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We offer the most densely interconnected data centers in North America.


To learn more about the choice of networks in the former Switch and Data, now Equinix sites, see here.
Network Choice Delivering the Widest Choice of Networks

Click here to see a partial list of carriers in our sites

The former Switch and Data, now Equinix has provided an efficient place for customers to exchange traffic since the beginning of the commercial Internet. We operate some of the world's leading exchange points for IP traffic with PAIX®, the world's first commercial Internet exchange. Our carrier neutral sites are at the center of the Internet and offer customers the widest choice of network connections to application and network service providers.



Switch and Data sites are the most densely interconnected data centers in North America. By any criteria, per rack, per customer or per revenue, Switch and Data facilities are three times more interconnected than other leading national providers enabling the broadest choice of network interconnections. In addition, the world's leading Internet-centric companies meet and peer their IP content in our sites through PAIX®. Here are some of the ways customers use the dense interconnections and network choice offered in our sites to improve their businesses:

  • Application Service Providers: Our sites offer locations next to North America and the world's population densities and in key communications hub markets. ASPs use these sites to store and distribute their latency sensitive digital media content to broadband networks which carry the traffic to local homes and businesses. Switch and Data also operates the fastest growing Internet exchanges in the U.S.'s top international Internet traffic markets. Customers that operate bandwidth intensive websites for social networking, rich digital content, and business software applications use our PAIX® Internet exchanges in New York and Palo Alto to peer their traffic with international networks to accelerate performance and reduce transit expense.


  • Managed Service Providers: MSPs such as Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) or Domain Name System (DNS) Service Providers find that the broad geographic coverage of our site locations makes us the perfect partner to distribute services widely across the Internet. For example, a leading DNS Service Provider has chosen six of our sites as the best locations to distribute its services to improve the performance and resiliency of the entire Internet.


  • Network Service Providers: The high customer densities in Switch and Data's sites make us the logical choice for service providers looking for an efficient place to grow revenue and reach customers and end users. A network service provider can build its network into a data center site once and then scale its business with multiple, low-cost cross connections to its customers.
Here are a few statistics that illustrate the network densities in the former Switch and Data, now Equinix's sites:
  • More than 400 Network Service Providers
  • Over 200 PAIX® Internet exchange peers
  • More than three times more cross connects per cabinet than other national, network neutral providers