Case Study: NAVER Cloud achieves global expansion and 20-fold bandwidth growth with Equinix

How Equinix® Enabled Naver Cloud's Global Expansion and Customer Reach

NAVER Cloud, South Korea’s leading IT infrastructure and public cloud provider, saw rapid growth after launching NAVER Cloud Platform in 2017—doubling customers annually and expanding to 184 services. To serve an increasingly global customer base and support hybrid cloud needs, the company needed to distribute infrastructure to reduce latency, ensure high network redundancy and uptime, and accelerate time-to-market for industry-specific cloud offerings.

NAVER Cloud partnered with Equinix, deploying core and edge infrastructure in Equinix IBX data centers and using Equinix Fabric and Internet Exchange for fast, on‑demand connectivity to multiple CSPs and NSPs. The move enabled quicker global rollouts, supported hybrid solutions, and delivered measurable gains: a 20-fold increase in average network bandwidth usage, deployment across 8 IBX locations with 100+ cross connects, faster service launches (months vs years), improved uptime and profitability, and stronger positioning for global expansion.

NAVER Cloud

RaeJoon Jung

Director of Asia Pacific