Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a new virtual routing solution designed to make it easier for businesses to link data and apps across on-premises and different clouds, is now generally available. The colocation provider’s customers can reduce the complexity of their cloud-to-cloud and hybrid cloud networking issues with Equinix Fabric Cloud Router.
The new virtual routing offering would provide an enterprise-grade, multicloud routing solution that is quick to implement while requiring little configuration. Customers may link applications across public clouds in multiple places by utilizing Equinix’s secured private connection.
“Modern IT environments are highly digitized and distributed,” said Bob Laliberte, Principal Analyst at ESG. “Research shows that in 2023, 94% of organizations are now using multiple unique public clouds and the top drivers behind this adoption are to optimize performance and to scale applications. The network connectivity that supports these multicloud applications must provide the same ability to scale and improve performance. Equinix, with its extensive cloud on-ramp availability and low network latency combined with the recently added Equinix Fabric Cloud Router is well positioned to deliver these capabilities.”
AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OCI
“Multicloud networking is hard, but now with the launch of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router we are simplifying it for businesses everywhere,” said Arun Dev, VP of Digital Interconnection at Equinix.With low latency connectivity to all major cloud providers, including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and hundreds of other service providers like Akamai, ServiceNow, and Zoom, Equinix’s clients can deploy Equinix Fabric Cloud Router in all 58 Equinix Fabric-enabled markets globally.
Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, which is provided as-a-service on-demand and almost instantly, may eliminate the expenses and hassles associated with purchasing and managing a hardware router or obtaining a virtual router license. Customers may decrease cloud expenses, speed up service launches, and enhance application performance by getting rid of certain restrictions. By removing networking restrictions, avoiding vendor lock-in with Equinix’s cloud agnostic solution, and being able to choose the best cloud environment and provider for certain workloads, enterprises may also expedite their multicloud adoption.
“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, Vice President of Digital Interconnection at 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.”
Multicloud Performance
Customers may satisfy those expectations mentioned by Mr. Dev in four distinct ways with the use of Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, a crucial part of Platform Equinix:
- Multicloud Performance – Equinix’s cloud-adjacent sites throughout the globe are industry leading, enabling customers to achieve low latency between all major cloud providers without having to backhaul data via a faraway location. Customers can rapidly and efficiently handle changing infrastructure needs, such as cloud migrations, thanks to its enhanced cloud-to-cloud networking performance.
- Private Connectivity – Customers may satisfy data sovereignty needs and protect sensitive data and network infrastructure from public Internet risks by quickly implementing private network connections.
- Enterprise-Grade – With speeds up to 50Gbps and hundreds of gigabits of aggregate throughput enabled per router, customers can increase bandwidth and connection between clouds without restriction and operate with confidence knowing they are covered by a 99.999% uptime SLA.
- Lowering Costs – Instead of egressing over the Internet, businesses may use private cloud connections to save cloud egress expenses by up to 75%. IT departments may save even more money with built-in Equinix Fabric Cloud Router resiliency as it does away with the requirement for pricey redundant routers. When a service is provided, clients are free to scale up or down as required and may only pay for what they really use, free from long-term commitments.
“The distributed cloud is increasingly important as organizations need the flexibility to work with workloads and data in specific locations and across multiple clouds,” said Yogesh Kaushik, Vice President, Product Management, Networking Services, Oracle. “With Equinix Fabric Cloud Router, customers can deploy and manage a high-performance multicloud networking architecture more quickly and cost-effectively.”
