Internet exchange stories
DE-CIX
Lightstorm & DE-CIX bolster interconnection for India service providers
February 2022
DE-CIX chief executive officer Ivo Ivanov says the company is thrilled to expand its partner network in India.
Colocation
DE-CIX: 32 exabytes of data flowed through internet's veins in 2020
February 2021
With as much as 32 exabytes of total traffic traversing networks - that’s the equivalent of a video call that lasts eight million years.
Partnerships
DE-CIX financials reflect on 2019 as major growth year
June 2020
The growth is spread over 20 locations worldwide, with notable successes in North America and Europe.
Network Infrastructure
Data traffic soars as world turns to internet for work & play
March 2020
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.
Internet exchange
DE-CIX breaks another data throughput record at Frankfurt exchange
March 2020
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’.
Distributed Denial of Service
Any internet user can order cyber attack for less than $20 - study
February 2020
The study examines the effects of DDoS attacks and those of the countermeasures taken against them.
Internet exchange
AMS-IX deploys open networking with Pluribus Networks
October 2019
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.
Data
MyIX announces significant growth over 10 year period
July 2019
“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.”
Internet exchange
DE-CIX and Datacenter One sign service deal for Germany
April 2019
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.
Data Centre Operators
Open DC data center to host Malaysia’s second internet exchange
September 2018
Extreme Broadband has launched JBIX in Malaysia, the country's first open internet exchange available to all organisations around the world.
Partnerships
New joint venture forms to establish internet exchange hub in Thailand
August 2018
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.
Managed Services
Interconnection abound: Equinix to launch its ECX Fabric to APAC
July 2018
Later this year Equinix will roll out its Cloud Exchange Fabric across Asia Pacific to meet surging demand for inter-metro and private connectivity.
Data Centre Interconnection
New MIX PoP launched at Aruba’s Global Cloud Data Center
July 2018
Aruba has secured a PoP deal with the Milan Internet eXchange (MIX) to establish new interconnections from its modern (and huge) data centre campus.
Managed Services
Epsilon & BBIX open up Tokyo peering points for global service providers
June 2018
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.
Cloud
Outsourcing to boost Indonesia's data centers, report says
April 2017
A recent report suggests Indonesia’s data center industry has the potential for future growth as the nation drives a shift to outsourcing.
Internet exchange
Flat revenue prompts ChinaCache to take on data center turnaround initiatives
December 2016
ChinaCache has a number of turnaround initiatives underway, including data center network construction and internet exchange center monetization.
Keppel Data Centres Holding
Singapore-based Keppel DC takes Alpha Data Centre Fund on maiden acquisition
November 2016
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.
Interconnection
Coriant and Internet Multifeed scale up Japan's interconnect 'backbone'
November 2016
“As we scaled our backbone network, we needed a best-in-class product purpose-built for these interconnect challenges."
Data Centre Operators
ChinaCache launches first of its kind internet exchange in China
April 2016
ChinaCache has officially launched the first carrier neutral internet exchange in Mainland China.