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Equinix's New L.A. Area Data Center Opening Today With MySpace as Anchor Customer; Popular Social Networking Web Site Significantly Expands Deployment With Equinix to Provide Greater Performance, Reliability and Scalability.


FOSTER CITY, Calif. -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange See IXP and NAP.  services, today announced that MySpace, the premier lifestyle portal for connecting with friends and discovering popular culture, has entered into a new agreement with Equinix to significantly expand the company's presence through a new Equinix Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX IBX Independence Blue Cross (Health Insurance Company)
IBX Internet Business Exchange
IBX Integrated Business Exchange
IBX Inner Banks (Foundation of Renewal for Eastern North Carolina) 
(R)) center opening today in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  area. Once MySpace is fully installed, the agreement is expected to generate approximately $6 million in annual revenues for Equinix.

The MySpace social networking See social networking site.

social networking - social network
 portal has experienced tremendous growth and regularly ranks in the top 10 most visited sites on the Web with more than 75 million users. As a quality end-user experience is critical to the company's offering, MySpace is leveraging the network-rich environment of Equinix's centers to implement a robust, high-performance network connectivity infrastructure. At Equinix, MySpace has access to a critical mass of network service providers, giving it the greatest amount of flexibility in managing its Web operations Web operations is a domain of expertise within IT systems management that involves the deployment, operation, maintenance, tuning, and repair of web-based applications.

With the rise of web technologies since mid-1995, specialists have emerged that understand the complexities of
, including high-bandwidth features such as multimedia streaming, as well as the ability to reduce network interconnection in·ter·con·nect  
v. in·ter·con·nect·ed, in·ter·con·nect·ing, in·ter·con·nects

v.intr.
To be connected with each other: The two buildings interconnect.

v.tr.
 costs and enhance end-user performance.

"MySpace is an excellent example of the new generation of digital content and media providers that seek a more streamlined and efficient approach to the network infrastructure that provides the critical link between them and their end-users," said Peter Van Camp, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Equinix. "Equinix is committed to providing solutions to this market that help them directly reach their network partners through peering relationships that improve performance and eliminate the costs of intermediate network backbones."

With the aggregation of networks operating within Equinix's centers, the new facility will allow MySpace to cost-effectively execute strategic connectivity and data exchange, or "peering," agreements with key business partners within a highly secure and reliable environment. To optimize optimize - optimisation  interconnection efficiencies, MySpace will be able to expand its use of the Equinix Exchange(TM) service, a central switching fabric managed by Equinix that facilitates network and content peering amongst Equinix customers. Through these direct connections within the same facility, MySpace will also be able to eliminate the cost, as well as the performance degradation associated with linking to multiple partners over significant geographic distances, resulting in enhanced end-user performance.

"By offering a unique, network-rich environment with access to more than 200 networks, Equinix enables us to directly interconnect (1) To attach one device to another.

(2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another.
 with the networks serving our end-users, providing a more streamlined path between content and users," said Aber Whitcomb, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey.  of MySpace. "This model not only enhances our site performance, but also enables MySpace to peer with end-user networks and exchange traffic in a way that circumvents the traditional method where content providers were required to pay for transit to reach end-users."

About Equinix

Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment.  and network services providers. Through the company's Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) centers in 11 markets in the U.S. and Asia, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP (1) See in-system programmable.

(2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines.
 for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.

This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently-acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports and registration statement on Form S-3 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. Internet Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.
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