IP connectivity supplier Telia Carrier penned an agreement with Equinix in Mexico to expand its network in North America, a move to expand its footprint and meet growing demand for high speed internet connections.
In a statement, the company said the expansion will be done through deployments at Equinix International Business Exchange data centres servicing the Mexico City (Queretaro) and Monterrey metros. The company stated there is growing region demand to serve cloud, application, content providers, and enterprises.
Equinix customers in Mexico will be able to take advantage of Telia Carrier’s number global backbone, AS1299, as well as the local availability of IP Transit, Cloud Connect, DDoS Mitigation, Ethernet and IPX services.
“Adding two points of presence with Equinix in Monterrey and Querétaro supports the growing demand for Telia Carrier’s wholesale and enterprise services in the region,” said Luis Velasquez, Mexico business manager of Telia Carrier.
“Providing a trusted connectivity choice to the market and award-winning customer focus continues Telia Carrier’s success in this region, and with Equinix globally. New customers are already clamouring for additional services to connect enterprise workloads, digital content and gamers locally and internationally.”
Amet Novillo, Mexico managing director of Equinix said: Telia Carrier services at Monterrey and Queretaro “will enable current and future customers greater options to process, store and distribute larger volumes of latency-sensitive data and applications at the digital edge, closer to end-users and local markets.
“It will also enable Equinix to enrich its ecosystem of nearly 10,000 customers that come to Equinix to directly connect to each other within a secure, private and proximate environment”.33..