Best Practises and Strategies for Network Operators DDoS attacks hitting networks are growing larger and larger every year. Last month several attacks reached a new dimension with traffic of more than 1 Tbps. As seen in our last workshop this is a serious problem for networks and their customers. Everyone has their...

Cryptography products are not user-friendly enough Internet Security Days presents new technologies for protection of digital identity Tickets available: Early Bird Tariff available until 11.08.2016 Every Internet user has a vested interest in the security of their personal data. For the transfer and sharing of sensitive...

This year’s DE-CIX Summit will take place on 13 October simultaneously in Munich, New York and Istanbul. After celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2015, this year’s Summit will to focus on the latest industry developments and we will come together for an inspiring day filled with presentations, discussions...

At select locations, we offer customers the chance to peer at an additional DE-CIX location with their existing port. You can peer with your DE-CIX Frankfurt port at New York, Istanbul or Dusseldorf, or vice versa. The service offers you access to more than 700 networks in Frankfurt from your port in New York, Istanbul...

DE-CIX New York has managed to grow to the second largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the New York metro area within two years. This alone is amazing. If you look at the IXP market in the US in general, you can also see an outstanding result. Out of about 80 Internet exchanges (listed by TeleGeography)...

DE-CIX Madrid is exceeding the company’s initial expectations for growth, leading to the opening of a second enabled site. “We anticipated a strong demand from international content networks, Internet service providers in Spain and Portugal, as well as from West African ISPs reaching Madrid via Lisbon, but the...

DDoS attacks hitting networks are growing larger and larger every year. Each and every network operator feels this pain in it's daily business. As much as attack vary in quantity and quality there is no easy way to mitigate them. On June 30th almost 40 network operators met in DE-CIX Meetingcenter in Frankfurt to discuss...

Console, the enterprise software and interconnection company that is changing the way businesses directly connect to their customers, vendors and partners, and DE-CIX have announced a strategic partnership. The partnership enables over 800 networks from more than 60 countries that peer on the DE-CIX exchanges...

DE-CIX chose Interoute’s data centre in Madrid as an additional site for its Madrid Internet Exchange Point. Interoute’s data centre is the second enabled site of DE-CIX Madrid, increasing its attractiveness by bringing more networks to the exchange. At DE-CIX Madrid, 34 networks are already connected or in the...

DE-CIX Istanbul will extend its setup to the TurkNet data center in Gayrettepe. With the additional TurkNet site, DE-CIX Istanbul will be available at five enabled sites in Istanbul and at more than 20 access points in Ankara, Bursa and Izmir. TurkNet is the leading telecom operator in Turkey and will also connect its network...

Two weeks prior to our schedule, we have finished building up DE-CIX Madrid. DE-CIX’s network engineers Andreas Laudwein and Johannes Moos successfully installed and booted the equipment. The exchange is now ready for networks to peer. The first networks have already signed, and we look forward to the first traffic...

Two years ago, we started DE-CIX New York and thought that we would make this exchange big. Our first exchange in North America. Two years later we can say that the exchange’s performance over the past two years has exceeded our projections and certainly also industry expectations. In two years, DE-CIX New York...

In April, RETN activated its second 100GE reseller port on the DE-CIX Apollon platform in Frankfurt. RETN is an international network service provider which operates its own fibre optic backbone of more than 32 000 km stretching across 28 countries and three continents. Their customers can connect at more than 180...

DE-CIX Frankfurt hit the 3.934 Terabits per second traffic peak on 19 April, once again a Sunday. While DE-CIX has announced new exchanges in Palermo and Marseille, and new peaks at DE-CIX New York and UAE-IX in Dubai made it into the news, DE-CIX Frankfurt is also growing too. No other Internet exchange in the world exchanges...

DE-CIX New York’s customer base is constantly growing; we are close to 70 networks now. And accordingly, traffic is rising too. This week has started with a new traffic peak: We reached 36.08 Gigabit per second yesterday. Traffic has more than doubled since the beginning of the year. And if it continues to rise this...

Cegecom, a telecom operator from Luxembourg and the greater region, is now connected to DE-CIX and thus offers customers located in Luxembourg fast and direct connections from Luxembourg to Frankfurt. Cegecom offers communication services to B2B, wholesalers and carriers. It provides high-performance services such as Data...

We would like to welcome our latest customers at DE-CIX New York: Internet Systems Consortium from Redwood City, as1280NJEDge.net from Newark, as21976OCCAID from Boston, as30071Staminus Communications from Irvine, as25761 Welcome and happy peering! DE-CIX New York customers list

We would like to welcome our latest customers at DE-CIX Frankfurt: Automattic from San Francisco, USA, as2635 CAT Telecom from Bangkok, Thailand, as4651 Infinity Telecom from Bucharest, Romania, as56654  Leitwert from Munich, Germany, as39063T-Systems International from Kiel, Germany, as34086 Welcome...

DE-CIX will open a new Internet exchange in the Interxion data center in Marseille, France, which will become operational in Q3 2015. Marseille is one of the key European landing stations for a large number of international subsea cables and global Internet transit pathways. Importantly, Marseille is a critical gateway...

The DE-CIX March newsletter is now online.In this edition, we report on the new DE-CIX Internet hub in Sicily, the Open-IX certification for DE-CIX New York, new partners and the third partner with a 100GE port at DE-CIX Frankfurt, new traffic peaks in New York, Dubai, Hamburg and Munich and the first Iraqi users at...

TI Sparkle, the International Services arm of Telecom Italia Group, is announcing a new partnership with the world’s leading Internet exchange provider, DE-CIX, who will establish an Internet exchange (IX) in “Sicily Hub,” TI Sparkle’s latest Next Generation Data Center in Palermo. DE-CIX provides premium IX services...

Zain Group has connected to UAE-IX, the first carrier-neutral Internet traffic exchange platform in the Middle East. Zain Group is a leading mobile telecommunications and data services provider in the Middle East and North Africa, serving more than 44.3 million active customers across eight countries in the region. Zain...

In March, new traffic peaks were reached at DE-CIX’s exchanges in Munich, Hamburg, New York and Dubai. DE-CIX Munich reached 40 Gigabit/s and DE-CIX Hamburg exceeded 53 Gigabit/s. Both regional exchanges have grown in customer numbers and traffic in the last twelve months, and we look forward to seeing them grow...

After two networks went online on Monday and Thursday, three more networks went operational today, increasing the number of connected networks to 53 at DE-CIX New York. And ten more networks have signed already and will be connected shortly. The five networks that went operational this week are: Beanfield Technologies,...

We would like to welcome our latest customers: ComHem AB from Stockholm, Sweden, as39651 Doorhan 21 vek LTD from S. Akulova, Russia, as48297Host Virtual Inc from Santa Monica, USA, as36236Ingenico e-Commerce Solutions from Brussels, Belgium, as62325Inter Connects Inc from Wilmington, USA, as57858 ISPrime...

DE-CIX New York has successfully completed the process of OPEN-IX certification. The DE-CIX New York Internet exchange now holds OIX-1 certification, which defines the technical requirements, minimum service levels and information-sharing provisions of participating exchanges. Certification was granted on March 9, following...