Addressing a press meet in Chennai, Manoj Paul, Managing Director, Equinix India, said, “Customers’ requirements change frequently. Our portal allows them to upgrade or downgrade bandwidth instantly and pay only for the time they use it. This lowers barriers and helps enterprises adapt quickly without being tied to high-cost contracts,” he said.
CN1 is located on SIPCOT land at Siruseri and opens with 800 cabinets, expandable to 4250 across four phases. It is built to deliver 99.999 per cent uptime and is equipped with liquid cooling facilities to support AI-driven, high-density workloads. The facility also incorporates patented energy-efficient technologies, including stacked generators and transformers, to improve power effectiveness.
Paul pointed out that Equinix’s positioning in India, noting that the company is focused on enterprise clients. “We are an enterprise retail enterprise-focused organisation. Our data centres are mainly for banks, financial institutions, stockbrokers and e-commerce companies. For hyperscalers we provide dedicated network nodes, but our capacity is very different from what you might be seeing from others,” he saidThe launch also brings Equinix Fabric, a product that interconnects customers to multiple service providers and also interconnects all Equinix data centres across the world. It enables customers to connect with the global ecosystem present in Equinix data centres. Through a single port, enterprises can connect to providers such as Amazon Web services (AWS) and Microsoft, scale bandwidth instantly, and build multi-cloud strategies with reduced cost and time, they company said.
With three IBX centres already operational in Mumbai, CN1 expands Equinix’s footprint to southern India, positioning Chennai as a key digital hub in the company’s global network.
