Digital Everywhere for Everyone

The Enterprise of the Future is Digital. Latency is the New Currency for the exciting next generation of applications and services. In the coming days, latency to be the new oil or currency. All are businesses focussed on digital products and services. And all of them are specialists at handling what many regard as the world’s most valuable commodity.

As latency requirements get lower and lower, it becomes more and more important to bring interconnection services as close to people and businesses as possible - everywhere. DE-CIX, the operator of the world’s leading interconnection ecosystems, brings low-latency, high-performance interconnection services to 25 Internet Exchanges around the world, connecting over 2100 of the world’s largest networks, available through 500+ data centers in more than 100 countries.

Today, with our IXs around the globe, we provide coverage for approximately 4 billion people at a latency of 65ms or lower. However, if latency requirements continue to develop in line with the speed of innovation that we have seen in recent years, within a relatively short time, digital services and applications will have advanced to the point that even lower latencies are required.

Technologies such as data analytics, the internet of things (IoT) and automation are being introduced, but the sector still lags others, such as manufacturing, in the speed at which it is transforming. Nonetheless, these technologies require and result in a huge amount of data being produced.