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HOSTKEY’s network is built on reliable and secure equipment from leading global manufacturers such as Cisco, Arista and Juniper. It is connected to the largest carriers and traffic exchange points, which guarantees the availability of resources.
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euNetworks owns its own optical network, which covers all the data centers in Amsterdam and many central communication hubs.
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Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by the number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to over 200 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 7,500 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than five redundant 100G paths crossing North America, five separate 100G paths between the U.S. and Europe, and 100G rings in Europe and Asia. Hurricane also has a ring around Africa, and a PoP in Australia. See HE 3D Network Map.
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Connecting to internet exchange providers allows our clients to access the best route to resources on the Internet.
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HOSTKEY has its own connection point at NIKHEF, which allows direct connections to the world's major telecom operators and telecommunications companies that are also present at NIKHEF.
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Cogent is a global Tier 1 internet service provider consistently ranked as one of the top 5 networks in the world. Cogent's global Tier 1 optical IP network is one of the largest in the world. Being a facilities-based carrier, Cogent takes advantage of full end-to-end control over its transport and routing technology to provide reliable and scalable service. Cogent's network is IPv6 and MPLS enabled, providing state-of-the-art solutions for businesses.
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Fiord Networks is an international backbone operator founded in 2002. They provide IP traffic transit services and robust leased line services at any scale from interdistrict to international.
Fiord Networks is a member of the TOP-100 worldwide operators by the number of routed autonomous systems.
Total bandwidth of the DWDM backbone is 16 Tbps.
Total bandwidth of the IP/MPLS network core is 5 Tbps.
Total length of the DWDM backbone is 3000+ km.
Fiord Networks is present in 8 European countries.
Fiord Networks has 20 backbone nodes.
Fiord's network combines high availability, high connectivity, and optimal routing. They have direct connections to all major international telecom operators and content providers, and are present at all major European traffic exchange points.
Some of the advantages of using Fiord Networks include:
High availability: Fiord's network is designed to be highly available, with multiple redundant paths between all major nodes.
High connectivity: Fiord has direct connections to all major international telecom operators and content providers, giving you access to the widest possible range of resources.
Optimal routing: Fiord's network is optimized for performance and reliability, ensuring that your traffic is routed in the most efficient way possible.
Expertise: Fiord has a team of experienced engineers who are dedicated to providing you with the best possible service.
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Era-IX is a new open and truly neutral internet exchange located in Amsterdam. Their goal is to make quality internet exchanging affordable and neutral. They are founded by network engineers with no commercial interference or preference from external factors. They are dedicated to provide the best internet exchanging service possible.
Era-IX was founded in 2019.
Era-IX has a throughput of over 10Tbps.
Era-IX is certified by the Internet Exchange Industry Association (IXIA).
3500 Gbps Connected Capacity, 700+ Gbps Peak Traffic, 60+ IXP Members, 11 Points of Presence
Advantages of using Era-IX:
Neutral: Era-IX is a truly neutral exchange, which means that they do not favor any particular network or organization. This ensures that all members have equal access to the exchange and that there is no discrimination.
Reliable: Era-IX is a reliable exchange with a high uptime. They have a redundant network infrastructure and a team of experienced engineers who are dedicated to keeping the exchange up and running.
Scalable: Era-IX is a scalable exchange that can easily grow to meet the needs of its members. They have the capacity to support up to 100Tbps of traffic and they are constantly expanding their network.
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NL-ix is a leading Internet Exchange (IX) in Europe, with a fully meshed low latency network that connects over 100 data centers in 7 countries. NL-ix offers a comprehensive portfolio of interconnection services, including public peering, private peering, transit, and cloud connectivity.
Founded in 2001, NL-ix is one of the oldest and most established IXs in Europe.
NL-ix is the fifth largest IX in the world by traffic volume.
NL-ix's network is connected to over 5,000 networks worldwide.
NL-ix offers a variety of tools and services to help you manage your connections, including Mynlix, a web-based portal for managing your account and connections.
Advantages of using NL-ix:
Low latency: NL-ix's fully meshed network provides the lowest possible latency between connected networks.
Reliability: NL-ix's network is highly reliable, with a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Scalability: NL-ix's network is scalable, so you can easily add or remove connections as your needs change.
Support: NL-ix provides excellent support, with 24/7/365 customer service.
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GTT is a leading global Tier 1 internet provider renowned for its high-performance network and innovative solutions. With a vast footprint spanning across continents, GTT delivers reliable and secure connectivity to businesses of all sizes.
