(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center operator Equinix (www.equinix.com) announced on Tuesday it plans to build its third International Business Exchange in Sydney, Australia.
The data center is just one of several Equinix has announced this year, with openings in Zurich, Switzerland, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Dusseldorf, Germany.
Dubbed SY3, the new IBX data center significantly increases the company’s Sydney capacity to meet the high demand for premium colocation and interconnection data center services in the Sydney market.
The $65 million first phase of the data center will add 1,000 cabinets and is targeted for opening during the second quarter of 2011.
“With strong demand for secure and well-connected data center space, our investment in the SY3 IBX data center highlights our ongoing commitment to delivering cutting edge facilities and data center services to support the Australian market,” says Darren Mann, managing director at Equinix Australia. “Our second Sydney IBX data center (SY2), which officially opened in early 2009, has filled ahead of our expectations. We are confident that this new capacity offering will also result in similar strong demand from both local and multinational corporate, government and financial services entities that leverage the Sydney metropolitan area as a key location for business.”
Located south of Sydney, the new data center will have a total capacity for more than 3,000 cabinet equivalents when all of the phases are fully built out.
The facility will support a standard power density of 4kVA per cabinet and capability to support much higher densities where needed.
The new site will have direct fiber connectivity to Equinix’s SY1 and SY2 IBX data center campus, which is located less than one mile away.
Interconnected by Equinix’s IBXLink service, customers have a wide range of connectivity options and immediate access to over 50 network providers at the existing facilities in Sydney.
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