This partnership will enhance network connectivity at AdaniConneX’s flagship Chennai 1 Data Center facility in the SIPCOT Region.
Ahmedabad, 10 March 2025: AdaniConneX, one of India’s fastest-growing data center providers, and Extreme IX, one of India’s leading Internet exchanges, have collaborated to establish a new networking point-of-presence (PoP) at AdaniConneX’s flagship Chennai 1 Data Center to deliver internet peering and connectivity services in the region.
The live PoP will provide content providers, cloud service providers, enterprises, and ISPs hosted at the AdaniConneX Chennai 1 Data Center with high-speed, low-latency interconnection services, streamlining connectivity without the need for multiple individual connections. This development enables faster, more seamless content delivery and significantly enhances the digital experience for end-users.
Located at Siruseri SIPCOT IT Park, Chennai 1 is one of the most advanced data center facilities in the region. It is powered by renewable energy, and purpose-built to deliver high-performance colocation infrastructure with full-stack managed services and connectivity solutions.
Shedding light on the partnership, Sanjay Bhutani, CBO of AdaniConneX, said,
“Aligning with our vision of building a 1GW data center platform, we’re taking the required steps to build an interconnected digital ecosystem for content providers to deliver seamless services and enterprises to grow exponentially. With Extreme IX, we find an aligned partner to enable India’s digital growth with reliable and robust network connectivity as a key pillar.”
Adding further, Raunak Maheshwari, Executive Director of Extreme IX, said,
“In AdaniConneX, we have a strategic partner building an environmentally and socially conscious data center platform in India. We are confident that the scale of AdaniConneX, and the wide reach of ExtremeIX will further strengthen India’s peering and interconnection ecosystem. Setting up a new POP at the AdaniConneX Chennai 1 Data Center is another step in our journey of bolstering peering services in India.”
Building on this success, AdaniConneX and Extreme IX plan to roll out additional PoPs across multiple AdaniConneX data centers nationwide, further reinforcing their shared commitment to strengthening India’s digital infrastructure and driving its digital transformation.
About Extreme IX
Extreme IX is one of India’s leading Internet Exchanges. A carrier-neutral, data center-neutral Internet Exchange point for Indian ISPs, and local and international content providers, Extreme IX, is not bound to use any particular Carrier, Telecom, Fiber or Data Center provider exclusively. It is a neutral party that offers equal services for all participants, aiming to enable Peering in India by educating ISPs and helping them with technology. It aims to further support the ISP ecosystem by boosting local traffic exchange and helping them achieve a 1/10 ratio of Transit vs. Peering traffic. Their footprints are spread across Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Bengaluru.
About AdaniConneX
AdaniConneX, a 50:50 JV between Adani Enterprises and EdgeConneX, was founded with a vision to redefine the data center landscape in India. AdaniConneX envisions building an environmentally and socially conscious 1GW data center infrastructure platform by leveraging the complementary capacity of the Adani Group, India’s largest infrastructure player, and EdgeConneX, one of the largest private data center operators. In a land of innovators, data center solutions need to be ahead to accelerate ambition. AdaniConneX mirrors this vision of Digital India.
For more information, please visit https://www.adaniconnex.com/