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DE-CIX initiates game-changing carrier-neutral Internet Exchange in New York

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FRANKFURT, GERMANY: DE-CIX, the world's leading Internet Exchange operator headquartered in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), announced the launch of its US operations.

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DE-CIX North America will establish Internet exchanges in major US metro regions, with New York City as the first market to receive a distributed, carrier- and data center-neutral Internet Exchange.

DE-CIX makes this game-changing move in the North American telecommunications market in an effort to begin boosting the country's vital digital infrastructure and the infrastructure of the cities in which it will operate.

Built on the same successful open model as DE-CIX in Frankfurt, DE-CIX North America will engineer the new Internet exchanges in the US for the high-capacity, high-performance Layer 2 interconnection known as "Peering."

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Different than the prevailing US Internet traffic exchange model, DE-CIX will deploy a large-scale Ethernet switching fabric, combined with an all-fiber metro optical backbone that supports traffic volumes of up to numerous Terabits per second across multiple data centers in the selected metropolitan areas.

This will enable all types of Internet providers to exchange traffic across the neutral, distributed infrastructure. This is an advantage over current US colocation and exchange models, in which data centers primarily serve their own on-campus tenants or connect customers with passive Private Interconnects (PI).

"New York is a world-class city with an active interest in evolving its digital infrastructure to the highest levels," states Harald A. Summa, CEO for DE-CIX. "The city is the top choice for Internet companies right now. We therefore selected New York City as the headquarters of our new U.S. operations and also decided to make New York the home of our first Internet exchange deployment in North America."

"NYC is home to a huge concentration of ISPs, including broadband providers, content companies and a thriving and growing tech community," continues Summa. "Establishing and developing the new exchange will go far in elevating New York's reputation as one of the world's great technology hubs, in addition to its other first-rate attributes. DE-CIX's new exchange in New York will be operational soon, while we are also planning for deployments in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. DE-CIX will help these selected cities to grow their role as Internet hubs and finally achieve the major role they deserve in the global Internet ecosystem."

The City of New York has already taken action to address digital infrastructure development with programs such as the ConnectNYC Fiber Access program. These efforts are an essential element of making the city a better place for both companies and individuals.

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