Zenlayer, the distributed cloud for AI, today announced it has been named the Global Partner of the Year by Equinix for the second consecutive year, recognizing the company’s continued leadership in advancing innovative digital infrastructure that help customers future-proof their AI transformation.

The award highlights Zenlayer’s expanding collaboration with Equinix across global deployment, Equinix Fabric^® integrated solutions, and strategic AI-driven initiatives to support the growing demand for distributed AI infrastructure worldwide.

“Zenlayer stood out this year for its industry leadership and meaningful contributions to the Equinix partner ecosystem,” said Gordon Mackintosh, SVP of Global Partner Sales and Programs at Equinix. “Our collaboration went far beyond technical integration thanks to increasingly strong executive alignment and joint go-to-market execution, helping customers scale and interconnect their AI infrastructure across the globe.”

Zenlayer delivers a robust AI infrastructure platform spanning over 110 metros across six continents, with deployment at Equinix in over 30 metros globally. Over the past year, the collaboration has supported multiple large-scale AI deployments across Southeast Asia, Europe and Americas, pairing Equinix’s industry-leading facilities with Zenlayer’s deep expertise in global connectivity and custom edge solutions.

“We are honored to receive this recognition for two years in a row,” said Joe Zhu, Founder & CEO of Zenlayer. “AI is reshaping how digital infrastructure is built and deployed globally. Together with Equinix, we are helping enterprises accelerate AI adoption by bringing infrastructure closer to users with the performance, agility, and scalability future AI applications require.”

As a leading provider of distributed AI infrastructure, Zenlayer has now surpassed 100MW in global deployment capacity, with nearly 200 edge nodes fully interconnected through its high-speed backbone Fabric. Combined with extensive experience delivering end-to-end infrastructure services spanning deployment, connectivity, operations, and ongoing support, Zenlayer is well positioned to support large-scale AI training and inference workloads worldwide.

Looking ahead, planned deeper integration between Zenlayer Fabric and Equinix Fabric^® will further simplify global connectivity for AI, allowing enterprises to seamlessly interconnect AI clusters, clouds, carriers, and edge environments both within and beyond traditional data center footprints. Together, the two solutions are shaping the digital highway that will power the future AI ecosystem.

About Zenlayer

Zenlayer is the distributed cloud for AI that powers AI experiences through distributed inference and global connectivity. Businesses utilize Zenlayer’s on-demand compute and networking to deploy and run applications at the edge. With approximately 300 edge nodes across 50 countries, 200+ Tbps of network capacity, and 10,000+ direct cloud and network connections, Zenlayer helps businesses reach 85% of the internet population within 25 ms.

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