Equinix has added a fourth International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Mumbai to cater to growing needs of local and overseas businesses in their digital transformation efforts in India.
The US$42 million MB4 will expand Equinix’s digital infrastructure capacity in India to address the rising demand for data centre and interconnection services among businesses.
“The availability of MB4, expected in Q4 2023, will allow us to continue serving our customers’ needs in India, enabling them to leverage our interconnection platform for efficient connectivity to multiple cloud service providers, network service providers and other businesses,” said Manoj Paul, Managing Director of Equinix India.
MB4 will offer expanded connectivity options to major telco networks along with Metro Connect availability to the highly connected Equinix data centre sites of MB1 and MB2.
Scheduled to open in Q4 2023, the first phase of MB4 will provide an initial capacity of 350 cabinets. When fully built out, the facility is expected to provide 700 cabinets.
Equinix currently has two Mumbai IBX data centres that are home to the digital infrastructure of more than 300 international and local companies, including access to the world’s leading cloud service providers Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. They also host global networks, content delivery network providers, local carriers, more than 165 internet service providers (ISPs) and five internet exchanges. Businesses can use Platform Equinix to quickly interconnect with these providers and their own global IBX deployments using on-demand, self-service connectivity.
In March 2022, Equinix announced its plan to enter the Chennai market with a land acquisition of more than 5.5 acres. In June 2022, Equinix announced plans to expand its footprint with an investment of over US$86 million to build its MB3 data centre in Mumbai.
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