Equinix : Trident Subsea Cable selects Equinix for Points of Presence in Australia, Singapore and Jakarta

Equinix, Inc. , the global interconnection and data centre company, today announced that its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Melbourne (ME1), Sydney (SY1), Singapore (SG3) and Jakarta (JK1) have been selected by Trident Subsea Cable for the cables Points-of-Presence (PoPs) in the Asia-Pacific region.

Anticipated for completion in Q2, 2018, the Trident cable will provide customers with more resilient, lower latency connections and increased bandwidth, on the fastest, most direct path from Australia to Asia.

Highlights/ Key Facts

Trident Subsea Cable is building a 28 Tbps bandwidth cable, using 100Gbps coherent DWDM technology upgradeable to 400Gbps technology in the future, which will connect Australia, Singapore and Jakarta.

The cable will have interconnection points in Equinix IBX data centres in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Jakarta, as well as a landing point in Perth, providing greater connectivity for businesses, content providers and communications network providers.

The PoPs will provide cross-connect opportunities for all Equinix customers colocated in the SY1, ME1, SG3 and JK1 IBX data centres. Trident will be the first submarine cable to establish a PoP in ME1 and JK1.

When fully operational, the Trident Subsea Cable will add to the rich system of submarine cables that connect Equinixs customers globally within Equinix IBX data centres, reaffirming Equinixs network neutral value proposition.

The Trident cable will be able to leverage over 190+ networks in Equinix Singapore, 130+ in Sydney and 30+ in Melbourne to provide immediate access to their customers across the region.

This cable further augments the resilience of the Australian Internet landscape by providing a new route out of Western Australia up to Asia.

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