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Recently I have been having issues with the Shipments v1 endpoint for pending storage (https://api.equinix.com/v1/orders/shipment/pendingStorage), receiving 503 service unavailable.Searching the catalog, there is no 503 defined so not entirely sure what this error is stating.Looking to see if this is a bug or if the endpoint was deprecated without notice.Thank you

In this short Tech Talk, join the industry leaders to unravel the transformative power of bridging physical and digital landscapes.Highlights:Explore the imperative role of distributed AI in the ever-evolving enterprise landscape. Gain insights into seamlessly integrating AI data flow from edge to core to cloud through rich ecosystem partners. Learn how to design and implement cloud-adjacent hybrid AI solutions with NVIDIA at Equinix on a global scale. Discover strategies to break down internal and external silos with MLOps, fostering collaboration across departments and ecosystem partners.  

With the v0.4 additions of VRF and Gateway features, and Interconnection present in v0.3, this release of the Equinix Ansible Collection enables Fabric VC (metal-billed) use-cases with BGP discovery of private IP pools over Metal VLANs.  This allows users to manage their Metal network configurations via the Ansible integration with greater ease. In future releases, we'll expand the Ansible Collection to support dedicated interconnections.   If you're interested in using Ansible to manage your infrastructure deployments, let us know!

Equinix's Charles Meyers appeared on CNBC Worldwide Exchange this morning to discuss how DigitalTransformation, cloud, and AI are continuing to drive data center demand. Watch the full interview here: 

Jon Lin, Equinix EVP and General Manager of Data Center Services & Matt Hull, NVIDIA VP Global AI Solutions answers some questions about our recent announced collaboration. Equinix Private AI with NVIDIA DGX is a fully managed private cloud service that enables enterprises to easily acquire and manage their own NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure for building and running custom generative AI models.  

On the latest episode of Traceroute, we look at how climate change is forcing the island nation of Tuvalu to rethink what it means to be a state.For the island nation of Tuvalu, the effects of climate change are more than a warning; they’re an eviction notice. Estimates vary as to when the small chain of coral islands could vanish beneath the waves, but experts agree that Tuvalu may be uninhabitable long before then, prompting its people to set sail for a new frontier… The metaverse. Within this digital landscape, Tuvalu could potentially preserve its lands, heritage, and governance, effectively pioneering a new model for nationhood, in which a nation and its people exist in two realms—physical and virtual. But how does one go from sand to silicon while maintaining the essence of a culture? And what is the real-world environmental impact of storing a nation’s worth of data? Whether we take Tuvalu’s proposal literally or view it as a symbolic call to action, unpacking the logistics of s

We were promised flying cars. We were told that by the year 2000, cities would float in the clouds, robots would cut our hair, and there’d be a computer in everyone’s pocket. Well, one out of three ain’t bad.The question is, why? Why did we think the future would bring interstate moving sidewalks, but we ended up with the internet instead? In this episode of Traceroute, we take an in-depth look at why we get the technology we get…and our trail leads to three distinct factors. Helping us unravel the reason behind these factors is Mike Winterfield, Founder of Active Impact Investments, a VC firm that specializes in Green Tech. We also talk with Oliver Walker-Jones of Joby Aviation, one of several companies that are finally making flying cars, who shares his insight as to why it took almost a hundred years to get from the idea of the flying car to the reality of one. 

VRF is now fully supported in v0.21.0 of metal-cli! Use commands to create and interact with Metal Gateways, BGP Dynamic Neighbors, and interconnections.  Some examples of possibilities now available in Metal-CLI:  Specify new BGP Dynamic Neighbors by IP Range and ASN  List your Metal Gateways  Get details on Server plan capacity per Metro Create or update a new interconnection and or virtual-circuit on said interconnection  Learn more about VRF on Metal in the documentation. 

Listen to Marty Falaro, EVP & COO Wasabi technologies, as he describes how Equinix helps provide value to a large range of their customers for research, disaster recovery, data backup, post production media services and more.As one of the fastest growing cloud object storage companies in the world, Wasabi uses Equinix Fabric to connect all thirteen data centers around the world as well as Equinix Metal for compute services.Wasabi leverages these digital services to open new doors with their customers and allows for the rapid global expansion of their business, while delivering on their focus to make cloud storage a simple utility, just like electricity. Learn more about cloud adjacent data strategies  

I note that NixOS was recently retired from the list of supported operating systems. What was the reason for dropping NixOS? I'm curious as to whether there are technical limitations that make the OS harder to support on the Metal platform.