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Sparkle, a subsidiary of the TIM Group, is a leading global operator with a presence in 34 countries. They manage a state-of-the-art global backbone comprising over 600,000 km of terrestrial fiber and international submarine cables. Sparkle offers a comprehensive range of services, including IP transit, Ethernet, and cloud solutions, catering to carriers, service providers, and enterprises.
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RETN is an independent network services provider specializing in connecting Europe and Asia. They operate an extensive Eurasian network, delivering services such as IP transit, Ethernet, VPN, and colocation. Their infrastructure includes over 73,000 km of lit fiber and more than 300 Points of Presence (PoPs) across 39 countries.
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Connecting to Lumen's network in our European data centers offers several key advantages for our colocation facilities:
Extensive Network Footprint: Lumen boasts an impressive global fiber network of approximately 450,000 to 500,000 route miles, with a significant presence in Europe, covering about 23,600 to 38,000 route miles. This extensive network connects over 2,000 on-net buildings and 500 public and private data centers across Europe.
Low Latency and High Performance: Lumen's Edge Computing Solutions provide ultra-low latency, meeting about 70% of enterprise demand within 5 milliseconds in key European locations such as the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. This is crucial for data-intensive applications requiring fast connectivity.
Enhanced Security and Reliability: The network is designed to offer enhanced security and reliability, ensuring that data is protected and accessible at all times. Lumen's infrastructure is seamlessly connected to major cloud service providers, further enhancing its reliability and flexibility.
By integrating with Lumen's network, our data centers can leverage these advanced capabilities to deliver high-performance, secure, and low-latency connectivity solutions to our customers.
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HOSTKEY has established a Private Network Interconnect (PNI) with Google in the Netherlands, enabling ultra-fast, low-latency access to Google Cloud and business-critical services
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ESpanix is Spain’s leading Internet Exchange Point (IXP), with a strong presence in Madrid and Barcelona. It offers highly reliable, scalable, and energy-efficient 400G connectivity, supported by Nokia’s latest infrastructure upgrades. ESpanix handles peak traffic over 1.4 Tbps and provides low-latency, secure interconnection to major ISPs, content providers, and carriers. Its strategic location in Southern Europe makes it a key hub for regional and global traffic exchange, especially between Europe and Latin America.
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DE-CIX operates one of the largest IXPs in Southern Europe, including a major node in Barcelona. It provides extensive peering opportunities with local and international networks, plus direct access to top cloud providers like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM. DE-CIX’s ecosystem supports high-performance, low-latency interconnection ideal for Spain and Mediterranean gateway traffic to Europe
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TiSparkle is an international network operator with a strong focus on Mediterranean and transcontinental connectivity. It leverages strategic submarine cable systems and terrestrial networks to provide high-capacity, low-latency routes between Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, making it valuable for global traffic traversing Spain.
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Connecting to FBW NETWORKS SAS (AS49434) offers strong benefits for our colocation customers in Europe:
High Capacity Network: FBW NETWORKS has over 2 Tbps of IP capacity with premium upstream providers including Sparkle, Colt, Arelion, TATA, Orange, and GTT.
Extensive Peering: The network supports more than 500 Gbps of public peering capacity across multiple IXPs such as FranceIX, FNC-IX, and DE-CIX, plus over 600 Gbps of private network interconnects (PNIs) with major players like Cloudflare, Meta, Google, and Microsoft.
Wide Peer Ecosystem: FBW NETWORKS is top-ranked with 500+ peers, each point of presence handling 100 to 400 Gbps, ensuring robust, low-latency, and resilient connectivity.
This combination of high capacity, extensive peering, and strong upstream connectivity enables our data centers to deliver reliable, fast, and scalable network access to customers.
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Connecting to the Inter.link network in our German data centers offers several key advantages based on reliable sources.
The platform is built on a carrier-grade infrastructure with 100G and 400G backbone connectivity, ensuring high performance and low latency. Its extensive network, with over 2,600 peers and a top-ranked ASN, provides broad connectivity across Europe, enhancing network reach and redundancy.
Additionally, the network's proven reliability and focus on sustainability, including certifications for carbon neutrality, align with environmentally conscious business practices.
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GlobalNet is the first backbone ISP with its own international peer-to-peer distributed Internet Exchange Network DATAIX that is based on 10 000+ KM DWDM network. There are more than 410 Internet Service Providers, 140 content generators and total 550+ ASNs linked to DATAIX that provides high connectivity to all the network members. It involves 60 PoPs across Europe including the largest data centers of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland that make the connection available to any ISP in the region. 700 Gbps cumulative capacity of full view uplinks, 76.8 Tbps overall channel bandwidth, 10К+ km total length of networks, 100 Gbps Maximum VLAN speed.
