Through this new data centre access point, the two aim to provide their customers with enhanced route diversity and availability of their products and services in the Middle East.
The news comes as global demand for subsea network bandwidth and services continues to grow, particularly in growing markets such as the Middle East and Asia.
“We are pleased to announce our new point of presence in the Middle East, at the Muscat Data Centre,” said Carl Grivner, CEO of GCX.
“We have developed a unique capability to plan and deliver integrated, or mixed-asset, configurations that make sophisticated network and capacity planning in the Middle East easy, cost-effective, secure, and reliable for our customers.”
Equinix’s International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre in Muscat is well positioned to act as a gateway between Asia, Africa and Europe.
As the first data centre in Muscat, Oman MC1 creates a regional interconnection hub with ultra-low latencies between global business markets.
"Equinix is committed to providing our partners and customers with the ability to rapidly scale their infrastructure, reach and connectivity,” said Kamel Al-Tawil, managing director of Middle East and North Africa, Equinix.
“The Muscat MC1 IBX leverages Oman as a global communications hub for GCX customers with connectivity to more than 120 cities with redundant routes connecting Asia, Middle East, Europe and North America.”
GCX, through a combination of capacity planning band route diversity through its FALCON system, as well as this expanded presence in Oman creates new regional opportunities in content delivery, gaming, cloud services, and enterprise transformation.
