Metro Connect Release Notes

Release Notes

Spotlight Videos

Functional Learning Demos

Cross-Release Videos

Equinix Metro Connect allows you to connect to a partner, customer, or one of your own separate deployments at a different IBX facility. Metro Connect services carry other network-based services, such as Internet Exchange or Cloud Exchange between IBXs in certain metros.

Release Date

Metro Connect 2023.3 is available September 2023.

Extensive details about Equinix Metro Connect locations and latency speed are now provided in product documentation.

Important: Equinix Customer Portal and Equinix Marketplace are accessible through a new URL. We recommend updating your bookmarks to portal.equinix.com/ecp/ and portal.equinix.com/mkp/.

Geographic Expansions

Metro Connect is available in additional IBX data centers, including Mumbai, India, and more metro locations in the Americas. For a list of IBX options, see Product Availability and Media Type.

Latency Data and Recommendations

Equinix now publishes round-trip latency data for various Layer 1 and Layer 2 Metro Connect connections. For details and additional notes, refer to these regions:

No videos are available for this release.

These demos describe setup and configuration of features and functionality in a release.

No demos are available for this release.

Title	Duration
Metro Connect Spotlight	5:36 min
Order Metro Connect	4:48 min

Metro Connect 2022.4 is available October 2022.

A guided ordering user interface now enables self-service Metro Connect order placement on the Equinix Customer Portal.

New Guided Ordering Provides Self-Service

This release introduces an intuitive Metro Connect Guided Ordering user interface on the Equinix Customer Portal.

Title	Duration
Metro Connect Spotlight	5:36 min