🚀 Exciting News! You’ve got a simpler way to connect your services deployed across Equinix products. Give Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) a shot and help shape the future of VRF! 🛠️ Configure VRF through the API or UI directly, making connectivity easier than ever! 📚 For more information on what VRF is and how to use it, check out our deploy documentation page: https://deploy.equinix.com/developers/docs/metal/layer2-networking/vrf/ 🗣️ Your feedback matters! Whether it's good or bad, share your thoughts with us. We're eager to hear from you and will use your input to shape the future of VRF. Help us make it even better!

Network operations in the public cloud is easy because it is highly abstracted. How to bring a similar level of network abstraction to your own dedicated cloud environment at Equinix? This session will demonstrate and share how to simplify, automate, and interconnect any network environment.   

The annual Global Interconnection Index (GXI) is a crystal ball into the future of the digital economy, full of predictions and insights that redefine how we connect and thrive in a digital world.📈 Bandwidth Growth: Watch as interconnection bandwidth skyrockets at a 34% five-year CAGR, hitting a mind-blowing 33,578 Tbps. ☁️ Multicloud Mastery: By 2025, 85% of global companies will have embraced multicloud strategies across numerous regions. It's the era of cloud without borders, enhancing flexibility and operational resilience.🌐 Fortune 500's Digital Pivot: By 2025, 90% of Fortune 500 companies will transform into digital providers, both selling and consuming digital services. It's a shift from traditional business models to digital-first strategies.🔄 Hardware Renaissance: The next few years will witness a doubling in hardware refresh rates, spurred by ever-improving price/performance ratios. By 2026, technology lifecycles will accelerate, keeping pace with innovation demands.💡 Gro

Which products need to be combined to solve your infrastructure needs? How do these products work together? Are there best practices? What have other customers done?We heard you loud and clear – you need a way to find the right solutions.Check out the newly launched Solutions Catalog!As this is an evolving catalog, with us adding more resources over time, we need your help: We are looking for beta testers to share their thoughts, feedback (good and bad) with us!Is it easy to navigate? Did you find what you were looking for? Is there information missing? What is working? When would you use it?Take a quick survey or respond in the comments below.What’s Solutions Catalog?Solutions Catalog is more a reference library than anything else and we are positive that it can help you find the right solution. You can go by technology category, discover how other customers have solved business requirements through infrastructure and browse by business motivation to see which solutions help you to ad

Stick around as we explore how tech both creates and disrupts our groove, and whether the secret sauce of in-person jams can really translate to the digital world. In this episode of Traceroute, we delve into a quest for the perfect tool to help bridge the physical and digital divides that increasingly appear between musicians like John and Arman. From California’s Bay Area to the buzzing streets of Hong Kong, we find a host of technologists who, spurred on by the impacts of a global pandemic, are already hard at work tackling the kind of low-latency global networking solutions that just might be the key to keeping the band in one semi-remote piece. But within this particular stack, there lies an even bigger conundrum. Because even if we somehow manifest the right tool for the job, is the magic of this so-called “vibe” even replicable? Or is there another solution altogether?Part 2 - The Synchrony Paradox  In part one of our story, we sourced the perfect tool for jamming together from

How do we make technology that lasts? In this episode, Grace Ewura-Esi and Shweta Saraf join Producer John Taylor as he talks with two cutting-edge technologists who are trying to extend the life of the hardware infrastructure around us. From a cell phone tower that can be installed on your roof (and repaired just as easily), to a clock that is built to last ten thousand years, we uncover the common threads that run through technology that’s built to last.Woven in this framework is the story of Sandra Rodriguez, who worked tirelessly to restore civilization—as well as hope itself—to the island of Puerto Rico with the help of the only piece of hardware infrastructure that withstood the powerful forces of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Let us know your thoughts below! 

