Equinix Network Edge

Optimise your hybrid multi-cloud network and increase agility

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Transform your digital infrastructure to achieve business agility

Equinix Network Edge provides virtual networking services that run on a modular infrastructure platform, optimised for deployment and interconnection of both physical and virtual network presence.

Get started with a free 14-day trial:

  • Create a free account on our Fabric portal or log in with your existing account.
  • Select up to two devices from our list of vendors.
  • Plug and play with your existing digital infrastructure.

Drive scale and eliminate hardware requirements

Deploy redundant, highly available applications at the digital edge with our automated workflow and reference architectures.

Reduce complexity and increase ease of management

Easily stitch together virtual network services from different vendors as part of a single workflow and deploy close users, clouds and other networks in minutes.

Design and visualise your multi/hybrid cloud network

The Solution Builder tool enables you to visualise your network by architecting, designing and generating a cost estimate for multi/hybrid cloud solutions with a simple drag and drop feature.

Reducing complexity and cost and increasing resiliency were key to our network optimisation initiative. Equinix Network Edge and Equinix Fabric helped us accomplish all three – eliminating manual operations, saving a minimum of 60% in expenses and preventing network outages.
Pasi Louko
Senior Network Architect, VR Group

Solve for strategic use cases

 

Multicloud Networking

Seamlessly integrate network services and privately route between your apps, data and workloads – across clouds and locations globally.

network modernisation

Quickly establish services in new locations, with no hardware requirements. Implement an infrastructure modernisation strategy for business agility and scale in minutes.

Data centre migration and consolidation

Transition your physical infrastructure to virtual networking, to optimise traffic at the edge and connect to your cloud and IT services ecosystem with a global platform.

Extend SD-WAN deployments

Reach interconnection ecosystems on Platform Equinix® in a matter of minutes, while optimising traffic to the branch seamlessly via SD-WAN integrations.

Connect devices from 12+ top virtual services vendors

Gain multi-vendor flexibility with a choice of multiple vendor virtual network services for firewall, virtual router, SD-WAN, load balancer and multicloud connectivity – highly customisable, leveraging your preferred network services vendors.

Frequently Asked Questions

Equinix Network Edge is a virtualised service solution running on the Equinix Fabric that allows rapid deployment of network devices around the world. It is built upon a vendor marketplace of industry-leading Virtual Network Function (VNF) vendors that offer devices such as virtual firewall, virtual router, virtual load balancer, virtual SD-WAN and multicloud networking.

To learn more about Equinix Network Edge, download the data sheet.

Sign up for your Fabric account to access your 14 day no obligation trial. What this trial enables you to do: Select and deploy up to two fully functioning small single devices (or 1 redundant pair, or 1 cluster device are supported). Deploy devices in any metro locations where Equinix Network Edge is supported. Use SSH or Web-based Console to customize your devices at the CLI level. Up to 4 Virtual Connections are available to interconnect devices (Device Link) and/or Cloud destinations. Try out other services such as VPN, tunnels or BGP. Pass traffic directly between clouds or back to your remote environments. Upload or download data securely from the cloud. Bring Your Own Connection (BYOC) is not available for the trial.

Equinix Network Edge is an OPEX spend vs CAPEX and includes the following priced elements. Each invoice will include these items:

  • Equinix Network Edge Instance (required) – Monthly recurring charge (MRC) (and possibly non-recurring charge (NRC)) dependent upon the device you are deploying and its resource requirements, ranging from small to extra-large.
  • Edge Device Licence – An EquinixNetwork Edge device will always be listed on your invoice. There will only be a charge for the Edge Device Licence if you have a subscription licence that Equinix is managing on your behalf (Sub). This is required if you do not provide your own licence from the vendor.

Depending on what the virtual device is connected to, additional charges will apply from the other Interconnection products used.

Currently nearly all devices on Equinix Network Edge are BYOL.

Each device is covered by an SLA of 99.99% availability. If any redundancy settings are included, the SLA increases to 99.999%.

Equinix Network Edge is built upon the Equinix Fabric and therefore can connect to any other devices, physical or virtual, that are also part of the Equinix Fabric. Many customers use Equinix Network Edge to complement their physical co-location by using virtual connections in order to provide resilient architectures.

In most instances, it takes between a few minutes to an hour, depending on time of day and metro to spin up a virtual device on Equinix Network Edge.