Eqiad cluster

Wikimedia infrastructure
	Data centres and PoPs Eqiad cluster‎ (Ashburn, USA); Codfw cluster‎ (Dallas, USA); Esams cluster‎ (Amsterdam, NL); Eqsin cluster (Singapore, SG); Ulsfo cluster‎ (San Francisco, USA); Networking HTTP Caching MediaWiki Media Logs Search edit

Eqiad (pronounced eh-key-add, or the Ashburn DC) is located at the Equinix data center in Ashburn, Virginia, United States.

Wikimedia server rack in the Equinix data center.

Name

"eq" comes from Equinix. "IAD" is the airport code of Washington Dulles International Airport.

Core services.