Neutral Internet Exchange

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NL-ix
Logo of NL-ix.svg
Full nameNL-ix
AbbreviationNL-ix
Founded2002
Location Netherlands
Website www.nl-ix.net
Members 661
Ports 1762
Peers 513
Peak in 8.61 Tbit/s
Peak out 8.61 Tbit/s
Daily in (avg.) 1.08 Tbit/s
Daily out (avg.) 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 Tbit/s

NL-ix (with the last two letters typeset in lowercase) - formerly known as Neutral Internet Exchange - is an Internet Exchange in Europe, which is distributed across ninety-six datacenters in sixteen European cities in eight 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 March 2024, the peak traffic is 8.61 Tbit/s and 630 members are connected. [4] On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange. [5]

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Datacenters

NL-ix members can connect at over 90 sites in 16 cities across 8 countries. [6]

References

  1. Statistics Netherlands Internet Exchange Quarterly Statistics. Retrieved on 2017-02-04.
  2. Datacenters. www.nl-ix.net
  3. News. Neutral Internet Exchange. Retrieved on 2008-02-18.
  4. Members. NL-ix.
  5. Press release Netherlands Internet Exchange. Retrieved on 2011-03-04
  6. Traffic. NL-ix. Retrieved on 2024-02-01.