A little more than three years ago, it was just an idea: Not only offering peering to our customers at DE-CIX, but also offering them the best possible cloud connectivity, bypassing the Internet. The idea developed into the DE-CIX DirectCLOUD service, and now, three years later, we look back at an ...

At DE-CIX, we continue to see a surge in Internet usage and in data traffic. Compared to last week, we have seen an increase in Frankfurt in variety of areas – video conferencing especially is in increasing demand as a result of the ever-growing number of people all around the world working from ...

Due to the current situation, more and more people are social distancing and working from home in an increasing number of cities and countries worldwide. As a result, we can observe a clear rise in Internet traffic numbers at the DE-CIX Internet Exchanges. In a situation such as this, an online ...

Due to the exceptional COVID-19 situation, we want to give you some information about how DE-CIX is handling the current crisis. We take the situation seriously, as the health of our customers, employees, and their families is our priority. We are well prepared and have implemented comprehensive ...

Yesterday evening, DE-CIX Frankfurt reached a new all-time traffic peak of more than 9.1 Terabits per second! This is not only a new world record, this is also the highest jump in traffic we have ever had at DE-CIX. The all-time traffic peak DE-CIX Frankfurt reached two weeks ago was 8.3 Tbps, so ...

The peering community meets at several events throughout the year, but very often, people don’t know more than the job title and perhaps a little bit about what people do at DE-CIX. With this DE-CIX behind the scenes series, we would like to give you a little bit more information about the DE-CIX ...

With more than 10 DE-CIX-enabled sites, more than 160 networks that peer, and almost 100,000 available IPv4 routes, DE-CIX Hamburg has developed very well over the past year. The latest addition to the DE-CIX Hamburg enabled sites list is IPHH (HH3), Internet Port Hamburg, joining us with a second ...

The quotes of customers speak for themselves: “Having a direct connection to a network the size of Comcast’s gives us a distinct advantage over other cloud providers,” said Dan Spataro, director of infrastructure operations at Linode. “DirectROUTES allows us to skip over the middleman — something ...

Shortly after reaching the world records of more than 7 Terabits per second peak traffic in September 2019 and more than 8 Terabits per second in December 2019, DE-CIX Frankfurt reached a new all-time traffic peak of 8.3 Terabits per second on 11 February. We did not celebrate the new peak with ...

An AS might choose not to peer with route servers for whatever reason (e.g. a Tier 1 network), so if this AS shows up at a route server it is clearly a route leak or misconfiguration. Routing security is an essential topic at DE-CIX, and in order to increase the routing security in general – and ...