In this episode of our Digital Leaders Series, Carl DeGroot, VP U.S. Federal at Cisco, discusses how, in partnership with Equinix, they are supporting the government’s digital transformation evolution, including securing information across data centers, to enable visibility, automation data accessibility, and fostering sustainability.  

In this 20-minute Tech Talk, we will show you how to baseline and identify exactly where you can cut carbon emissions for your network devices like routers and switches, and then transform your overall network architecture for efficiency with data center consolidation and by leveraging virtualization.Experts Sarwar Khan, Sustainability Lead at BT, and James McIlvenny, Product Marketing Manager, Digital Interconnection at Equinix, will explain:How BT’s Digital Carbon Calculator provides a unique view into which network assets to optimize for sustainability  The benefits of combining carbon footprint data and IT services lifecycle management to gain network efficiencies  How BT’s global network combined with Equinix’s own tooling, and data center colocation and virtual interconnection services, in a hybrid multicloud environment enables energy efficiency and reduction of carbon emissions at scale.  

Hi I couldn't find a contacts for Equinix IXP support with its route-servers, I have a question about BGP communities support but can't see where can I open a ticket through the IX portal

How far does large language modeling need to go before we consider marrying an AI?In part 2 of our 3-part series on our relationship with AI, we explore how Large Language Models can be shaped to mimic the qualities of a human personality, and the implications that come with it.We are joined again by James Vlahos of Embodied, who sheds insight on why creating personas with AI and LLMs is like directing actors in a play, but a play that does not involve thinking or motivation the way we believe it to mean.The question is, however, if your chatbot can sound like a person, does that mean it can be a fulfilling substitute for the people in your life? Or do we need to recognize that a product is a product, regardless of its ability to convince you it’s not? 

Equinix Inc. is partnering with other players, such as The Linux Foundation, to offer open-source developers relevant infrastructure, such as bare metal, for unparalleled performance, scalability and manageability over their environments, according to Josh Atwell (pictured, left), senior director of developer relations at Equinix.“Software is really boring if it doesn’t have something to run on,” Atwell said. “Being at Equinix has been pretty fantastic, because it’s our core — what we do is infrastructure. We’ve had a few partners that just come by to talk to our joint customers about how they’ve been using our platform, using our network, our bare metal servers to be able to solve problems, and it’s just nice remembering that the infrastructure’s still there and it’s important.” Atwell and Robert Reeves (right), vice president of strategic partnerships at The Linux Foundation, spoke with theCUBE industry analysts Savannah Peterson and Dustin Kirkland at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, du

I'm writing a script to see how oversubscribed my fabric ports are, by totaling the bandwidth of connections on each port. I'm having trouble with the pagination, no matter what I set for offset and limit in the query parameters, it always seems to come back with offset=0.https://api.equinix.com/fabric/v4/connections/search{'next': '/search?offset=20&limit=20', 'offset': 0, 'total': 193, 'limit': 20}https://api.equinix.com/fabric/v4/connections/search?offset=20&limit=20{'next': '/search?offset=20&limit=20', 'offset': 0, 'total': 193, 'limit': 20}https://api.equinix.com/fabric/v4/connections/search?offset=40&limit=20{'next': '/search?offset=20&limit=20', 'offset': 0, 'total': 193, 'limit': 20}https://api.equinix.com/fabric/v4/connections/search?offset=60&limit=20{'next': '/search?offset=20&limit=20', 'offset': 0, 'total': 193, 'limit': 20}https://api.equinix.com/fabric/v4/connections/search?offset=80&limit=20{'next': '/search?offset=20&limit=20', 'off

Currently I'm using the API token associated with my personal login to Equinix for the Fabric API. What's the best way to make an API token for a service sharable by a group of people at my company? Should I just make an Equinix login like first name Cloud last name Fabric, and then make an API token from that, or is there another way?

Hi, I want to create a a Quick Connect using API. Is it supported?

Did you know you can move hardware reservations between projects using the Equinix Ansible collection? Enjoy the benefits of both flexible resource management and dedicated hardware!   Users can also search and access interconnection resources which will pave the way for future management of Virtual Circuits. If you're eager to see these changes come sooner, or if you need Ansible interfaces for other Equinix services, please let us know in the comments.