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Neutral Internet Exchange

NL-ix - 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. The exchange was founded in 2002 to serve as an alternative to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange. As of March 2024, the peak traffic is 8.61 Tbit/s and 630 members are connected. On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange.

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Source
NL-ix
Full nameNL-ix
AbbreviationNL-ix
Founded2002
LocationNetherlands
Websitewww.nl-ix.net
Members661
Ports1762
Peers513
Peak in8.61 Tbit/s
Peak out8.61 Tbit/s
Daily in (avg.)1.08 Tbit/s
Daily out (avg.)1.08 Tbit/s
Year Peak traffic1
2003 800 Mbit/s
2004 6.2 Gbit/s
2005 10.0 Gbit/s
2006 13.1 Gbit/s
2007 16.3 Gbit/s
2008 42.4 Gbit/s
2009 40.3 Gbit/s
2010 118.2 Gbit/s
2011 146.7 Gbit/s
2012 220.1 Gbit/s
2013 403.9 Gbit/s
2014 701.3 Gbit/s
2015 1.3424 Tbit/s
2023 7,98 Tbit/s
2024 8,61 Tbit/s
2025 12,27 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

Datacenters

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

References

References

  1. Statistics Netherlands Internet Exchange Quarterly Statistics. Retrieved on 2017-02-04.
  2. Datacenters. www.nl-ix.net
  3. News Archived 2008-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. 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.
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