Equinix facilities to help speed up Kontiki

Kontiki will use Equinix’s Internet exchange services to more efficiently operate its grid architecture-based Delivery Management System, the two companies said.

Kontiki’s DMS is one of the industry’s first commercial solutions based on grid architecture, serving more than 1.5 million nodes. Kontiki will use Equinix’s Internet hubs to enhance its service to connect to a broad range of networks and bring content as close to the user as possible, avoiding multiple routers and network congestion.

“While grid systems are phenomenal for leveraging multiple computers in multiple locations to reduce storage requirements, somewhere there’s a content provider that needs to distribute this information,” said Jay Adelson, Equinix’s chief technology officer. “Wherever that starting point is, the better connected it is, the more effective the delivery.”

Since Equinix has a wide source of content provider customers using caching or other technologies to push content to the edge, Kontiki is able “over a single set of cross-connects to access 90% of the Internet routing table in one location,” Adelson said. “They’re connecting to at least six different networks in the IBX [Internet Business Exchange], and they’re using this to make their particular application more effective.”