Release Notes
Getting started
DE-CIX Access
Overview and technical specifications
Create a new Access or LAG
Monitor your Access
Delete your Access
GlobePEER
Overview GlobePEER
Create your GlobePEER service
Route Service
Informational BGP Communities (Route Details)
DE-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
Ruhr-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
SEECIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
ACIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
AqabaIX GlobePEEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
AF-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
Pakistan IE Karachi Route Server Informational BGP Communities
UAE-IX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
IRAQ-IXP Route Server Informational BGP Communities
Borneo-IX GlobePEER Route Server Informational BGP Communities
Penang IX Route Server Informational BGP Communities
Action BGP Communities (Route Server Control)
DE-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
Ruhr-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
Penang IX Route Server Action BGP Communities
Pakistan IE Route Server Action BGP Communities
SEECIX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
AqabaIX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
Iraq-IXP Route Server Action BGP Communities
UAE-IX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
ACIX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
Borneo-IX GlobePEER Route Server Action BGP Communities
Route Server Guides
ACIX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
AF-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
AqabaIX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
Borneo-IX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX ASEAN GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Barcelona GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Chicago GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Copenhagen GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Dallas GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Dusseldorf GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Esbjerg GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Frankfurt GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Hamburg GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Helsinki GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Houston GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Istanbul GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Jakarta GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Kuala Lumpur GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Kristiansand GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Leipzig GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Lisbon GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Madrid GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Malaysia GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Marseille GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Mexico GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Munich GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX New York GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Oslo GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Palermo GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Phoenix GlobePEER Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Richmond GlobePEER Route Server Guide
IRAQ-IXP Route Server Guide
Pakistan IE Karachi GlobePEER Route Server Guide
Penang IX Route Server Guide
Ruhr-CIX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
SEECIX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
UAE-IX GlobePEER Route Server Guide
Manage your GlobePEER service
Delete your GlobePEER service
Blackholing Services
DE-CIX and DaaS GlobePEER Service Info
DirectCLOUD
Overview and Monitoring
Cloud Connections
DirectCLOUD for Microsoft Azure
Create DirectCLOUD Connection for Azure
How to order a DirectCLOUD connection for Azure
Create or upgrade Gateways for your Azure ExpressRoute
Manage your Azure Cloud Connection
Upgrade / downgrade a DirectCLOUD service for Azure
Change DirectCLOUD configurations for Azure
Delete DirectCLOUD configurations for Azure
Monitoring Azure ExpressRoute uptime
Monitor your connection
Delete your Azure Cloud connection
FAQ DirectCLOUD for Microsoft Azure
DirectCLOUD for AWS
Create DirectCLOUD connection for AWS
Manage your DirectCLOUD connection for AWS
Upgrade / downgrade the connection
Change DirectCLOUD configurations for AWS
Delete DirectCLOUD configurations for AWS
Monitoring AWS DirectConnect uptime
Monitor your connection
Delete your AWS Cloud connection
DirectCLOUD for IBM
Create DirectCLOUD connection for IBM
Manage your DirectCLOUD connection for IBM
Upgrade / downgrade a DirectCLOUD service for IBM
Change DirectCLOUD configurations for IBM
Delete DirectCLOUD configurations for IBM
Monitor your connection
Delete your IBM Cloud connection
DirectCLOUD for GCloud
Cloud ROUTER
Overview Cloud ROUTER
Create / Manage your Cloud ROUTER
Create / Manage the configurations
VirtualPNI
Overview VirtualPNI
Create your VirtualPNI
Order and configure your VirtualPNI between two Accesses
Order and configure your VirtualPNI between Access and Cloud ROUTER
Manage your VirtualPNI
Upgrade / Downgrade your VirtualPNI service
Change VirtualPNI configurations
Delete VirtualPNI configurations
Monitor your VirtualPNI
Delete your VirtualPNI service
Colocation
API
Overview IX-API
Cloud ROUTER API
Cloud ROUTER Postman Collection
Monitor and Visibility of Learned Routes and Advertised Routes by API
BGP Ingress and Egress Filters Usage by API
Quick API Reference
Service Insights System
Account administration
Add new users or subcustomers
Manage user roles and permissions
Multi-Factor-Authentification
Retrieving username and reset password
Delete a user
Customer service and ticket system
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- Overview IX-API
Overview IX-API
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by Joseph Thorwest
This article provides an overview of our IX-API, explains how to use it, and outlines the benefits it offers.
DE-CIX API: Simplifying IX services
DE-CIX offers its customers an API (Application Programming Interface) to easily order, configure and cancel interconnection services. It is based on IX-API, an industry standard developed for provisioning interconnection at Internet Exchanges. It supports fully end-to-end automated processes.
An extensive documentation of how the DE-CIX API works is available at the IX-API website.
The DE-CIX API fully adheres to the IX-API standard.

Designed and developed by AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX, the three leading global Internet Exchanges.
How to use the DE-CIX API
The DE-CIX API can only be used by DE-CIX customers. If you want to use it, the following steps are necessary:
- Request an API Key and an API Secret via the DE-CIX Portal https://portal.de-cix.net/api_keys and accept the “DE-CIX API Terms of use”.
- Download the API key and the associated secret.
- Depending on the API version you are using, the API endpoints for your requests are https://api.de-cix.net/api/v1/ or https://api.de-cix.net/api/v2/.
- In order to learn in more detail how to use the API, please have a look at the getting started section on the IX-API website.

Automated processes, cost-efficient and fast
Using the API offers several benefits. It reduces the time for ordering, configuring and cancelling interconnection services from days to minutes. The API is available 24/7/365 and it requires less cost and effort per transaction. As you can use the industry standard IX-API language for multiple Internet Exchanges, implementation costs are reduced to a minimum.