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Sep 19, 2018
SYDNEY, Australia – September 19, 2018 – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data centre company, today published the second annual Global Interconnection Index (the “GXI”), a market study that analyses traffic exchange globally. The study reveals that global Interconnection Bandwidth is forecasted to grow by 2021 to 8,200+ Terabits per second (Tbps) of capacity, or the equivalent of 33 Zettabytes (ZB) of data exchange per year, a dramatic increase over the previous year’s projection and ten times the projected capacity of internet traffic1. This represents a significant compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 48% by 2021, almost double the expected 26% CAGR of global IP traffic.
Asia-Pacific’s Interconnection Bandwidth is expected to grow at a 51% CAGR to 2,200+ Tbps by 2021, growing much faster than the United States and Europe. Sydney continues to remain as one of the top metros in the region, with Interconnection Bandwidth capacity expected to more than quadruple by 2021. The city is forecasted to see an even more rapid acceleration in Interconnection Bandwidth growth of 48% CAGR from 2017 to 2021, compared to 44% CAGR from 2016 to 2020 as predicted last year.
“Significant macro, technology and regulatory trends are converging to form an unprecedented era of complexity and risk and forcing the integration of physical and digital worlds,” said Sara Baack, Chief Marketing Officer for Equinix, Inc. “The second Volume of the Global Interconnection Index has found that companies are solving their increasing digital requirements by directly connecting to key business partners through Interconnection, as traditional forms of connectivity do not meet the demanding requirements of today’s businesses.”
Some of the key macroeconomic, technology and regulatory trends that have driven Interconnection growth in the past year and will impact its future growth include:
To capture digital value, companies will need to support real time interactions by more strategically interconnecting the workflows across people, things, locations, cloud and data. The second Volume of the GXI identifies four classes of Interconnection use cases1 along with an IT maturity model. Adopted in combination, these use cases create a digital-ready infrastructure for today’s businesses:
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“Fast and sustainable growth of our business is a key focus as we continue to expand our global presence. Interconnection allows us to create a single, global ecosystem and supports the infrastructure we need to continue to grow. Connecting with Equinix provides us with the ability to access infrastructure on-demand, whilst ensuring that we have complete control over our data and the ability to rapidly scale.”
“As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid cloud architectures to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives, Interconnection is a proven design strategy for reaching cloud services such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in an efficient manner. Direct and private interconnection to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect network connectivity platform helps provide predictable and consistent performance, isolation and availability.”
“As enterprises chart their paths to greater digitisation, they seek pathways that avoid the turbulence generated by the growing complexity of integrating various digital services. New architectures anchored by Interconnection smooth this complexity and, increasingly, enterprises are finding that they also yield improvements in security, performance and capacity. Equinix’s Global Interconnection Index provides useful insight into these digital trends including why businesses are directly connecting with strategic partners to build their digital business ecosystems.”
“From Hong Kong to Sydney, Singapore to Tokyo, Asia-Pacific is a vibrant territory filled with tremendous diversity and opportunities. This is why the region has been continuously able to attract investment from multinational enterprises and is undoubtedly why we are seeing such high projected growth for our region in this year’s Global Interconnection Index. To enable businesses to continue to flourish in our markets, a deep level of digital Interconnection is required so that businesses can simultaneously capture, correlate and transform the data into new customer value. That is why Equinix, as a leader in Interconnection, is perfectly positioned to help the region realise its huge potential. With our expertise in helping enterprises transform, we are confident that our Asia-Pacific customers will continue to thrive in the digital world.”
“This second Global Interconnection Index highlights the enormous growth rate of interconnection both locally in Australia and more broadly across the Asia-Pacific region. In light of the growth we have recently announced several key initiatives to assist our customers with their Interconnection needs, including our investment in the expansion of the PE2 facility in Perth, which houses the cable landing station for the ASC cable, and our expansion of the cloud exchange fabric between Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.”
About The Global Interconnection Index
The Global Interconnection Index, published annually by Equinix, delivers insights that drive digital business advantage by tracking, measuring and forecasting growth in Interconnection Bandwidth—the total capacity provisioned to privately and directly exchange traffic with a diverse set of counterparties and providers at distributed IT exchange points. As crucial as Interconnection is to how digital business is conducted, it has never been quantified. The Global Interconnection Index changes this with industry-first projections of how Interconnection growth and access will unfold through 2021. The report serves as a market baseline that analyses the deployment profile of thousands of ecosystem participants using carrier-neutral colocation data centre providers globally. This data was combined with local and regional market data (including macroeconomic trends, market demographics and industry concentrations), and with key demand drivers of digital business, to form a weighted demand multiplier to assist in predicting growth to factor the impact of digital business transformation. A detailed methodology description is included in the Global Interconnection Index.
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About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most-interconnected data centres. In 52 markets worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to realise new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies. Equinix.com.au
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX data centres and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centres; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time in Equinix filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see recent Equinix quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.
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1 Cisco – “Visual Networking Index”, 2017
2 IDC – Breaking the Digital Deadlock to Thrive in the Australian Market | Equinix Analyst Reports
3 Microsoft and Frost & Sullivan: Understanding the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape in Asia Pacific: Securing the Modern Enterprise in a Digital World
4 Cybersecurity Regained: Preparing to Face Cyber Attacks, EY, 2017
5 Capitalising on Your Business Ecosystems Economy: Gartner, 2017
6 The four classes of Interconnection use cases were developed by analysing more than 1,800 industry implementations worldwide, are documented in the IOA® Knowledge Base, and have been validated by IT practitioners and industry experts.