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.
More information can be found on the IX-API website. If you have any questions regarding the DE-CIX API, please contact us at api@de-cix.net.