Equinix finalised a merger of aspirant ancotel GmbH, a heading provider of carrier-neutral colocation and interconnection services, progressing this week. The understanding will see Equinix benefit one information centre in Frankfurt and augmenting network firmness in Europe.
Dick Theunissen, CMO, Equinix EMEA, commented “Equinix’s new merger of ancotel GmbH creates a new event for Frankfurt’s tellurian futures, bound income, and a commodity and appetite marketplace trade communities. The merger adds some-more than 200 new networks that yield connectivity to rising Eastern European financial markets and abounding tellurian trade venues, including Moscow, Warsaw, Istanbul, Dubai, Mumbai and a Asia Pacific region. In hint a merger of ancotel will move Equinix’s business closer to new liquidity centres, diversifying a existent markets accessible from Equinix’s Frankfurt information centres to yield poignant expansion opportunities for a customers.”
ancotel’s information core will supplement approximately 23,000 sq ft to Equinix’s building capacity, that is now over 220,000 sq ft. The tellurian colocation hulk will also acquire corner nodes in Hong Kong, Miami and London, augmenting a participation in those markets. Globally, Equinix serves over 4,000 business in 38 markets.
Equinix have also settled that ancotel pulled in income of roughly US$21.4m in 2011, with expansion during a solid normal of 20% for a past 3 years. ancotel business will benefit from Equinix’s tellurian reach, as good as a heading information centres, and entrance to a tellurian marketplace of customers.
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