DE-CIX India Internet Exchange

DE-CIX India is a regional Internet exchange peering and interconnection hub for the major Indian and international networks. It runs the neutral exchange points in the Indian cities Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, and Kolkata which interconnects a large number of Internet service providers (ISP’s), content delivery networks (CDN’s), over the top (OTT) players, DNS root servers, national & international telco networks, and social media networks in all major metropolitan areas, which helps Indian networks to keep their Internet traffic local. De-Cix India is operated by world's largest Internet exchange.

DE-CIX India is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in India which interconnects large number of internet service providers(ISPs), content delivery networks(CDNs), over the top(OTT) players, DNS root servers, natonal and international telco networks and social media networks in all major metropolitan areas. De-cix India also runs Internet Exchange Points in the Indian cities Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Chennai.

DE-CIX India acting as the facilitator for networks to get the benefits of peering and offers secure internet peering services solution to networks. We also provide private peering and bilateral peering through our secured L2 platforms where it connects directly with desired CDN's and other networks.

De-Cix Kolkata provides internet exchange services for east and north east India. By opening a bilateral peering platform in Kolkata, the development of the Internet in this region will be fostered, and we are happy to facilitate interconnection between national networks and international players.

De-Cix is peering hub in mumbai as is distributed across four carrier- neutral DC's and will expand it’s presence to several more in the near future. All IXs are interconnected and connections are available in port capacities of 1G, 10G, and 100G. As of now, we are the Asia's only OIX-1 certified IXP (internet exchange point), hosted in two OIX-2 datacenters and interconnects 160+ Networks across the entire of India and around the World. Connect to our largest internet exchange in Mumbai.

Delhi Ix opens the peering platform which is crucial for the development of the Internet in ths region and we are happy to facilitate interconnection between national networks and international players. This internet exchange point in Delhi is opreated by DE-CIX Interwire Internet Services Private Limited, which owns a nationwide license for India.

De-Cix Chennai internet exchange point is operated by DE-CIX Interwire Internet Services Private Limited, which owns a nationwide license for India. Peering hub in Chennai is critical for the advancement of the Internet in this area, and we are glad to encourage interconnection between national systems and global players. It is closer to Singapore city, which is one of the most important regional hub in the Asia-Pacific.

De-Cix India is peering service provider in various areas including metropolitian cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Peering DB is widely accepted Default Public Database for making Peering & Interconnection decisions. Created in 2004 by Richard Steenbergen. Previously Internet Exchange Points (IXP’s) or Private Peering facilities (Colocation facilities) use to maintain a list for their Peering Partners.

DE-CIX has awarded as “Best Internet Exchange” for the fifth time in a row in the last five years at the Global Carrier Awards Ceremony during the Europe’s largest annual meet at Capacity Europe’19.
DE-CIX’s outstanding performance as an interconnection service provider in the IX market.

De-Cix India have many "internet exchange point" at major cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Cheenai and Kolkata covering all parts of India.

De-cix India is one the leading peering service provider. Peering DB database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centres, and other interconnection services, and is the first step in making interconnection decisions.

DE-CIX India team is excited to update our peers and readers about the 25th Anniversary of DE-CIX on 26th June 2020. Join us!

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A neutral Internet Exchange operator on the Indian subcontinent,DE-CIX India, is now launching its DirectCLOUD service at their DE-CIX Mumbai location. Customers can now access the DE-CIX Cloud Exchange and connect to the global cloud services provided by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud; Amazon Web Services is coming soon. Thus, businesses across all industries are offered game-changing opportunities.

“This is the first step in building an extensive Indian cloud ecosystem, which will feature both global and local service providers. We are looking forward to go beyond peering and bring our customers more value for their existing accesses to DE-CIX. More and more business-critical workloads are running in the cloud; thus, enterprises have an increasing need to get a robust, secure and private connection to these cloud infrastructures. Therefore, DE-CIX offers a Cloud Exchange with some of the most important Cloud Service Providers available allowing customers by using one physical infrastructure to access all the Cloud Service Providers they are using,” says Sudhir Kunder, Senior Vice President and National Head Sales at DE-CIX India.

