Equinix Unveils Fabric One to Simplify Enterprise AI, Cloud and Network Connectivity
Equinix Fabric One will deliver any-to-any connectivity across enterprise, cloud and AI environments, with AWS and Google Cloud serving as lead integration partners
Equinix, Inc., the world’s digital infrastructure company®, announced Equinix® Fabric One™, a managed, any-to-any connectivity service designed to simplify how enterprises connect distributed cloud, network and AI environments. The announcement was made at Equinix Horizon, the company’s inaugural customer and partner event.
Built to address the networking complexity of the AI era, Equinix Fabric One will leverage open connectivity specifications developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud to support interoperability across distributed cloud, AI and enterprise environments. Customers will simply specify what they need connected and their requirements, and Equinix Fabric One determines and delivers the connectivity required to make it happen. At Horizon, Equinix is also announcing Equinix® Inference Exchange to accelerate enterprise AI infrastructure deployments.
“For decades, enterprise networks have been built one connection at a time for each partner and provider they depend on. That approach doesn’t scale in a world of distributed AI that demands dynamic, flexible and real-time connectivity,” said Chris Audie, Chief Product Officer, Equinix. “Equinix Fabric One will reduce the complexity that’s slowing enterprises down by automatically managing connectivity across distributed architectures, based on the customer’s intent.”
The Connectivity Modern Enterprises Need
As enterprises need to connect to more clouds, AI providers, partners and locations, every new connection can become a networking project requiring specialized expertise, cross-functional coordination and ongoing management. That complexity can slow deployment and makes it harder for infrastructure to keep pace with the needs of the business.
“Networking is still a key area of enterprise infrastructure that remains heavily dependent on manual design and operations,” said Andrew Buss, Senior Research Director, Cloud and Datacenters, Enterprise Infrastructure at IDC. “Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to simplify and automate how connectivity is provisioned and managed across distributed cloud and AI environments, but achieving this transformation remains a major challenge. Advances that enable more integrated automation and intent-driven approaches can reduce operational complexity and risk while supporting the flexibility modern AI and multicloud architectures require.”
Equinix Fabric One aims to modernize how enterprises consume connectivity. Instead of assembling and managing networking service component by component, customers simply specify what they need through a portal, APIs, automation workflows, agent-based requests or natural-language prompts. Equinix Fabric One will automatically orchestrate and manage the routing, cloud connectivity, encryption, resiliency and failover required to deliver that outcome as a single managed service.
Equinix Fabric One is built on the company’s trusted, neutral exchange of more than 10,500 interconnected businesses, approximately 3,000 cloud and IT providers, and active deployments by eight of the top 10 AI model providers and nine of the top 10 neoclouds. Equinix’s neutrality gives enterprises the freedom to connect across providers while keeping their architecture flexible as business and technology needs evolve.
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Neutral by Design. Open by Default.
Built on open connectivity specifications, Equinix Fabric One leverages the open source OpenAPI 3.0 Interconnect specification, which AWS and Google Cloud collaborated on to preserve choice and interoperability across distributed AI, cloud and enterprise environments. As enterprises move toward agentic architectures, applications and AI agents can discover, request and provision connectivity programmatically, without manual intervention.
“Customers shouldn’t have to figure out how to connect across multiple clouds and AI environments on their own,” said Robert Kennedy, Vice President, AWS network services. “They should just define what they need and have it work. Fabric One builds on the open interconnect specification that AWS and Google Cloud helped define and deliver exactly that. A managed service that handles the complexity so customers can focus on their AI workloads, not how everything connects.”
“Cross-cloud interoperability is the backbone of the AI era,” said Rob Enns, Vice President of Engineering, Cloud Networking, Google Cloud. “We helped establish the open interconnect specification so enterprises no longer have to manage the complexity of multi-cloud networking. By combining Google Cloud’s Cross-Cloud Network capabilities with Equinix Fabric One, we are giving customers an automated, intent-driven network that lets them quickly deploy distributed AI workloads.”
Connectivity That Evolves with the Enterprise
The world’s leading organizations are increasingly seeking connectivity models that allow teams to focus on what they need rather than the complexity of building and managing individual connections.
“As technology environments become more distributed, AI workloads and multicloud architectures require connectivity that is flexible, scalable and easier to manage,” said Paul Hager, CEO, Hyundai AutoEver America. “Equinix Fabric One has the potential to accelerate our efforts to meet those needs.”
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