Equinix Expands D.C. Facility

By Rich Miller
CarrierHotels News Staff

Nov. 27, 2000 -- Equinix, Inc. said today it has expanded its Washington, D.C. area Internet Business Exchange (IBX) center by 148,000 square feet to accomodate expansions by existing customers.
The addition brings the complex, which originally opened in the fall of 1999, to 180,000 square-feet, the largest of Equinix's six IBX centers. The company said customers including AT&T, IBM, Loudcloud, Telenisus Corporation and WorldCom have signed orders for more cabinets in the new facility.
That customer demand has driven an expansion program that will give Equinix 543,000 square-feet of space in six IBX centers -- a 650 percent increase since the fourth quarter of 1999. The company's other IBX centers are located in the greater New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley areas.
"Equinix is leading the Internet infrastructure services space in providing neutral Internet Business Exchange centers that serve as open marketplaces for the buying and selling of Internet infrastructure services,'' said Peter Van Camp, CEO of Equinix. "With eight carriers and leading Internet companies such as IBM signed to move in, the complex already has a solid customer base that has reserved more cabinets than any other IBX center.''
Equinix designs, builds and operates neutral IBX centers which provide enterprises, content providers, ASPs and e-commerce companies with the power to choose from a wide variety of Internet partners.