Mumbai: The digital infrastructure company Equinix has enhanced its multicloud networking portfolio with the launch of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router. It has announced the general availability of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a new virtual routing service to help enterprises easily connect applications and data across multiple clouds and on-premise deployments.

Equinix Fabric Cloud Router

The company said that its new Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can help customers simplify their complex cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud networking challenges. It is an easy-to-configure, enterprise-grade, multicloud routing service that can be deployed in less than a minute. Customers can connect applications across public clouds in more locations than any other service by leveraging Equinix’s secure private connectivity.
 
“Modern IT environments are highly digitised and distributed. TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that in 2023, 94% of organisations are now using multiple unique public clouds and the top drivers behind this adoption are to optimise performance and to scale applications,” Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst, ESG.

Available across 58 Equinix Fabric-enabled markets globally

Customers can deploy Equinix Fabric Cloud Router in all 58 Equinix Fabric-enabled markets globally, including India, with low latency connectivity to all major cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, as well as hundreds of other service providers like Akamai, ServiceNow and Zoom.

Delivered as a service on demand and in near real-time, Equinix Fabric Cloud Router can remove the costs and complexities of owning and operating a physical router or licensing a virtual router.

By removing these limitations, customers can improve application performance, reduce cloud costs and accelerate services to market. Enterprises can also accelerate their multicloud adoption by avoiding vendor lock-in with Equinix’s cloud-agnostic service, eliminating networking constraints and enabling them to choose the right cloud environment and provider for specific workloads.

“Multicloud networking is hard, but now with the launch of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router we are simplifying it for businesses everywhere by helping users connect different clouds in as little as 45 seconds. This is what you’d expect from Equinix, the leader in multicloud networking,” said Arun Dev, VP – Digital Interconnection, Equinix.

“By combining Equinix’s steadfast commitment to cloud and network neutrality that has spanned more than 25 years, our leading access to cloud on-ramps, and the largest selection of cloud providers and services partners, Equinix is uniquely positioned to provide the on-demand digital infrastructure today’s enterprises need,” added Dev.

The new service is a key component of Platform Equinix, and it helps customers meet those demands in four specific ways.

Multicloud performance

It offers multicloud performance allowing customers to achieve low latency between all major cloud providers and eliminate the need to backhaul traffic through a remote location.

Private connectivity

It provides private connectivity to customers via easy deployment of private network connections, which helps to avoid exposing sensitive data and network infrastructure to the risks of the public internet and supports data sovereignty requirements.

Enterprise-grade

As an enterprise-grade service, customers are assured with a 99.999% uptime SLA support and can scale bandwidth and connectivity across clouds without constraint using speeds up to 50Gbps, with hundreds of gigabits of aggregate throughput supported per router.

Reduce cost

Enterprises can reduce cloud egress costs (charges from cloud providers for moving or transferring data from the cloud storage where it was uploaded) by up to 75% using private cloud connections rather than egress over the internet.

Built-in Equinix Fabric Cloud Router resilience can save IT teams even more by eliminating the need for expensive redundant routers.