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    UAE-IX report 2020: Huge demand for interconnection, bandwidth, and digital services
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UAE-IX report 2020: Huge demand for interconnection, bandwidth, and digital services News
18 May 2021
UAE-IX report 2020: Huge demand for interconnection, bandwidth, and digital services
Interconnecting Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah:  UAE-IX to extend its presence to further new locations in the United Arab Emirates News
7 December 2020
Interconnecting Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah: UAE-IX to extend its presence to further new locations in the United Arab Emirates
Internet traffic drops at sunset News
25 May 2020
Internet traffic drops at sunset

18 May 2021

UAE-IX report 2020: Huge demand for interconnection, bandwidth, and digital services

Dubai (UAE), 18 May 2021. The leading carrier and data center neutral Internet Exchange operator in the GCC region, UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX, today publishes its annual growth report for 2020, which was marked by a global pandemic. In the last year, UAE-IX experienced enormous growth of 63% in ...

UAE-IX to extend its presence to further new locations
7 December 2020

Interconnecting Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Fujairah: UAE-IX to extend its presence to further new locations in the United Arab Emirates

Dubai (UAE), 7 December 2020. The leading carrier and data center neutral Internet Exchange operator in the GCC region, UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX, today announces that its award-winning Apollon platform will be extended to further sites and data centers in the UAE, including Khazna Dubai, Khazna Abu...

Ramadan traffic drop
25 May 2020

Internet traffic drops at sunset

We track Internet traffic in all our locations – see UAE-IX statistics here – and can observe certain trends and peaks in Internet usage which directly mirrors also our lives offline. For example, since the introduction of Covid-19 measures around the world, we have witnessed how these actions ...

Academy
8 May 2020

Helping schools to move to e-learning ­– a case study from UAE 

The Covid-19 situation has had a big impact on the education sector with more and more schools and universities around the world turning to virtual learning options. In UAE, the government decided to move all education to home supported by digital services in March. UAE-IX got a request from ...

Pfeil
22 April 2020

UAE-IX sets peering traffic record as user demand surges across the Middle East

Dubai, UAE, 22 April 2020 – UAE-IX, the leading Internet Exchange (IX) in the Middle East part of datamena, has broken its peak peering traffic record on the IX in March. The carrier and data centre-neutral UAE-IX has seen a peak traffic increase of 40%, collaboration tools and gaming data traffic ...

Service Overview UAE-IX
28 November 2019

UAE-IX increases service portfolio: GlobePEER Remote to Marseille, Blackholing, and DirectCLOUD available

UAE-IX, managed by datamena in partnership with DE-CIX, has upgraded to the powerful DE-CIX Apollon technology platform to enable hyper-scalability and cloud exchange features alongside its peering services. As of now, the GlobePEER Remote service to Marseille, the DirectCLOUD service, and the B...

Title ITW Daily
25 June 2019

datamena has launched a Global Interconnect Ecosystem with Hubs in Mumbai and Marseille

Dubai (UAE), Frankfurt (Germany) - 25 June 2019 – datamena, a digital hub for global transformation, has launched a global interconnect ecosystem that will deliver seamless interconnection between major Cloud and content hubs around the world. Its first Digital Infrastructure Hubs are in Mumbai, ...

DXB-5years
13 September 2018

Milestone: New all-time peak of 100 Gbps, and the first 100GE customer is live

Traffic at UAE-IX in Dubai hit a new all-time peak in September: 100 Gigabits per second! This a huge milestone for our exchange in Dubai. The 5-year graph shows how constantly the traffic has developed.   First customer with 100GE is live And there is more to come: Since earlier this yea...

4 October 2017

DE-CIX Apollon next stop: UAE-IX in Dubai

As we reported earlier this year, UAE-IX, managed by datamena in partnership with DE-CIX, will upgrade to the DE-CIX Apollon technology platform. In the last few weeks, our network engineers have prepared everything to be ready for Dubai. In our laboratory in Frankfurt, they prepared parts of ...

Orixcom news
30 May 2017

Orixcom doubles port capacity on UAE-IX

Orixcom, the leading provider of managed IT, cloud and international connectivity services across the Middle East and Africa and the UAE-IX Internet Exchange, powered by DE-CIX, today signed a deal to double Orixcom’s port capacity on the Dubai based UAE-IX.  Andrew Grenville, Chief Executive ...

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