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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 ...

With DE-CIX’s DirectCLOUD service, ISPs and data centers can directly connect their end customers to several cloud service providers, bypassing the Internet. While many ISPs and data centers and their end customers use this for services like IaaS or Backup & Recovery, it is also possible to use...

Keppel Data Centres Holding Pte Ltd. has partnered with DE-CIX: The high-availability carrier-neutral data center Keppel DC Frankfurt 1 (KDC FRA1) will become a DE-CIX-enabled site in Frankfurt.  Mr Wong Wai Meng, CEO of Keppel Data Centres, said, “Frankfurt is an important market for Keppel Data ...

IX Reach, one of DE-CIX’s top resellers, has recently upgraded its infrastructure in Frankfurt to 200GE. They once were the first reseller for DE-CIX Frankfurt, and later also the first reseller for Marseille and Dallas, and as such they have accompanied DE-CIX’s development for many years.   ...

We warmly welcome the latest DirectCLOUD partners Colocation IX, hopus, nexinto, and Telehouse! Meanwhile, more than 30 providers are available via the DE-CIX DirectCLOUD service. Which services the providers offer and at what locations they are available is easy to find out in our DirectCLOUD ...

While many companies have long taken advantage of the benefits of peering, more and more companies are starting to peer. We would like to give three examples of providers peering at Madrid who told us about their experience with peering at DE-CIX: Wifi SanctiPetri, a Cadiz operator that offers WiFi...

The DE-CIX route servers now support two new features: An operational BGP Community for graceful BGP session shutdown, and Informational BGP Communities for origin tagging. Operational BGP CommunitiesThe route servers now support RFC 8326 (Graceful BGP Session Shutdown). With this new well-known ...

Telecom Ramblings interviewed Ivo Ivanov, Chief Strategic and Corporate Development Officer at DE-CIX, about the future of interconnection. He talks about how the interconnection business will change over the next few years, how different enterprise verticals approach the interconnection business, ...

Mumbai-IX, powered by DE-CIX, will make its services available at STT’s carrier hotel in Mumbai (formerly known as TATA LVSB), starting in March 2018. The building is one of the key hubs that provide India with international connectivity. This is Mumbai-IX's third point of presence in the metro m...

At the end of January, a new edge at DE-CIX 12 in Frankfurt was activated. This is an important milestone, as DE-CIX 12 is now ready for service. DE-CIX 12 (Kleyer 90) is the replacement of DE-CIX 7 (Kleyer 82), the former core node at DE-CIX’s largest site in the city, the Kleyer campus.  With ...