumption to meet Equinix’s growing bandwidth demands.
Equinix selected the Infinera Cloud Xpress to serve the growing need for high bandwidth customer interconnections between its four IBX datacenters in Tokyo, which serve more than 260 companies. With the bandwidth provided by the Cloud Xpress, Equinix can continue to scale the number of customers it serves in all four IBX facilities and interconnect them as simply as if they were located in a single IBX facility.
Ideal for high performance datacenter interconnection, the Cloud Xpress leverages Infinera’s unique photonic integrated circuit technology to support up to one terabit per second (Tb/s) of input and output bandwidth in just two rack units with very low power. Designed for a datacenter operational model, with a rack-and-stack form factor, the Cloud Xpress delivers a full 500 gigabit per second (Gb/s) super-channel of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) line-side bandwidth over 150 kilometers without any need for additional multiplexers or amplifiers, which is unique among datacenter interconnect products. The Cloud Xpress also enables efficient scaling with extremely simple provisioning and management, and open interfaces to plug into datacenter automation or SDN orchestration systems.
“Equinix is rapidly expanding across the globe,” said Teri Francis, vice president of technology at Equinix. “Cloud Xpress is an ideal solution for us to scale bandwidth in our Hong Kong and Tokyo networks and enhance our ability to connect our customers. Cloud Xpress is extremely simple to deploy and manage and fits our high-density, low power requirements. We are now looking forward to deploying the Cloud Xpress family in other markets globally to take advantage of these same scaling benefits.”
“The continued deployment of the Cloud Xpress by a leading datacenter operator like Equinix underscores the value Cloud Xpress brings to high-bandwidth datacenter interconnect,” said Stu Elby, senior vice president of cloud network strategy and technology at Infinera. “The Cloud Xpress, a purpose-built rack-and-stack datacenter platform, is ideal for operators in Asia where space limitation is a factor. The Cloud Xpress addresses the critical needs of datacenter operators and continues to gain traction in networks across the globe.”
