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DDoS attacks are omnipresent, and members of Internet exchanges are effected on a daily basis. Industry white papers report that the number and frequency of DDoS attacks are increasing annually: dizzyingly high volumetric attacks peaked at 1.7 Tbps in 2018. Booters are  DDoS-as-a-service offers and...

In September, the second edition of the DE-CIX Madrid Summit took place. More than 100 attendees, experts and decision makers from the Iberian interconnection community, came together in Madrid to get insights into interconnection trends and needs. The insights and discussions were based on ...

We warmly welcome the latest DirectCLOUD partners, noris network and SpaceNet! noris network AG offers tailor-made ICT solutions in the areas of IT outsourcing, cloud services, and network & security. After joining the DirectCLOUD Partner Program and being a certified DirectCLOUD data center ...

As part of our DirectCLOUD Partner Program, we assist ISPs and data centers in bringing cloud connectivity closer to their enterprise customers. Certified DirectCLOUD ISPs and data centers are able to offer their customers the best possible connection to a variety of cloud service providers via ...

DE-CIX was honored at the Global Carrier Awards 2018 for its innovative power and was awarded the prize for the Best Internet Exchange Innovation 2018 for the world’s first-ever patch robot at an IX! Our new patch robot colleague Patchy McPatchbot has been in operation at DE-CIX since ...

DE-CIX New York is growing, we are close to 200 connected networks! Due to the ongoing growth, we have to change to a new IP network. DE-CIX New York’s peering LAN currently uses a /24 netmask which contains 254 IPv4 addresses. Each peering member at DE-CIX New York gets one of these IP addresses, ...

In Frankfurt, the two e-shelter data centers Frankfurt 2 (Hanauer Landstrasse) and Frankfurt 4 (Hattersheim) will become DE-CIX-enabled sites. e-shelter's campus Frankfurt 1, e-shelter's main site in Frankfurt, has been a DE-CIX-enabled site since 2013. Including the two new locations, the DE-CIX ...

After announcing our new exchange in Lisbon last month, we are happy to spread the news that DE-CIX is going East: We have signed an agreement to establish a strategic partnership with MSK-IX. The aim is to directly connect the two Internet Exchanges MSK-IX in Moscow and DE-CIX in Frankfurt.  “We ...

In October 2018, Dr. Thomas King was appointed Chief Technology Officer at DE-CIX. Having been DE-CIX’s Chief Innovation Officer for almost three years, he is now taking over operational responsibilities from Daniel Melzer.   Daniel Melzer was DE-CIX's CTO for almost three years after spending ...

In July, we completed the migration from DE-CIX FRA 7, the former core node at DE-CIX's largest site in Frankfurt, to DE-CIX FRA12, the new core node with the first automated patch robot. In August, we had to clean up and, finally, leave the old place. So while the migrated customers were already ...