DE-CIX is celebrating a quarter of a century of business.
DE-CIX (German Commercial Internet Exchange) was founded in 1995 in the old post office in the Gutleut quarter of Frankfurt. This was the moment when three ISPs—MAZ, EUnet, and XLink—connected their networks. The aim was to promote global digital interconnection and establish efficient and cost-neutral data exchange via internet exchanges.
Today DE-CIX, with over 20 locations in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and North America, is an important element of the global interconnection infrastructure. DE-CIX Frankfurt is also the largest IX in the world.
The technological progress at DE-CIX can be seen, among other things, in the development of the speed of data transmission. 25 years ago, the standard connection to DE-CIX was still 10 Mbit/s via Ethernet. Today, this has increased by a factor of ten thousand to 100 Gbit/s, and thanks to the DE-CIX Apollon platform up to 400 Gbit/s is even possible today in DE-CIX in Frankfurt. DE-CIX in Frankfurt now achieves peaks of up to 8.1 Tbps throughput.
