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Have YOUR say in the redesign of the Fabric Navigation in Equinix Portal
We have an exclusive opportunity where we are redesigning the Fabric experience within the Equinix Portal to make the navigation menu easier and more intuitive. Your feedback will have a direct impact to this redesign, ensuring a seamless, intuitive user experience within Fabric portal. Interested in taking part in this 5-minute survey activity? Fill out survey below or click here to submit your feedback! Once you complete the activity, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up today for the Equinix Customer Insights Panel. Influence new ideas, processes, product releases, capabilities, and more through engaging research activities like this one! Join, shape, influence, and innovate today!Share your experience with Equinix Internet Access to inform 2025 product strategy
We have a great opportunity for you to share your experience with internet access. We need your input! Your valuable insights will directly influence our planning for 2025 as we work towards enhancing your internet access experience. We want to make sure we address your pain points, cater to your needs, and improve the overall purchasing experience. Interested in taking part in this 5-minute survey activity? Fill out survey below or click here to submit your feedback! Once you complete the activity, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up today for the Equinix Customer Insights Panel. Influence new ideas, processes, product releases, capabilities, and more through engaging research activities like this one! Join, shape, influence, and innovate today!What’s the quickest and slowest deployment in your career?
Minutes? Hours? Days? Months? Years? Let’s hear it! Don’t settle for months, you’ve got Equinix within minutes. Be the first to test drive Equinix Deploy and use our self-service capabilities across Equinix Metal, Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric.Cloud Infrastructure Made Easy: IaC Demo Day!
Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to be hosting our second Demo Day of 2024, this time all about Infracode! If you’re already an infrastructure expert slinging Terraform or just starting out, we’ve got experts from across the industry to share their experiences with you! We’ll have folks like Marino Wijay of Kong talking about Platform best practices for AI, Jared Watts talking about Crossplane, and Engin Diri to talk to us about Pulumi. We’ve even got two of our Equinix DevRel Engineers, Chris Privitere and Oscar Cobles to talk about Kubernetes Cluster API and using Terraform to interconnect Equinix Metal and your AWS cloud. See our Event Page for more information and/or join us live at the link below so you can post your questions for our speakers directly in the chat! Can’t wait to see you in the chat! P.S. -- if you can’t make it, or you’re getting this late, don’t panic! Our full session will be embedded belowMeet the Product Managers!
Hello Equinix Community, Today, we're opening a new chapter in our commitment to fostering transparency and community by introducing you to the incredible individuals behind our innovative products. The essence of Equinix has always been a blend of technology and community. We understand that the pulse of any tech-driven organization is its products, and behind those products, there's a team of dedicated, passionate individuals: our Product Managers. This thread offers a unique opportunity for our customers to get to know these dedicated professionals on a personal level. Our product team is thrilled to be a part of this platform, as it offers us a direct channel to engage, share, and grow with all of you. We see the Equinix Community not just as a space for interactions, but as a bridge to understand your needs, address your questions, and co-create the future. Here’s what to anticipate: Personal Introductions: Our Product Managers from various domains will be stepping forward to share about themselves, their roles, and the inspirations behind the products they steer. Behind-the-Scenes Stories: Insights into the ideation, challenges, and milestones of our product journeys – straight from those who live and breathe them. Open Dialogue: We're building a two-way street. Engage directly with our product teams, share your feedback, or ask anything you've ever wondered about our offerings. Sharing Expertise: Expect enlightening discussions, from technological deep dives to evolving market trends, all from the experts behind our product lineup. I invite our vibrant community to dive into these conversations, ask questions, and truly get to know the people who shape the products and services you trust.Have you tried the Quick Connect to GCP feature for Equinix Fabric?
