Case Study: Rackspace achieves 100% network uptime and lower peering costs with Digital Realty

Rackspace Leverages Ams-Ix Chicago to Enhance Interconnectivity and Lower Costs at Digital Realty’s Elk Grove Village Data Center

Rackspace, the leading managed cloud provider, needed cost-effective, scalable colocation outside downtown Chicago without sacrificing low-latency connectivity or network redundancy. Downtown demand made space expensive and limited, so Rackspace sought a suburban data center that could seamlessly connect its East and West Coast networks while remaining affordable and reliable.

Rackspace colocated at Digital Realty’s Open-IX–certified Elk Grove Village facility, which hosts the AMS-IX Chicago exchange and offers Inter-Data Center Dark Fiber and peering from 100 Mbps to 100+ Gbps. As a result, Rackspace established multiple interconnections, improved network redundancy to sustain a 100% uptime SLA, and avoided third‑party last-mile fees (the AMS-IX node sits less than 100 meters from DFT CH2), keeping peering costs to a minimum.

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