Quickly enhance your existing infrastructure to lay the groundwork for full 5G functionality

MORE BANDWIDTH. LOWER LATENCY. HIGHER CAPACITY.

5G is Changing the Game— Right Now. Is Your Infrastructure Ready?

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To scale, advanced 5G use cases require a fundamental change in infrastructure. While preparing for full 5G functionality, network providers can efficiently and cost-effectively serve customers today’s business-critical services on demand—and gain a competitive advantage.

In today’s “always-on” environment, people expect near-real-time performance. Network providers must meet customer expectations for fast data transfer, rapid network changes, and access to a broad ecosystem of partners and customers.

Gain a competitive advantage

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While full operational control of underlying assets gave network providers significant competitive advantages during the 4G/LTE era, the 5G era will belong to those that can deliver quality services all the way to the application sites at the lowest cost possible. Shifting from CAPEX to OPEX models saves time, money and resources.

The most efficient way for network service providers to deliver business services—the reason for building out 5G in the first place—is to extend connectivity from their real estate (owned or outsourced) to a partner with an already established, interconnection-rich customer/provider ecosystem with macro edge facilities and capabilities worldwide.

Shift infrastructure investmentfrom CAPEX to OPEX

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Network providers with the right capabilities in the right locations at the macro edge have the opportunity for growth and profitability in the near term as they continue to build out their 5G infrastructures. By extending the network’s digital footprint across Platform Equinix data center locations in close proximity to places of business, employees, partners and customers, network providers can transform the user experience, improve performance and security, and optimize commercial flows with business partners.

Extend your infrastructurequickly, easily and cost-effectively

PLATFORM EQUINIX®

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PLATFORM EQUINIXAll the Right Places, Partners & Possibilities

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220+Data Centers

63Markets

>99.9999%Global Availability

386,000+InterconnectionsAll the right places

PLATFORM EQUINIX

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For Equinix, making 5G a reality begins with leveraging your existing infrastructure footprint and capabilities, while identifying and planning for future use cases that benefit from the expansion of neutral, multitenant physical infrastructure deployments farther out to the edge. Data center and physical infrastructure for 5G should be modern, scalable, flexible, interconnected, neutral and multitenant.

Equinix’s broad product portfolio enables network providers to quickly and easily access applications on demand and scale presence and capabilities globally in the age of 5G with ease. Network providers can increase reach while decreasing costs and upfront investment on the world’s leading interconnection and data center platform.

Lay the groundwork for full 5G functionality with Equinix

MODERN. SCALABLE. FLEXIBLE.

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5G opportunities are within reach—right now

GAINING MOMENTUM

The vast majority of today’s 5G use cases only require 10-30 millisecond latency—and that will remain true through at least 2023.

Services enabled by 5G

Enterprise-specific use cases Consumer-specific use cases

1 msRemote Healthcare

Augmented Reality

Drones

Multi-Person Video Call

Smart Buildings and Cities

Wireless Cloud- Based Office

First Responder Connectivity

Automotive E-cell

Disaster Alert

Video Streaming

Real-time Gaming

Personal Cloud

Virtual Reality

Agricultural and Environmental

Autonomous Driving

10 ms

100 ms

<1 MBPS 1 MBPS 10 MBPS 100 MBPS >1 GBPS

5G-Enabled Use Cases

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Bandwidth Throughput

Tactile Internet

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Today, approximately 80% of the urban/metropolitan population worldwide can be connected to Equinix data centers within a 10 millisecond network roundtrip time.

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Near-term monetization opportunities for 5G

USE CASES

Far edge in/cloud out Aggregate applications and optimize distribution optimization at the macro/metro edge using multi-access edge computing (MEC) to improve administration, lowers costs, streamline operations and improve user domain application performance.

5G clean networks Take advantage of network slicing and user plane traffic breakout at private interconnection points (such as Equinix) to build globally distributed, open, programmable, reliable and software-driven solutions that obscure customer traffic from the public internet while connecting anything anywhere.

Logistics and material control Use visual scene analytics for physical traffic monitoring and control where edge analytics run at the macro/metro edge to get inventory to market faster by managing congested ports, rail yards and warehouses better.

Content distribution Use cloud-based radio access network (C-RAN) distribution and advanced interconnection to reconsider where content delivery networks place content caches, potentially eliminating the need for traditional caching at MSCs and broadband central offices. The result: faster content delivery.

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Make your network as easy to consume as cloud services

EXPAND YOUR 5G CAPABILITIES

Equinix Fabric Connects digital infrastructure and services on demand via secure, software-defined interconnection, enabling you to scale hybrid deployments, achieve network agility, and directly connect to partners and customers easily and securely.

Equinix Metal™

Provides on-demand, high-performance bare metal as a service directly integrated with Equinix Fabric to deploy physical infrastructure in minutes with an OPEX model.

Network EdgeProvides virtual network services that modernize the network, enabling you to deploy digital-ready infrastructure at the edge virtually, in minutes.

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Solve real-world 5G challenges with Equinix

Meet customer expectations for fast data transfer (high bandwidth, low latency), rapid network moves/ adds/changes, and access to a broad ecosystem of partners and customers anywhere their customers choose to do business.

Tackle the use cases requiring 10-30 millisecond latency that you’re already grappling with, such as IoT, computer vision and fixed-wireless access to popular business applications.

Address last-minute customer requests by spinning up/spinning down projects quickly.

Stand up the locations, spaces and power to test and compare use cases under real-world conditions at the Equinix Solutions Validation Center, a globally available edge test center.

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About EquinixEquinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.

Ready to get started?Learn more about how Equinix can help you solve today’s challenges and capitalize on 5G opportunities in markets worldwide.

Contact your Equinix rep today