LONDON, April 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- New Service to Provide Direct Access Between Equinix Financial
eXchange Community in Slough and Financial Firms in the City

AboveNet, a leading provider of fibre optic and IP connectivity solutions
for business and carriers, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of
global data centre services, today announced that AboveNet has joined the
Equinix Financial eXchange community in Equinix's London-Slough (LD4)
International Business Exchange (IBX(R)) data centre. AboveNet will provide
direct fibre links between Equinix's LD4 and its London City (LD1) IBX
centre, facilitating low latency access between the financial market
participants operating in each of the centres, as well as other strategic
partners and customers located in LD1. The installation builds upon existing
AboveNet deployments servicing the Equinix Financial eXchange communities
located within Equinix centres in the Chicago, New York and Frankfurt areas.

With speeds of 0.34ms, the new AboveNet service will enable investment
firms based at Equinix's LD4 centre to benefit from near-instantaneous access
to city-based trading partners, trading venues and data services. It will
also provide participants located in the city with low-latency access to
Equinix Financial eXchange customers and partners in LD4. The service will
include AboveNet's dedicated fibre and managed wavelength offerings, which
provide a level of visibility to allow firms to make near immediate
adjustments to their electronic trading parameters in response to volatility
in the market - thus ensuring they stay ahead of the trading curve.

"In order to minimise network latency resulting in missed trades and loss
of profits, AboveNet has partnered with Equinix to provide high capacity, low
latency connectivity for today's finance firms," commented Brett Johnson,
AboveNet's vice president of business development. "By joining the Equinix
Financial eXchange community in London, AboveNet is providing a complete
network to enable finance companies to interconnect with trading venues,
market data vendors and technology utilities. This network equips them with
the responsiveness and agility needed to stay ahead in this highly
competitive market," concluded Johnson.

Equinix Financial eXchange is a community of financial market
participants that locate operations within Equinix data centres in order to
benefit from a high-performance, low latency connectivity infrastructure
within a neutral environment. At Equinix, these companies can directly
exchange data within the same physical location with strategic partners,
customers and vendors, thereby optimising their electronic trading
operations. They also have access to a broad range of data centre services
and high-performance network connectivity providers, such as AboveNet.

"We're delighted that AboveNet is joining Equinix Financial eXchange,"
added Eric Schwartz, president of Equinix Europe. "The addition of AboveNet's
low latency services will help provide our growing network of financial
community members the fastest possible connectivity to trading venues and a
critical mass of other financial market participants."

About AboveNet, Inc.

AboveNet, Inc. provides fibre optic connectivity solutions for business
and carriers. Its private optical network delivers key network and IP
services in and between 15 top U.S. metro markets and London. AboveNet's
network is widely used in demanding markets such as financial services,
media, health care and retail.

UK Headquarters: Centurion House, 24 Monument Street, London,
EC3R 8AJ

For more information, please visit: www.above.net

About Equinix

Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data centre services that
ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises,
content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon
Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued
information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange(TM)
(IBX(R)) data centres across 18 markets in North America, Europe and
Asia-Pacific.

Important information about Equinix is routinely posted on the investor
relations page of its website located at http://www.equinix.com. We encourage 
you to check Equinix's website regularly for the most up-to-date information.

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 acquiring,
operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and
delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to
the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a
failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out
or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements
contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new
competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain
funds to repay new or 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.

Equinix and IBX are registered trademarks of Equinix, Inc. International
Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.

AboveNet Contact:

    Suzy Ferguson / Niki Hutchinson
    AboveNet
    +44-(0)20-7802-2626
    abovenet@lewispr.com

    Equinix Contact:
    Jacqui Depares / Lucy Smart
    Johnson King
    +44-(0)20-7401-7968
    Equinixteam@johnsonking.co.uk