DE-CIX’s cloud ecosystem is a unique community of certified partners, working together to ensure a secure, resilient, and reliable access to the cloud. Within this ecosystem, the DirectCLOUD service is an interface connecting the infrastructure of a company via an Internet service provider (ISP) or data center (DC) with the selected cloud service provider (CSP). This makes access to many different cloud service providers, from niches to hybrid solutions, very easy.

DirectCLOUD service offers a direct connection to the cloud providers on the DE-CIX Apollon platform, bypassing public Internet with guaranteed bandwidth and security against DDoS. The DirectCLOUD finder helps in finding the available cloud service providers and requested features and categories, such as IaaS, DDoS, self-provisioning, or certifications. The DirectCLOUD connection can also be used to link to other ISPs in order to use their services, e.g. IP transit, infrastructure, and network capabilities.

DirectCLOUD service offers a direct connection to the cloud providers on the DE-CIX Apollon platform, bypassing public Internet with a guaranteed bandwidth and security against DDoS. The DirectCLOUD finder helps in finding the available cloud service providers and requested features and categories, such as IaaS, DDoS, self-provisioning, or certifications.

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An internet exchange point (IXP) is a physical network access point through which primary network providers connect their networks and exchange traffic. Sometimes it is hard to believe that the Internet can be stored in some physical segment. Although it is true, that the internet is stored. While using the Internet, we connect to two networks at a time to acquire data and is known as Peering.

Why is an Internet Exchange important?

Let’s presume, that you as an end user browsing something which is hosted outside India through your service provider, the query will go all the way through the international gateway to Singapore and then come back to you. The time taken to achieve this becomes much.  In order to get this query to be routed locally, IXP’s come in to picture which provides a platform to those providers to host their infrastructure locally and serve the users with lowest possible latency.

In other words if there is no Internet Exchange in a country, the domestic ISPs will have to purchase the transit from nearby foreign ISPs, which will make the internet expensive and the efficiency of the network is also affected. To conclude Internet Exchange Points help to keep the local internet traffic local and avoid the international links. This improves the local internet performance.

Internet Exchange point is often referred as Exchange Point, Peering Exchange, Peering Hub, Internet Peering Point etc. There are a total 880 Internet Exchanges worldwide.

The benefits for an ISP connecting to an Internet Exchange Point are:
Substantial cost saving with local networks & hosting global CDNs.
More improved bandwidth.
Reduced latency with a better quality of experience.
High-speed data transfer.
Enhanced Routing efficiency.
How does connecting to the Internet Exchange Point benefits businesses?
Internet exchanges make the internet a swift and easy tool for business use. It helps you retrieve and forward data over the internet and execute tasks. Being close to an IXP can bring the company great advantages and help it to achieve more as costs will be lower, response time will be lower and your data will be safer.

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Corporate data in the cloud can be easily saved, recovered, or organized with just a couple of clicks on their smartphones and other devices to keep up with clients and colleagues. Users get access to their works, 24/7, via any devices of their choice. This saves the IT team workload and results in customer satisfaction.

Who can benefit from the cloud?

Any company irrespective of size and industry can benefit from the cloud. It is widely used by businesses to use it as a data backup, disaster recovery, software development, database management and to access files and records on the go through compatible devices.

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To conclude, Internet Exchange Points connects the Content Delivery Networks, Internet Service Providers, Over-the-top Platforms (Video-on-demand platforms), IPTV, Web Hosting Companies, DNS Root Servers, Telecommunications, and Cloud Service Providers.

It makes the process of exchanging data and internet traffic efficient, secured and reliable between the above network providers on a settlement-free agreement.

The first private Internet Exchange Point in India is Mumbai IX, which is now known as DE-CIX India after their joint venture with DE-CIX. DE-CIX India is data center neutral and has presence in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata with 220+ networks and presence in 8 data centers all over India.

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