Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX) announced an expanded collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA across its global network of data centers, according to a company press release dated June 16, 2026.

The arrangement is intended to provide enterprises with standardized AI infrastructure blueprints and automation tools to simplify deployments. Equinix said the deployments will be based on NVIDIA reference architectures.

Equinix is also partnering with technology services firm Presidio to deploy a Programmable AI Technology Hub, called the P.A.T.H. Lab, inside Equinix data centers. The lab is described as a production-grade environment where enterprises can test, validate, and refine AI infrastructure before committing to a full-scale rollout.

"The success of enterprise AI starts with its physical foundation," said Gordon Mackintosh, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Ecosystems at Equinix. "Our collaboration with Cisco, NVIDIA and Presidio delivers the infrastructure AI workloads demand while giving customers a place to prove it out before they scale."

Cassie Roach, Global Vice President of Cloud and AI Infrastructure Partner Sales at Cisco, said the collaboration illustrates "how a trusted agile partner ecosystem can deliver secure, flexible AI infrastructure quickly to meet customers' needs."

Tim McHugh, VP of Partnerships and Alliances at Presidio, said the P.A.T.H. Lab is designed to show clients "what distributed AI infrastructure actually looks like in practice" rather than asking them to rely solely on vendor assurances.

The P.A.T.H. Lab is built on Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA and is designed to support hybrid workloads spanning public cloud, neocloud, on-premises, and colocation environments.