Leading global interconnection and data center company, Equinix partners with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) to deliver data center and interconnection services to customers in the Middle East through the development of a new network-dense data center that will be located in Barka, near Muscat.
With this new joint venture, the first world-class carrier-neutral hub in Oman will be established. This will provide carriers, content providers and cloud providers with advanced IT infrastructure.
Oman is strategically positioned between Asia, Africa, and Europe, and the new Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center will create a regional interconnection hub with ultra-low latencies between global business markets. Additionally, the new data center will benefit from connectivity to strategic cable landing stations (CLS) and subsea cable systems that terminate directly inside the facility. It will also benefit from the investments by Omantel in multiple strategic subsea cable systems throughout the region and world. This subsea cable connectivity will provide customers with significant cost savings and an increase in performance and security.
Based on demand and requirements, customers in the GCC and wider Mena region can also leverage other Equinix data centers in the region for dual access to content providers, allowing carriers, content providers, and cloud providers to further build resilience in designing their IT and network infrastructure.