data center company Equinix has announced the expansion of its data center in Rio de Janeiro known as International Business Exchange RJ2 (IBX). This new expansion phase is scheduled to open in Q3 of this year. Equinix invested $ 24M to open the RJ2 data center in September 2013, and will invest an additional $ 17 million in this new phase.
Located in the northern zone of Rio de Janeiro, colocation center RJ2 is home to the largest concentration of the country's largest network operators and currently more than 1500 companies are collocated in facilities Equinix in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The new phase will increase the capacity of 310 cabinets for a total of 630 cabinets.
This new RJ2 progressive construction is one of several expansions in the growing global platform to Equinix roommate over 100 facilities . Earlier this month Equinix announced that it stimulates the interconnection capacity by opening new data centers in five major markets, including London, Melbourne, New York, Singapore and Toronto.
Many companies that are already customers in other regions looking to move into the Brazilian market using our global platform - Platform Equinix, "said Eduardo Carvalho , General manager, Equinix Brazil . "Accordingly, we accelerate local investments in order to meet this international and regional demand. We already have 72 clients installed in the cabinet 320 of the first phase. The expansion will almost double the capacity and we expect to follow this accelerated pace. "
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