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 liveAnd there is more to come: Since earlier this year, the ...
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 the ...
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 O...
9 March 2017 UAE-IX upgrades to groundbreaking DE-CIX Apollon platform UAE-IX, managed by datamena in partnership with DE-CIX, will upgrade to the powerful DE-CIX Apollon technology platform as the foundation for its regional infrastructure in the United Arabian Emirates in the near future. The DE-CIX Apollon platform is the world’s largest and most advanced E...
18 January 2016 UAE-IX reaches new traffic peaks almost daily On January 13, UAE-IX reached a peak in traffic of more than 50 Gigabit per second for the first time. Our recent increase in traffic is considerable and is a result of UAE-IX’s enormous growth in 2015. Connected content like Twitter, Netflix, Akamai and Google account for a lot of this traffic as...
2 November 2015 GBI joins DE-CIX and UAE-IX Internet Exchanges GBI, a global service provider that owns and operates a multilayer carrier neutral network connecting the world to the Middle East, has joined two of DE-CIX's key global Internet exchanges: DE-CIX in Frankfurt, Germany, and UAE-IX in Dubai. In addition, GBI has joined the DE-CIX Partner Program, w...
26 March 2015 Zain Group Joins UAE-IX to Increase Peering Opportunities With Middle East Carriers Zain Group has connected to UAE-IX, the first carrier-neutral Internet traffic exchange platform in the Middle East. Zain Group is a leading mobile telecommunications and data services provider in the Middle East and North Africa, serving more than 44.3 million active customers across eight ...
16 December 2014 First customer from Bahrain joins UAE-IX Kalaam Telecom has joined UAE-IX as the first network from Bahrain. Kalaam Telecom is the second largest telecommunications provider for corporate services in Bahrain and is growing steadily to become a one-stop shop for global carriers. Now, they are able to peer directly with other regional and ...
28 November 2014 UAE-IX Peering Workshop and Peering Cruise On November 26, customers and interested networks met in Dubai for the UAE-IX Peering Workshop and Peering Cruise. “This was another fabulous UAE-IX event,” said DE-CIX’s Head of Strategic Development, Ivo Ivanov. “The combination of peering knowledge transfer and the business networking was ideal...
26 November 2014 IX Reach connects Italian network Redder as first remote peer at UAE-IX IX Reach, the wholesale network solutions provider, has become the very first partner to connect a network to UAE-IX. Redder, an Italian telephony and Internet service provider specializing in offering high-quality business-to-business solutions, remotely connected from Europe to the exchange ...
