Equinix and AMS-IX Sign Interconnection and Peering Partnership

Equinix, a provider of network-neutral data centers and internet exchange services, and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, have announced interconnection and peering partnership.

This partnership agreement will extend Amsterdam Internet Exchange’s (AMS-IX) peering fabric into Equinix’s Amsterdam-1 (AM1) Internet Business Exchange (IBX) data center.

As a part of the agreement, AMS-IX will establish a point-of-presence in Equinix’s AM1 IBX center, which is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2008 and was obtained in the acquisition of Netherlands network-neutral data center provider Virtu earlier in 2008.

Job Witteman, CEO of AMS-IX, said: “With the increasing need for businesses to exchange data across a wide variety of networks, from partners to customers to vendors, this agreement between AMS-IX and Equinix will ensure additional options for rich interconnection across both of our respective network-neutral platforms.”