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New case study: Winning as a team

New premium enabled sites for DE-CIX Frankfurt

Reap the benefits of interconnection and custom connectivity

19 May 2022
New case study: Winning as a team
Collaboration between i3D.net and DE-CIX, as the operator of the UAE-IX Internet Exchange in Dubai opened new worlds for online gamers in the Middle East. As one of the most successful hosting platforms for the gaming industry, i3D.net had long recognized the potential of the region. Working in ...
11 May 2022
New premium enabled sites for DE-CIX Frankfurt
We are expanding our presence in Frankfurt with cooperation with data center operator NewTelco. Through the partnership there will be two new premium enabled sites for DE-CIX Frankfurt – one in Kleyerstrasse in Frankfurt and a further one in Karlstein am Main in the Rhine-Main metropolitan region, ...
3 May 2022
Reap the benefits of interconnection and custom connectivity
Interconnection is simply a connection between two or more parties to exchange data, and it is critical to enterprises. Most businesses now rely on platform-based models rather than traditional on-premise systems – they need to assemble solutions using third-party components that share data across ...
26 April 2022
Connectivity Innovator of the Year: DE-CIX wins DataCloud Global Award 2022
After a pause during the Covid-19 pandemic, the DataCloud Global awards ceremony was again held in Monaco last night, as part of the DataCloud Global Congress 2022. We are delighted to report that our DE-CIX as a Service program came first in the newly-created Connectivity Innovator of the Year ...
21 April 2022
Who is winning the data race for the software-defined car?
Today, a car is home to more than 100 million lines of code and produces more than a terabyte of data per day. The value of this data for countless use cases is driving car manufacturers to transform into software developers and platform providers – because whoever moderates the data journey of t...
12 April 2022
AqabaIX powered by DE-CIX – a new DE-CIX as a Service location
We are excited to announce a strategic partnership with Aqaba Digital Hub for future operations of AqabaIX powered by DE-CIX. AqabaIX is a neutral Internet Exchange on the shores of the Red Sea and part of a landmark project for modern digital transformation in Jordan, as well as in the Middle East...
7 April 2022
Coming soon: IRAQ-IXP powered by DE-CIX
Last month, during the Capacity Middle East event, the first neutral Internet Exchange in Iraq, IRAQ-IXP, and DE-CIX signed a strategic partnership to create IRAQ-IXP powered by DE-CIX as part of the DE-CIX as a service program. Unleashing the full potential of local interconnection With a ...
31 March 2022
DE-CIX Phoenix is ready for service
DE-CIX Phoenix is now operational and ready for customers! The Internet Exchange is located the in EdgeConnect and phoenixNAP data centers, with forthcoming availability at the Iron Mountain data center. DE-CIX Phoenix brings data and interconnection services closer to the users on the west coast ...
25 March 2022
DE-CIX launches new Internet Exchange in Leipzig
We are happy to announce a new location in Leipzig, Germany. DE-CIX Leipzig is the first Internet Exchange for the German states of Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia and will be located in the data centers of envia TEL and PŸUR Business. Both operators will also act as resellers for...
23 March 2022
Top resellers 2021: Arelion, Core-Backbone & Türk Telekom International
2021 was a successful year at DE-CIX and a big part of making our interconnection ecosystems grow bigger every year, are our partners. We would like to thank all our partners for the good cooperation in 2021 and a special thank you goes to our top 3 resellers in 2021 – partners who brought ...
9 March 2022
Low latency connection between Brazil and Southern Europe
A year ago, we announced our partnership with EllaLink, the high-capacity and low latency fibre-optic submarine cable directly connecting Latin America and Europe. We are excited to tell you that we now provide access for EllaLink customers to the largest carrier and data center neutral ...
3 March 2022
Over 500 networks connected to DE-CIX India
DE-CIX India has reached a new milestone of connecting over 500 networks across its four Internet Exchanges in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai. In the past two years more than 400 networks have connected to the platform. In the same timeframe, the traffic has also grown massively with OTT &...
24 February 2022
DE-CIX Chicago now available at Cyxtera’s data centers
DE-CIX Chicago is now available at Cyxtera’s Chicago data center (ORD1) at 350 E. Cermak. The platform will be fully interconnected with the Cyxtera Digital Exchange, a multi-site layer 2 fabric extending access to Cyxtera’s ORD2 and ORD3 data centers. The seamless connectivity from any of the ...
15 February 2022
New services available at DE-CIX Moscow and St. Petersburg
Our customers can now take benefit of more interconnection options: VirtualPNI and DirectCLOUD services are now available at our locations in Moscow and St. Peterburg. You can now connect privately both locally in Russia, as well as remotely to and from Frankfurt, and customers in Russia have ...
8 February 2022
Finance sector: 4 steps to future-proof your connectivity strategy
Digitalization has a huge impact on every sector – including banks and other financial service institutions. The opportunities it offers also bring challenges, and the journey towards digital transformation requires you to take a different approach to managing data and develop an interconnection ...
2 February 2022
Traffic peak roundup
2020 at DE-CIX was a year of peaks and records and last year the global data traffic stabilized at a high level. In 2022 we have already seen new traffic peaks at most of our Internet Exchanges, and here is the cream of the crop. Frankfurt breaks the 11Tbps line Last night DE-CIX Frankfurt reached ...
27 January 2022
DE-CIX 2021 in numbers
After 2020's year of peaks and records, in 2021 the global data traffic stabilized at a high level, with steady growth across the regions. The total traffic volume flowing over DE-CIX Internet Exchanges came to more than 38 exabytes. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of more than 300 ...