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Top strategic technology trends for 2023 – a report from Gartner® research

2022 traffic round-up

48 exabytes of data traffic

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 ...
22 November 2022
Enterprise grade interconnection for connectivity-driven businesses
IDC interview with Dr Thomas King, CTO, DE-CIX Increasingly, effective and reliable networking is becoming a vital enabler for modern business models. For the study “Enterprise networks 2022: Connectivity-driven business in Germany”, IDC surveyed organizations about enterprise networking. The ...
15 November 2022
How to set-up a closed user group
Many day-to-day operations of all kinds of organizations depend on data, and often these resources are outside the organization’s core network. For example, they could be in a public cloud or shared with partners, and accessed via the Internet. In this case, the organization has no control over the...
8 November 2022
DE-CIX Barcelona celebrates its first birthday with a new partnership
A year ago, DE-CIX Barcelona opened for business. Today, the Internet Exchange connects a mix of 40 networks including network operators (carriers), Internet service providers (ISPs), content providers, and enterprises from Catalonia and Andorra, as well as global players such as Microsoft and ...
2 November 2022
New partnership in the Philippines – welcome DE-CIX Manila
DE-CIX and GetaFIX, the Philippines’ largest neutral Internet Exchange, have announced a strategic partnership that will connect the Philippines to DE-CIX’s Southeast Asian distributed interconnection ecosystem. Region wide interconnection Beyond Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, the Philippines is ...
27 October 2022
10 years of UAE-IX – making the Middle East shine
Q&A with Marco Brandstaetter, Regional Director Middle East & South Asia UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. It was DE-CIX’s very first Internet Exchange outside of Germany and the start to our international expansion. Located in Dubai, UAE-IX is the l...
20 October 2022
The best Internet Exchange provider – DE-CIX wins at Global Carrier Awards 2022
We are happy to announce that we have been honored for the seventh time at the Capacity Awards as the Best Internet Exchange provider! The award was presented last night at the Global Carrier Awards ceremony during Capacity Europe 2022, Europe’s largest annual meeting for the global carrier ...
18 October 2022
Big just got bigger: DE-CIX implements 800 GE technology
Back in 2019, we were the first Internet Exchange to offer 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) access technology. Since then, the demand for bandwidth has grown exponentially, so we are excited to announce that with our new Nokia line cards, we are introducing 800 GE access technology. The turbo boost is ...