IX-API is now live

By bringing the IX-API live, we now provide an interface that supports end-to-end automated processes and enables networks to configure, change and cancel services. Connecting to AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX through the IX-API is standardized and by that easier and more efficient. In addition, the IX-API will provide more self-management options for users.

“This is a very important project for us as it shows that IXs and their partners can collaborate and work together on one common standard,” says AMS-IX CTO Henk Steenman. “This API makes it easier for IX partners to interface in a standardized, automated way with the IXs, resulting in a better experience for the customers when they connect to an IX.”

• Ability to easily configure, change and cancel IX services at multiple IXs without any human interaction
• Accelerated speed of configuration, changes and cancellations of IX services from days to minutes
• Reachable 24 x 7 x 365
• More cost-efficiency due to less required effort per transaction
• More transparency of the service due to instant feedback
• Integration of IX service in customers’ portals
• Reduced implementation costs due to offering a single API language to multiple IXs

• Authentication in the API
• Overview of customer contracts
• Option to create a new customer contract and add customer contact information to it
• Overview of enabled physical ports
• Option to create a new MAC address under a customer contract
• Overview of all VLANs available at AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX
• Option to create a new virtual link for their customer and add a previously created MAC to it
• Provision a newly created virtual link
• Overview of all available route servers at AMS-IX, DE-CIX and LINX
• Enable route server peering for a provisioned virtual link
• Overview of customers’ virtual links

• Signed Reseller Agreement
• Preconfigured physical reseller port(s) on IX’s side
• Precreated reseller's API-user
• Operational route server(s) on IX’s side