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At the end of July, our latest two new patch robots were taken live as part of the successful completion of the project DE-CIX Frankfurt 2020 – where two Nokia SR14s were installed at the DE-CIX FRA 2 and FRA 6 sites  (Interxion), both with a capacity of up to 648x 100GE access ports. The names of...

In July, the DE-CIX team successfully completed the project DE-CIX Frankfurt 2020, paving the way for the subsequent growth of the DE-CIX Frankfurt Internet Exchange: Two Nokia SR14s were installed at the DE-CIX FRA 2 and FRA 6 site (Interxion), both with a capacity of up to 648x 100GE access ports...

As orders for 100GE ports increased by 70 percent in 2018, it was time for a major infrastructure upgrade at DE-CIX New York. Five years after the first data packets were exchanged, three additional sites were made 100GE ready: 325 Hudson Street and 85 10th Avenue in Manhattan, NYC, and 2 Emerson ...

UAE-IX in Dubai will be connected soon to the DE-CIX Internet Exchanges in Mumbai, India, and Marseille, France. This connection will enable remote peering between these three major hubs in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and is enabled by datamena’s recently launched global interconnect ...

In July, DE-CIX Istanbul reached a new all-time traffic peak. The traffic peak crossed the 100 Gbit/s threshold and is currently at 120G. Just recently, a well-known social network joined DE-CIX Istanbul, with this leading to the new all-time peak. The capacity upgrade of some other well-known n...

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 ...