Equinix has big data centers around the world for the internet backbone.
Equinix has big data centers around the world for the internet backbone.
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Equinix teams up with Ubisoft’s i3D.net to speed game performance

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Equinix is one of the companies whose datacenters form the backbone of the internet, and it has teamed up with Ubisoft’s i3D.net to speed up game performance.

Paris-based Ubisoft is one of the world’s biggest game publishers with games such as Far Cry 6, and it acquired i3D.net, an infrastructure service provider, in 2019. Equinix will use i3D.net’s low-latency network to help deal with an uptick in gaming usage of the internet.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.