All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. (ANA) is redesigning its digital infrastructure with Equinix Fabric as it prepares for a sharp increase in data and demand for faster digital services.
Equinix Inc., a digital infrastructure company, recently announced that ANA has built a centralized cloud network hub to support key services, including reservations, boarding, customer communications, and airline operations.
ANA expects global data volumes to increase tenfold, making its existing network harder and more expensive to expand. The new setup has cut the time needed to provide network resources by about 80%, allowing teams to get infrastructure ready faster for application development and testing.
ANA is also targeting a 30% reduction in its total cost of ownership over five years.
“Rather than continuing to expand our existing network environment, we recognized that implementing network-as-a-service was the most effective path forward,” Jun Nakazato, manager, IT Infrastructure Team, Digital Governance Department, Digital Transformation Division, All Nippon Airways, said. “Equinix Fabric delivers the dynamic foundation we need to scale seamlessly. Equinix serves not merely as a vendor, but as a critical strategic partner in modernizing our global systems and enabling our future growth.”
ANA operates approximately 280 aircraft across more than 200 domestic and international routes. As the airline expands its use of cloud services, connecting each system through traditional dedicated network lines has become increasingly complex and costly.
Equinix Fabric allows ANA to connect to cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud without adding physical network lines for each connection.
For passengers, the change could help ANA introduce new digital services faster while improving how its systems work together. The infrastructure also gives the airline a foundation for data analysis, automation, and future AI applications.
“ANA’s deployment of Equinix Fabric demonstrates what’s possible when enterprises evolve how they consume infrastructure, not by ripping and replacing, but by adding intelligence and flexibility on top of a resilient physical infrastructure,” said Kuniko Ogawa, managing director, Japan, Equinix.