Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange

Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange ( BCIX ) is a non-commercial Internet exchange in Berlin.

The BCIX eV is organized as an association and non profit basis. The aim of the BCIX is to promote and improve the regional Internet data exchange in the economic region Berlin- Brandenburg both regionally and internationally operating service providers, content providers and carriers. In November 2011, BCIX eV had 50 members, of which 44 members / s are connected to one of the five Peeringstandorte in Berlin with bandwidths between 100Mbit / s and 40Gbit. The BCIX operates in five telehouses Berlin has its own switch infrastructures that are connected via a dark fiber connection and DWDM systems with up to 40Gbit / s with each other. The data exchange between providers via IPv4, which use an increasing number of providers in addition for IPv6 peering.

Technology

The distributed switch infrastructure enables Internet service providers charge exchange data ( " peering "). The connection of the customer either via Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports. The BCIX sets at all five locations Brocade a (formerly Foundry Networks ) and Force10 switches.

Furnished locations

To providers to connect to the BCIX at the following locations:

Capacity

The BCIX In March 2014, a peak throughput of about 49 Gbit / s