Dec 8, 2004 : Equinix Opens New Data Center

📅 December 8, 2004 - Data center and Internet exchange operator Equinix Inc. (equinix.com) announced on Wednesday that it has signed a long-term lease for an additional 103,000 square feet of data center space in San Jose close to the company's two other Internet Business Exchange centers in the region. With the addition of the new facility, Equinix has updated guidance for the year ending December 31, 2005.

The expansion was purchased through the assets and assumption of the existing data center lease from AboveNet, adds approximately 2,000 cabinets. The expansion boosts Equinix's Silicon Valley footprint to approximately 400,000 square feet and its global footprint to approximately 1.4 million square feet. Equinix intends to start placing new customers in the center beginning March 1, 2005.
Equinix's three Silicon Valley centers will be interconnected through redundant AboveNet dark fiber links managed by Equinix. Customers in the new center will have immediate and scalable access to more than 50 networks and numerous strategic business partners for transit, peering and exchange services, including AboveNet which will provide the dark fiber services to the three Silicon Valley centers through the term of the lease.
"Equinix continues to experience strong demand in Silicon Valley for our high-performance Internet hubs where a critical mass of networks, enterprises and content companies can operate and directly exchange traffic with each other," says Peter Van Camp, CEO of Equinix. "This expansion comes as a result of the tremendous success we have seen in our San Jose center and the Santa Clara center that we opened one year ago, and it gives us additional capacity to maintain our momentum in this market with minimal capital investment."