internet exchange full name deutscher commercial internet exchange abbreviation de cix founded 1995 location germany website www.de cix.net members 609 ports 1121 peak 4952.1 gbit s daily avg . 2025.8 gbit s deutscher commercial internet exchange german commercial internet exchange de cix is a carrier and data center neutral internet exchange point ixp situated in frankfurt germany . it is the largest exchange point worldwide in terms of peak traffic with a maximum throughput of more than 5 terabits per second . 1 in addition to de cix in frankfurt de cix operates internet exchange points in hamburg munich new york de cix new york dallas de cix dallas dubai uae ix palermo de cix palermo 2 marseille de cix marseille 3 and istanbul de cix istanbul . 4 contents 1 history 2 today 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit de cix was founded in 1995 by three internet service providers isps . back then german internet traffic was still exchanged in the us . to improve latency and reduce costs for backhaul connectivity three providers decided to establish an internet exchange in the back room of a postal office in gutleutviertel in frankfurt . hamburg based maz eunetworks from dortmund and xlink from karlsruhe were the first to connected their networks in frankfurt at de cix . de cix was managed by electronic commerce forum now known as eco the association of the german internet industry . other providers joined and made de cix and frankfurt the hotspot for the german internet . in 1998 de cix moved its switching hardware to the interxion data center in frankfurt . by 2000 de cix had become germany s largest internet exchange and was ranked as one of the larger internet exchanges in europe . de cix added its second switching site at the interxion campus in 2001 5 and a third site in close proximity to its original roots at the telecitygroup data center in 2004 . until 2006 cisco switches supported both the growth in customers and traffic . de cix extended its reach to additional data centers introducing force10 and brocade switches and scaling the platform to over 700 10 gigabit ports . over the years de cix attracted networks from all over the world especially from eastern europe leading to an annual traffic growth rate of up to 100 percent a year . today edit today de cix connects 600 isps including broadband providers content delivery networks web hosters and incumbent operators . de cix is available at 18 data centers throughout frankfurt including e shelter equinix level 3 itenos interxion new telco telecitygroup and telehouse . 6 in 2013 de cix introduced de cix apollon its new ethernet based platform . de cix apollon operates ten alcatel lucent 7950 xrs routers six routers act as edge devices that support 1ge 10ge and 100 ge customer connections and four routers are used for the redundant core network . 7 the routing layer is combined with an optical layer based on adva optical networking s fsp 3000 ; the optical layer delivers a total capacity of 12 terabits per second across its mesh network topology . the platform provides transport speeds of up to 2 terabits per second per fiber pair and supports port density of up to eighty 100 gigabit ethernet ports per chassis with a total of over three hundred 100 gigabit ports available across its entire optical network . the platform is able to grow 10 fold without major changes . see also edit list of internet exchange points list of internet exchange points by size references edit de cix statistics ti sparkle partners with de cix in palermo de cix lands in marseille . http www.telecomramblings.com . retrieved 8 april 2015 . external link in website help de cix to launch ix in turkey . http www.capacitymagazine.com . retrieved 2 june 2015 . external link in website help de cix 2 goes online golem.de 2 may 2001 german . availability matrix de cix frankfurt about de cix apollon visited on 1 may 2014 . external links edit official website netzpolitik.org andre meister how the german foreign intelligence agency bnd tapped the internet exchange point de cix in frankfurt since 2009 2015 03 31 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title deutscher commercial internet exchange & oldid 739718201 categories internet exchange points in germanymedia in frankfurteconomy of frankfurthidden categories cs1 errors external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran aisnederlandsrom n edit links this page was last modified on 16 september 2016 at 14 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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