Improving Application Performance Application Performance Nodes

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Applications are a major investment, but each has its own requirements. You need to be able to set, measure and achieve individual application performance targets to successfully empower customers and employees. Identifying and prioritizing latency-sensitive applications is key to end-user satisfaction.

Maximize performance with Application Performance Nodes.

Improving application performance by matching your performance targets to end-user expectations.  

Platform Equinix enables you to cost-effectively maximize performance for business-critical and latency-sensitive applications by deploying Application Performance Nodes in Equinix data centers with close proximity to key user groups and major population centers.

 

Benefits:

  • Proximity to customers and partners in 38 major business and financial centers on 5 continents
  • Access to wide choice in local loop providers to minimize latency
  • Carrier backbone diversity, including 10 of the top 10 global MPLS providers, to reach Network Performance Hubs
  • Specialized exchanges for Internet, Ethernet and mobility to further expand reach and choice
  • Highly reliable data centers delivering a 99.9999% uptime record with ample space and power for growth
  • Ability to connect to cloud, application and managed service providers to enhance application flexibility and choice

Improve performance, improve efficiency.

By using an Application Performance Node architecture, customers improve the performance of their application infrastructure while maintaining cost targets.

Application Performance Nodes deliver measurable improvements over typical deployment architectures, including:

  • 15% faster page load times
  • 27% fewer network hops for more consistent performance
  • 80% reduction in downtime
  • 40% less variability in end-to-end transit time

For Enterprises:

  • Tie in to network performance hubs to control the scope of your full application deployment

For Cloud Providers:

  • Align solution deployment costs to business value and latency sensitivity
  • Retain the flexibility to partner with regional and local network specialists

For Content Providers:

  • Minimize fiber miles that most critically impact end-user experience

The Platform Equinix advantage.

Equinix provides the widest coverage of key business and population centers across the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. As a customer, you can leverage our global footprint and wide choice of metro-level providers, ISPs and mobile broadband networks. As a result, enterprises, cloud and content providers can deliver high performance for sensitive applications, improving the experience and accelerating adoption for employees and customers.

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  • Learn how these unique and robust ecosystems can put you closer to your target markets, customers and partners.

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  • IBX world-class data centers.

    IBX Data Centers

    Our world-class data centers deliver performance and reliability without sacrificing flexibility.

  • Platform Equinix delivers global reach for businesses.

    Global Reach

    We have the key to reducing latency in your core markets across the globe.

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