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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

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, 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 ...

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...