Last year, we opened new interconnection platforms in Athens, Greece and in the Ruhr region of Germany. What makes these two newcomers special is the new approach to how we get everything up and running technically, and to how we support our local partners in growing them.  Plug and play ...

Ruhr-CIX is now operational and ready for customers. Established jointly by the Ruhr region cities of Dortmund, Bochum, and Gelsenkirchen, Ruhr-CIX is located at the data centers of regional Internet companies DOKOM21, GELSEN-NET, and TMR, which are interconnected via a ...

Last week, over three days, the changeover from the old /24 network to the new /23 network was implemented at DE-CIX Madrid. All services with old IPv4 addresses – including the old IPv4 route servers – have now been moved to the new address space. The /24 network only contained 254 IPv4 addresses ...

DE-CIX Chicago was launched in December and we have already extended our presence in the windy city to 365 Data Centers at the company’s facility at 427 S. LaSalle. This is our first enabled site at 365 Data Centers and the first Internet Exchange available at their facility in Chicago.  ...

Harald ‘Hacki’ Kriener aka ‘Mr. Cloud’ is Director Business Development Cloud Services at DE-CIX and has worked for the Internet Exchange operator since 2016. Tell us about your personal history with/at DE-CIX.My first contact with DE-CIX was in the early 2000s. Later, I met Ivo (Ivanov) in Dubai ...

Today we are celebrating the launch of Borneo-IX – a newly established interconnection hub on Borneo, the largest island in Asia, formed as a strategic partnership with Brunei’s national telecommunications provider Unified National Networks (UNN). Borneo-IX, located at the Tungku Submarine Cable ...

We are happy to announce a new partnership with Stuttgart-IX, the Internet Exchange for the Stuttgart metropolitan region. Thanks to this union, we are able to provide access to the DE-CIX Cloud Exchange and offer new interconnection options in the Stuttgart area. Stuttgart-IX will be connected to ...

It is only February but there has been a lot going on at DE-CIX India. We are extending our footprint in Delhi and in Mumbai and are happy to announce two new enabled sites for both Internet Exchanges. In addition to the existing 11 points of presence (PoPs), you can now access our platform at Web ...

2020 was an unusual year and at DE-CIX, in addition to celebrating our 25th anniversary, we got to witness first hand how our lives moved to online. We saw the average global data traffic rising between 15% and 30%, depending on the region, in Frankfurt the year-on-year peak data throughput ...

We are extending out footprint in the New York metropolitan area and are happy to announce a new enabled site at the Iron Mountain’s NJE-1 data center in Edison, New Jersey. Iron Mountain’s customers now have a direct access to our platform and a variety of interconnection services, including ...