Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS- IX) is a non-commercial Internet exchange in Amsterdam. Since 2000, the existing since the early days of the 90's node by the company AMS -IX BV operated, which existed previously in December 1997 under the name AMS -IX Association. Until 1994, the node has been used exclusively by local academic institutions. With the connection of CERN in February 1994 and the opening of the node for private ISPs, the name AMS -IX has been introduced. Even today, the node is non-profit oriented and neutral.
Available interfaces
In AMS -IX Ethernet is being used. Members have the choice of Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet. According to the company AMS -IX was the first Internet node at which stood the members of 10 Gigabit Ethernet. It is possible to get through parallel connection of several ports corresponding multiples of these rates.
Network
AMS -IX is actually seven separate locations, but these are all located in Amsterdam. The original locations are SARA ( Watergraafsmeer) and NIKHEF ( Watergraafsmeer). Meanwhile, the other sites Global Switch and Telecity II were added.
Netzwerktopologisch the AMS -IX is star-shaped, but with redundant central switches.
Data throughput and members
The AMS- IX in 2003, the Internet node with the most members (then 178, currently 617 (September 2013) ) and from 2005 to September 2008, the node with the highest data throughput world. Today (September 2013), it is the Internet node with the second highest amount of data and the largest non-commercial Internet exchange worldwide.
The website statistics is offered on the one hand the throughput during the day indicating and on the other is a graph which shows the course of the year. The throughput in the course of the day will be updated every 5 minutes. On 14 September 2010, the network reached the 1 Tbit / s mark for the first time.