Upgrades at AMS-IX result in 85% power reduction
AMS-IX NEWS
Ruben van den Brink
CTO
11 August 2023
AMS-IX, the world leading Internet Exchange, announces today that they have successfully introduced new customer facing switches at Equinix AM5, one of its data center locations in Amsterdam. Due to the upgrades, the platform at AM5 now has increased port capacity, and power consumption at Equinix AM5 has been reduced by a significant 85%.
Photo: a celebrating engineering team
The MLX switches at Equinix AM5, which were replaced, had been in operation for about twelve years. It is expected that the new Juniper switches will have a similar lifespan.
AMS-IX plans to equip all its locations with measuring equipment to determine the exact power consumption of each location. Equinix AM5 is the first location where this has been implemented.
"It is always challenging to predict how much energy you will save by introducing a new technology platform, but this result exceeded our expectations," says Ruben van den Brink, CTO of AMS-IX. "We want to give sustainability a more prominent role in our decision making. In general, the industry mainly considers what equipment can do, what it costs, and what its safety features are. Power consumption and sustainability should equally be taken into account when we onboard and introduce new technology."
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