Neutral Internet Exchange Explained

Neutral Internet Exchange
Abbreviation:NL-ix
Founded:2002
Location:Netherlands
Members:661
Ports:1762
Peers:513
Website:www.nl-ix.net
Peak In:8.61 Tbit/s
Peak Out:8.61 Tbit/s
Daily In:1.08 Tbit/s
Daily Out:1.08 Tbit/s
YearPeak traffic[1]
200250 Mbit/s
2003800 Mbit/s
20046.2 Gbit/s
200510.0 Gbit/s
200613.1 Gbit/s
200716.3 Gbit/s
200842.4 Gbit/s
200940.3 Gbit/s
2010118.2 Gbit/s
2011146.7 Gbit/s
2012220.1 Gbit/s
2013403.9 Gbit/s
2014701.3 Gbit/s
20151.3424 Tbit/s
20237,98 Tbit/s
20248,61 Bbit/s

The Neutral Internet Exchange (abbreviated as NL-ix, with the last two letters typeset in lowercase) is an Internet exchange in Europe, which is distributed across ninety-six datacentres in fifteen European cities in seven countries by year-end 2023.[2] The exchange was founded in 2002 to serve as an alternative to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.[3] As of May 26, 2015, the daily average inbound traffic is 619.48 Gbit/s and the daily average outbound traffic 616.77 Gbit/s[4] and 513 members are connected on 1762 ports.[5] On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange.[6]

Datacenters

NL-ix members can connect at 96 sites in 15 cities across 7 countries.[4]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.nl-ix.net/network/statistics/ Statistics
  2. http://www.nl-ix.net/network.html Network
  3. http://www.nl-ix.net/news.php News
  4. http://www.nl-ix.net/traffic.php Traffic
  5. http://www.nl-ix.net/members.php Members
  6. http://www.nl-ix.net/news/52/kpn_has_acquired_nlix/ Press release