Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) announces its newest Internet Exchange in Helsinki (Finland) is ready for service. 

Located at Proximity’s Birmingham Edge 8 tier 3 data centre, IX Birmingham will enable businesses to access higher-speed, low-latency connectivity options.

Proximity plans to increase its number of internet exchanges in an effort to be within reach of up to 95% of the UK population.

"The collaboration with domestic IX's including KINX and KRIX will offer more choices and enhance network services for our customers."

DE-CIX chief executive officer Ivo Ivanov says the company is thrilled to expand its partner network in India.

With as much as 32 exabytes of total traffic traversing networks - that’s the equivalent of a video call that lasts eight million years.

The growth is spread over 20 locations worldwide, with notable successes in North America and Europe.

Video conferencing traffic and the overall amount of data traffic crisscrossing the world rises steadily while the world seeks to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic.

DE-CIX successfully delivered more than 9 terabits per second (TB/s) through a Frankfurt internet exchange. According to the company, it has now broken a new ‘sound barrier’.

The study examines the effects of DDoS attacks and those of the countermeasures taken against them.

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is deploying Pluribus’ Netvisor ONE operating system and Adaptive Cloud Fabric. These work in conjunction with Dell EMC’s Open Networking hardware.

“With seed funding from Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) that sustained us until 2010, MyIX has remained the number one Internet Exchange in Malaysia.”

Datacenter One’s LEV1 data centre in Leverkusen is the first to be connected to DE-CIX, with further DE-CIX sites to be created in the next few years as part of the agreement.

Extreme Broadband has launched JBIX in Malaysia, the country's first open internet exchange available to all organisations around the world.

True IDC and BBIX have formed a joint venture to make Thailand a world class internet exchange hub of ASEAN - with future expansion on the cards.

Later this year Equinix will roll out its Cloud Exchange Fabric across Asia Pacific to meet surging demand for inter-metro and private connectivity.

Aruba has secured a PoP deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to establish new interconnections from its modern (and huge) data centre campus.

The two companies have announced a partnership in a bid to to accelerate how Service Providers across the globe connect to peering points in Tokyo.

A recent report suggests Indonesia’s data center industry has the potential for future growth as the nation drives a shift to outsourcing.

ChinaCache has a number of turnaround initiatives underway, including data center network construction and internet exchange center monetization.

Keppel DC is the first company to partner with Alpha Data Centre Fund to purchase a data center in in of Europe's key internet exchanges.

“As we scaled our backbone network, we needed a best-in-class product purpose-built for these interconnect challenges."

ChinaCache has officially launched the first carrier neutral internet exchange in Mainland China.