Equinix To Link Australia, Singapore With Subsea Cable System
Zacks Investment Research | Jun 14, 2018 12:48AM ET
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX) has announced its plan to make Australia Singapore Cable (ASC) — owned by Vocus — available in its International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers in six metros of Australia as well as Singapore.
The project also includes Perth’s Cable Landing Station, along with points of presence in Sydney and Melbourne.
ASC, which is a 4,600-kilometer subsea cable, is going to be connecting Australia with Singapore. The interconnection and data-center REIT, Equinix expects this project to be completed and operational by the first quarter of fiscal year 2019.
This subsea cable network will help businesses to manage the growing data consumption, with lesser costs and latency. Further, connectivity between these locations will be enhanced, which in turn, will boost growth of businesses. Over 275 cloud providers and several service providers will be accessible to the customers.
Jeremy Deutsch, managing director of Equinix Australia informed, "Equinix is thrilled to be able to expand our customers' access to the new ASC across each of our metropolitan areas. This will in turn provide both cost and latency advantages when doing business with organizations across Southeast Asia."
Notably, with growth in cloud computing, Internet of Things and big data, and an increasing number of companies opting for third-party IT infrastructure; data-center REITs like Equinix and Digital Realty (NYSE:DLR) are experiencing a boom. Moreover, there is a significant surge in new subsea cable construction due to the exponential rise in data, resulting from web browsing and e-commerce to streaming video and artificial intelligence. In fact, total subsea cable bandwidth is projected to double by 2021. Equinix remains well poised to cater to this fast-increasing requirement for subsea cables by means of data-center design, partnerships as well as buyouts.
Nonetheless, shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock have lost 9.5% over the past year against the Zacks Investment Research
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