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The new DE-CIX self-service portal

Four challenges for connected cars in practice

New edge routers at DE-CIX Frankfurt

18 January 2022
The new DE-CIX self-service portal
Back in July, we launched our new portal for customers and partners and, since then, our team has worked hard to improve how you can manage your interconnection services and on bringing new services onto the portal. Last week, we deactivated the legacy portal, and the new self-service portal is now...
13 January 2022
Four challenges for connected cars in practice
There is currently a lot of talk about connected cars and autonomous driving. But for them to actually succeed in reality, there are some prerequisites: In the future, automakers must see themselves as digital companies and the necessary infrastructures must be expanded. Of course, data protection ...
6 January 2022
New edge routers at DE-CIX Frankfurt
We are upgrading the edge routers at DE-CIX Frankfurt to new Nokia 7750 SR-14 models – equipping our Internet Exchange for the future era of 800-Gigabit Ethernet (GE). Next generation hardware DE-CIX and Nokia have a longstanding relationship, encompassing joint R&D efforts and ...
4 January 2022
Top strategic technology trends for 2022 – report from Gartner research
The past year and a half have accelerated digitalization and triggered faster IT change – a pace that many think will only increase. The business priorities are clear: They want growth, digitalization, and efficiency to rebuild the revenue they lost during the pandemic and return to growth. The ...
17 December 2021
DE-CIX holiday greetings 2021
Anyone else have the feeling that we just said goodbye to 2020 and now 2021 is coming to an end? At DE-CIX it was a busy year as we continued bringing interconnection services as close to people and businesses as possible, everywhere. Watch our holiday greetings in the video below, where Ivo also ...
16 December 2021
IX-API gains momentum as partners build an IX-API ecosystem
Last month, the IX-API initiators DE-CIX, AMS-IX and LINX organised a virtual consultation workshop for other global Internet Exchange Points (IXPs,) member networks, and customers. The goal of the workshop was to get feedback from the community for new features for a version 3.0 of IX-API ...
14 December 2021
Peering Manager – automate your peering workflow
Peering Manager is an open-source BGP session management solution that allows you to track, maintain, and configure BGP sessions from a centralized management point instead of the usual manual provisioning. We spoke to Guillaume Mazoyer, Backbone Network Engineer & OpenSource Software Developer...
9 December 2021
Improving network security
DE-CIX has taken another important step to improve network security – this time in India. DE-CIX India is the first Internet Exchange in India to implement IRR (Internet Routing Registries) filtering to prevent the propagation of incorrect routing information – a major cause of many incidents. IRR ...
7 December 2021
DE-CIX Malaysia wins at the APAC cloud & data center awards
DE-CIX Malaysia has received an award in the Internet Exchange Expansion & Innovation category at the W.Media’s inaugural APAC cloud & data center awards. The award ceremony was held end of November in Singapore. There are various categories for the awards and the judges were looking for ...
1 December 2021
DE-CIX expands to the Nordics
We are excited to announce that we are expanding our interconnection ecosystem to northern Europe by opening Internet Exchanges in Norway, Denmark, and Finland. The Nordics are one of world’s most highly developed digital markets and there has been significant growth in data center investments in ...
30 November 2021
DE-CIX Richmond is ready for service
We are happy to announce that DE-CIX Richmond is ready for service. Through interconnection hub in Virginia, on the east coast of the US, the market’s existing community-led Internet Exchange, RVA-IX | Richmond Virginia Internet Exchange has been integrated into our interconnection ecosystem. ...
25 November 2021
DE-CIX India: The fastest growing interconnection platform
DE-CIX India has been named as the fastest-growing interconnection platform by the Global Achievers Awards 2021. The annual award was presented by the Indian Achievers’ Forum. This platform which engages in developing and sharing ideas, opinions and knowledge on the key issues around social and ...
23 November 2021
Infographic: The state of enterprise interconnection
Earlier this year we conducted a survey of 400 enterprises in Germany and the US to find out how they are connected to business-critical software and services. The survey revealed that enterprises across different sectors are indeed searching for new solutions for their increasing connectivity need...
16 November 2021
Three ways to protect your network from vulnerabilities
Networks and enterprises have increasing interest in security services for their connectivity needs to ensure low risk levels for their operations. Regardless of the kind of network, all have a basic need for routing security. There are a range of services and measures you can take to shield your ...
2 November 2021
DE-CIX Dallas: Connecting over 100 networks and a new traffic peak
Last week, DE-CIX Dallas crossed the 300 Gigabits per second (Gbps) threshold for the first time. Due to overall traffic developments, we have been expecting this. The bets were on which one, Dallas or Dusseldorf, which have been neck in neck, will cross the 300 Gbps line first. Dallas got there ...
26 October 2021
The Interconnection Academy – supporting new interconnection talent
Together with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona we have taken the first steps to launch a training program to support the creation of talent with advanced interconnection business and engineering skills and knowledge. The agreement between DE-CIX and the UPF was signed on 15 ...
21 October 2021
The best Internet Exchange: DE-CIX wins at the Global Carrier Awards 2021
The Global Carrier awards were held last night as part of the Capacity Europe 2021 event. And we are happy to announce that for the 6th time, we have won the Best Internet Exchange award. Thank you to our partners, customers, and the DE-CIX team We would like to thank our customers and partners for...