AMS-IX Joins Mplify Alliance to Help Shape the Next Phase of Interconnection Automation
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AMS-IX
05 June 2026
AMS-IX today announced that it has joined the Mplify Alliance alongside DE-CIX and LINX to collaborate on the use and evolution of Mplify's Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs for IP peering, cloud on-ramp connectivity, and emerging AI-driven traffic exchange.
Mplify, a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy, is expanding its ecosystem to include Internet Exchange (IX) providers.
For AMS-IX, this is a natural next step in our ongoing work to make interconnection more automated, scalable and easier to manage for our customers ans partners. As cloud adoption, AI workloads, and data-intensive applications continue to accelerate, the industry is facing growing demand for scalable, standards-based frameworks that enable providers to automate connectivity, improve interoperability, and support more programable Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) environments.
Internet Exchanges play a central role in global digital infrastructure, connecting thousands of internet service providers, cloud providers, enterprises, and content platforms worldwide. By joining Mplify, we will help bring the experience of the Internet Exchange community into Mplify’s LSO API framework, supporting a more consistent automation framework across providers and domains.
Kevin Vachon, COO of Mplify:
“We are excited to see the leading Internet Exchanges engaging with Mplify LSO APIs as part of their broader automation strategies. Their participation represents another important step in extending the reach of milestone in the movement towards the adoption of Mplify’s API framework across the interconnection ecosystem and creating new opportunities for automation across providers, exchanges, cloud platforms, and emerging AI infrastructure.”
The collaboration reflects growing industry alignment around standardised APIs for interconnection automation. By leveraging Mplify’s LSO API framework, Internet Exchanges, service providers, data centres, and enterprises can support more automated, scalable, and interoperable service delivery and consumption across peering, cloud, and emerging AI-driven connectivity environments.
Internet Exchanges have played an important role in advancing automation through initiatives such as the Apache-licensed IX-API project. Mplify provides an opportunity to build on that work and explore broader interoperability across providers, exchanges, cloud platforms, and emerging AI infrastructure.
Peter van Burgel, CEO of AMS-IX:
“Internet Exchanges are a critical part of the digital economy, enabling the seamless and secure exchange of traffic between networks, cloud providers, enterprises, and digital platforms worldwide. At the same time, they play an increasingly important role in strengthening digital autonomy by supporting resilient, independent, and locally interconnected digital infrastructure. By joining the Mplify Alliance, we are building on the expertise we've gained through IX-API and beyond to actively shape the next phase of automation and interoperability across the interconnection ecosystem. Standardised APIs and orchestration frameworks such as Mplify’s LSO APIs will be essential in enabling scalable, programmable, and AI-ready connectivity services.
Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX:
“At DE-CIX, we have joined the Mplify Alliance to contribute to the development of Mplify’s broadly adopted LSO APIs. The integration of the IX automation functionality – already developed in the IX-API standard – into Mplify’s APIs will further drive Network-as-a-Service adoption throughout the interconnection value chain. Through open standards and industry collaboration, DE-CIX drives continual innovation in the interconnection sector and the automation of connectivity services, reinforcing its evolution as a leading Interconnection and Network-as-a-Service provider.”
Riccardo Verzeni, Director of Software Engineering at LINX:
“By collaborating with Mplify, we want to explore extending the IX-API project into a complementary subsection of the LSO API portfolio, so the work the community has already done gains broader reach without losing its open, vendor-neutral character. Our IX-API project, released under Apache and shaped by the IX community, will continue, and we believe this is an opportunity to widen the surface across which all IX services can be managed and consumed.”
About Mplify
Mplify is a global alliance of network, cloud, cybersecurity, and enterprise organizations working together to accelerate the AI-powered digital economy through standardization, automation, certification, and collaboration.
As the defining authority behind Carrier Ethernet, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) APIs, and certified SASE and SD-WAN, Mplify has developed the global blueprint for Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) that is empowering the industry to innovate, interoperate, and scale trusted network services across a global ecosystem.
For more information, visit www.mplify.net.
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