FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced several new 10 Gigabit Ethernet customers on the Equinix Exchange service, including NTT America, PCCW Global, Free.fr, Big Pipe, Telecom Italia, Server Central, Cable & Wireless, Hurricane Electric and UPC Broadband, as well as one of the nation's largest cable operators and one of the nation's largest telecommunications companies. Equinix also announced that the total capacity for all sold ports on the Equinix Exchange service has doubled since the introduction of 10 GigE services.

The 10 GigE Equinix Exchange service, currently available in Equinix Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) centers in the Washington D.C., Silicon Valley, and Chicago areas, facilitates network and content peering among Equinix customers through a central switching fabric. These peering relationships are the fundamental means by which all Internet traffic, from email to video, is interchanged between networks, and they require a high-performance platform for fast and reliable traffic exchange. The 10 GigE service specifically offers carrier-class stability and increased capacity, enabling network service providers and content companies to manage continued strong traffic growth driven by increasing broadband adoption and new Internet usage trends. In addition to the new customers announced today, existing customers on the 10 GigE platform include Limelight Networks, Time Warner Telecom and nLayer Communications.

Equinix has become a strategic partner in the increasingly important peering infrastructure of many network service providers, content companies and content distributors by reducing transit costs and increasing performance by enabling participants to directly connect to each other and eliminate intermediate network backbones. This streamlined connectivity between networks and content providers enhances performance and reliability and provides a more robust end-user experience.

"The move from a one to a 10 Gigabit Ethernet platform has had a significant impact on our peering operations and enabled us to drastically enhance end-user performance," said Doug Junkins, vice president of IP engineering at NTT America. "The growth of the platform and the addition of new customers provides us with even greater opportunity to leverage the benefits of additional peering relationships at Equinix."

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX)