DE-CIX, the central, international Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main (www.de-cix.net) celebrates its 15th anniversary in April 2010.

What started 15 years ago with the union of three Internet Service Providers, is today the largest Internet Exchange in the world. In April 1995, the German Internet enterprises EUnet Deutschland, NTG/Xlink, and MAZ connected their networks to form the „German Commercial Internet Exchange, “ DE-CIX.  With their market share of about 90 percent together, the Internet pioneers linked almost all Internet connections in Germany, however, at the modest dimensions possible in 1995: all three were connected to the first DE-CIX with a bandwidth of 2 Megabits per second each. 

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