Talk:Internet exchange point

Middle East IXPs

Please read the following notes, before editing the Middle East section again:

- There was briefly a government-initiated IXP in Cairo, called the CR-IX, in 2002. To the best of my knowlege, it was wholly defunct by 2004. It was succeeded by a much quieter private-sector IXP, which currently has three participants, on 81.21.96.0/25.

- There is an IXP planned for Bahrain, called Gulf-IX, in the still-under-construction GatewayGulf datacenter. With luck, it will be up sometime in mid-2007. There is no other IXP in Bahrain. The "Bahrain Internet Exchange" is a small government-owned transit provider.

- EMIX, the Emirates Internet Exchange, likewise, is a transit provider, not an IXP. They'll tell you so themselves.

There's also the small IXP in Tel Aviv, which hasn't changed much in a long time. So: please only edit this section again if you have some good news for us. Bill Woodcock 22:17, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Chinese IXPs

My understanding was that the three IXPs in China were state-controlled and operated in Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shanghai. See here.140.247.147.88 01:07, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

New York

What about that huge exchange point in New York City? --Abdull 16:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

afaik the NYIIIX (New York Internet Exchange) is rather a small one. Have a look at the german page, there you see the traffic of Internet Exchange Points. -- Alvo 10:19, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

The NYIIX is quite large, for a U.S. exchange... But more to the point, they're in 111 8th, along with PAIX and Equinix, and the crossconnects in NYCConnect, and the new NYCJ 10gbe exchange. New York is slowly taking the place of D.C. as the east coast regional exchange. --Bill

Jecowa is suggesting merging National_Inter_Connection_Exchange and Indonesia_Open_Internet_Exchange_Point into the hierarchy of this page. I'd support that, with the caveat that it would be nice if someone could provide independent verification of the existence of either of these IXPs. Looking glass? --Bill

Wrong content in wrong page

I think we should have an article that explains what an exchange point is. Plain and simple. All other internet exchange points and their detailed infomation should be in different articles. Ken

Also, there are a several good listings of IXPs in the Internet: Packet Clearing House, Open Directory Project, Exchange Point Repository, BGP Forum, EuroGIX. Probably we dont need to maintain a list of IXPs in a wikipedia. In the german wikipedia, there have been artifcles about IXPs removed because they have been considered as not relevant in a encyclopedia. Regards -- Alvo 18:56, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I'm of mixed minds about this... I run Packet Clearing House, and we've maintained the large directory of IXPs since about 1994 (well, it was only a couple, then, but it was equally complete), and put quite a bit of staff time into it. At one level, it's redundant for us to also be trying to copy updates out to Wikipedia. On the other hand, once or twice there have been people who've thought to post an update of some sort to Wikipedia before we've discovered it otherwise. In general, though, I agree that differentiating definitions and directories is a good thing. Bill Woodcock 20:42, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Bulgaria

I believe the two exchange points mentioned are defunct. Peering is currently implemented via private gigabit ISP to ISP connections using a MAN.