Improving Application Performance Application Performance Nodes

Identifying, prioritizing, and improving the performance of business-critical and latency-sensitive applications is key to end-user satisfaction and productivity.

Maximize Performance with Application Performance Nodes

Application Performance Nodes in Equinix data centers let you improve performance by deploying applications in proximity to key user groups and major population centers.



 

Benefits:

  • Proximity to customers and partners in 38 major business and financial centers on five continents
  • Wide choice of 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
  • Wide choice of cloud, application and managed service providers to enhance application flexibility

Improve Performance, Improve efficiency

Application Performance Nodes improve the performance of the application infrastructure while maintaining cost targets. Measurable improvements over typical deployment architectures include:

  • 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. Enterprises and cloud and content providers can leverage our global footprint and wide choice of metro-level providers, ISPs and mobile broadband networks to achieve high performance for business-critical and latency-sensitive applications, improving the employee and customer experience and accelerating adoption.

  • Where global business and growth connect

    Platform Advantages

    Learn how Platform Equinix enables the most progressive businesses to accelerate growth.

  • Equinix vital ecosystems drive business growth

    Vital Ecosystems

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

  • 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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Industry Research & Reports

  • Optimizing Internet Application Performance

    In today's digital economy, performance can be a strategic differentiator for your company—not matter what product or service you offer. Learn more about how performance can impact revenue in this whitepaper.

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Application Performance Nodes Brochure

Cost-effectively maximize performance for business-critical and latency-sensitive application.

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Optimizing Internet Application Performance

In today's digital economy, performance can be a strategic differentiator for your company—no matter what product or service you offer. Learn more about how performance can impact revenue in this whitepaper.

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Key Takeaways of Internet Application Performance

As our collective blog posts clearly demonstrate, where you locate your infrastructure plays a huge role in how well your site or application performs.

Interconnections
  • Carrier Ethernet Exchange
    Reduce NNI costs with many-to-many interconnections and quickly expand your Ethernet services and connectivity.

  • Internet Exchange
    Foster peering relationships across the globe to exchange traffic, resulting in enhanced service levels and lower connectivity costs.

  • Cross Connects
    A single cross connect can be a link to a dynamic ecosystem of business partners, content providers, networks, carriers and cloud service providers.