Montreal Data Centres

Why choose Montreal data centres?

Home to Canada’s cloud hub

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Montreal is now Canada’s second-largest peering centre and is emerging as a cloud hub.

Our Montreal data centres are strategically located and enable customers to access a rich service provider and business ecosystem. Equinix Montreal is also ideal for the retail, cloud and technology sectors, and customers can choose from a broad range of network services from many local and international network service providers.

To learn more about interconnection opportunities in this metro, visit the Explorer feature within Equinix Marketplace.

 

Harness our interconnection-focused colocation and platform services

 

Colocation Services

Build secure and reliable digital infrastructure alongside your business partners to unlock the power of interconnected proximity.

Digital Services

Deploy digital infrastructure securely and rapidly to assemble infrastructure in minutes – from anywhere in the world – with the world’s largest ecosystem of providers.

State-of-the-Art Data Centres

Colocate with confidence – backed by the world’s leading data centre design and operations teams for mission-critical uptime, reliability, security and sustainability.

Certified for global standards

Our data centers are certified to meet rigorous environmental and energy management standards.

Visit our Certifications page for a list of data-center-specific certifications.

Get worldwide network interconnection with Platform Equinix®

Valuable gateway

Our Montreal data centres are close to 80% of Canadian businesses and only 600 km from New York City, with Montreal well-positioned to meet enterprise demand in Canada.

Direct Connections

Connect directly with CSPs like AWS, Google, IBM and Microsoft in a major internet and network peering exchange point.

Thriving business hub

Montreal has become Canada’s second-largest peering centre and is emerging as a cloud hub. Get a low-latency connection to NYC and Toronto (as low as 7.2 ms).

 

Access Vibrant Ecosystems

Connect to communities within Equinix that accelerate and amplify internal value creation for your business, including financial enterprises, content and digital media services, global networks and cloud service providers..

 

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Drive growth for your business

  • Connect with Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud via Equinix Fabric®.
  • Strong network and interconnection help decrease latency while improving performance and reliability of content delivery.
  • Get on-demand and direct access to cloud, network, storage, compute and application service providers via Equinix Fabric.

  • Equinix Fabric enables global connectivity to thousands of networking, storage, compute and application service providers in the industry’s largest infrastructure ecosystem.
  • In proximity to 80% of Canadian businesses and only 600 km from NYC, Montreal is well-positioned to meet enterprise demand in Canada.
  • Low-latency connection to NYC and Toronto (as low as 7.2 ms).

  • Popular choice for major cloud deployments given Montreal’s strong connectivity to Canadian businesses and proximity to the U.S.
  • Emerging cloud hub as data sovereignty concerns push CSPs to offer infrastructure outside of the U.S.
  • Equinix Fabric allows you to quickly and easily offer direct cloud access globally.

  • Key locale for CSPs looking to establish footing in Canada, as AWS, Google, MSFT and IBM all have cloud infrastructure deployed there.
  • Second-largest peering centre in Canada with a large number of content and network service providers.
  • Abundance of peering opportunities and last-mile CDNs in Canada’s second-largest metro region.
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