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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 ...

Recently, the first two customers connected to DE-CIX Istanbul in order to connect to cloud service providers with DE-CIX DirectCLOUD. The service enables Internet service providers and enterprises to benefit from private access to cloud service providers. The low latency connection bypasses the I...

In Germany, this year's summer was one of the hottest ever, and the DE-CIX Summer BBQ round tables were certainly great events to seize the chance to enjoy the summer whilst networking with friends and peers. We greatly enjoyed your company and would like to thank everyone for joining us. A special...

Starting with DE-CIX Madrid, DE-CIX became active in developing the digital ecosystem on the Iberian Peninsula. And with DE-CIX Lisbon, we will open the second Internet Exchange on the Iberian Peninsula. The Iberian Peninsula is the new center of gravity where networks meet instead of going all the...

The DE-CIX Annual report 2017 shows everything you need to know about our company: The financial results, the company structure, the challenges and achievements of the past year. And, last but not least, the report gives an outlook into the future on how the Internet will and must change. The ...

Traffic at UAE-IX in Dubai hit a new all-time peak in September: 100 Gigabits per second! This a huge milestone for our exchange in Dubai. The 5-year graph shows how constantly the traffic has developed.  First customer with 100GE is liveAnd there is more to come: Since earlier this year, the ...

We are happy to announce that Core-Backbone, a long-standing DE-CIX partner and reseller, has upgraded to 6x100 GE at DE-CIX Frankfurt. When our reseller partner program started back in 2011 and the first resellers came on board with 10 GE, we were certainly convinced that DE-CIX would grow ...

Rascom, a long-time DE-CIX partner, has expanded its presence at our IXs. In September, they expanded the bandwidth of their IP network in Germany, and connected to DE-CIX in Dusseldorf, Hamburg, and Munich. In addition, they upgraded to 100G in Frankfurt, and also connected to DE-CIX in New York. ...

To give networks some more information about the connected networks at our locations, we added graphics showing the AS origin and network type of the connected networks on our location pages. For Frankfurt, we had to switch to a graph showing regions instead of countries, as networks from more than...