DE-CIX Shares Highlights from 2023

In March DE-CIX launched the Cloud ROUTER, enabling our customers direct high-performance data transfers between cloud environments. The service enables clients to route data between clouds on DE-CIX’s private carrier-grade platform within a metro region or even within a data center campus, and benefit from low latency, high bandwidth, increased security and protection against cyber-attacks, while ensuring interoperability between public clouds, private clouds, and on-premise infrastructure.

DE-CIX's API and portal allow clients to instantly deploy and manage their Cloud ROUTER. The portal also offers  insights into the telemetry of the client's router, and the services running on it.

DE-CIX India also added a new city with Hyderabad. Additionally, DE-CIX shared the ready-for-services of locations in Norway, Denmark, and Finland, as well as DE-CIX as a service locations in Africa with ACIX in Kinshasa, DRC, and AF-CIX in Lagos, Nigeria, and in the Middle East with AqabaIX in Jordan.

The SwissIX has been upgraded to DE-CIX’s Apollon platform, and is now responsible for technical operations and customer support and provisioning (business management and marketing of SwissIX remains with the association).

Figure 1: DE-CIX Mexico Launch

Image Source: DE-CIX

DE-CIX is among the first Internet Exchange operators to introduce the cutting-edge 100G LR technology helping customers to stay ahead of the curve and ensure their networks are ready to handle the demands of the future. 100G LR is available for all new 100GE ports in Frankfurt, with global rollout following up soon.

Also in Frankfurt, the team was busy migrating hundreds of customer ports transitioning from old Nokia XRS40 devices to the new Nokia SR14s FP5-based routers. This helps  meet the demand for 100 and 400GE ports and to support the future growth of DE-CIX Frankfurt. The migration was necessary to meet the high demand for 100GE and 400GE Access ports, while also supporting future growth in Frankfurt. The new Nokia routers are also more energy efficient, consuming only half the power of their predecessors.

In Helsinki, DE-CIX celebrated 10 years of partnership with Nokia based on joint research and development efforts and standardization initiatives. Nokia provides the most innovative hardware – such as the new devices in Frankfurt – allowing DE-CIX to offer highly reliable, low-latency and seamless interconnection services for customers.

Throughout 2023 DE-CIX introduced numerous new features and enhancements on their customer portal, including redesigned Service Insights System giving customers deeper insights into the utilization of their access ports and services.

DE-CIX also introduced GlobePEER DDoS traffic insight dashboards giving customers valuable insights into the origins of DDoS attacks and the amount of traffic that is flowing across a port.

The consistently high average data traffic from the pandemic times continues to be the new normal. Here are some highlights:

Dallas is closing in on 1Tbps with the current peak at 889.77 Gbps. Interestingly, the peaks in Dallas tend to happen on Thursday nights and may be related to the NFL Thursday Night Football programming. In New York the peak is currently 1.61 Tbps.

In the first weekend of December, due in part to concurrent software update rollouts, DE-CIX saw a significant increase in the amount of traffic at three DE-CIX Internet Exchanges:

In Frankfurt, traffic crossed both the 15 Tbps line for the first time in October and then a mere two weeks later, hit 16 Tbps. This warranted a special celebration to honor this milestone.

Figure 2: DE-CIX Celebrates 16 Tbps, Frankfurt, Germany