Quick Connect to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a new Equinix Fabric feature that enhances the creation of L2 connections to GCP. Instead of logging into the GCP portal to create a Google service key, all of the required provisioning steps can be performed from within the Equinix Fabric portal. Prerequisites and detailed instructions can be found in the following on-line resources. Quick Connect for Fabric 2022.3 - YouTube Quick Connect to Google Cloud Platform (equinix.com) This new feature is available today for Fabric customers adding new connections to GCP. Let us know what you think about it!New Feature - Equinix Status
Starting today you can check the status of your network products on the new Equinix Status page. View status by product and metro for Equinix Connect, Equinix Fabric, Equinix Internet Exchange, Equinix Metal, Equinix Precision Time, Metro Connect and Network Edge. Be sure to bookmark the https://status.equinix.com/ page. We'd love to hear your thoughts, give feedback online or comment below. Learn more about Equinix Status by reading the documentationMeet the Equinix Team attending Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress 2025 is approaching - Are you attending? When it comes to the future of AI-ready, scalable digital infrastructure – the Equinix team of experts is here to help. Here’s a chance for you to meet the team in advance and connect in person in Barcelona! Let’s begin! Hi, I’m Efraim! Senior Principal Solutions Architect at Equinix. My dedication lies in bridging technology and bridging transformation, particularly in areas such as Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Agility. You can find some of my recent Equinix blogs here. I'’ll be at MWC – let's connect and catch up on Cloud, AI, Programming, and my love of Cats.60 seconds about IFConfig and IPConfig
What can you learn in 60 seconds? A lot, actually! We're now creating Youtube Shorts to teach you in bite-size snippets. Let me and stevemar know which topics you'd like us to cover! Here I talk about IPConfig and IFConfig, which dives into your computer's network - like VPNs, ethernet ports, and more! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xh5KqfH7WE8Building Highly Resilient Networks in Network Edge - Part 1 - Architecture
This is first part of a series of posts highlighting the best practices for customers who desire highly resilient networks in Network Edge. This entry will focus on the foundational architecture of Plane A and Plane B in Network Edge and how these building blocks should be utilized for resiliency. For more information on Network Edge and device plane resiliency please refer to the Equinix Docs page here. Dual Plane Architecture Network Edge is built upon a standard data center redundancy architecture with multiple pods that have dedicated power supplies and a dedicated Top of Rack (ToR) switch. It consists of multiple compute planes commonly referred to as Plane A and Plane B for design simplicity Plane A connects to the Primary Fabric network and Plane B connects to the Secondary Fabric network The most important concept for understanding Network Edge resiliency: the device plane determines which Fabric switch is used for device connections. Future posts will dive much deeper in the various ways that Network Edge devices connect to other devices, Clouds and co-location. While referred to as Plane A and Plane B, in reality there are multiple compute planes in each NE pod The actual number varies based on the size of the metro This allows devices to be deployed in a manner where they are not co-mingled on the same compute plane, eliminating compute as a single point of failure Network Edge offers multiple resiliency options that can be summarized as device options and connection options Device options are local and provide resiliency against failures at the compute and device level in the local metro This is analogous to what the industry refers to as ”High Availability (HA)” Connection resiliency is a separate option for customers that require additional resiliency with device connections (DLGs, VCs and EVP-LAN networks). This will be discussed in depth in separate sections. It is common to combine both local resiliency and connection resiliency, but it is not required—ultimately it depends on the customer’s requirements Geo-redundancy is an architecture that expands on local resiliency by utilizing multiple metros to eliminate issues that may affect NE at the metro level (not covered in this presentation) Single Devices Single devices have no resiliency for compute and device failures The first single device is always connected to the Primary Compute Plane * Single devices always make connections over the Primary Fabric network Single devices can convert to Redundant Devices via the anti-affinity feature Anti-Affinity Deployment Option By default single devices have no resiliency However, single devices can be placed in divergent compute planes. This is commonly called anti-affinity and is part of the device creation workflow Checking the "Select Diverse From" box allows customers to add new devices that are resilient to each other Customers can verify this by viewing their NE Admin Dashboard and sorting their devices by "Plane" This feature allows customer to convert a single device install to Redundant Devices By default, the first single device was deployed on the Primary Fabric The actual compute plane is irrelevant until the 2nd device is provisioned The 2nd device is deployed on the Secondary Fabric AND in a different compute plane than the first device Resilient Device Options These options provide local (intra-metro) resiliency to protect against hardware or power failures in the local Network Edge pod By default, the two virtual devices are deployed in separate compute planes (A and B) In reality there are more than two compute planes, but they are distinct from each other The primary device is connected to the Primary Fabric network and the secondary/passive device is connected to the Secondary Fabric network Redundant Devices Clustered Devices Deployment Two devices, both Active, appearing as two devices in the Network Edge portal. Both devices have all interfaces forwarding Two devices, only one is ever Active. The Passive (non-Active) device data plane is not forwarding WAN Management Both devices get a unique L3 address that is active for WAN management Each node gets a unique L3 address for WAN management as well as a Cluster address that connects to the active node (either 0 or 1) Device Linking Groups None are created at device inception Two are created by default to share config synchronization and failover communication Fabric Virtual Connections Connections can be built to one or both devices Single connections are built to a special VNI that connects to the Active Cluster node only. Customer can create optional, additional secondary connection(s) Supports Geo-Redundancy ? Yes, Redundant devices can be deployed in different metros No, Clustered devices can only be deployed in the same metro Vendor Support All Vendors Fortinet, Juniper, NGINX and Palo Alto The next post will cover the best practices for creating resilient device connections with Device Link Groups and can be found here.
