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Case study: Dubai improves Internet speed and emerges as an international Internet hub

DE-CIX CloudROUTER – interconnection made easy

New DE-CIX as a Service location in Pakistan

28 March 2023
Case study: Dubai improves Internet speed and emerges as an international Internet hub
The rapid growth in the local Internet infrastructure in Dubai over the last decade, including the establishment of the UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX Internet Exchange, has increased the performance of Dubai’s Internet to the highest international standards. Latency has dropped from 200 milliseconds ...
16 March 2023
DE-CIX CloudROUTER – interconnection made easy
We are excited to launch a new service, the DE-CIX CloudROUTER. The DE-CIX CloudROUTER offers a direct and private high performance data exchange between cloud environments. You can route traffic directly between public and/or private clouds and benefit from improved application performance as well...
9 March 2023
New DE-CIX as a Service location in Pakistan
DE-CIX has signed a strategic partnership with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), the largest integrated information communications technology company of Pakistan, to establish an Internet Exchange in Pakistan. The exchange will be housed as a redundant setup in the data centers of ...
2 March 2023
MAPS: trouble free working with Microsoft 365
At the end of January an outage hit users of Microsoft products worldwide, including Teams and Outlook. In Germany alone, there were thousands of incident reports. For most companies, secure and stable use of the Microsoft 365 tools is essential, allowing smooth workflows and the delivery of ...
21 February 2023
New study: The birth of an international Internet hub
Reliable access to digital infrastructure is not simply a convenience for our personal lives or an enabler of business success, but vitally important for the development of cities and regions. Our new study “The birth of an international Internet hub: a playbook for developing a digital society” ...
13 February 2023
Enabling on-demand connectivity with IX-API
In today’s digital economy, organizations are increasingly transforming their business models and expanding into new markets to remain competitive. Securing interconnectivity around the world is critical in achieving business goals. However, for the uninitiated or inexperienced, the process of ...
7 February 2023
DE-CIX 2022 in numbers
In 2022, the total traffic volume at DE-CIX Internet Exchanges was more 48 exabytes. This is equivalent to the storage capacity of more than 370 million smartphones, each with 128 GB of storage space. The total data throughput increased over 25% from 2021 – back then the volume would only have ...
31 January 2023
Top strategic technology trends for 2023 – a report from Gartner® research
The past few years have changed the way of working. The economic turbulence is adding further pressure to find new forms of efficiency and pioneer new business models. This affects all companies, from small to large enterprises. Everyone is feeling the pressure. Optimize, scale, and pioneer Our ...
24 January 2023
2022 traffic round-up
In 2022 a total of 48 exabytes of data traffic was exchanged at our Internet Exchanges. This also resulted in new peaks, including Madrid joining the 1 Terabit club. DE-CIX Frankfurt 14.4 Tbps Our flagship exchange, DE-CIX Frankfurt, hit one record after another in 2022. In February we recorded 11 ...
17 January 2023
48 exabytes of data traffic
2022 was another year that DE-CIX Internet Exchanges saw a significant increase in data traffic. Our measurements show a total of more than 48 exabytes (EB) of data exchanged at our exchanges across the world – an increase of over 25% from 2021. 370 million smartphones worth of data 48 EB is the ...
10 January 2023
DE-CIX is a Microsoft ExpressRoute connectivity provider
DE-CIX has long been a Microsoft partner and we offer private, secure connectivity to Microsoft Azure services from all major DE-CIX locations globally. Additionally, our global infrastructure allows customers to extend their reach to Microsoft Azure regions and ExpressRoute locations worldwide, ...
3 January 2023
Tech trends 2023
Dr. Thomas King, CTO at DE-CIX, has picked five trends that will drive the evolution of technology and the interconnection business in 2023. 1. Cloud to cloud communication As concerns about cloud concentration risk grow, more businesses are adopting a multi-cloud strategy. A multi-cloud strategy n...
20 December 2022
Goodbye 2022 – what a year at DE-CIX
2022, what a year. So much happened at DE-CIX and we are excited about the new challenges in 2023. But first let us share just a few of our 2022 highlights with you: DE-CIX Phoenix went live In March, the fifth Internet Exchange in North America went live, expanding our reach to new markets in the ...
15 December 2022
Microsoft Azure Peering Service now available through partners – no need for ASN
The Microsoft Azure Peering Service offers highly reliable and optimized Internet connectivity to Microsoft's cloud services, such as Microsoft 365. By offering the shortest network path from your premises to the nearest Microsoft edge PoP instead of bouncing through many hops in the Internet, the ...
8 December 2022
Peering LAN 2.0 – EVPN rollout successfully completed
We have successfully completed EVPN rollout at our locations where we run the DE-CIX Apollon platform (all locations except India). DE-CIX is the first Internet Exchange operator using EVPN and its associated Proxy ARP/NDP function. This solution removes unnecessary network “noise” which can cause ...
30 November 2022
GlobePEER route service upgrade
The GlobePEER route service facilitates the exchange of BGP announcements between peers at DE-CIX and simplifies joining our Internet Exchanges, as customers only need to set up a session to our route servers to exchange traffic with many other peers. The route servers are an essential part of our ...
29 November 2022
UAE-IX celebrates 10th birthday
UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX celebrated its 10th birthday last week during our annual Peering workshop event. Starting from an empty data center, the Internet Exchange today is a global Internet hub bringing together the network operators, content, applications, and cloud services to serve the entire ...