Located on our Ashburn Campus in Virginia, DC5 offers customers access to one of the top three peering exchange markets and the largest peering exchange in the U.S. east coast. It has a high concentration of network and cloud service providers and enables customers to interconnect to other IBXs within the Ashburn campus via the Campus Cross Connect. DC5 offers direct connectivity to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure via Equinix Cloud Exchange™. DC5 is a single-story tilt-up steel concrete slab on grade building with a reflective roof, LEDs and optimized lighting controls. It is located seven miles from Dulles International Airport (IAD) and 33 miles from Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA).

Washington DC colocation services at DC5 by Equinix represent some of the largest Internet exchange points in the world with several locations LEED and SSAE16 SOC-1 Type II certified.