European Commercial Internet Exchange
European Commercial Internet Exchange ( ECIX ) is (after DE-CIX ) the second largest Internet node in Germany.
Under the name ECIX, Peering GmbH operates commercial Internet nodes in the cities of Amsterdam, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg.
The ECIX has more than 170 members who are connected with bandwidths from 1 Gbit / s to 100 Gbit / s. At the various locations, it is represented in several data centers with its own switch infrastructure. These are connected to one another via dark fiber and WDM connections from 1 Gbit / s to 100 Gbit / s. The data exchange (“ peering ”) between the providers takes place via IPv4 and IPv6 .
technology
The distributed switch infrastructure enables Internet service providers to exchange data free of charge. Customers can be connected via one or more 1 Gbit / s, 10 Gbit / s, 40 Gbit / s or 100 Gbit / s Ethernet ports. The ECIX uses Extreme Networks , Force10 , Brocade and Cisco Ethernet switches.
Supplied locations
Providers can connect to the ECIX at the following locations:
Amsterdam
Berlin
- Prosite / Speedbone , Alboinkontor
- Level 3 Communications , Gradestrasse 60
- Carrier Colocation / I / P / B , Lützowstrasse 105/106
Dusseldorf
- Interxion Düsseldorf
- Level 3 Communications
- Fibre1 / MyLoc
- Equinix
Frankfurt am Main
Hamburg
- Level 3 Communications
- N @ work , Wendenstraße 379, 1st floor
- GlobalConnect , Wendenstrasse 379, 3rd floor
- IPHH , Wendenstrasse 408
Web links
- Megaport picks up ECIX
- www.ecix.net ECIX website
- DENIC eG New DENIC name server in Berlin goes into operation
- DENIC eG Hydra DENIC name server in Berlin moves to Prosite and joins BER-ECIX
- ECIX Launches First German 100GE Internet Exchange in Frankfurt (PDF; 77 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ ECIX: Connected Networks . Retrieved July 4, 2017.