Australian operator Telstra deepened its integration with Equinix to give its enterprise customers direct connections to more than 100 additional cloud service providers and expand its reach into North America and Europe.

Telstra’s new API integration with Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric (ECX Fabric) — Equinix’s software-defined interconnection platform — means its customers can directly connect to more than 170 service providers in 38 global markets. This includes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Google Cloud Platform.

By interconnecting Telstra Programmable Network (TPN) — this is the operator’s SDN platform — to ECX Fabric, Telstra increased the number of cloud service providers its customers can access within a few minutes from 60 to more than 170. Equinix claims that a single integration with its fabric gives Telstra customers faster connectivity compared to integrating directly with individual cloud providers.

Telstra is also using ECX Fabric to expand the geographical reach of its SDN platform into new markets in North America and Europe. This will increase the total number of accessible markets from eight to 38.

The Telstra integration is the latest in a series of announcements as Equinix grows it global interconnection empire — and pushes it to the edge.

The colocation giant recently paid $175 million to acquire three Axtel data centers in Mexico. It now owns more than 200 data centers in 55 markets globally.

And just yesterday Equinix said it reached a deal to buy bare-metal cloud startup Packet in a move that will expand Equinix’s edge computing capabilities.