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NSFNet Internet architecture, c. 1995. Internet exchange points began as Network Access Points or NAPs, a key component of Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure (NII) plan, which defined the transition from the US Government-paid-for NSFNET era (when Internet access was government sponsored and commercial traffic was prohibited) to the commercial Internet of today.
Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange Point (NMBINX) Af-IX: Africa Sudan: Khartoum: Sudanese Internet Exchange Point (SIXP) [26] * Af-IX: Africa Eswatini: Swaziland Peering Point (SISPA) [27] Af-IX: Africa Tanzania: Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Internet eXchange (TIX) Af-IX: Africa Tanzania: Zanzibar: ZIXP - Zanzibar internet Exchange Point, www.zixp ...
Danish Internet Exchange Point [175] Lyngby Denmark: 1994 45 [176] 113 [175] — 30 March 2020 Múli-IXP: Múli Internet Exchange Point Reykjavík Iceland: 2021 6 [177] 50 [178] — 16 June 2022 RIX: Reykjavik Internet Exchange Reykjavík Iceland: 1999 24 [179] 47.8 [180] 12.7 [180] 18 February 2021 DET-IX: Detroit Internet Exchange [181 ...
Internet service providers (ISPs) participate in Internet backbone traffic through privately negotiated interconnection agreements, primarily governed by the principle of settlement-free peering. The Internet, and consequently its backbone networks, do not rely on central control or coordinating facilities, nor do they implement any global ...
The first Internet exchange point was the Commercial Internet eXchange (CIX), formed by Alternet/UUNET (now Verizon Business), PSI, and CERFNET to exchange traffic without regard for whether the traffic complied with the acceptable use policy (AUP) of the NSFNet or ANS' interconnection policy. [4]
Internet exchange points are the physical points where data is exchanged between the Internet service provider networks which make up the Internet. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
A meet-me room (MMR) is a place within a colocation center (or carrier hotel) where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees. [1] Services provided across connections in an MMR may be voice circuits, data circuits, or Internet Protocol traffic.
PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained, database of networks, and the go-to location for interconnection data. [2] The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (), data centers, and other interconnection facilities, and is the first stop in making interconnection decisions.