RTI to connect JGA North, JGA South submarine cables to Equinix data centers
Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) says that RTI Connectivity Pte. Ltd. has decided to connect its Japan-Guam-Australia North (JGA) North and JGA South submarine cables to Equinix IBX data centers. JGA North will connect to the Equinix TY2 IBX data center in Tokyo while JGA South will terminate at the Equinix SY4 IBX facility in Sydney, Australia.
JGA North and South will run between these two endpoints, meeting in Guam. JGA North will land first in Minami Boso, Chiba, Japan, and terminate to the south in Piti, Guam (see “Installation of Japan-Guam-Australia North Cable System begins”). It is expected to be ready for service during the current calendar quarter. JGA South will feature a second landing in Australia, along the country’s Sunshine Coast. It is a consortium cable, backed by AARNet, Google, and RTI-C. JGA North is a private cable (see “Construction of 9,500-km Japan-Guam-Australia Cable system begins”).
"JGA South's initial design capacity of 36 Tbps empowers our customers with unrivaled scalability that will seamlessly interconnect Equinix's campuses in Sydney and Tokyo,” said Russ Matulich, RTI’s CEO. “Content users of any size can now quickly connect to us across the campus, easily transmit their content over the fastest path between Sydney and Tokyo, and rest assured that their content is being delivered safely and securely."
Equinix says it received RTI’s business thanks to its expertise in delivering and managing neutral cable landing stations (see “Equinix touts success with submarine cable system operators”) as well as the access to dense, networks, clouds, and financial and IT service providers it can provide.
"The next-generation design of cable landing stations is evolving to take advantage of economics and technology,” commented Tim Stronge, vice president, research, at TeleGeography via an Equinix press release. “Equinix will manage the cable landing station for the JGA South and JGA North subsea cable systems directly in Equinix IBX data centers. This new PoP-to-PoP concept holds the potential for cost savings and an increase in performance to the operators of the cable system."
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