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Service Provider On-Boarding

The Service Provider On-Boarding sections details the requirements and steps for becoming a service provider onEquinix Fabric.

Equinix Fabric Service Providers enjoy several benefits including:

Why Become a Service Provider on Equinix Fabric​

Equinix Fabric provides new ways to market your services.

  • Service providers can be discovered on Equinix online marketplaces.
  • Service can be found in the Service Provider search tool on Equinix.com.
  • Service is accessible to other providers, partners and tools that offer services over Equinix Fabric.
  • Opens access to a vast ecosystem of potential customers.

Equinix Fabric provides low Opex/No Capex.

  • Customer can connect to you from any Equinix metro or IBX, regardless of where their physical assets reside, eliminating the need for alternative inter-metro or inter-region options for connectivity.
  • Customers make requests to connect to your services over Fabric and are billed for the connection as the initiator of a connection request.
  • Total cost of ownership (TCO) is minimal.
  • As compared to a physical cross-connects, providers can aggregate connections to their services through a single port(s) instead of one per physical cross-connect.

Equinix Fabric offers flexible terms.

  • Equinix Fabric ports are provisioned with a minimum 12-month term and are billed monthly.
  • Virtual Connections have no term commitment and may be billed to a minimum 24-hour pro-rate.
  • Virtual Connection bandwidth can be upgraded or downgraded on demand, as allowed by the service provider.

Automation.

  • Equinix Fabric offers a full set of APIs to enable automation of the ordering and provisioning process.
  • Enables programmatic access to your services from any Equinix location.
  • Automation opens a number of additional use cases when services are available on-demand from any Equinix Data Center.

Equinix Fabric Ecosystem​

Equinix is a global leader in interconnection because of our vast ecosystem of service providers. Service providers include cloud service providers (CSPs), network service providers (NSPs), security providers, communications providers, and many others.

Basic Service Provider Requirements​

Before becoming an Equinix Fabric service provider, you must meet a few base requirements:

  • You must have at least one .1q or QinQ Equinix Fabric port that is physically connected to your Equinix point of presence (PoP). Alternatively, you could enable connectivity to a virtual device or router if you do not have physical availability.

  • You must create an Equinix Fabric Service Profile to define your service offer.

  • You must be able to accept an EVPL (VLAN-based) connection to your offered service.

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    EPL is also available but does not allow you to aggregate connections to your service.

The new service provider on-boarding process has five stages:

  1. Define – Determine the services you want to offer over Fabric and in what locations these services will be offered. Determine any initial costs and how best to maximize your investment. See Define Your Services.
  2. Design – Clearly define the process for connection to your service, making the process simple and automated where possible for your customers. See Design Your Solution.
  3. Set Up and Test – Order your ports, create your service profile, update your company profile, and test your end-to-end service flow. See Set Up and Test Your Services.
  4. Support – Fill out and submit the Service Provider Readiness Checklist, submit support tickets as needed, and manage and monitor your ports. See Support.
  5. Go to Market / Launch – Share the new opportunities you’ve created by becoming a Service Provider on Equinix Fabric with your internal teams, partners, and customers. See Go to Market / Launch.