Announcing Equinix® Inference Exchange
Equinix announces Equinix® Inference Exchange, a new distributed AI inference solution designed to help enterprises accelerate AI initiatives from experimentation into production. Equinix Inference Exchange combines NVIDIA’s enterprise reference architecture, Together AI’s inference platform, and Equinix’s globally interconnected infrastructure to simplify AI inference deployment and operations.
Note: Equinix Inference Exchange was announced in preview at Equinix Horizon alongside Equinix Fabric One – together delivering new capabilities that solidify Equinix’s role as the world’s trusted AI exchange. Additional details regarding availability, deployment locations, and customer access will be shared in future updates.
Why it Matters
As AI expands across models, providers, clouds, and geographies, enterprises face increasing complexity in determining where AI workloads should run and how they should connect to data, applications, and users. Performance, cost, governance, and deployment speed have become critical considerations as organizations move AI workloads into production.
Equinix Inference Exchange is designed to address these challenges by providing a solution that combines infrastructure, connectivity, and AI inference capabilities into a single offering.
A New Approach to Distributed AI Inference
Equinix Inference Exchange bring together three complementary components:
- Equinix provides the provides AI-ready data centers, global reach, connectivity, infrastructure operations, and power and cooling
- NVIDIA provides the enterprise reference architecture and inference-optimized infrastructure
- Together AI provides the inference platform and access to a broad ecosystem of open-source models
The solution is designed to help enterprises simplify deployment, reduce operational complexity, and gain greater flexibility in how AI inference workloads are deployed and managed.
Use Cases Equinix Inference Exchange is Designed to Support
- Deploying inference closer to users sand data to support lower-latency AI experiences
- Supporting open-model AI strategies with greater flexibility across providers
- Simplifying deployment of distributed AI inference environments
- Addressing data residency and sovereignty requirements for regulated workloads
Why Equinix Inference Exchange
Equinix Inference Exchange is designed to give enterprises greater flexibility in how and where AI inference runs. Built on Equinix’s globally interconnected infrastructure, the solution helps organizations connect to the clouds, networks, AI providers, and ecosystems they rely on while maintaining choice and reducing complexity.
By combining Equinix infrastructure, NVIDIA enterprise AI reference architecture, and Together AI’s inference platform, Equinix Inference Exchange aims to provide a faster path to production-ready AI while supporting evolving requirements for performance, governance, and operational flexibility.
