Equinix Exchange - Peering in Europe

Equinix Exchange - Peering in Europe

As Equinix expands its global service offering across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, the company is committed to providing high-performance platforms for exchanging Internet traffic.

Equinix provides a convenient platform for network service providers, content companies and enterprises to execute peering relationships across the globe, resulting in enhanced services levels and lower connectivity costs. Additionally, Equinix partners with top-tier internet exchange operators in Europe.
Equinix Exchange

Through the Equinix Exchange service, customers operating within Equinix datacenters can directly connect to each other for traffic exchange via a convenient and flexible central switching fabric managed by Equinix. This streamlined connectivity improves end-to-end network performance, reducing latency and packet loss, as well as lowering overall IP transit costs.Equinix services are available in Paris and Zurich (Europe); Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley and Washington (North America); Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo (Asia Pacific).
Partner Exchanges

Partnerships with top-tier Internet exchanges will enable Equinix customers to scale their peering relationships to reduce costs and increase performance. This includes the DE-CIX in Frankfurt, the LINX in London and the AMS-IX in Amsterdam, as well as co-management of CIXP in Geneva and the ALP-IX in Munich

Services currently available in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Geneva and Zurich (Europe); Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Silicon Valley and Washington (North America); Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo (Asia Pacific).


Equinix Exchange in Zurich

Equinix Exchange in Zurich (formerly the TIX) is the most important public internet exchange in Switzerland.

Offering a neutral peering location, the highest bandwidth available and the most cost-effective place to peer it is the most effective place to interconnect with ISP's in Switzerland. Operated across Equinix's primary Zurich datacentres, members access highly specified colocation space combined with interconnection infrastructure that enables them to connect and peer at speeds ranging from 10/100Mbps to multiples of 10Gbps.

The Zurich Exchange has more than 60 ISP members directly exchanging Internet traffic amongst each other, avoiding the need to routed traffic via other geographies - resulting in enhanced speed and reliability of network and content peering and a more robust end-user experience.

Together with CIXP in Geneva, the Zurich Equinix Exchange platform handles nearly 80% of the inner-Swiss Internet traffic. The service gives ISPs a direct path to almost all other ISPs active in the Swiss market and enables the most cost-effective transport of all multimedia traffic. It is the most important peering point in Switzerland with IPv4 and IPv6 peering mesh and hosting on one of the .CH ccTLD secondary Name Servers.
Features and Benefits

* Low access costs through unique location in the Telco heart of Zurich
* More than 30 carriers and ISP's within a 1 mile radius
* Highest number of carriers (13) with own fibre in house
* Carrier class facilities (diverse transformer feeds, online-UPS, Diesel Generator)
* ISP's are encouraged to make Equinix Exchange their POP in Zurich
* ISP's can offer all services to each other through dedicated lines
* Ideal location for placing of Voice/IP gateways with over 25 voice carriers switches directly connectable


Local support includes sales and technical support.


Equinix Exchange in Paris

Equinix expands popular service to Paris as more companies seek to utilize peering relationships to increase reliability and reduce costs of network traffic exchange.

Equinix launched its Equinix Exchange service in its Paris Saint-Denis datacentre in April 2008. The service enables networks, content companies and content delivery networks to peer through a central switching fabric managed by Equinix.

The site offers a total of 6,000m2 of highly specified datacentre space at this particularly well located site, as well as direct access to the more than 15 networks and 45 enterprises and content companies already operating within the site.
Features and Benefits

* Highest resilient peering fabric in Paris
* Equinix maintains a fully populated hot standby spare chassis
* Large Engineering staff with dedicated NOC and R&D staff
* Proven expertise based with deployed peering fabrics throughout the world
* Features such as a sFlow portal and the MLPE
* PA2 has the largest datacentre capacity in Paris
* PA2 has N+1 infrastructure design


Local support includes sales and technical support.


Partner Exchanges

Equinix interconnection and peering partnerships

Equinix will partner with top-tier Internet exchanges that have a well-served existing critical mass of high-quality Internet service providers and connected parties operating within their system. This will enable Equinix customers to scale their peering relationships to reduce costs and increase performance.

This includes the DE-CIX in Frankfurt, the LINX in London and the AMS-IX in Amsterdam, as well as co-operating the CIXP in Geneva with CERN.
Partner Exchanges - Amsterdam

Equinix and AMS-IX interconnection and peering partnership

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the world's largest single metro area Internet exchange, will extend its peering fabric into Equinix's Amsterdam-1 (AM1). AMS-IX will establish a point-of-presence in Equinix's AM1 datacentre, which is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2008.

Equinix customers will be able to directly exchange traffic, or .peer,. with AMS-IX's critical mass of diverse Internet service providers and high-quality traffic exchange participants to increase reliability, improve performance, and reduce the costs of network traffic exchange.

