BCIX

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BCIX e. V.
legal form e. V.
founding 2002
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Peter Lampe (Chairman), Cordula Fiedler, André Grüneberg, Kay Rechthien, Pascal Kube
Website www.bcix.de

BCIX Management GmbH
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 2012
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Ulf Kieber ( Managing Director )
Website www.bcix.de

Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange ( BCIX ) is a non-commercial Internet hub in Berlin.

Overview

BCIX eV is a registered association and does not work for profit. The aim of the BCIX is to promote and improve regional Internet data exchange in the Berlin-Brandenburg economic area for both regional and international service providers, content providers and carriers. BCIX was founded in March 2002 as a location initiative of smaller Berlin internet companies and has been operating the Berlin internet hub since 2002. In December 2003, DENIC connected its eleventh name server directly to the BCIX Internet hub in Berlin. In 2012, BCIX Management GmbH was spun off for technical operations. In November 2016, BCIX eV had 50 members, of which 44 members are connected to one of the peering locations in Berlin with bandwidths between 100Mbit / s and 100Gbit / s. Today (2019) the BCIX operates its own switch infrastructures in nine data centers in Berlin , which are connected to each other via a DarkFibre connection and DWDM systems with up to 300 Gbit / s. The data exchange between the providers takes place via IPv4 , with an increasing number of providers also using IPv6 for peering .

The number of members and the number of peering points more than doubled from 11/2016 to 07/2019, as of September 7, 2019, the BCIX has 114 peering points with a total bandwidth of more than 3200Gbps (3.2Tbps) .

technology

The distributed switch infrastructure enables Internet service providers to exchange data free of charge (“peering”). Customers can be connected via Gigabit Ethernet , 10 Gigabit Ethernet or 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The BCIX uses switches from Arista Networks and Dell Force10 Networks at the core colocation locations .

Supplied locations

Providers can connect to the BCIX at the following locations:

  1. NTT (formerly e-shelter), Nonnendammallee 15, 13599 Berlin
  2. CarrierColo (I / P / B /), Lützowstraße 105/106, 10785 Berlin
  3. DNS: NET, Lützowstrasse 105/106, 10785 Berlin
  4. CarrierColo (I / P / B /), Kitzingstrasse 15, 12277 Berlin
  5. Colt data center, Wiebestrasse 46–49, 10553 Berlin
  6. euNetworks , Alboinstrasse 36, 12103 Berlin
  7. Speedbone, Alboinstrasse 36, 12103 Berlin
  8. CenturyLink (formerly Level (3) ), Gradestrasse 60, 12347 Berlin
  9. 3U Telecom , Lorenzweg 5, 12099 Berlin

capacity

The BCIX has a peak throughput of around 720 Gbit / s in February 2020. In July 2012, BCIX still had a peak throughput of around 35 Gbit / s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint BCIX Management GmbH ., HRB 143581 B, District Court Berlin (Charlottenburg)
  2. ↑ Imprint BCIX eV , VR 24331, District Court Berlin (Charlottenburg)
  3. ↑ Articles of Incorporation and Fee Regulations BCIX eV , as of June 19, 2018
  4. ↑ a b 10 years BCIX e. V .: Internet hub for Berlin - Digital Bridge for Europe BCIX eV Press release, September 7, 2012
  5. ↑ New DENIC name server in Berlin goes into operation ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) DENIC eG December 8, 2003
  6. ^ Pascal Kube: Members / Peers. In: BCIX. September 7, 2019, Retrieved September 7, 2019 (American English).
  7. ^ Facebook post from BCIX. August 14, 2014, accessed August 8, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Locations , bcix.de, accessed on December 10, 2019
  9. ↑ [1] , bcix.de, accessed on February 13, 2020