- DE-CIX’s São Paulo IX now live across Equinix SP4, Elea SPO1, and Ascenty SP4, with 20 networks onboarding.
- The exchange offers local and remote peering, cloud-exchange and multi-cloud routing, embedding Brazil into DE-CIX’s global interconnection fabric.
What happened: DE-CIX has launched its first Internet Exchange hub in São Paulo, Brazil
DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange (IX) operators, has officially launched its São Paulo IX in Brazil, marking its first full-scale entry into South America. The launch brings a new, enterprise-grade interconnection platform to Latin America’s largest economy, initially spanning three neutral data centres—Equinix SP4, Elea Digital SPO1, and Ascenty SP4.
The exchange has already attracted 20 early participants, ranging from global carriers and local ISPs to content delivery networks. Among them is TBC Azion Technologies, a Brazilian edge-computing platform with infrastructure distributed across more than 100 data centres, which plans to leverage the IX for low-latency delivery of cloud and AI-driven services.
Unlike traditional peering facilities that primarily connect local ISPs, DE-CIX São Paulo offers a full suite of interconnection services. These include:
- Local peering between Brazilian networks to reduce traffic backhaul and latency.
- Remote peering into DE-CIX hubs in New York, Madrid, Lisbon, and Frankfurt, giving São Paulo operators direct access to thousands of international networks.
- Cloud Exchange and DirectCLOUD services, enabling enterprises to connect directly and securely to leading cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud.
- Multi-cloud routing, which allows organisations to optimise workloads between different cloud environments seamlessly.
By embedding São Paulo into its global interconnection fabric, DE-CIX extends its reach across five continents. Traffic from São Paulo can now travel across DE-CIX’s international backbone, a network that already interconnects over 3,500 networks from 100+ countries.
The launch of the São Paulo IX also complements DE-CIX’s earlier move into Rio de Janeiro, creating a two-hub Brazilian presence. Both sites are linked, giving participants in Rio or São Paulo the ability to interconnect transparently as part of a broader “DE-CIX Brazil” platform. This dual-city model mirrors DE-CIX’s approach in Europe, where it operates clusters across multiple metropolitan areas for redundancy and scalability.
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Why it’s important
Brazil’s digital landscape is vast: with approximately 165 million internet users and over 10,000 distinct networks, the nation represents a critical growth market for interconnection services.
Until now, Brazilian operators relied heavily on the IX.br system, especially its São Paulo node—the world’s largest by traffic and participant count, peaking at over 22 Tb/s with more than 2,400 ASNs in late 2024. However, IX.br is government-run and primarily serves metropolitan-scale peering.
DE-CIX’s arrival delivers a fresh dimension: neutral, SLA-backed enterprise-level interconnection options, high-performance cloud on-ramps, and multi-cloud routing. It fills a longstanding gap in Brazil’s interconnection ecosystem, giving corporations and ISPs enhanced control, reliability, and international reach.
For companies like Azion, with infrastructure across 100+ data centres, this means delivering AI workloads and high-availability services with lower latency, regardless of user location.
At a strategic level, the synergy of DE-CIX’s São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro IXs (the Rio node launched earlier) marks Brazil as DE-CIX’s gateway into South America—its fifth continent of operation.
