Frankfurt/Germany, October 1, 2015 – DE-CIX today launches its new Internet exchange in Istanbul, Turkey. DE-CIX Istanbul
will be operated by DE-CIX Istanbul Network Connections LLC, which is a
wholly owned subsidiary of DE-CIX International AG. The new Istanbul
exchange will deliver carrier and data center-neutral Internet exchange
services in Turkey, the Caucasus region, Persia and the Middle East.
DE-CIX
Istanbul will locate the first presence of its new platform in the
MedNautilus building, a multi-tenant and carrier-neutral facility. The
building houses colocation operators across several floors, including
MedNautilus (part of the Telecom Italia Sparkle group),
Turkcell/Superonline and Verizon. All of the other data center floors
will be DE-CIX-enabled.
The
building is also served with capacity from all of the major national
Turkish and a large number of international carriers. This includes
being a landing station for the MedNautilus subsea cable backbone, which serves the Mediterranean basin. Because of this strong connectivity into the MedNautilus facility, customers will have an abundant and diverse community of carriers to choose from starting Day One of operations.
Furthermore,
the DE-CIX service will be available in more than fifteen additional
facilities across the city of Istanbul. Network operators can also take
advantage of the DE-CIX Istanbul service in three other cities across
Turkey, including Ankara, Bursa and Izmir.
In
addition, DE-CIX International acquired the Istanbul Internet Exchange
(IST-IX), founded by Terremark. IST-IX will be transferred to DE-CIX and
upgraded to the DE-CIX Apollon platform, DE-CIX’s 100GE-enabled
exchange backed by best-in-class Service Level Agreements.
“DE-CIX
Istanbul will become a network ‘center of gravity’ in a part of the
world that is so important to the Internet,” states Harald A. Summa,
DE-CIX CEO. “We are combining a strong multi-carrier data center
environment with DE-CIX Apollon and our experience in building out
successful Internet exchanges. We intend to create a peering ecosystem
that consists initially of both national and regional players that will
evolve into an attractive world-class interconnection environment for
the entire region.”
For more information on DE-CIX, please visit www.de-cix.net.
