Equinix has made two significant announcements this week around connectivity, expanding options in German data centers and boosting capacity between Brazil and the US connection through low-latency subsea fiber provider GlobeNet.

The relationship with Germany-based DC-CIX, one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world, has been expanded with three new Points-of-Presence (PoPs) added to three Equinix data centers in Frankfurt (FR2, FR4 and FR5 (together known as Campus Kleyer)).

Equinix said this is the first stage of a rollout of a higher-capacity network by DC-CIX, the Frankfurt exchange which has infrastructure in metro markets across Germany and the Middle East and is used by more than 500 ISPs from more than 50 countries.

In 2012, DC-CIX commenced a takeover of the UAE-IX in Dubai.

DC-CIX has designed the new PoPs to provide enhanced performance and peering opportunities.

The new PoP has also been added at a time when Equinix is expanding its data center network in Germany following its acquisition of ancotel GmbH last year.

Equinix FR5 was part of this acquisition and has since been linked with the Fr4 campus using an 864 fiber 3km resilient connection which also connects to FR2 to create the new campus.

The campus itself, with about 10,500 sq m in colocation capacity, has more than 7,100 physical cross connects, which makes it one the most dense interconnection points in the world.

In its Florida M13 International Business Exchange, Equinix has helped GlobeNet open the fastest IP traffic route from the US to Brazil.

GlobeNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oi and offers wholesale submarine capacity.

Equinix said that about 75% of all network traffic coming from Latin America to the US comes via Miami, and its M13 facility currently has the sixth highest Internet capacity in the world, much of this brought on by the rising demand for mobile, content delivery, video streaming and cloud technologies in Brazil.

The GlobeNet network also connects to Equinix’s SP2 data center in São Paulo, Brazil.

GlobeNet, which owns one of three privately owned geographic ring networks in the North America-South America capacity market, operates more than 22,500 km of subsea cable network designed for low-latency routes.