Equinix, a leading provider of global digital infrastructure, has introduced Equinix® Fabric One™, a managed any-to-any connectivity solution designed to simplify the way enterprises connect distributed cloud, network and AI environments. The new service was announced at Equinix Horizon, the company’s first-ever customer and partner event.
Designed to simplify the networking challenges emerging in the AI era, Equinix Fabric One will use open connectivity standards developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud to enable seamless interoperability across distributed cloud, AI and enterprise environments. Customers will only need to define the systems they want connected and outline their requirements, while Equinix Fabric One will determine and provide the necessary connectivity. During Horizon, Equinix is also introducing Equinix® Inference Exchange, a new offering aimed at accelerating the deployment of enterprise AI infrastructure.
“For decades, enterprise networks have been built one connection at a time for each partner and provider they depend on. That approach doesn’t scale in a world of distributed AI that demands dynamic, flexible and real-time connectivity. Equinix Fabric One will reduce the complexity that’s slowing enterprises down by automatically managing connectivity across distributed architectures, based on the customer’s intent.
– Chris Audie, Chief Product Officer, Equinix
The Connectivity Modern Enterprises Need
As enterprises need to connect to more clouds, AI providers, partners and locations, every new connection can become a networking project requiring specialized expertise, cross-functional coordination and ongoing management. That complexity can slow deployment and makes it harder for infrastructure to keep pace with the needs of the business.
“Networking is still a key area of enterprise infrastructure that remains heavily dependent on manual design and operations,” said Andrew Buss, Senior Research Director, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC. “Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to simplify and automate how connectivity is provisioned and managed across distributed cloud and AI environments, but achieving this transformation remains a major challenge. Advances that enable more integrated automation and intent-driven approaches can reduce operational complexity and risk while supporting the flexibility modern AI and multicloud architectures require.”
–Andrew Buss, Senior Research Director, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC
Equinix Fabric One aims to modernize how enterprises consume connectivity. Instead of assembling and managing networking service component by component, customers simply specify what they need through a portal, APIs, automation workflows, agent-based requests or natural-language prompts. Equinix Fabric One will automatically orchestrate and manage the routing, cloud connectivity, encryption, resiliency and failover required to deliver that outcome as a single managed service.
Equinix Fabric One is built on the company’s trusted, neutral exchange of more than 10,500 interconnected businesses, approximately 3,000 cloud and IT providers, and active deployments by eight of the top 10 AI model providers and nine of the top 10 neoclouds. Equinix’s neutrality gives enterprises the freedom to connect across providers while keeping their architecture flexible as business and technology needs evolve.
Neutral by Design, Open by Default
Equinix Fabric One is based on open connectivity standards and incorporates the open-source OpenAPI 3.0 Interconnect specification. Developed collaboratively by AWS and Google Cloud, the specification is designed to promote greater interoperability and flexibility across distributed cloud, AI and enterprise environments. As businesses increasingly adopt agentic architectures, applications and AI agents will be able to identify connectivity requirements, initiate requests and provision connections programmatically, reducing the need for manual processes.
“Customers shouldn’t have to figure out how to connect across multiple clouds and AI environments on their own. “They should just define what they need and have it work. Fabric One builds on the open interconnect specification that AWS and Google Cloud helped define and deliver exactly that. A managed service that handles the complexity so customers can focus on their AI workloads, not how everything connects.”
– Robert Kennedy, Vice President, AWS network services
“Cross-cloud interoperability is the backbone of the AI era,” said Rob Enns, Vice President of Engineering, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud. “We helped establish the open interconnect specification so enterprises no longer have to manage the complexity of multi-cloud networking. By combining Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network capabilities with Equinix Fabric One, we are giving customers an automated, intent-driven network that lets them quickly deploy distributed AI workloads.”
–Rob Enns, Vice President of Engineering, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud.
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