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Sesame Workshop to Move Web Site Operations for Sesame Street to Equinix Data CenterThe Non-Profit Organization Behind Sesame Street to Leverage Network-Rich Equinix Centers for Greater Performance, Reliability and Scalability November 14, 2007; 07:40 AM Foster City, CA -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:
EQIX), the leading
provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that Sesame
Workshop, the non-profit organization behind Sesame Street, has entered into an
agreement with Equinix to collocate its Web site operations. As a part of the
agreement, Sesame Workshop will begin operating in one of Equinix’s four New York area Internet Business
Exchange™ (IBX®) centers. Sesame
Workshop operates five interactive Web properties for its top educational programs.
In order to deliver the best end-user experience, Sesame Workshop requires a
high-performance connectivity infrastructure that enables them to bring their
content as close as possible to their end-users around the world. Within
Equinix’s New York
area hub, Sesame Workshop will have direct access to the more than 130 carriers,
ISPs and network service providers operating within the center. By directly
interconnecting with this aggregation of networks in a single location, rather
than connecting to them in multiple, disparate locations and over long
distances, Sesame Workshop will be able to reduce bottlenecks in the path
between content and end-users, providing improved performance levels. This
network-rich environment also gives Sesame Workshop the greatest amount of
flexibility in scaling its Web operations, as well as the ability to reduce
network interconnection costs. “As
Sesame Workshop continues to offer new and innovative programming, we require a
high-performance infrastructure that ensures the best user experience
possible,” said Noah Broadwater, V.P. Information Services of Sesame
Workshop. “Equinix’s state-of-the-art New York area center will enable us to
enhance our network connectivity platform. In addition, it will also provide
us with a flexible platform where we can quickly scale operations as we
continue to develop new digital content offerings.” “Sesame
Workshop is an excellent example of an innovative content provider that has
implemented a leading edge technology infrastructure to deliver a fast and
reliable end-user experience,” said Margie Backaus, chief business officer
of Equinix. “Content providers, such as Sesame Workshop, are now seeing
that they can more effectively manage their ever-growing Web operations by
moving operations to Equinix’s centers, where they can leverage the
highest quality centers and access to the largest aggregation of networks.” About Equinix Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data center and interconnection services, offering premium colocation, traffic exchange and outsourced IT infrastructure solutions. Global enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network service providers look to Equinix Internet Business Exchange (IBX®) centers for world-class reliability and network diversity. Equinix IBX centers serve as critical, core hubs for IP networks and Internet operations worldwide. With 37 IBX centers located in 17 strategic markets across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, Equinix enables customers to reliably operate their mission-critical infrastructure on a global basis. |
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