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Digital is reshaping the global trade industry with new speed, insight and reach. In this guest blog from Equinix’s Sara Baack, she explains how the Global Interconnection Index, a market study published by Equinix, projects that global trade of digital products and services will be a key driver of interconnection demand in the coming years.
An introduction from CommScope's Christy Moossy: Digital trading is rapidly growing, creating a need to connect “global commerce centers via high-speed fiber optic cable,” according to Equinix. Sara Baack, Chief Marketing Officer, from Equinix, describes the fabric of digital trade and gives examples of the future of digital trade. This supports CommScope’s strategy to help data centers transform and adapt with High Speed Migration solutions.
(Note: The following has been submitted as a guest post to CommScope Blogs by Sara Baack, Chief Marketing Officer, for Equinix. It was originally posted as an Equinix blog. Opinions and comments provided in this guest post, as with all posts to CommScope Blogs, are that of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of CommScope.)
From the Silk Road to the Spice Route, trade routes have linked continents, spanned the oceans and reshaped the world over water and air, rail and highway. But the newest trade routes travel on a different medium, and involve a fiber that has nothing to do with silk.
Today’s hottest trade routes are digital, and they are connecting global commerce centers via high-speed fiber optic cable. They regularly traverse land and sea carrying everything from the latest video streaming sensations to the mission-critical cloud services that digital businesses can’t exist without. The data flows at the heart of this digital trade barely existed 15 years ago. But trade in digital services has more than doubled in the past decade, and is now about 50 percent of total services exports, according to McKinsey’s “Digital Globalization Report.”
CLICK TO TWEET: Sara Baack of Equinix blogs about how interconnection allows companies to be dispersed and global, rather being centralized and slow.
As digital trade grows, the need for Interconnection – defined as private traffic exchange between businesses – is growing with it. In fact, The Global Interconnection Index, a new market study published by Equinix, projects that global trade of digital products and services will be a key driver of Interconnection demand in the coming years. Why? As data flows and transactions increase between customers, partners, and employees, more and more Interconnection will be needed to directly link these players with each other and with digital solutions in multiple global locations. The best-effort connectivity of the public internet won’t be enough, with its greater congestion and security risks. To be profitable, digital trade needs Interconnection.
The broad fabric of digital trade
Like the original trade routes, data flows in the digital economy will carry a wide a range of products and services. Some of today’s most in-demand digital products/services include:
Protecting the future of digital trade
Trade on the Silk Road and Amber Road wouldn’t have flourished without, well, the roads! Similarly, there are some essential capabilities that enable and optimize the data flows at the core of digital trade, including:
Interconnection is key to leveraging cloud and network services, and enabling the rich collaboration between industries, regions, and partners that’s essential to compete today. It allows companies to be dispersed and global, rather being centralized and slow. That makes them dynamic, not static, and free to go where the digital trade winds blow.
Check out the Global Interconnection Index for insight into what’s happening now with Interconnection, and what’s ahead. It can help you compete and grow as digital trade continues to redefine global commerce.