DE-CIX North America announces the introduction of the Apollon technology platform into its New York City Internet exchange and the expansion of operations to 111 access points in Manhattan, New Jersey and Long Island. DE-CIX Apollon, the world’s largest and most advanced Ethernet interconnection platform, will provide highly secure and resilient connectivity to the DE-CIX New York peering platform.
Multiple dark fiber rings provide the DE-CIX New York carrier- and data center-neutral Internet exchange with its scalable backbone. The downtown Manhattan dark fiber ring was implemented in 2013 and is joined by a New Jersey ring, which connects New Jersey data center facilities back to the Apollon supernodes in Manhattan. Additionally, the exchange operates a Chelsea ring, connecting Telehouse Chelsea facility to the Supernodes. The latest addition to the exchange is the Long Island ring, which supports customers in the 1025Connect facility in Westbury.
“In addition to metro fiber, we have also secured dark fiber riser assets in multi-tenant buildings and connected them to DE-CIX New York switching sites,” confirms Frank Orlowski, Head of Marketing for DE-CIX. “This expands our reach to 111 access points in seven facilities across the NY/NJ region – more than any other Internet exchange in North America. One port from a DE-CIX site now delivers access to any other customer at the same or 110 other locations in the New York metro, plus the more than 600 customers at our primary Frankfurt exchange. The New York metro is a competitive market, but DE-CIX Apollon is taking peering and interconnection to the next level. We are working diligently to make DE-CIX New York the major exchange in this metro market.”
Of the 111 access points at DE-CIX New York, ninety-nine are currently 100-GE ready. The remaining access points will be upgraded to 100-E in the near future.
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For more information on DE-CIX New York, please visit http://nyc.de-cix.net.
