DE-CIX and Iraq-IXP Announce Partnership

By Saf Malik, CapacityMedia.com
March 30, 2022

The announcement was made at Capability Center East with the official signing attended by Ivo Ivanov, CEO of DE-CIX and Ahmed Al-Sheikh, CEO of Iraq-IXP.

The brand new mission will create a powerful and wholesome native interconnection and a “connectivity ecosystem” in response to Ivanov with technical implementation deliberate for later this yr.

Ivanov provides that the important thing driver of this partnership is digitalisation, and this requires ample infrastructure.

“In a rustic with a inhabitants of 40 million the place nearly 34 million are already web customers, this can be a necessary piece of infrastructure,” he provides.

“There’s a enormous urge for food for digital companies at the most effective efficiency attainable and we need to ship this with localisation of content material and cloud functions.”

The announcement marks the third main growth this week from DE-CIX as the corporate introduced it will open a new internet exchange in Leipzig, whereas it additionally revealed DE-CIX Phoenix, its fifth North America market is now live.

Iraq is the third-largest nation within the Center East with web penetration standing at round 75% and Ivanov went on to emphasize the significance of Iraq to DE-CIX.

He described it as a singular, “nearly untapped” market due to its geographic place and mentioned the partnership will bridge a spot out there, lastly delivering the infrastructure that “individuals and companies within the nation deserve”.

Ivanov provides that he believes this partnership could possibly be the inspiration that leads hyperscalers, carriers and different regional and worldwide gamers to discover alternatives within the nation.

Al-Sheikh says the purpose for Iraq-IXP is to localise the web visitors inside Iraq and this partnership will go a way towards bringing the very best high quality web service, lowest latency and greatest expertise for customers inside Iraq and in neighbouring nations.

The purpose of the corporate, he provides, is to be a world hub to the area with the help of DE-CIX.