DE-CIX Opens New Internet Exchange In Istanbul, Turkey
Completes Mediterranean trifecta with new location at the crossroads of terrestrial internet traffic lines from the Mediterranean, Africa, Middle East, and Asia.
DE-CIX has announced that the company will open an Internet exchange in Istanbul, Turkey, to provide a neutral interconnection and peering point for Internet service providers from Turkey, Iran, the Caucasus region, and the Middle East. DE-CIX Istanbul will start out with one location and expand over time to multiple data centers across the metropolitan area. The exchange will be an essential part of the Internet ecosystem in the region.
With the World Bank recording Turkey's 2013 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at more than US$ 800 billion, the country's economy has been growing rapidly from the early 2000s. Turkey itself has a large domestic Internet market, including over 470 Internet providers. More than 46 percent of the Turkish population are Internet users themselves, according to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and they generate large volumes of content with national and regional importance. Internet user numbers in-country are growing by 25 percent each year, with consumption via mobile devices leading the way.