BT Deploy AI-ready Global Fabric Network-as-a-service Platform to 30 Equinix Data Centres

Telecoms giant BT has revealed that they’ve now deployed their Global Fabric Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) platform to “over” 30 Equinix data-centres across the UK and world, which will grow to over 40 in the next year – spanning the world’s top 30 business locations and covering 95% of the world’s cloud interconnection traffic.

Global Fabric is designed to simplify multi-cloud connectivity, security, and infrastructure for multinational organisations – providing visibility and control of both access and core networks. “It transforms the ease at which they can deploy and scale interconnectivity with third parties such as customers and suppliers across their full digital value chain,” said the operator. “With legacy networks, setting up or changing connectivity could take weeks. With Global Fabric, it happens in an instant.”

When fully built-out, Global Fabric should be available to customers internationally via 140 Points-of-Presence (PoPs) hosted in the world’s top cloud locations across 40 countries. It will offer 74% direct coverage of hyperscaler clouds and pre-provisioned high-bandwidth connectivity to over 700 data-centres.

Arun Dev, Global Interconnections at Equinix, said:

“Our partnership enables BT to offer its customers interconnectivity with the full Equinix global digital ecosystem of cloud and IT services, as well as hundreds of content and digital media services, and over 4,800 enterprises hosted at our datacentres globally.”

Matt Swinden, BT’s Director of Digital Connectivity, Business, said:

“The BT-Equinix partnership is a terrific example of our strategy to build the strongest digital foundations for our customers. Global Fabric combined with Equinix’s global ecosystem of infrastructure, cloud and digital service widens the choice we offer to customers of the best locations to interconnect their full business value chain. It will help make trading, partnering and operating a multinational business, better on BT.”

Equinix’s global platform interconnects multiple clouds hosting the apps, solutions and marketplaces. It provides access to approximately 2,000 network services, as well as 3,000 cloud and IT services, over 400 content and digital media services, and more than 4,800 enterprises.