SYDNEY, Australia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 2004-- Largest Industry Forum Dedicated to Internet and Content Peering with Presentations from Comindico, Hibbard Consulting and West Australian IX

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that it will host a new event in Sydney in the company's ongoing Gigabit Peering Forum series. Following up on the success of last year's Gigabit Peering Forum in Sydney, the forum will feature educational sessions from experts on technical best practices as well as presentations focused on network and content peering methodologies and strategies.

The theme for this year's Gigabit Peering Forum will be "Best Practices of Peering." Featured presentations include James Spenceley, Network Architect of Comindico, presenting on "Entering a Mature Peering Landscape," which aims to outline to a network or content provider the decision processes, cost analysis, and most importantly the planning process in building a peering infrastructure in a maturing environment; John Hibbard, from Hibbard Consulting Pty Ltd, will look into the "Future of International Internet connectivity," covering current commercial expectations given that capacity excesses of the past are being consumed due to the vigorous growth from the rollout of broadband; Gavin Tweedie, Technical Manager for West Australian Internet Association, will discuss "Trends and Troubles" facing MLPA exchanges using the successful growth of the WAIX as a key point of reference.

In addition, Bill Norton, recognized peering authority and chief technical liaison for Equinix, will present his latest research findings as a part of Equinix's peering white paper series, in "The Asia Pacific Peering Guidebook." The paper will focus on issues that peering coordinators said they wished they had known before building into Asia. It will identify reasons to build into Asia Pacific, international interconnection strategies in the region, peering dynamics in the region that seem counter intuitive, and 'lessons learned' from previous deployments. Bill Norton is a frequent speaker at leading global technical forums including the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT), Reseaux IP Europeens (RIPE) and ISPCON/Service Networks. He is also in Sydney to address the TSA (Telecommunications Society of Australia) on Friday, 30th July on the subject of: "Internet Peering: Players, Motivations and Associated Behaviour."

Peering is a fundamental element of the Internet's infrastructure that improves the performance of the Internet for all users by enabling data to pass from one network to another without intermediary networks or bottlenecks. Increasingly, as pressure builds to lower costs while improving network performance, peering has become an essential element of most network strategies.

The Sydney Gigabit Peering Forum, targeted at peering coordinators and network architects, will take place at the Hotel Intercontinental in Sydney on Wednesday, July 28, 2004. Previous Equinix Gigabit Peering Forums have been hosted by Equinix in the San Jose, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney areas and have become the definitive peering events in the industry.

In addition, four white papers authored by Bill Norton of Equinix entitled "Do ATM-based Internet Exchange Points Make Sense Anymore," "Interconnection Strategies for ISPs," "Internet Service Providers and Peering," and "A Business Case for Peering" are available at http://www.equinix.com/resources/whitepapers/.

About Equinix

Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network services providers. Through the company's 14 Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) centers in five countries, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the challenges of operating IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business from our key customers and other risks described from time to time in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this press release.

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CONTACT: Equinix Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
Charles W.H. Chow, +(65) 6723-8943
charles.chow@ap.equinix.com
SOURCE: Equinix, Inc.