REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the global interconnection and data center company, today announced Equinix representatives will be speaking at the upcoming NAB Show 2017, taking place April 24-27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. NAB is the world's largest electronic media show covering the creation, management and delivery of content across all platforms. At the event, Equinix executives will be speaking during the following sessions:

Event Details:



    --  Discovery Communications
       Writes New IT Script-
       Tuesday, April 25 at 12-
       12:30PM in CMIP
       Presentation Theater


      Learn how Discovery
       Communications is
       transforming its digital
       production and distribution
       using an interconnection-
       first strategy from leading
       data center and
       interconnection provider
       Equinix. Learn how this
       approach to IT architecture
       brings value to Discovery's
       business and the workflows
       of the media and
       entertainment industry as
       siloed production and
       distribution workflow
       processes are replaced by
       more collaborative cloud-
       based solutions.


      Speakers:                    Lou Najdzin, senior director of market
                                   development, Equinix

                                   Dave Duvall, senior vice president of
                                   infrastructure services, Discovery
                                   Communications


    --  Connected Media | IP Panel
       Debate 4-Can Software
       Defined Networking
       Technology Improve Media
       Workflows? And What Are the
       Practical First
       Steps?-Tuesday, April 25 at
       12-12:45PM in CMIP Debate
       Theater


      Panelists:                   Paul Mason, lead global solutions
                                   architect, Equinix

                                   Patrick Scully, director and product
                                   line manager, Ciena

                                   Miguel Silva, chief operations officer,
                                   Vimond Media Solutions

                                   Stavros Hilaris, vice president Media
                                   and Technology Development, PCCW
                                   Global

                                   Benoit Robert, head of Strategy and
                                   Marketing, Kontron


    --  Lessons from the Front
       Lines-Tuesday, April 25 at
       4:35-5:15PM in N262/N264

      A panel of cutting-edge
       technologists will delve
       into how major media
       companies are using the
       Cloud to lower costs and
       increase efficiencies for
       their customers. The
       discussion will include why
       they are moving their
       processes to the Cloud,
       challenges they have
       overcome, business
       efficiencies, operational
       impacts and perspectives
       they can share for someone
       considering transitioning
       to a virtualized
       infrastructure.



      Moderator:                   Dave Ginsberg, principal consultant,
                                   Integrated Media Technologies


      Panelists:                   Brian Lillie, chief customer officer &
                                   EVP of technology services, Equinix

                                   Chris Fetner, director of global media
                                   engineering and partnerships, Netflix

                                   Callum Hughes, senior solutions
                                   architect, Amazon Studios

                                   Aaron Lovell, head of Post Production,
                                   Amazon Studios

                                   Thomas Stilling, vice president, Global
                                   Enterprise Operations, 20th Century
                                   Fox

                                   Dave Suggs, executive director,
                                   Technical Solutions Architecture and
                                   Digital Media Engineering, Warner
                                   Bros.

Additional Information
Equinix will be exhibiting at booth # SU10102CM located at Upper South Hall. For information on Equinix's work with the media and entertainment industry, please visit: http://www.equinix.com/industries/media-entertainment/.

About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) connects the world's leading businesses to their customers, employees and partners inside the most interconnected data centers. In 41 markets worldwide, Equinix is where companies come together to realize new opportunities and accelerate their business, IT and cloud strategies. http://www.equinix.com/.

Forward Looking Statements

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 acquiring, operating and constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time; competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay new or 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.

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