Riyadh, live since 2026, is in RUH1 at the ITCC, the technology complex the Kingdom built to give its internet a local address. We joined SA-IX with Arelion as our single carrier, and the first test instance answered Dubai at 14 ms — a number that made the sales team's job simple: the Gulf's biggest country finally has its own rack.
The site carries 0.18 Tbit/s of edge capacity — the smallest in the fleet — at a 5 ms local median, with 41 ms to Mumbai, 48 to Istanbul and 94 to Frankfurt. It is the Gulf's rising default: Saudi users get a domestic rack under Saudi law at the same price as everyone else, and the region's southern route has an anchor that is not a neighbour's capital.