25 August 2021

SD-WAN provider Fusion Broadband has expanded into Equinix, the digital infrastructure company, as part of its strategy to significantly enlarge its global footprint and offer businesses enhanced performance and more advanced connectivity options.

Equinix operates more than 220 data centres in 26 countries on five continents.

As the networking requirements of global businesses become more sophisticated, Fusion Broadband said it identified a need to support their customers’ growth by leveraging Equinix and offering greater WAN connectivity through direct access to a multitude of cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google, IBM, Alibaba and Oracle.

Andrew Catchpole, chief executive of Fusion Broadband UK, said the new arrangement with Equinix and Equinix Metal will allow the company to quickly and easily provide dedicated SD-WAN gateways in more than 50 location points globally.

“With our unique SD-WAN orchestration platform customers are able to deploy SDWAN sites and gateways in minutes, as well as enable direct connections with the majority of the major cloud providers,” he said. “They can be self-managed or our team of SD-WAN specialists can manage them for the customer. Dedicated private backbones between regions can also be provisioned for customers adding a greater level of performance and security.”

Catchpole added that with Equinix Fabric, Fusion can offer global or national customers faster and more flexible access to all of the cloud services and partners that are on the platform Equinix.