Manitoba Internet Exchange Last updated December 25, 2025 Internet exchange point in Canada
The Manitoba Internet Exchange Inc (MBIX) is an Internet exchange point situated in Winnipeg , Manitoba, Canada. It allows traffic between members to stay within the Canadian jurisdiction, optimizing the performance and economy of traffic flows, while limiting the potential for extra-legal surveillance. [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] MBIX is incorporated as a Manitoban tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
Technology As of 2021 [ update]
a Cisco Nexus 93180-EX Ethernet switch, supporting speeds of 1 Gbit/s/10 Gbit/s on fiber a Cisco Nexus 93180-FX Ethernet switch, supporting speeds of 1 Gbit/s/10 Gbit/s/25 Gbit/s on fiber 2x Cisco Nexus 3064-PQ Ethernet switch, supporting speeds of 1 Gbit/s/10 Gbit/s on fiber MBIX provides NTP and an optional BGP route reflector for multilateral peering .
Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering are possible and both are encouraged at MBIX.
Services Available MBIX offers several services under its own ASNs.
Route Servers: MBIX provides managed route servers giving a safe, hands-off way of establishing multilateral peering with all peers. NTP Services: MBIX provides public NTP services under the hostname time.mbix.ca which round robins between time{1..3}.mbix.ca Other services present at, but not directly provided by MBIX include:
DNS Roots: many Root, TLD and CCTLD DNS servers are available via MBIX. Availability As of 2021 [ update]
Global Server Centre, Suite 570 – 167 Lombard Avenue LES.NET YWG2, Suite 201 - 294 Portage Avenue Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre, 360 Portage Avenue LES.NET YWG4, Suite 825 - 355 Portage Avenue References ↑ "MBIX Participants" . 18 October 2013. Retrieved 2023-04-20 . ↑ "MBIX Graphs" . 25 July 2013. Retrieved 2023-04-20 . ↑ Jackson, Brian (September 30, 2013). "Canada must build routing infrastructure to skirt US snooping, CIRA says" . ITBusiness.ca . Retrieved October 1, 2013 . ↑ Schick, Shane (October 2, 2013). "The quest to keep Canada's Internet traffic in-country" . Yahoo! Finance . Retrieved October 3, 2013 . ↑ Woodcock, Bill; Edelman, Ben (September 12, 2012). "Toward Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange" (PDF) . Packet Clearing House . Archived from the original (PDF) on August 25, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2013 . This page is based on this
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