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Dev Update #4

🔔 It's Development Update time! We're excited to use this update to illustrate our attention to our environmental footprint, launch our NIKHEF patch length calculator and add several quality of life improvements to the ERA-IX Infrastructure...

2023-07-07

ERA-IX expands into IM AMS-1 and Qupra DC

Our team is eager to announce our expansion into new data centers in the Amsterdam region. Our previous locations were growing healthy, so in order to reach even more networks we have been focussing on new data centers to connect to our platform...

2023-02-20

Milestone: 3 terabits of connected capacity

Here we are with the first capacity milestone in 2023; more than 3 terabits of physically connected capacity. That means more than 3.000 gigabits per second of connected capacity, available to our members to exchange their precious packets...

2023-02-06

Dev Update #3

Since our last development update, we have been working hard to be able to provide our members with even more unique and revolutionary features. The features implemented in this update will result in a cleaner peering LAN and might send ripples across the internet...

2022-12-19

New branding and website

Welcome to an exciting update! This time it's about our branding and website. As you may have noticed we silently launched our new website this weekend, but now it's official. As were establishing more presence in real life we thought it was about time to create some presence online, so we...

2022-11-28

Expansion into Equinix AM DCs

We're proud to announce our first expansion into a new DC, specifically Equinix AM7 in Amsterdam. This expansion is part of our strategy in order to offer our connectivity to the most concentrated and connected data centers in Amsterdam. From AM7 we are able to reach all popular networks inside Equinix...

2022-11-21

Dev Update #2

Good day and welcome to our second development update. In the previous update, we introduced this format to showcase new technical features and improvements at ERA-IX. In this second update, we are going to talk about our latest and exciting developments of the past months...

2022-11-11

Milestone: One terabit of connected capacity

We started ERA-IX a few months ago to solve a "problem". You might think; what is wrong with current internet exchanges? Well, there is a lot to talk about this opinion, but let's park that for a future blog post. Our goal is to offer a more cost-effective, neutral, and innovative exchange experience...

2022-08-29

Dev Update #1

Good day and welcome to our first development update, #1. In these updates we are going to showcase new technical features and improvements at ERA-IX. In this particular update we are going to talk about our new integration into the portal, configuration availability, member 2 member statistics...

2022-05-25

A new era of internet exchanging

Internet exchanges should facilitate highly cost, port and environmentally efficient connections between the networks making up the internet. With internet exchanges sometimes even challenging the price of IP transit providers we think it's time for a change - A new era of internet exchanging...

2022-04-06