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AMS-IX USA Inc. and GlobeNet Partner to Provide Easier Access to Internet Peering Services

NEW YORK, NY — (Marketwired) — 10/05/15 — , the U.S. subsidiary of (Amsterdam Internet Exchange), welcomes wholesale provider of Latin and North America data network services as the first Brazilian company to join the AMS-IX USA . The partnership enables GlobeNet to remotely connect North American and LATAM customers to peer with parties on the peering platform and enhance their IP service offering.

Following a customer connection to AMS-IX New York in February 2015, GlobeNet–s new partnership with AMS-IX USA Inc. allows it to serve as a certified AMS-IX Partner offering customers lower cost access to large Internet players. GlobeNet–s network delivers extensive coverage in South America, including Colombia, Venezuela and many Points of Presence (PoPs) in Brazil as well as in the U.S.

“As the first Brazilian AMS-IX USA Partner, GlobeNet champions the efficient delivery of IP transport, AMS-IX peering ports and reliable support to customers in LATAM as well as in the U.S.,” says Erick W. Contag, President and Chief Operating Officer of GlobeNet. “Requiring no additional capital investment and enabling lower port capacity on-demand, this partnership allows our customers to cost-effectively expand their network infrastructure and more effectively support their clients– network requirements.”

AMS-IX was the first Internet Exchange worldwide to introduce a Partner Program to its customers. The AMS-IX USA Partner Program allows third parties to resell AMS-IX ports anywhere they have infrastructure connected to AMS-IX–s U.S. locations in , New York and the . Under the program, these parties and their services are certified to offer the AMS-IX service remotely. The program is aimed to provide easier access to AMS-IX–s U.S. locations for new (remote) customers through AMS-IX USA Inc. partners, thus increasing the value of these exchanges through added peering benefits.

“With its extensive network reach, GlobeNet serves as a gateway to new U.S. cities as well as South America and Brazil, one of the region–s largest Internet markets,” adds Job Witteman, Chief Executive Officer at AMS-IX. “Providing easier access to a neutral, distributed IX such as AMS-IX New York offers GlobeNet customers high-quality IP peering and interconnectivity services, while further enabling the growth of the Internet.”

For more information about AMS-IX USA Inc., visit .

The AMS-IX USA Inc. deploys , and in the United States. These platforms are modelled after AMS-IX in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, providing high-quality IP interconnection and peering services for all types of IP traffic, from regular IP data, Voice over IP, mobile Internet traffic to video. Peering allows these networks to offer their end users (consumers and companies) stable, fast and cost efficient Internet services.

AMS-IX USA Inc. is a subsidiary of AMS-IX in Amsterdam. Founded in 1997, AMS-IX is the world–s leading Internet Exchange interconnecting close to 750 unique IP networks from around the globe and exchanging Internet traffic of more than 4 Terabits per second at peak moments. Additionally, AMS-IX hosts the first mobile peering points worldwide: The Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX), the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX) and the first interconnection of IPX networks (Inter-IPX).

GlobeNet provides International capacity between North and South America over its award-winning submarine cable system serving Brazil, Bermuda, Colombia, the U.S.A., and Venezuela. Covering a distance of more than 23,500 kilometers, the sophisticated submarine cable network system offers the lowest latency available between the Americas. The network links cable landing stations in Tuckerton, NJ and Boca Raton, FL, USA, with cable landing stations in Fortaleza (CE) and Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil, St. David–s, Bermuda, Barranquilla, Colombia as well as Maiquetía, Venezuela. GlobeNet is a portfolio company of BTG Pactual–s Infrastructure Fund II. .

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