Frankfurt, Germany-based internet exchange firm DE-CIX has implemented the first phase of its AI internet exchange (AI-IX).
Phase 1 of the exchange consists of 50 artificial intelligence (AI) Inference-as-a-Service and GPU-as-a-service providers and more than 160 cloud on-ramps globally. They are linked by DE-CIX’s proprietary multi-AI routing technology.
The network provides exchange operators to offer resilient, low latency, high security interconnections specifically designed for real-time AI-powered use-cases, the company says. The offering is available at DE-CIX locations worldwide.
Phase 2, which the company said will be “carried out soon,” will be to ensure that their AI internet exchange technologies are Ultra-Ethernet-ready and able to support geographically distributed AI training. This will help as training moves out of centralized facilities.
Rollout of phases 1 and 2 is being undertaken globally. DE-CIX says that it will become the first operator to offer an AI internet exchange that can support both training and inference. Benefits from AI peering include cost reductions, increased security, higher performance, and reduced complexity.
“With various predictions made for millions — even hundreds of millions — of AI agents in the coming years, the need for interconnection services to support their operations is growing massively,” DE-CIX CEO Ivo Ivanov said in a press release about the AI internet exchange technology.
In early February, Nokia and DE-CIX announced the upgrade of the backbone network for DE-CIX New York, the largest IX in New York and in the country’s northeast region. The DE-CIX backbone was to be upgraded to 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) using Nokia optics and redesigned in a ring topology. The new topology will redundantly interconnect the 10 data center facilities where DE-CIX infrastructure is housed.
In May, Connected Nation (CN) and Wichita State University (WSU) held a groundbreaking ceremony for Kansas’ first carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP). The facility’s Internet Exchange (IX) platform is managed in collaboration with DE-CIX.
