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Teams arrived at Switch and Data Tuesday to begin integration plans<\/a> for the company’s planned $689 million acquisition by Equinix<\/a>.\u00a0Switch and Data plans to file its proxy statement with the SEC by the end of November to give out more information surrounding the transaction for an overall vote expected to take place in the first quarter of next year. In the meantime, both companies are keeping busy,\u00a0issuing a series of news announcements this week.<\/p>\n On Monday, enterprise video solution provider Kontiki announced that Equinix had selected<\/a> their Enterprise Content Delivery Networking (ECDN) solution to deliver video content to every employee’s desktop worldwide.\u00a0 Kontiki<\/a> was deployed in a matter of weeks and will deliver high-quality video for training and employee communications.\u00a0<\/p>\n Equinix Adopts Kontiki<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0On Tuesday Kontiki also debuted the VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal, being demonstrated this week at Streaming Media West 2009 conference in San Jose.\u00a0 The Kontiki VideoCenter<\/a>\u00a0delivers on the promise of “YouTube for the Enterprise” by overcoming the challenges of securing and controlling the communication tool in a way that is consistent with company policies and culture.\u00a0 The Kontiki VideoCenter will be generally available in February 2010.<\/p>\n Equinix (EQIX) announced that FXall will offer connectivity<\/a>\u00a0to its foreign exchange platform within the Equinix New York 4 data center inS ecaucus, NJ.\u00a0FXall<\/a>\u00a0is a leading multibank foreign electronic platform.\u00a0The service will be available to trading companies within the Equinix Financial eXchange<\/a>, allowing them the benefit of directly exchanging data within the same physical location.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond benefitting our current financial community customers, FXall\u2019s presence will hopefully attract new customers to our NY4 center and serve as a spring board for future FXall growth initiatives,\u201d John Knuff, director, Business Development at Equinix.<\/p>\n
\n“As video becomes more ubiquitous throughout our company, we knew that we’d need a complete video infrastructure in place that could grow with our needs,” said Equinix CIO Brian Lillie. “We adopted Kontiki’s video solution portfolio based on ROI, scalability and ease of use.”\u00a0<\/p>\n