MPEG NATION and Digital Silo Reduce Network Expenses by 60% Through Us

MPEG NATION and Digital Silo Reduce Network Expenses by 60% Through Use of Equinix Bandwidth Purchasing Platform

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

    FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2005--

"Equinix Direct" Enables Providers of Integrated Content Delivery Services to Select from Large Aggregation of Network Services and Providers
    Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, today announced that Zig Zag Corporation, the parent company of Digital Silo Inc. and MPEG NATION, has reduced network operating expenses by more than 60 percent by utilizing the Equinix Direct service at Equinix's Chicago Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) center. The service provides these content focused companies with a flexible, reliable and economic platform for bandwidth purchasing.
    Digital Silo and MPEG NATION are providers of integrated content delivery services that enable consumers and businesses to broadcast digital media and communications to worldwide audiences via the Internet. The companies' videotape-to-Internet video streaming, media encoding, media asset management, integrated web hosting, and consulting services require a content delivery network that ensures the highest levels of operational performance for their users around the world.
    Equinix Direct provides Digital Silo and MPEG NATION with a platform to easily diversify their IP connections to any number of network providers to achieve more reliable performance and significant cost savings. The service provides a one-stop solution to implement the "network insurance" of direct connectivity to multiple networks, avoiding usage minimums and long-term contracts by bandwidth providers. Additionally, Equinix Direct accelerates provisioning times, manages the installation of complex router configurations for each network service provider, and streamlines the administrative challenge of managing multiple invoices from each network service provider.
    By utilizing Equinix Direct, Digital Silo and MPEG NATION have implemented a more streamlined path for the delivery of content to end-users by directly connecting with multiple broadband networks providing access to end-users. This efficient network infrastructure enables the companies to avoid the traditional approach of connecting to network service providers in multiple, disparate locations and over long distances. The streamlined interconnectivity achieved through Equinix Direct has enabled Digital Silo and MPEG NATION to reduce their overall networking costs by more than 60 percent.
    "As our business is predicated upon a fast and reliable customer experience, we have the highest standards for the performance of the content delivery network supporting Digital Silo and MPEG NATION," said Michael A. Wolf, president of Zig Zag Corporation. "Equinix Direct has provided us with a unique platform from which we can directly interact with an aggregation of carriers, ISPs and networks to ensure the highest levels of performance while drastically reducing our overall network costs."

    About Equinix

    Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network services providers. Through the company's 15 Internet Business Exchange(TM) (IBX(R)) centers in five countries, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.

    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 operating IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently-acquired data centers; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay 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. Internet Business Exchange is a trademark of Equinix, Inc.

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CONTACT: K/F Communications, Inc. for Equinix David Fonkalsrud, 415-255-6506 dave@kfcomm.com or For Digital Silo, Inc. and MPEG NATION Lissy Skolnick, 800-609-9193 ext. 707 lissy@digitalsilo.com

KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: ADVERTISING/MARKETING SOFTWARE NETWORKING INTERNET E-COMMERCE PRODUCT SOURCE: Equinix, Inc.

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