Smartcom adds Washington Peering Exchange

Washington Peering Exchange

We are proud to announce that we have recently added the Equinix Washington Peering Exchange to our backbone network.  The new 10Gbit per second link provides more capacity for our customers exchanging traffic with other networks, such as Amazon, Softlayer, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft and Google.The Equinix Peering Exchange in Washington is one of the largest peering exchanges located in U.S. East Coast, and provides the best connectivity from our customers to their customers and business partners across other various networks and cloud services.

Equinix Washington, DC Data Centers

Equinix helps companies accelerate business performance by connecting them to their customers and partners inside the world’s most networked data centers. Our Washington, DC data centers are business hubs for 850+ companies. Our DC customers can choose from a broad range of network services from 200+ providers. They can also interconnect directly to customers and partners in their digital supply chain.

Our DC data centers, located in Ashburn, VA, and Vienna, VA, are strategic communications hubs for the eastern United States. They’re also a major communications gateway to Europe and the largest Internet peering point in North America.

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Washington, DC Offerings

Our Washington, DC colocation centers also offer:

  • Compliance with key federal regulations and industry standards
  • 10 buildings with 567,000+ square feet of colocation space
  • 10,000 cross connects facilitating business among our Washington, DC colo customers
  • Connections to 200+ network service providers
  • Ability to interconnect directly to 850+ customers colocated with Equinix in the DC area Customer base of business partners, content providers, networks and Internet service providers
  • Proximity to high concentrations of IT, telecommunications, biotechnology, federal government and international organizations in the DC area. Proven record for growth in colocation, network density and interconnectivity with room for expansion
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Washington, DC IBX® Benefits

  • Direct connect available to Amazon Web Services
  • Nine of the top 10 global CDNs located here
  • Directly connect to nine leading ad exchanges via the Equinix Ad-IX advertising exchange
  • Seven demand-side online advertising platforms located here
  • Retail and wholesale colocation options provide customers with flexibility in colocation options and cost
  • Capacity to handle large footprint customers with 567,000+ square feet of colocation space across 10 data centers
  • Access to one of the top three peering and exchange markets, including the largest peering exchange on the U.S. East Coast
  • Provides connections to key metro areas such as Chicago, New York and London
  • Home to one of three GRX peering locations in the world

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