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Piter-IX is a network of geographically separated traffic exchange points connected by Nx10G or 40G data transmission channels. In each geographical location, points of presence are located in places where operators and content are concentrated. Within one location, the sites are connected by a high-speed network. Between locations of different regions, the connection is implemented via Nx100G/N*10G channels. The Piter-IX network uses Cisco and Juniper equipment.
Total band 14.5 Tpbs,
Max load 2.7 Tpbs
Points of presents 12
Participants 503
Points of presence: Frankfurt, Riga, Tallin, Kiev, Helsinki
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DATAIX is a leading Internet exchange network between telecom operators and content generators in Europe and Asia. According to the Internet Exchange Report by Hurricane Electric Internet Services, DATAIX is one of the largest networks in the world by the number of participants. Its peak traffic, the size of which exceeds 5,3 Tbit/s. The headquarters of the company is located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Founded in 2009, DATAIX is one of the fastest-growing IXs in the world.
DATAIX's network is connected to over 1,000 networks worldwide.
60 Points of presence in a merged DATAIX traffic exchange network
Countries of presence: The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria
>10000 km the length of the GlobalNet backbone networks
Advantages of using DATAIX:
Global reach: DATAIX has a presence in 16 countries, providing you with access to a global network of networks.
Low latency: DATAIX's network is designed to minimize latency, providing you with the best possible performance for your applications.
Reliability: DATAIX's network is highly reliable, with a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Scalability: DATAIX's network is scalable, so you can easily add or remove connections as your needs change.
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FICIX, Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange association, is the biggest Internet exchange point (IXP) in Finland. Since 1993 FICIX has provided neutral and reliable IP peering facilities for its members and customers.
FICIX operates at three different IXPs which are not interconnected together. All three IXPs have also root-server mirrors. FICIX sites:
FICIX1 at Espoo Innopoli and Telia Helsinki Datacenter, 10G and 100G ports available, root-server: I
FICIX2 at Digita Helsinki Pasila and Equinix HE7, 10G and 100G ports available, root-servers: K & J
FICIX3 at Oulu, 10G and 100G ports available
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SuomiCom offers a highly developed, resilient fiber optic backbone with nodes located at major Finnish internet exchange points such as FICIX and TREX Tampere Region Exchange Oy, ensuring exceptionally low latency broadband connections. In the Helsinki metropolitan area alone, SuomiCom operates 75 telecommunications centers and two data centers, providing extensive local coverage and connectivity.
Key benefits for our colocation clients include:
Robust and well-connected network: SuomiCom’s backbone routers are high-quality Juniper equipment, with multiple international backbone connections and direct peering agreements with major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, resulting in optimal routes and minimal latency.
Low latency: Being a member of key Finnish IXPs such as FICIX, SuomiCom delivers around 1ms latency to major cloud providers and ensures fast, direct routing for broadband and enterprise connections.
Extensive infrastructure in Helsinki: With numerous telecom centers and data centers, clients benefit from local redundancy and high availability.
Iceland
HOSTKEY has a reserved connection to the Míla network.
Míla is Iceland's largest telecommunications infrastructure company, providing a comprehensive range of wholesale voice and data services to carriers, service providers, and enterprises across the country. They offer a robust and reliable network infrastructure that supports a wide variety of connectivity options.
Míla owns and operates a nationwide optical fiber network that spans over 1800 kilometers, connecting major population centers, data centers, and international gateways. Their fiber network provides high-bandwidth connectivity with speeds up to 100 Gbps, ensuring reliable and scalable transmission of data and voice traffic.
Míla connects to a wide range of global networks and traffic exchange points (IXPs) to provide its customers with low-latency and high-speed access to international destinations.
Míla's connectivity to global networks and traffic exchange is primarily through the Reykjavik Internet Exchange (RIX), which is the main Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Iceland. RIX, founded in 1999 and operated by ISNIC, has multiple peering sites including RIX-TG at Tæknigarður, RIX-KT at Katrínartún, and RIX-MH at Múlastöð, Ármúli 251. It offers peering at port speeds of 1Gbs/10Gbs/100Gbs and is a member of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX). As of 2022, RIX had 27 members and an average traffic of around 11Gb/s1. Additionally, there's Múli-IXP, a private exchange operated by Vodafone Iceland, hosted in a Síminn facility, which also hosts one of the RIX sites. Múli-IXP handles about 40Gb/s of traffic. These exchanges play a crucial role in Míla's connectivity and traffic handling for Iceland.
In addition to these major networks and IXPs, Míla also has direct peering relationships with many other carriers and IXPs around the world. This extensive network of connections ensures that Míla's customers have access to a wide range of global destinations with optimal routing and performance.
