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Connected Site – the fastest and easiest way to access DE-CIX

Are you looking for the fastest and easiest way to establish a direct connection to a DE-CIX Internet Exchange without any additional infrastructure effort?

As a Connected Site, your data center will gain instant access to DE-CIX without requiring any dedicated DE-CIX hardware. All you need is an access point to DE-CIX (Access) and a transport line (carrier transit) from your data center to the access point. This is your simplest entry option, allowing you to position yourself competitively. Gain immediate access to the full DE-CIX service portfolio and offer these services directly to your customers.

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Why connect?

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Benefit from the DE-CIX brand 

Strengthen your market position and benefit from DE-CIX’s industry reputation and brand recognition. Establish trust and visibility from day one.

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Stay competitive in a challenging market

Especially in new or mid-sized markets where demand is still growing: expand your offering wherever it is strategically important for your growth without risk.

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Scale on your terms, without risk

Start easily as a Connected Site and grow at your own pace. Develop your investment according to evolving customer needs.

Advantages of Connected Sites

You and your customers benefit from direct access to all DE-CIX services; end customers enjoy an improved user experience and flexibly scalable services, thereby ensuring their business continuity. 

Scalable services

Our solutions are designed to grow with rising demand, more traffic, more participants, and higher bandwidth requirements without compromising performance, stability, or efficiency. This also improves the user experience across the entire value chain and ensures business continuity for end customers.

AI-ready

Our ecosystem enables you to support modern AI workloads, GPU servers, high-density deployments, and data-intensive applications for your customers. For end customers, this means they can run AI use cases immediately, without having to make massive infrastructure investments themselves.

Easy, flexible, and cost-efficient consumption

With just a single connection to our access point, you get instant access to the full IXP ecosystem — simple setup, minimal additional effort. Thanks to the streamlined model, your investments remain low and predictable. This eliminates complexity and makes onboarding virtually risk-free.

Just connect and go.

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Who is Connected Sites designed for?

Data Center
  • Data centers without a DE-CIX PoP
     
  • Data center operators looking for an easy way to strengthen their market position
     
  • Colocation providers who want to attract more enterprise and ICT customers
     
  • Providers that require DE-CIX access to qualify for tenders or RFPs
     
  • Managed service providers with their own data centers offering cloud connectivity

Why DE-CIX

Start easily. Scale securely. Grow together. 

With our solutions, we give you exactly what you need for a strong market entry: trust, flexibility, and true future readiness. Benefit from the established DE-CIX brand and stay competitive in tenders and RFPs. This gives you a real competitive advantage in your market.

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Everything you need to know

  • You only need your own transport to a DE-CIX location. No DE-CIX hardware, no installation on-site, no complex setup. Once your transport is established with DE-CIX Access, you can start provisioning immediately.

  • No. Connected Sites do not require any DE-CIX hardware or on-site integration. Your data center simply provides the transport to the nearest DE-CIX location.

  • Yes. As a Connected Site, you officially use the “DE-CIX Connected Site” branding, allowing you to participate in tenders where DE-CIX/IXP connectivity is a requirement.

  • Yes. The Connected Sites offering was specifically designed for data centers experiencing strong demand growth due to increasing customer requirements for AI and cloud solutions

  • Yes. The Connected Sites offering is ideal for capacity expansion. Upgrades are possible at any time.

  • As soon as the agreement is signed and transport to the DE-CIX platform is activated, you are ready to go live.

Want to know more? 

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