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The Challenge:Connecting enterprise locations across Europe often requires enterprises to engage infrastructure and network providers separately. Navigating multiple systems and coordinating service availability, pricing, quotes and orders can add complexity, slow deployment and AI adoption, and put growth at risk.A Better Approach:Colt Technology Services (Colt) is now the first European-based provider to integrate its last mile connectivity services with Fabric Marketplace. This strengthened partnership brings together Colt’s extensive network footprint and Equinix Fabric, enabling enterprises to establish secure, end-to-end connectivity from third-party locations, including office buildings and data centers, directly into Equinix facilities.Through the Fabric Marketplace experience, customers can instantly discover Colt services, view pricing, request quotes, and trigger order requests without navigating multiple providers. The integration eliminates manual handoffs, accelerates dep

Equinix introduces Equinix® Fabric One™ an intent-based networking service designed to simplify any-to-any connectivity across distributed digital infrastructure. Fabric One introduces a new way for customers to describe the outcome they need, while Equinix composes the network required to deliver it.Note: Equinix Fabric One was introduced at Equinix Horizon alongside Equinix Inference Exchange, together delivering new capabilities that solidify Equinix’s role as the world’s trusted AI exchange. Fabric One is expected to enter preview in Q4 2026, with planned general availability in Q1 2027 Additional details regarding availability, deployment locations, and customer access will be shared in future updates.Why it MattersModern enterprises operate across clouds, AI providers, enterprise infrastructure, partners, and sovereign environments. As these environments become more distributed, connectivity can become increasingly complex to design, configure, and manage.Fabric One is designed t

Fabric Insights now provides expanded observability capabilities for both Last Mile as a Service (LMaaS) and IP Blocks. These enhancements give customers and service providers greater visibility into operational activity through event streaming and project-level observability, helping support monitoring, troubleshooting, and workflow automation.What’s New:Fabric Insights now supports LMaaS service profile events, enabling service providers to receive and retrieve incoming connection requests through streaming for near real-time visibility Service providers can incorporate LMaaS connection request events into existing observability and operational workflows Fabric Insights now includes support for IP Block lifecycle and operational events within project-level observability IP Block activity can be viewed alongside other Fabric resource events through a unified observability experience Customers can integrate both LMaaS and IP Block events into existing monitoring, troubleshooting, and a

The Challenge:Organizations expanding into new markets often need connectivity to edge locations and third-party data centers beyond the native reach of their existing network infrastructure. Finding local providers and coordinating services across multiple countries can add complexity and delay deployment.As connectivity needs grow, customers benefit from a simpler way to identify providers with broad geographic reach and initiate connectivity services through a centralized experience.A Better Approach:Zenlayer is now available through Fabric Marketplace as a provider of Last Mile as a Service (LMaaS), enabling customers to discover coverage, request quotes, submit order requests and connect to Zenlayer’s network through the same experience used to access Fabric services.With more than 300 points of presence across 50 countries, Zenlayer provides extensive connectivity coverage, particularly across Southeast Asia, China, the Middle East, and Central and South Africa. This reach helps

The Challenge:Organizations evaluating networking, security, AI, and other digital infrastructure solutions often need to identify potential ecosystem participants before making deployment decisions. However, discovering available providers and partners can be more difficult when access isn’t openly available.Customers and prospective customers can benefit from a simpler way to explore ecosystem participants and understand the available provider landscape before engaging further with Equinix solutions.A Better Approach:Fabric Marketplace is now accessible publicly through Equinix.com, enabling broader discovery of Equinix ecosystem participants. It includes nearly 800 service providers, making it easier to discover and connect with participants through a single experience.By making Fabric Marketplace externally accessible, users can search for providers, explore AI and Network hubs, view company and service profiles, and learn more about available services before deciding how to connec

Fabric Insights now enables streaming of Network Edge device interface performance metrics and alerts, allowing customers to monitor interface health through their existing observability platforms.What’s New:Fabric Insights now supports streaming Network Edge device interface performance metrics Customers can integrate interface metrics and alerts with existing observability tools and monitoring platforms Streaming telemetry provides visibility into Network Edge interface health alongside other operational monitoring dataWhy it Matters:Helps operations teams monitor Network Edge interface health using the tools and workflows they already use Enables faster detection and investigation of network issues through centralized observability platforms Supports organizations seeking greater visibility into network performance across their Equinix networking servicesLearn MoreDocumentation - Network Edge Documentation - Fabric Insights Dashboard

Fabric Insights now enables users to download on-demand event logs for Fabric assets, providing exportable historical records to support troubleshooting, compliance, auditing, and operational investigations.What’s New:Users can download on-demand event logs for Fabric assets directly from Fabric Insights Event log exports provide historical records of asset activity and events Fabric Insights now supports downloads of both network performance reports and event logs from the portalWhy it Matters:Simplifies troubleshooting by providing access to historical event data for operational investigations Helps network operations and security teams maintain records for compliance and audit requirements Makes it easier to analyze and share Fabric asset activity without manually collecting event historyLearn MoreDocumentation - Fabric Documentation - Fabric Insights Dashboard

