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At this year’s TechMeeting in Frankfurt on 6 June, we were happy to introduce to our customers Patchy McPatchbot: The first automated patch robot! Patchy was for sure the highlight of our meeting. And the second highlight was: Blockchain. No, just kidding. We talked a lot about the future of ...

In 2018, IDC conducted a study on the rising interconnection needs of different industries. The main results on the capabilites, technical features, and company characteristics rated most important in an interconnection ecosystem can be found below.  More detailed results can be found in two IDC ...

In 2018, IDC conducted a study on the rising interconnection needs of different industries. The main results on what are the top challenges in the digital transformation by industry can be found below. The study showed that each industry faces a unique set of challenges and obstacles in its digital...

We warmly welcome the latest DirectCLOUD partners ahd and SysEleven! ahd, a German IT service provider with over 30 years of experience, has connected to DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, and Dusseldorf, and is a certified DE-CIX DirectCLOUD cloud service provider. Its ISO 27001 certified ahd ...

Epsilon have been a DE-CIX partner for quite some time. As a reseller for DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Marseille, and New York, they connect networks to DE-CIX so that they can peer remotely.  We spoke to Mark Daley, Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Epsilon, about their partnership ...

In 2018, IDC conducted a study on the rising interconnection needs of different industries. The main results on which technologies are rapidly transforming and displacing traditional IT can be found below. The study showed that digital ecosystems connect suppliers and consumers and are key enabler ...

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, has announced the launch of a new IXP Program. The IXP Program broadens support for the primary objective of MANRS  to implement crucial fixes needed to eliminate the most common threats to the ...

DE-CIX increased its consolidated global customer growth by close to 14 % with more than 1,230 customers. The growth drove an overall connected capacity of 34 Terabits (Tbit), a 30% spike from 2016. The full press release can be found in the DE-CIX media center. Below, we just want to show you the ...

DE-CIX Frankfurt is growing! For almost 10 years the netmask for IPv4 of the Frankfurt peering LAN was a /22 - allowing us to have up to 1022 routers peering with each other. Continuous growth has compelled us to extend this netmask to a /21, doubling the available address space and therefore ...

In April, the DE-CIX 12 project team moved 4 Terabit of connected capacity from the old site DE-CIX 7 to the new site DE-CIX 12 in Frankfurt in one night. Eighteen customers, about 40x 100GE ports, and several 10GE ports were migrated. With this, about 1.2 Terabit of traffic shifted from DE-CIX 7 ...