|
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 4 terabit per second.〔(DE-CIX - Statistics )〕 In addition to DE-CIX in Frankfurt, DE-CIX operates internet exchange points in Hamburg, Munich, New York (DE-CIX New York), Dubai (UAE-IX), Palermo (DE-CIX Palermo),〔(TI Sparkle Partners with DE-CIX in Palermo )〕 Marseille (DE CIX Marseille),〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.telecomramblings.com/2015/04/de-cix-lands-in-marseille/ )〕 and Istanbul (DE-CIX Istanbul).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.capacitymagazine.com/Article/3452162/DE-CIX-to-launch-IX-in-Turkey.html )〕 ==History== DE-CIX was founded in 1995 by three Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Back then, German Internet traffic was still exchanged in the US and there was a lot of room to improve latency and to reduce the cost for backhaul connectivity. Three providers decided to establish an Internet exchange in a back room of a postal office in the Gutleutviertel in Frankfurt. Hamburg-based MAZ, EUNetworks from Dortmund and XLink from Karlsruhe were the ones that initially connected their networks in Frankfurt at DE-CIX. DE-CIX was managed by eco Electronic Commerce Forum, which is now known as eco, the association of the German Internet industry. Other providers joined and made DE-CIX and Frankfurt the hotspot of 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 one of the larger Internet exchanges in Europe. DE-CIX added its second switching site at the Interxion campus in 2001〔(DE-CIX 2 goes online ) golem.de, 2 May 2001 (German).〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|