Private interconnection, dedicated paths, and latency-optimised routing across 60+ global locations. Built for workloads where the network is not just a transport layer but a performance and security boundary.
Networking and connectivity is the layer that governs how your infrastructure communicates: with your users, with external systems, with other regions of your own deployment, and with services outside your estate.
Unlike end-user compute or platform servers, which define what runs, this layer defines how everything connects. The routing, the isolation, the path selection, and the physical interconnection that determine whether traffic between two points is fast, secure, predictable, or all three.
Direct, dedicated connections between your infrastructure and external networks, exchanges, or service providers. Traffic never traverses the public internet. Delivered through cross-connects and fabric services at carrier-neutral facilities across our network.
Encrypted, dedicated connectivity between your deployments in different regions. Traffic between your London and Tokyo estates travels over private infrastructure with consistent latency characteristics and full encryption in transit.
Reserved bandwidth between points in your deployment. Not shared, not burstable from a common pool. The capacity allocated to your traffic is yours alone, providing consistent throughput regardless of what else is running on the network.
Direct physical and virtual connections at Equinix facilities and other major interconnection hubs. Peer with upstream providers, connect to cloud on-ramps, or establish private links to counterparties and partners without routing through the public internet.
Where your workloads do need to reach or be reached over the public internet, traffic is routed through DDoS-protected, redundant upstream paths with automatic failover. Ingress and egress policies are defined per server or per estate.
The physical distance between two endpoints is the largest single factor in network latency. Our 60+ locations are positioned at major interconnection hubs and exchange points so your infrastructure can be placed as close as possible to the systems it needs to reach.
Your network traffic is isolated from every other customer’s traffic at the infrastructure layer. No shared broadcast domains, no cross-contamination between estates.
Firewall rules, access control lists, and traffic policies are enforced at the network layer, outside the guest. They cannot be modified from within an instance or server.
Within your own estate, traffic between server groups, environments, or tiers can be segmented using policies you define. Production and staging traffic can be fully separated even when running on adjacent infrastructure.
All inter-region traffic is encrypted in transit by default. Intra-region encryption is available where your compliance or security requirements demand it.
Every location connects to multiple upstream providers. If one path fails, traffic is rerouted automatically with no manual intervention and no configuration change required from your side.
Every location in our network follows the same connectivity architecture, the same isolation model, and the same redundancy standards. A private interconnection in London is provisioned and managed the same way as one in Tokyo, Chicago, or São Paulo. New locations inherit the full network architecture automatically. Your connectivity model does not change when our footprint expands.
End-user compute, providing the network paths between per-user instances and the systems they need to reach. Platform and application servers, providing inter-service connectivity and external access for backend workloads. GPU and accelerated compute, providing high-throughput, low-latency paths for data-intensive workloads. Monitoring and disaster recovery, providing the network telemetry and failover paths that underpin observability and continuity.
Application-layer networking, service meshes, or software-defined overlays within your own workload. DNS management or CDN services. These remain your domain or the domain of your chosen providers.
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