Equinix has completed the first expansion of its data center in Miami, the recently acquired NAP of the Americas.

The company added 1,093 cabinets and 4MW of power capacity to the 750,000 square foot site, giving it a total of 6,489 cabinets and enough space to welcome hyperscale and large enterprise customers, whose business undoubtedly helped the company reach its dominant position. Earlier this year, according to Synergy, Equinix controlled more than 13 percent of the global colocation market.

Party in the city where the heat is on

In a blog post detailing the expansion, the company’s senior vice president of operations for the Americas, Chris Kimm, said Miami was the “primary US interconnection point from North America to the LATAM and Caribbean (LA&C) markets,” a nod to the fact that hybrid IT solutions make up an ever increasing share of Equinix’s offering.

The 600-customer facility offers connectivity to 130 network carriers, seven NSPs, as well as to landing points for multiple submarine cable systems including Monet and GlobeNet – located in another Equinix data center in Miami, MI3 - and to the rest of its facilities via 38 dark fiber backbones. According to Kimm, the data center carries “the majority of Latin America & Caribbean traffic bound to more than 148 countries in the world.”

“This convergence of telecommunications infrastructure,” he said, “is why global carriers, Internet, cloud and SaaS providers, and leading enterprises call MI1 home to their mission-critical IT infrastructures.”

Equinix acquired NAP of the Americas when it bought 29 Verizon data centers last year, already planning to increase the site’s capacity at the time. The first four floors of the five-story building were already fitted out; the latest expansion occupies a part of the fifth floor, and the company will eventually fill the entire space in the second development phase.