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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
Manage your GlobePEER service
Delete your GlobePEER service
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
Monitor your services
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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- DE-CIX Route Server Guide
DE-CIX Route Server Guide
This article provides an overview about our route server and its guides.
DE-CIX operates route server systems to facilitate the exchange of Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) announcements between peers. For a detailed description, see RFC7947. Each peer needs only to set up a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) connection to the route server to receive the BGP announcements of all other peers having a BGP connection with the route server.
DE-CIX operates two redundant route servers at each of its Internet Exchanges.
Route servers keep the number of necessary BGP sessions low for DE-CIX customers You need only one BGP session to each of the route servers to receive the prefixes of all other route server users.
Use BGP communities to instruct DE-CIX route servers on which prefixes to announce or withhold. On incoming traffic, use filter lists on your routers to determine which prefixes to accept or reject from the route servers. For newly connected networks, the route servers give a kickstart into peering. They receive all prefixes of all route server users without setting up individual BGP peering sessions. One session to each of the two route servers is enough.
Route Server Guides for the exchanges
Find detailed route server guides for our locations at the links below:
BGP Communities and additional information
On the DE-CIX website, you can also find more information about:
- Informational BGP Communities: Origin tagging
- Operational BGP Communities
- RPKI at the DE-CIX route servers
- AS112 on the DE-CIX route servers
DE-CIX white papers
You can find more information in the DE-CIX white papers, e.g. the Traffic routing basics white paper.
