{"id":2461,"date":"2012-07-03T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudnewsdaily.com\/?guid=8d3d83ff39a309ec852bb1aeb16927a0"},"modified":"2012-07-03T14:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:22:00","slug":"equinix-adds-networks-with-ancotel-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/equinix-adds-networks-with-ancotel-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Equinix Adds Networks with ancotel Acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/company\/equinix\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured alignleft\" title=\"Image representing Equinix as depicted in Crun...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/assets\/images\/resized\/0002\/8568\/28568v7-max-450x450.png\" alt=\"Image representing Equinix as depicted in Crun...\" width=\"114\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"org fn\">Equinix, Inc., a provider of global data center services, today announced it has completed its acquisition of ancotel GmbH, a\u00a0 provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services in Europe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The acquisition adds more than 400 network, cloud and content customers to Equinix. This includes 200 new networks and an additional 6,000 cross connects. In addition, Equinix adds one data center to its Frankfurt campus and now operates 21,000 square meters (223,000 square feet) of data center capacity across five data centers in the Frankfurt market. As part of the acquisition, Equinix also gains edge nodes in Hong Kong, London and Miami, providing additional points of presence in these markets. One of the world\u2019s busiest data hubs, Equinix\u2019s Frankfurt campus offers a broad mix of networks from Western and Eastern Europe, and significant growth opportunities for customers looking to expand their data center footprint globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a leading interconnection hub for networks throughout Europe, ancotel brings highly complementary capabilities to our European business that increases our network density in the region and offers a strong interconnection infrastructure that will provide our customers with a platform for growth in Europe and beyond,\u201d said Eric Schwartz, president, Equinix EMEA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=7bb53601-52ac-4427-b4f0-a0530b4f83d4\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2AmukGN9bj__YNVjsr5DpkBZl0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2AmukGN9bj__YNVjsr5DpkBZl0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2AmukGN9bj__YNVjsr5DpkBZl0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Z2AmukGN9bj__YNVjsr5DpkBZl0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/CloudNewsDaily\/~4\/MDvqieWcIeM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network-dense colocation and connectivity campus in Frankfurt adds        200 new networks to Equinix in Europe     REDWOOD CITY, Calif. &#038; FRANKFURT&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;Equinix,        Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center servic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,618,8,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-center","category-equinix","category-hosting","category-ma-activity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}