EdgeConneX,
specializing in global data center solutions at the edge of the
network, and Megaport (USA), Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Megaport
Limited (ASX:MP1) (
Megaport),
the leader in global Software Defined Networking (SDN), today announce
the expanded availability of Megaport's elastic interconnection services
in EdgeConneX's Houston, Santa Clara and Boston
Edge Data Centers (EDCs).
These deployments mark the first of many markets in which Megaport's
network will be available from within EdgeConneX facilities by the end
of the year. The availability in these three new markets follows the
successful deployment in Portland where customer adoption has maintained
steady growth.
Megaport
provides elastic interconnectivity, leveraging its SDN to enable
customers to rapidly connect their network to other services across the
Megaport Network. Megaport's platform provides customers with a
flexible way to purchase connectivity solutions eliminating long-term,
fixed bandwidth circuits traditionally required between data centers and
cloud providers. Instead, customers within these EdgeConneX EDCs can
now leverage Megaport to interconnect to leading network and cloud
providers for terms as short as a day, and scale bandwidth from 1 Mbps
to 10 Gbps on demand. This solution saves money, improves performance
and ensures greater security for customer applications.
According
to Rightscale's 2017 State of the Cloud Survey, 85 percent of
enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy. Among mature cloud users, the
most cited challenge was managing costs (24 percent). New cloud
adopters cited security as the biggest concern (32 percent). As
Gartner's Bob Gill wrote in "The Edge Manifesto: Digital Business, Rich
Media, Latency Sensitivity and the Use of Distributed Data Centers,"
"The use of smaller, distributed, connected data centers...closer to
concentrations of users and generators of content (‘pushing things to
the edge'), will be required for these workloads."
"EdgeConneX
is dedicated to helping companies optimize network performance at the
edge of the Internet," comments Clint Heiden, Chief Commercial Officer,
EdgeConneX. "Megaport's solution provides our customers an alternative
to traditional interconnection solutions, enabling access to a more
private and secure way to reach multiple cloud providers, a critical
requirement for the adoption of cloud by enterprises."
"This
partnership with EdgeConneX enables new markets to gain access to our
platform, helping us achieve the company's rapid expansion goals to
empower cloud connectivity to traditionally under-served markets,"
states Nicole Cooper, Executive Vice President, Americas, Megaport. "Our
SDN brings a new dimension to the growing demand for interconnectivity
and the peering services market by delivering more dynamic connectivity
capabilities. EdgeConnneX's Edge Data Center portfolio complements our
neutral interconnection fabric extremely well and rapidly expands our
footprint in the United States to the edge where cloud demand is
increasing."