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BT and Equinix announced an expansion of their partnership to help multinational organisations transform interconnectivity across their digital value chain . The move will help customers boost innovation and accelerate business outcomes .

It will add to Global Fabric ’ s international footprint , which BT believes will be one of the largest of any NaaS platform . When fully built-out , Global Fabric will be available to customers internationally via 140 points-ofpresence , PoPs hosted in the world ’ s top cloud locations across 40 countries . It will offer 74 % direct coverage of hyperscaler clouds and pre-provisioned high-bandwidth connectivity to over 700 data-centres . connectivity could take weeks . With Global Fabric , it happens in an instant .

Equinix ’ s global platform interconnects multiple clouds hosting the applications , solutions and marketplaces underpinning the digital economy . It provides access to approximately 2,000 network services , approximately 3,000 cloud and IT services , over 400 content and digital media services , and more than 4,800 enterprises .

The agreement expands BT ’ s ability to offer its customers a comprehensive choice of the best locations for their business to digitally interconnect with partners , suppliers , customers and other stakeholders across their full value chain .

It builds on BT Group ’ s quantum secure communications relationship with Equinix following the joint achievement of the UK ’ s first data centre to data centre connection using the technology .

According to Equinix ’ s Global Interconnection Index , digital ecosystems are growing exponentially . 80 % of businessto-business sales interactions are expected to occur in digital channels by the end of 2025 . By integrating industry value chains , businesses are innovating at a rate 25 per cent higher than their peers .

Arun Dev , Global Interconnections , Equinix , said : “ Our partnership enables BT to offer its customers interconnectivity with the full Equinix global digital ecosystem of cloud and IT services , as well as hundreds of content and digital media services , and over 4,800 enterprises hosted at our datacentres globally .”

Matt Swinden , Director , Digital Connectivity , Business , BT , said : “ Global Fabric combined with Equinix ’ s global ecosystem of infrastructure , cloud and digital service widens the choice we offer to customers of the best locations to interconnect their full business value chain .” p

Global Fabric connects multinational organisations securely , flexibly and reliably . It transforms the ease at which they can deploy and scale interconnectivity with third parties such as customers and suppliers across their full digital value chain .

It provides visibility and control of both access and core networks . This allows organisations to achieve the best end-to-end network performance for their workloads , from users and devices in offices , factories and other operational sites , to the multi-cloud core , which interconnects applications and digital services such as AI .

It is built on a fully resilient architecture and offered with a range of management options . With legacy networks , setting up or changing

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