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For many years now, customers could easily establish virtual private connections on the DE-CIX platform. When the MetroVLAN service was first introduced, it was only possible to establish E-Lines, virtual point-to-point connections, within the metro region of an Exchange – e.g. between any two ...

We are sure everyone who was there agrees: This year’s DE-CIX TechMeeting was a blast. More than 100 network engineers, network architects, peering managers and the like joined us on 6 June in Frankfurt, and we spent an amazing day together. Fortunately, weather made for a drop in temperature of ...

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 ...

We’re happy to announce that location-based redistribution control via our route servers is now possible at the DE-CIX locations where we offer the GlobePEER Remote service (except Berlin and Moscow). With this new feature, we’ve added the possibility to control the redistribution of advertised ...

At the end of 2018, the DE-CIX Internet Exchanges connected almost 1,600 customers worldwide, a growth of close to 30 percent in comparison with 2017. The connected customer capacity grew by over 35 percent to more than 45 Terabits, and the total number of 100 GE ports across all DE-CIX locations ...

In addition to the overall network count of active networks and networks in the process of connecting, we now also show the number of available IPv4 routes at the route servers. The information can be found above the connected networks list of every exchange. The available IPv4 routes number is ...

Patchy McPatchbot, the first patch robot at an Internet Exchange worldwide, is getting company – and you helped us to choose their names. At the DE-CIX TechMeeting on 6 June in Frankfurt, an overwhelming majority decided that the two new patch robot names are Sir Patchalot and Margaret Patcher! We ...

We warmly welcome ScaleUp Technologies as new cloud service provider available via DE-CIX DirectCLOUD. ScaleUp operates its own open source cloud infrastructure to enable scalable cloud and hybrid cloud setups. With ScaleUp as the latest addition to the list of available cloud service providers, ...

DE-CIX has sponsored PeeringDB for many years, as it is THE tool for all peering administrators. And we are proud to be, once again, a platinum sponsor.  PeeringDB recently gave itself a new look, and a new positioning with the focus on interconnection. In this way, they take into account the ...

Following the increasing customer demand for more data capacity, Mumbai-IX has started to offer 100GE access at all enabled data centers in Mumbai. Among the first customers upgrading to 100GE is the US-based Internet performance and security company Cloudflare.  Added to the DE-CIX family as a ...