DE-CIX offers its customers an API to easily order, configure, and cancel interconnection services. The DE-CIX API is live, ready for service, and the first customers, Epsilon and Interxion, are already using it.
The API supports fully end-to-end automated processes and is based on IX-API, and industry standard developed for provisioning interconnection at Internet Exchanges.
The industry standard was developed by AMS-IX, LINX, and DE-CIX, and introduced to the peering community at the European Peering Forum in Tallinn in September.
How to use the DE-CIX API
If you want to use the DE-CIX API, the following steps are necessary:
- You need to have an API Key and an API Secret to authenticate yourself. To get those, please contact api@de-cix.net
- You will receive and have to accept the “DE-CIX API Terms of use”
- The API endpoint for your API requests is https://api.de-cix.net
- Finally, to learn in more detail how to use the API, please have a look at the getting started section on the IX-API website
The API functionality will soon also be made available in the DE-CIX customer portal.
If you have any questions regarding the DE-CIX API, please contact us at api@de-cix.net.