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Equinix Leverages Cisco's Tail-f Network Control System to Help Make Multi-Cloud Access a Reality for Enterprise Customers WorldwideBARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- At Mobile World Congress 2015 today Cisco and Equinix, Inc., the global interconnection and data center company, announced that Equinix has deployed the Cisco Tail-f Network Control System (NCS) as part of the foundational technology powering the Equinix Cloud Exchange – the Equinix Programmable Network. This technology enables the automated network and service provisioning for cloud providers and their enterprise customers that Cloud Exchange has become known for. Tail-f Systems, now part of Cisco, provides multi-vendor service orchestration and network automation solutions based on NETCONF and YANG. Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution that enables seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple cloud services and networks across the globe. Equinix chose the Tail-f technology for its vendor neutrality, providing a single network-wide interface to all network devices, applications and services, as well as a common modeling language. This enables Equinix to provide multi-cloud services in an agile and vendor-agnostic way, simplifying and accelerating cloud access for the enterprise. Enterprises today are looking to move workloads to the cloud to achieve business agility, improve application performance and control costs. Because no one single cloud provider can help a company achieve these goals, many enterprises are pursuing a multi-cloud architecture, in which applications span multiple private and public clouds. Equinix Cloud Exchange, with direct access to leading cloud providers such as AWS, Cisco, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, SoftLayer, and others, enables enterprises to realize their multi-cloud goals. Equinix Cloud Exchange enables this via its SDN foundation, the Equinix Programmable Network. The combination of Tail-f NCS together with Equinix's SDN-based architecture, enables the enterprise to instantaneously provision new and direct connections to the cloud, something that otherwise could take weeks to achieve. Highlights / Key Facts
Note to Editor: The Tail-f Network Control System (NCS) is transitioning to the Cisco portfolio and will soon be marketed under the name "Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO) enabled by Tail-f." Additional Resources
About Cisco About Cisco Tail-f NCS Designed to be a generic solution that can be used in any type of network, NCS supports the implementation of network applications and service on a wide variety of networking devices, both traditional hardware-based devices and virtual software appliances. About Equinix Cloud Exchange About Equinix Forward Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements 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; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or 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 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. Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140102/MM39832LOGO To view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/equinix-leverages-ciscos-tail-f-network-control-system-to-help-make-multi-cloud-access-a-reality-for-enterprise-customers-worldwide-300043159.html SOURCE Equinix |