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Peering LANs 2.0 – EVPN rollout on the DE-CIX Apollon platform

DE-CIX wins at the Adigital Awards for Madrid

The top 5 trends in enterprise networking and why they matter: A Gartner® trend insight report

29 September 2022
Peering LANs 2.0 – EVPN rollout on the DE-CIX Apollon platform
Q&A With Dr Thomas King, CTO at DE-CIX We are currently working on implementing EVPN at all our locations where we run the DE-CIX Apollon platform (all locations except India). This upgrade will make our peering LANs even more robust and safer for our customers. EVPN stands for “...
27 September 2022
DE-CIX wins at the Adigital Awards for Madrid
Last week, Adigital, the Spanish Digital Economy Association, presented Adigital Awards recognizing the work and efforts of entities and initiatives that strive to improve Spanish economy and society through technology. The awards are part of a OutThink 2030 program which aims to create a more...
22 September 2022
The top 5 trends in enterprise networking and why they matter: A Gartner® trend insight report
Enterprise network demands are growing, and Gartner estimates that this year the global annual network spending will increase over six percent to $79.04 billion. Enterprise networking innovations can help organizations improve operations – but with budget limitations, the challenge for ...
13 September 2022
New partnerships to extend DE-CIX’s reach throughout Central Europe
DE-CIX is excited to announce new partnerships with European Internet Exchange operators: BIX.BG in Sofia, Bulgaria, NIX.CZ in Prague, Czech Republic, Atman in Warsaw, Poland, and InterLAN-IX in Bucharest, Romania. One-stop-shop availability in further four key markets The agreements enable each ...
8 September 2022
DE-CIX Madrid reaches 1Tbps
On Tuesday night, DE-CIX Madrid recorded a new traffic peak of 1 Terabit per second (Tbps). This milestone coincided with the first day of the Champions League, with the matches Real Madrid vs. Celtic and Sevilla vs. Manchester City. 140% increase in data throughput There has been a clear upward ...
1 September 2022
Big changes at DE-CIX
There are some big organizational changes happening at DE-CIX: After more than 25 years as CEO and five years as Chair of the DE-CIX Group AG Board, Harald A. Summa is stepping down to take a seat on the DE-CIX Supervisory Board. Ivo Ivanov, who has until now been a member of the DE-CIX Group AG ...
30 August 2022
New IDC study: Connectivity-driven business in Germany
Many day-to-day operations of digital organizations depends on data. The ability to create a holistic overview at any time and to quickly react to changes is extremely important and requires relevant data from across the organization and from other reliable channels. Interconnection provides the ...
25 August 2022
Summer peaks at DE-CIX Internet Exchanges
It might be the core season for holidays in northern hemisphere, but the data throughput at DE-CIX Internet Exchanges keeps on growing. Typically, it is odd to see traffic spikes in the middle of summer, when people tend to be more outdoorsy. But in addition to the entertainment side of Internet us...
18 August 2022
Redundant, neutral, and diverse digital infrastructure – how to build a resilient digital enterprise
Resilience is essential for keeping data traffic safe and flowing. It refers to the ability to maintain acceptable service levels in the case of a disruption to business operations, critical processes, or your digital infrastructure. And for digital business, high availability of its connectivity ...
9 August 2022
The problem with cloud concentration
The cloud has become essential to the smooth running of any modern business. In addition to speed and scalability, it enables an increasingly mobile workforce to access data and resources wherever they are located. Security might have been one of the major concerns previously, but now most ...
2 August 2022
How does the Internet work?
Being at the “heart” of the Internet, we often get the question about how the Internet works (Hi Mum!). So here is a shortish and simple answer to this question. Network of networks The Googles, Facebooks, and telecom companies of the world each operate their own computer networks – much like ...
26 July 2022
Harald A. Summa reelected as Chairperson of the Organization Member Advisory Council
After being elected as one of three Co-Chairs of the Organization Member Advisory Council (OMAC) of the Internet Society in 2020, Harald A. Summa, DE-CIX's CEO, has been reelected for a 24-month term as Chairperson. The Internet Society Organization Member Advisory Council serves as ...
26 July 2022
Finance sector: Gaining the agility of cloud-native organizations
To be fit for the modern digital world and to meet the demands of increasingly tech-savvy customers, financial service providers need to develop new business models, activate new revenue streams beyond the standard set of financial services, and reduce costs. In simple terms, they need to gain the ...
25 July 2022
Three new DirectCLOUD partners
We are happy to announce that we have three new DirectCLOUD partners: Leaseweb, nexiu, and Retarus. Leaseweb is a global Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider, offering services including private- & hybrid-cloud, colocation, content delivery network, cyber security services, and dedicated server...
19 July 2022
Remote-triggered Blackholing vs Blackholing Advanced
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming more and more harmful and not only do the targets of such attacks themselves suffer, but the whole infrastructure of a network operator can also be affected. The DE-CIX Blackholing feature to mitigate DDoS attacks has been very popular and ...
12 July 2022
Exclusive supplier for universal transceivers
FLEXOPTIX, a leading technology provider for optical components, is DE-CIX’s exclusive supplier of universal transceivers. The universal transceivers have been designed to reliably convert electrical signals into high-speed optical data communication. This ensures the processing and forwarding of i...
5 July 2022
DE-CIX regional updates 2021
DE-CIX’s Annual Report 2021 was published last month and you can download it here. For a quick read through, here is a recap of regional updates. Germany In Germany, the historical home turf of DE-CIX, connected networks at our largest Internet Exchange DE-CIX Frankfurt amounted to close to 1100, ...