Ashburn Data Center
Located just seven miles from Washington, DC, our Ashburn data center offers customers access to one of the top three peering exchanges and the largest peering exchange in the U.S. East Coast. With a high concentration of network and cloud service providers, customers in Ashburn can benefit from low-latency direct connections to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.
Our Ashburn data center features redundant power and cooling, as well as multi-factor security. With access to multiple tier 1 providers, we provide our Ashburn customers a range of reliable, low latency connectivity services, including direct access to the Equinix Internet Exchange.
Compliance
- NIST 800-53/FISMA
- SOC 1 Type II
- SOC 2 Type II
- PCI-DSS
- ISO 27001
Security
- Man trap entry
- 24×7 security officers
- Biometric readers
- Fiber vault
- CCTV and recorders
- Motion detection
Power & Cooling
- Block redundant UPS configuration
- N+1 UPS redundancy
- 7 x 2,000 kW diesel generators
- N+1 standby power redundancy
- Air-cooled rooftop units
- N+1 cooling redundancy
Connectivity
- Carrier-agnostic
- Multiple connections
- Fiber, copper, coax cross-connects
- Direct connections to AWS, Google and Azure
- Equinix Metro Connect
- Equinix Internet Exchange™
Looking Glass
Check out our looking glass to perform traces and reverse traces, test ping latency, and more.