New York, 3 March 2020: DE-CIX, the world’s leading Internet Exchange (IX) operator with the largest carrier and data center-neutral IX in the major markets of New York and Dallas, and CoreSite (NYSE:COR), a premier provider of secure, reliable, high-performance data center and interconnection solutions across the U.S., today announced that DE-CIX has joined CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange.
Powerful Collaboration between DE-CIX and CoreSite
Through the CoreSite SDN-based Open Cloud Exchange, which provides a single port into a layer 2 Ethernet switching platform, customers can now reach DE-CIX New York to access over 220 networks through a single interconnection. CoreSite customers in Boston and Northern Virginia can now provision connections to DE-CIX to reach networks not available in each local market. Through CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange, customers gain easy access to global and specialized networks through a single interconnection.
Enabling Further Connectivity, Route Diversity and Global Reach
“We’re excited to offer access to DE-CIX New York through CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange,” said Ed d’Agostino, Vice President and General Manager of DE-CIX North America. “Through a connection to DE-CIX New York, CoreSite customers gain more than just access to hundreds of domestic and international networks. A connection also enables the ability to use DE-CIX’s GlobePEER Remote service, which extends low latency connectivity and reach to DE-CIX Frankfurt and other exchanges with access to over 1,200 networks throughout the world seamlessly, effectively and more cost-efficiently.”
CoreSite customers can utilize an existing port on the Open Cloud Exchange or provision a new port to access DE-CIX New York, among other leading cloud and IT service providers. Access to DE-CIX New York can be ordered in bandwidth increments from 1G to 10G.
“By connecting to DE-CIX New York, our data center customers can expand their low latency connections to hundreds of networks, thus enhancing their networks’ performance, reach, and resiliency in a cost-effective manner,” said Juan Font, CoreSite’s Senior Vice President, General Management. “DE-CIX is a great addition to CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange, further enriching the value of our ecosystem and we’re pleased to offer our customers the additional connectivity opportunities that DE-CIX New York brings to our Open Cloud Exchange platform.”
About CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange
With DE-CIX joining CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange, CoreSite’s customers in Boston and Northern Virginia can provision private, low latency connectivity to DE-CIX New York through the Open Cloud Exchange without incurring additional third-party costs such as transport or remote access fees. CoreSite’s inter-site connectivity solutions provide customers high-speed connectivity to multiple service providers with on-demand flexibility delivering low latency solutions that bypass the public internet. This scalable platform enables rapid, near real-time provisioning through CoreSite’s private online portal and enables access to an entire ecosystem of providers through a single port, providing multiple virtual connections for improved network performance.