We have partnered with Adam to offer our DirectCLOUD service and Microsoft Azure Peering Service in Spain. Through DirectCLOUD, Adam’s customers can gain access to the DE-CIX Cloud Exchange and connect to cloud services providers such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services...

Peering gives you greater control over routing, resulting in improved network performance and happy end users. In this fourth article in the “reasons to peer” series, we explain how this works. When data is transported via public transit carriers, the data flows via a private network interconnect ...

As enterprises from all industries globally are becoming more and more reliant on digital technologies, having a resilient, secure, and well-performing network connection is business-critical. An increasing number of enterprises from segments like healthcare, finance, retail, and automotive have ...

DE-CIX and EllaLink, the express optical platform between Europe and Latin America, have established a strategic partnership with a goal to promote and enhance a new low latency path across the southern Atlantic, directly connecting Brazil and South Europe. Lisbon will be the entry point to Europe ...

We are currently witnessing the next evolution of DNS with the introduction of DNS over HTTPs and TLS. This is often combined with additional security features like malware blocking and DNSSEC validation. Quad9, with the support of their partner Packet Clearing House (PCH), are driving this ...

We are happy to announce an extended partnership with Sparkle in the US. Sparkle will now offer access to the DE-CIX sites in New York and Dallas, in addition to our European Internet Exchanges already reached by Sparkle’s Virtual NAP. Benefiting North and South American operatorsVirtual NAP is ...

Germany’s Rhineland, a region once dominated by coal mining is on its way to turning into an “innovation valley”, a real-lab experience of modernization, where future technologies are put to real-world scrutiny. Digital infrastructure has a special role to play, given that any cutting-edge business...

There are many applications and technology areas in which latency plays an important or even decisive role. When we surveyed our customers at DE-CIX Frankfurt last year, 81% of the participants took the position that latency is the most important criterion when concluding new interconnection ...

The Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP in short, is the foundation of Internet routing. Routing defines the path of Internet traffic in a network and between networks. Like GPS – helping you to find the best route to get from A to B – BGP is instrumental finding the most suitable route for traffic and...

Our Internet Exchange in Chicago has obtained the OIX-1 certification of Open-IX Internet Exchange standards. Chicago is our third exchange in the US to achieve this certification after New York and Dallas, illustrating our dedication to maintaining the highest standards of interconnection ...