Customers can now gain greater visibility into the physical infrastructure supporting Equinix Fabric through the Fabric Network Map tool in Equinix Customer Portal. By selecting the new FiberMap tab, customers can select one or more regions to view the physical circuits and IBX locations that support Fabric services, helping them better understand the fiber paths underlying their connectivity.What’s New:View the underlying fiber paths used by the Equinix Fabric physical underlay network Toggle between the existing high-level network view and a more detailed fiber path view Visualize multiple individual fiber paths across network segmentsWhy it Matters:Provides additional visibility into the underlying network infrastructure Helps customers better understand network resiliency by viewing the fiber paths supporting Fabric connectivity Benefits Fabric users who want greater insight into the physical paths underlying their network connectionsLearn MoreDocumentation - FiberMap

The Challenge:Organizations in government, finance, healthcare, and other regulated industries must ensure sensitive traffic remains within specific jurisdictions and complies with applicable regulations. This challenge extends beyond where data is stored to how network traffic moves between locations, clouds, and applications.Today, customers often rely on public internet routes or cloud service provider backbones that do not provide deterministic routing evidence or granular control over where traffic traverses. This can create trade-offs between compliance requirements and operational flexibility.A Better Approach:Fabric Geo Zones provides a single, end-to-end capability that enables customers to enforce geographic routing boundaries for network traffic. Customers apply policy-based routing controls, such as keeping traffic within a specific country or region, helping support sovereignty and compliance requirements.Fabric Geo Zones is delivered through new Fabric virtual connections

The Fabric Marketplace Provider Dashboard introduces provider health insights, including port utilization, inventory, and connected customers visibility, helping providers monitor and manage marketplace performance.What’s New:New provider dashboard available within Fabric Marketplace Displays provider health insights, including port utilization and inventory Provides visibility into connected customers and marketplace performanceWhy it Matters: Helps providers monitor the health and performance of their marketplace offerings Provides visibility into utilization, inventory, and customer connectivity to support ongoing managementLearn More Explore Fabric Marketplace

Summary:100 Gbps virtual circuit availability on Equinix Fabric has expanded to Los Angeles, supporting high-throughput workloads in the region.What’s New:100G virtual connections now available in Los AngelesWhy it Matters:Gives customers in Los Angeles access to high-throughput connectivity without needing to route through other locations Supports demanding workloads that require 100 Gbps capacity closer to where infrastructure is deployedLearn More:Equinix Fabric Release Notes | Equinix Product Documentation 

Summary:Fabric Geo Zones now extends to the European Union, enabling customers to create secure port-to-port connections across qualifying EU metros with traffic constrained to EU sovereign boundaries.What’s New:EU Geo Zone now available, supporting port-to-port connections between qualifying EU metros including Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid, Lisbon, Stockholm, and Helsinki Customers can optionally enforce EU-only routing to ensure all traffic stays within EU infrastructure Available via UI and API, supporting EPL, EVPL connections and connections to Service ProvidersWhy it Matters:Enables organizations in regulated industries – including government agencies and enterprises with AI workloads – to meet EU data sovereignty and regulatory requirements like GDPR directly within Fabric Removes the need for bespoke network engineering to enforce EU-only routing across multicloud and partner ecosystemsLearn More:Docs Fabric Geo Zones Demo Fabric Geo Zones Press Release The EU Data Sover

Fabric now supports 100G virtual connections in Miami, enabling higher-capacity connectivity for customers in this metro.What’s New:100G virtual connections now available in Miami Increases maximum bandwidth capacity for Fabric in this locationWhy it Matters:Enables high-throughput, performance-sensitive workloads with fewer connections Benefits customers in or connecting through Miami needing greater bandwidthLearn More:Equinix Fabric Release Notes | Equinix Product Documentation 

 Fabric now includes a native Insights Hub dashboard in the Fabric Portal, giving customers real-time, unified visibility into network performance and health without relying on external tools or customer integrations.What’s New:Native events and alerts dashboard now available directly in the Fabric PortalWhy it Matters:Network and operations teams can monitor, troubleshoot, and understand their Fabric environment faster – without needing to build or maintain custom integrations Reduces dependence on external observability tools by bringing network health visibility natively into FabricLearn More:Docs Fabric Insights Demo Fabric Intelligence Whitepaper Omdia Analyst Paper

The Challenge: As organizations scale across regions and clouds, ensuring that sensitive data stays within specific geographic or jurisdictional boundaries becomes increasingly complex. Today, teams often struggle to:Prove that data-in-motion stays within required jurisdictions (not just where it’s stored)   Enforce deterministic routing paths across multicloud and partner ecosystems  Meet regulatory requirements like GDPR, DORA, or healthcare and government policies  Existing approaches often rely on public internet routing, cloud provider backbones, or custom-built architecture that could lack control, forcing tradeoffs between performance, compliance, and operational complexity.  A Better Approach: Fabric Geo Zones (Preview) introduces a new way to define and validate geographic traffic boundaries directly within Equinix Fabric.  Enables policy-based, jurisdiction-constrained routing (e.g., USA-only, EU-only)  Introduces Network Zones to control how and where traffic flows  Provides