Companies Grow within Equinix Data Centers

Kamloops Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Kamloops is an important city near the Vancouver area and can be considered a hub from Vancouver to other important locations of the country.

The data center services available at Kamloops’ IBXs are ideal for government, finance as well as local market and companies that need to connect with international locations. It also supports regional colocation demand, primarily from Vancouver and Calgary, and is an appealing location given lower disaster risk.

Montreal Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Montreal is emerging as a cloud hub and is the second largest peering center in Canada. The data center services available at Montreal’s IBXs are ideal for network providers, enterprises, local market and companies that need to connect with international locations offering:

• Direct connection to the major cloud providers such as AWS, Google and Microsoft
• An excellent point of connection to the US market

Ottawa Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Ottawa is the capital of Canada which makes it an important location for interconnection of national and global companies.

The data center services available at Ottawa's IBXs are ideal for government, finance as well as local market and companies that need to connect with international locations. It is strategically located to serve core Ottawa market for customers with high security requirements.

Saint John, NB Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Saint John is a stable data center market with a growing Trans-Atlantic and US eastern seaboard demand.

The data center services available at Saint John's IBXs are ideal for local market and companies that need to connect with international locations, specially Europe and Eastern US, offering:

• Uniquely attractive for Western EU customers seeking North American presence
• Access to U.S. market through New England for wholesale and disaster recovery opportunities with established competitive dynamic supports pricing stability

Toronto Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Toronto’s data centers enable customers to be a part of one of the most robust trading ecosystems in Canada, encompassing alternative trading systems, market data feeds, risk management service providers, traders and banks.

The data center services available at Toronto's IBXs are ideal for carrier and network providers, finance, cloud, enterprises as well as for local market and companies that need to connect with international locations offering:

• Access to a strong financial ecosystem with connections to Nasdaq Canada Global financial exchange and TorIX
• International carrier presence including China Telecom, Reliance Communications and Bharti Airtel Ltd
• Connections to Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Office 365 accessible via Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric™ (ECX Fabric™)

Vancouver Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Vancouver is an emerging data center market well positioned to serve low latency connectivity with Asia. The data center services available at Vancouver’s IBXs are ideal for enterprises, cloud and network providers as well as for local market and companies that need to connect with international locations offering:

• Destination for out-of-market cloud and content players seeking a location in the Western half of the country
• Subsea cable landings with APAC and data sovereignty benefits position market to serve cloud & content players (e.g. BATS+)
• Healthy peering ecosystem, with public peering roughly equal to that in Montreal AWS had deployed an on-ramp here with the opportunity for other clouds to follow, particularly as a connectivity point to western US

Winnipeg Metro International Business Exchange™ (IBX®)

Winnipeg is Canada’s 5th largest data center market. Education, retail, manufacturing, and healthcare are the region’s most significant industry verticals, well positioned as a connectivity hub on the nation’s internet and long-haul fiber networks.

The data center services available at Winnipeg's IBXs are ideal for finance, enterprise sectors as well as for local market and companies that need to connect with international locations offering:

• Key industries served in the local region are retail, manufacturing and healthcare
• Centrally positioned to connect East and West Canada or, as with US tier 2 markets, act as an Edge market or low-cost destination for cloud/content