Equinix opens fourth Tokyo data centre

Equinix, Inc. has announced the opening of its fourth International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data center in Japan, located in ?temachi, Tokyo. The new Tokyo data center, known as TY4, enables Equinix to keep up with the fast-growing customer base in ?temachi and further solidifies the city’s position as the top network hub in Japan.

Companies in Japan are in need of additional data center services to meet their customers’ rising demands. According to Fuji Chimera Research Institute, the Japan data center colocation market is forecast to reach a size of 608 billion yen (approximately $6B) in 2017[1]. The expansion of Equinix’s footprint in Tokyo will further enable multinational companies to expand into the growing Japan market and better serve their international customers.

Equinix is investing $43M in TY4, providing total capacity of 750 cabinet equivalents with 450 cabinets available in the first phase. TY4 is located in an earthquake-resistant building in one of the most secure locations in Tokyo with multiple anti-disaster measures. In addition, TY4 has direct fiber connectivity to Equinix's three other IBX data centers in the city via the Equinix Metro Connect, a service that provides reliable network connectivity, allowing customers in TY4 to easily expand their business within the Equinix platform.

With its location in ?temachi, an international financial center and home to more than 4,000 large enterprises and financial firms, TY4 offers companies an opportunity to expand their IT infrastructure and connect to an established ecosystem of existing and potential customers and partners. TY4’s close proximity to the major financial exchanges in Japan will also provide financial companies with reliable, low-latency connectivity that will ensure timely access to multiple information sources to make critical business decisions.

Companies such ABN Amro Clearing and Box have already expanded into Equinix’s IBX in Japan to meet their customers’ needs and are taking advantage of Platform Equinix™ and its rich ecosystems with the assurance of a consistent level of service quality and performance.

Equinix will further strengthen ?temachi’s position as a premier network hub in Japan by providing its customers with access to a dense network of best-in-class providers, as well as the Equinix Internet Exchange (EIE). The EIE, the world’s most widely distributed peering and traffic exchange, will enable Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and content providers to reduce IP transit costs and increase network efficiency by eliminating network hops to improve end user experience for their customers. Companies will also be able to establish new or expand existing peering relationships within TY4.

TY4 is the latest in a series of recently announced IBX expansions to address the growing demand for data center services in the Asia-Pacific region, Equinix most recently announced plans to develop its first IBX in Osaka (OS1), as well as build its third Singapore data center (SG3). In addition, the company expanded into Indonesia in May 2013 in partnership with PT Data Center Infrastructure Indonesia (PT DCI), announced its plan to launch the fifth phase of its SG2 data center and completed the second phase of its fifth IBX facility in Shanghai.