Turkey
TurkNet is an independent telecommunications provider in Turkey, founded in 1996. The company offers high-speed internet, fixed telephony, VPN services, and data center solutions for both individual and business customers. The company operates its own fiber-optic infrastructure, linking Turkey with other countries to ensure high-capacity, low-latency connections. Additionally, TurkNet offers IP transit services, delivering reliable and fast access to the global internet. TurkNet serves approximately 1,055,700 customers, primarily in the retail sector. The company's fiber-optic backbone spans over 2,687 kilometers, covering 28 cities across Turkey.
Italy
MINAP (Milan Neutral Access Point) is a distributed Internet Exchange Point (IXP) located in Milan, Italy, specifically at the Via Caldera campus. It was established in 2008 with the goal of providing a no-cost peering fabric with physically diverse points of presence (POPs) at the campus, all while maintaining technical excellence.
Key information about MINAP IX:
Location and Facilities: MINAP operates multiple POPs within the Via Caldera campus in Milan. It is connected to several data centers in Milan, including IRIDEOS Milan Data Centers 1 and 2, Telnet Caldera, and Seeweb Milan.
Port Speeds and Costs: MINAP offers a range of Ethernet port speeds to its members free of charge, including Gigabit Ethernet (GE), 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE ports.
Membership and Traffic: MINAP has over 100 routers and nearly 100 ASNs connected. Members include various ISPs and network providers with port speeds ranging from 10 Gbps to 100 Gbps.
Poland
EPIX (e-Południe Internet Exchange) is Poland's largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) and one of the world's largest non-commercial internet traffic exchanges. The Warsaw node represents a crucial component of Poland's internet infrastructure, operating as a carrier-neutral facility that enables efficient traffic exchange between internet service providers, content providers, and other network operators.
International Connectivity
The exchange offers access to:
Global Tier 1 carriers: Arelion, Lumen, GTT, Telecom Italia SPARKLE, Liberty Global, Hurricane Electric, Cogent, Zayo, NTT, Tata Communications, PCCW Global
European IXPs: DE-CIX, AMS-IX, LINX, NIX.CZ, Peering.cz
Polish IXP mix: PolMix service providing access to all Polish IXPs including Equinix/PLIX, Thinx, TPIX, Pozix, UPC
EPIX Warsaw serves as a critical hub for Polish internet infrastructure, enabling faster access to key Polish internet resources such as Allegro.pl, Home.pl, Nazwa.pl, TVP.pl, Onet.pl, and WP.pl. The exchange's strategic position makes it essential for both domestic and international connectivity, supporting Poland's role as a gateway between Western and Eastern Europe
Switzerland
SwissIX is the largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in Switzerland, serving as the central hub for internet traffic exchange across the country. As a non-profit association established in March 2001, SwissIX has grown to become one of the leading IXPs in Europe, connecting hundreds of networks and handling significant traffic volumes. SwissIX is present in data centers in Zürich, Bern and Basel.
SwissIX serves as the backbone of Switzerland's internet infrastructure, providing:
Reduced Latency: local traffic exchange without international routing
Enhanced Security: Swiss data protection laws and local data sovereignty
Economic Benefits: reduced transit costs for Swiss networks
Neutral Platform: carrier and data center neutral approach
Key Connectivity Features:
Seven Peering Points: SwissIX operates in seven data centers throughout Switzerland, including major sites such as Green Datacenter in Lupfig, Digital Realty in Glattbrugg, Equinix Zürich, and others. This distributed presence ensures redundancy and broad geographic coverage.
High Capacity Links: Members can connect with port speeds of 1G, 10G and 100G, with some members already upgrading to 100G connections to handle large traffic volumes.
Layer-2 Ethernet Infrastructure: The exchange uses a layer-2 Ethernet switching fabric, allowing members to connect their routers directly for efficient traffic exchange using BGP routing protocols.
Modern Platform: Since 2023, SwissIX has run on the DE-CIX Apollon platform, a state-of-the-art interconnection technology that supports over 220 connected networks and ensures high reliability and scalability.
Reduced Latency and Increased Security: Local peering avoids routing traffic through international providers, minimizing latency and improving data privacy by keeping traffic within Swiss jurisdiction.
Additional Services: SwissIX is rolling out advanced features like DDoS mitigation (“Blackholing Advanced”) to protect members from attacks directly at the exchange infrastructure.
Neutral and Non-Profit: The exchange operates as an independent non-profit association,meaning it is carrier-neutral and unaffiliated with any data center, thus fostering open and fair connectivity among diverse participants including ISPs, cloud providers, content networks and enterprises.
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