Manchester data centres and colocation

Equinix Manchester data centres

Manchester is one of Europe’s fastest growing digital and technology hubs. With an influx of infrastructure and business investment, Manchester is becoming one of the UK’s most prominent centres of creative, digital and media companies.

As the UK’s second largest city, Manchester occupies a key strategic location in the centre of the country, at the intersection of the UK’s highly resilient “figure-of-eight” fibre optic network. The city also features dense telecommunication connectivity to major UK cities, the U.S. and Europe. Combined, these factors make Manchester an ideal data centre hub.

The Equinix data centres are located proximate to MediaCityUK, the largest purpose-built creative, digital and technology community in Europe.

Equinix hosts major Cloud Service Providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Oracle and Google Cloud, offering customers direct connectivity which bypasses the Internet for their multi and hybrid cloud strategies.

Manchester IBX® benefits

Our Manchester data centres offer:

• A choice of colocation and disaster recovery facilities – with 4 densely networked, interlinked buildings with 7,400+ square metres (80,000+ square feet) of scalable technical space.
• Reduce latency, strengthen digital supply chains and improve the customer experience – through leveraging opportunities to interconnect with 275+ deployed customer base which comprises large numbers of:
  • Enterprises,
  • Content and digital media companies
  • Providers of financial services,
  • Cloud services, IT services, and Internet services providers
• Optimise network connectivity and performance – with the ability to select the most appropriate network service provider from the 70+ deployed within Equinix Manchester IBXs
• Achieve improved internet service provision – through direct connectivity to IX Manchester and the LINX
• Our Manchester IBXs offer:
  • leading operational resiliency
  • world-class security
  • More than 100 dedicated business continuity trading room positions
• MA1 is the UK’s most network-dense site outside of London
• MA2 is suitable for network edge performance hub deployments
• MA3 hosts high-density deployments in close proximity to MediaCityUK
• MA4 is suitable for large, high-density, cloud and enterprise deployments
• Significant investment in infrastructure and high-grade fibre cabling
• Low-latency connectivity between the East Coast of the United States and the UK