Peering

Gateway through Europe

NL-ix operates a distributed exchange with a Pan-European interconnection fabric covering datacenters in all the key European Internet hubs, major European Metropolitan areas and Gateways into Europe.

The NL-ix geo-dispersed fabric makes it easy to set up peering at multiple locations. Connecting to the NL-ix Peering network saves the complexity and hassle of connecting to multiple IXs and saves costs as NL-ix covers the transport between locations. Based on the difference in port fees with other, more traditional IXs and the peerability of important and unique networks (like KPN) we offer an attractive value-for-money solution that also allows you to unload traffic from transit to peering and create backup sessions with existing peers.

Key Features

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Use case:

Pick-up the content your users want at the edge of Europe

Get access to all the content your users want at the very edge of Europe.

For networks outside Europe it is sometimes hard to get quality access to content their end-users want. Solving this issue usually entails the costly extension of their network to Europe and connect to one or more exchanges.

The distributed character of the NL-ix platform makes this content available at the very edge of Europe. No matter where you land, whether that is Marseille, London, Frankfurt, Berlin or Amsterdam, all it takes is a single port to gain access to the content your end-users want, cutting out the need for multiple ports with IX's and transport costs to and from these exchanges.

This acces comes in different flavours, you can either peer at NL-ix, gain acces to ~2.400 peering networks on all major European exchanges or combine these services over a single port.

As network with 10 Gbps or more of traffic you are most likely Peering at multiple Exchanges. The quality of the BGP routes you use is obviously important to you. We don't have to tell you that a higher quality of routes means fewer dependencies, more stability, more control and more backup, leading to a better service to offer to your customers.

Unfortunately these better routes come at a price: the cost of Exchange ports and transport to and from those exchanges. But what if there would be an alternative? A way to reach ~2.400 peering networks with a single port. Cutting out the need for multiple ports at different exchanges and the cost of transport.

We have that alternative. We can offer you short single hop routes directly accessible from all major third-party exchanges (AMS-IX, DECIX, NL-ix, Netnod, LINX, ECIX, France-ix, Equinix-ix, LONAP and more ) including access to NL-ix peering (~2.400 networks) from a single port from all across our fabric.

Use Case:

The advantages of peering are now obtainable for smaller networks