Equinix and AMS-IX are leaders in providing network-neutral platforms for the interconnection of enterprise, service provider and content company networks. Located in Amsterdam, AMS-IX is a non-profit, neutral and independent Internet exchange that currently connects over 290 international parties. AMS-IX is the largest European Internet Exchange measured by traffic volume. Equinix is the global interconnection and peering leader, serving the world's leading ISPs, broadband providers, international networks, content delivery networks, enterprises and major content providers.

"Our relationship with Equinix goes back several years, and we are pleased to now have a formal agreement where the aggregation of networks from each of our organizations can interconnect in the most efficient and reliable manner possible,. said Job Witteman, CEO of AMS-IX. .With the increasing need for businesses to exchange data across a wide variety of networks - from partners to customers to vendors -- this agreement between AMS-IX and Equinix will ensure additional options for rich interconnection across both of our respective network-neutral platforms."
Why connect to AMS-IX

* A cost effective means of exchanging traffic
* A large amount of parties to peer with
* The quality of service offered
* The neutrality and independence (i.e. being an Association)
* The geographical location
* The type of connected parties
* The range of ports and services offered
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What do we offer?

AMS-IX is dedicated to offering professional non-blocking peering services over Ethernet infrastructure. There are no restrictions on utilization of the port. The platform is designed for continuous optimum performance using innovative technologies. AMS-IX is the first IX worldwide to use photonic switching in the core of the switching platform. Moreover it is the first exchange to offer 10GE peering services. AMS-IX has a very extensive IX service portfolio with ports from 10 Mbps to 10Gbps allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 including:

* Unicast peering VLAN - for regular IP peering all types of traffic - data & VoIP
* Multicast peering VLAN - especially useful for broadcasting streams
* Private Interconnects - between 2 members
* Closed User Groups - between 3 or more members
* GRX - the first global GPRS roaming exchange peering service (restricted)
* MDX - the first Mobile Data exchange peering service




Partner Exchanges - Frankfurt
Equinix and DE-CIX interconnection and peering partnership

In Germany Equinix has partnered with DE-CIX, the main exchange point for Internet services between international Internet service providers in Germany, central and eastern Europe.

Equinix customers will be able to directly exchange traffic, or “peer,“ with DE-CIX critical mass of diverse Internet service providers and high-quality traffic exchange participants to increase reliability, improve performance, and reduce the costs of network traffic exchange.

DE-CIX, the second largest European Internet Exchange according to traffic volume, currently connects over 200 international Internet Service Providers. Equinix and DE-CIX are proud to announce that they reached an agreement where Equinix' Frankfurt-2 facility will become a DE-CIX enabled site during the first half of 2008.

The site will provide datacentre services to telecommunications operators, Internet network providers and Internet service providers. The facility covers high available datacentre space with secured and lasting power supplies, air-conditioning, security and fire protection for power-intensive high-density installations.

“Equinix works with Internet providers and carriers around the world and we would like to welcome them to Frankfurt. This is a valuable addition to the telecommunications marketplace in Germany's Internet capital. A competitive datacenter market certainly helps to drive our business and we are glad to announce that Equinix's Frankfurt 2 facility will become a DE-CIX enabled site soon,“ says Harald Summa, Managing Director of DE-CIX.
Features and Benefits

* Centrally located right in the heart of Europe
* Second largest Internet exchange in the world
* Leading Internet exchange for Central and Eastern Europe
* State of the art Force10 switching platform
* 230+ participants
* 1.3 Tbps of connected capacity (Public Peering)
* 200+ Private Interconnects in service
* 200+ Gigabit-Ethernet ports
* 160+ 10Gigabit-Ethernet ports
* 100% uptime in 2007
* One Stop shopping
* Public peering service
* Private interconnects
* Router/Switch Colocation




Partner Exchanges - Geneva
CIXP co-operated by Equinix and CERN

CIXP (CERN Internet Exchange Point) is the largest Internet Exchange in French speaking Switzerland and the neighbouring region of France (Rhone-Alpes).

It is a carrier-neutral exchange, open to all Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Co-operated by CERN and Equinix, CIXP offers its services at two locations, at CERN (the world's largest particle physics laboratory and the birthplace of the Web) and at the Equinix datacenter in downtown Geneva (Centre de la Confederation). Its location - on the border between Switzerland and France and on crossroads between research and commercial traffic - make it highly attractive to both ISPs with a global and ISPs with a more regional focus.

Equinix has established Ethernet connectivity between the two CIXP locations, and between CIXP and the Equinix Exchange in Zurich. ISPs are able to interconnect and exchange IP traffic (.peer.) with members of both exchange points. Combined, CIXP and the Equinix Zurich Exchange handle nearly 80% of the inner-Swiss Internet traffic.

CIXP is a historical European Internet landmark through which the first pan-European Internet backbone and the first T1 connection to NSFnet were established in 1989 and 1990. It is also a founding member of Euro-IX, the association of European Internet Exchange Points.