Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and NaaS provider PacketFabric extended their strategic partnership. With this, PacketFabric becomes the first new reseller signed under DE-CIX’s new R3 partner program.
The agreement adds active reselling with a global scope to PacketFabric’s existing activities as DE-CIX’s first reach partner in North America. U.S. customers gain access to DE-CIX’s interconnection platforms in New York, Dallas, Chicago, Richmond, Phoenix and Seattle, from PacketFabric’s 250+ APs in North America.
This brings high-performance interconnection services closer to businesses and their customers across the country, reducing latency. PacketFabric customers will gain access to markets in EMEA within the NaaS provider’s platform, via DE-CIX’s footprint of over 50 internet and cloud exchanges, worldwide.
The partnership bundles the strengths of both operators to serve enterprise connectivity needs in a holistic manner. DE-CIX will gain access to 28 markets across North America, beyond the IX operator’s core markets. PacketFabric, in turn, can now serve dozens of previously untapped enterprise markets outside of North America.
“PacketFabric has played a central role in extending the reach of the DE-CIX Internet and Cloud Exchanges in New York, Dallas, and Chicago over the years, remotely connecting customers to our platforms,” said Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX. “We are delighted to extend this partnership and welcome PacketFabric as a valuable reseller on the U.S. market. The combined footprint of DE-CIX’s platforms and PacketFabric’s SDN network, both in the U.S. and globally, enabling enterprise customers to build the network they need and ensure high-performance, low-latency connectivity to partner networks and clouds to power their business success.”
The partnership gives DE-CIX customers access to nearly a terabyte of interconnection capacity on PacketFabric’s global network, with the intent to double capacity in the long term. This partnership will provide customers the ability to connect to more locations, faster.
“DE-CIX has long been a key interconnection partner on PacketFabric’s Network as a Service platform,” said Vincent English, PacketFabric CEO. “By offering our customers access to DE-CIX’s exchanges in EMEA, global enterprises can easily connect their infrastructure to leading cloud providers, carriers and other services to improve network performance. Expanding access to DE-CIX to the rest of PacketFabric’s North American locations will give our joint customers many more locations to interconnect on our private, carrier-grade network.”
Click here and here, respectively, for the DE-CIX and PacketFabric partner programs.
