Deploying digital infrastructure at both the core and edge
Positioning infrastructure in locations at the core and edge is becoming the norm for many businesses to bridge the physical and virtual. This hybrid model of digital infrastructure solves for different business requirements, supports specific industries and business models, and provides access to Cloud and IT Providers.
Deployments by Enterprises at multiple core and edge locations, combined with expansion by Service Providers to the edge, creates ecosystem density that provides new ways for Service Providers and Enterprises to transact and create value together worldwide. The GXI shows that increasing access requirements to cloud and network providers will fuel Enterprise core location growth. Edge locations will expand interconnection bandwidth capacity at a 51% CAGR with volume and density that approaches core location levels, indicating that the edge will continue to experience high growth rates.
Deploying at core and edge locations enables global data management
A company in automotive manufacturing needed to process more than 150 terabytes (TBs) of data to inform design decisions that would increase the safety for connected and autonomous vehicles, and ultimately save lives. The team needed to pull image and sensor data from vehicles in different regions across the globe, and store and process it in a connected central repository that could be accessed quickly by hundreds of engineers anywhere in the world.
Equinix IBX® data centers and personnel provided the infrastructure and expertise to deploy the company’s supercomputer cluster infrastructure in just a couple of weeks. Once the data was placed in Equinix data centers and uploaded to the company’s cloud, thousands of its engineers around the world worked collaboratively to tag, structure, analyze and process huge amounts of data and develop new AI learning models on demand.
Deploy your digital infrastructure from a single platform
As the world’s digital infrastructure company™, Equinix enables nearly 10,000 customers and partners to deploy their digital infrastructure in core and edge locations on a single global platform: Platform Equinix. With its extensive ecosystem of partners and enterprises, there’s tremendous value to digital leaders as they compete, scale and leverage market opportunities around the world.
For more insights on how companies are optimizing their digital infrastructure across the core, edge and ecosystems, read the GXI Vol. 5 today.
To learn more about Platform Equinix, check out the vision paper.
[1] Locations are carrier-neutral facilities
