Seattle Internet Exchange
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Name | Seattle Internet Exchange |
Abbreviation | SIX |
Founded | April 1997 |
Location | Seattle, WA USA |
Homepage | www.seattleix.net |
Members | 103[1] |
Daily traffic | |
- Max | 16.5 Gbit/s[2] |
- Average | 11 Gbit/s[2] |
The Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an Internet Exchange Point situated in the Westin Building in Seattle, WA, in the USA. SIX is a fast growing, neutral and independent peering point. The SIX was created as a free exchange point sponsored only by donations and continues to run without any re-occurring charges to the participants.
As of May 14th, 2008 there were 111 participants of the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) advertising at least 44,782 unique BGP routes.
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[edit] Technology
The core of the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is a single Cisco switch. Participants may connect to the SIX core using a 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connection (Fiber) or to one of the nine extensions. Many of the extensions are sponsored by the collocation facilities in the building, and many of these extensions support 10Base-T or 100Base-T connections.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering is available and encouraged at the SIX, availability is dependent on peer.
[edit] Extensions
The following is a list of the extensions connected to the SIX:
- Cipherkey: Connects participants in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- ColoCenters: 18th floor of the Westin Building.
- FiberCloud: 18th, 19th and 32nd floor of the Westin Building.
- Layer42: Connects to Layer42's MPLS-enabled backbone which includes San Jose, California and Ashburn, Virginia. This was the first extension to connect participants outside of the Westin Building.
- NSIX: North Seattle Internet Exchange, located at the Fisher Plaza in Seattle, Washington.
- PAIX: PAIX SEA, which is a neutral Internet exchange point operated by Switch and Data in Seattle, Washington.
- Swift Communications: 20th floor of the Westin Building.
[edit] Location
Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)
- Westin Building
- 2001 6th Ave,
- 19th Floor MMR
- Seattle, WA 98121
- NPA-NXX : 206-443
North Seattle Internet Exchange (NSIX)
- Fisher Plaza
- 140 4th Ave North, Suite 201
- Seattle, WA 98109
- NPA-NXX : 206-505
[edit] Board Members
Current SIX board members for 2008/2009 are.
- Nikos Mouat - President
- Jared Reimer - Vice President
- Chris Caputo - Secretary and Treasurer
- Troy Davis
- Patrick Gilmore
[edit] References
- ^ SIX Participants. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.
- ^ a b SIX Aggregate Traffic Graphs. Retrieved on 2007-11-30.