DE-CIX, which operates the world’s largest Internet Exchange in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), has activated the first “supernode” if its next generation interconnection platform — DE-CIX Apollon.
The platform leverages ADVA Optical Networking’s flagship FSP 3000 platform for optical transport capacity of up to 2 Terabits/sec per fiber pair.
The switching layer is powered by Alcatel-Lucent’s Core Router 7950 XRS, which supports port density of up to 80 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports per chassis. The core of the DE-CIX Apollon network is based on four supernodes that are built from the Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS and which are fed by customer-facing switches, both located at secure locations spread throughout the Frankfurt metro.
Now that the first node is active, DE-CIX plans to migrate its remaining legacy switches over to the 7950 XRS switches over the coming months.
