Singapore – Aiming to accelerate innovation and business outcomes, BT and Equinix has recently unveiled the expansion of their partnership centred around helping multinational organisations transform interconnectivity across their digital value chain.
Through this partnership, BT’s AI-ready Global Fabric NaaS platform has been rolled out across more than 30 Equinix data centres, with plans to expand to over 40 within the next year. This deployment will encompass the top 30 global business hubs, facilitating 95% of the world’s cloud interconnection traffic.
According to the firm, the move will further enhance Global Fabric’s international footprint, positioning BT among the largest of any NaaS platforms. Once fully built-out, Global Fabric will offer customers access through 140 points-of-presence in leading cloud hubs across 40 countries.
Furthermore, said platform will also deliver 74% direct coverage of hyperscaler clouds and pre-provisioned high-bandwidth connectivity to more than 700 data centres. It further provides visibility and control of both access and core networks, enabling organisations
to achieve the best end-to-end network performance for their workloads.
Additionally, the expanded alliance allows customers to choose from best locations for digital interconnection with key stakeholders, including partners, suppliers, and customers.
It also builds on BT Group’s collaboration with Equinix in quantum secure communications, following their success in enabling the UK’s first quantum-secured data centre link.
Commenting about the partnership, Arun Dev, Global Interconnections, Equinix, said, “Our partnership enables BT to offer its customers interconnectivity with the full Equinix global digital ecosystem of cloud and IT services, as well as hundreds of content and digital media services, and over 4,800 enterprises hosted at our data centres globally.”
Matt Swinden, director, digital connectivity, Business, BT, further added, “The BT-Equinix partnership is a terrific example of our strategy to build the strongest digital foundations for our customers. Global Fabric combined with Equinix’s global ecosystem of infrastructure, cloud and digital service widens the choice we offer to customers of the best locations to interconnect their full business value chain. It will help make trading, partnering and operating a multinational business, better on BT.”
