Latest news

DE-CIX expands to the Nordics

DE-CIX Richmond is ready for service

DE-CIX India: The fastest growing interconnection platform

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...
19 October 2021
DE-CIX Barcelona is ready for service
Our newest Internet Exchange in Europe DE-CIX Barcelona is ready for service, and the first customers are already connected. The new interconnection hub increases the digitalization and networking capabilities in the region – benefiting both companies and end users. Together with our Internet ...
14 October 2021
DE-CIX Hamburg hardware upgrade
In August we changed over to a new /23 network at DE-CIX Hamburg. Now it was time for a new hardware, and we replaced a Nokia SR12 with a new Nokia SR2s, capable of supporting 400GE access ports for customers. Our previous Nokia router was nearly full, and to be able to connect new customers and ...
7 October 2021
New case study: How dmTech improved their cloud connectivity
dm-drogerie markt is Germany’s biggest drugstore chain with over 41,000 employees and more than 2,000 stores. dmTech, the IT subsidiary of dm-drogerie markt, is pursuing a hybrid multicloud strategy and is increasingly shifting IT workloads to different cloud platforms. As online business is ...
5 October 2021
New video: Introduction to Peering Manager
Peering manager is an open-source BGP session management solution which allows you to track, maintain, and configure BGP sessions from a centralized management point instead of the usual manual provisioning. The tool is freely available and runs on any Linux-based server. Make your life as peering ...
30 September 2021
First PoP for DE-CIX Phoenix
Last month, we announced our fifth exchange in North America – DE-CIX Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona (AZ) is our western-most location, fortifying connectivity across the United States while enhancing gateway access between North America, South America, and Europe. A strategic point of presence at ...
27 September 2021
Blackholing Advanced – new rules available
Our Blackholing Advanced service revolutionizes the defence against Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks directly at an Internet Exchange using individual fine-grained filtering mechanisms. There are multiple rules currently available, and we have just added some new ones. The rules can be ...
23 September 2021
New peaks at DE-CIX Internet Exchanges
During the past couple of months there have been several traffic peaks at our Internet Exchanges. There can be many reasons for the peaks, and we cannot really pinpoint the jumps to any particular event. But having said that, the peaks tend to coincide with big sporting events, new product or ...
17 September 2021
Testing backbone infrastructure with EXFO
As the demand for more data capacity continues to grow, 400G technology is becoming the new gold standard. At DE-CIX, the annual traffic at our Internet Exchanges continues to grow by about 30%, and we are working on upgrading and future-proofing our backbone network with 400G capacity. But with ...
7 September 2021
Survey: Enterprises seeking to upgrade their systems for ongoing digitalization
Enterprises across different sectors are taking decisive action on the digitalization of their internal processes and are searching for better ways to connect to important software and services. This is the main finding of our survey conducted in the enterprise market in Germany and the US. ...