Seattle Internet Exchange
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| Full name | Seattle Internet Exchange |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | SIX |
| Founded | 1997, April |
| Location |
 United States, Seattle, WA |
| Website | Official website |
| Members | 196 |
| Peak | 366 Gbit/s |
| Daily (avg.) | 262 Gbit/s |
The Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an internet exchange point in Seattle, USA. It has two locations in the city: the Westin Building and KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza). The SIX is a fast-growing, neutral and independent peering point which was created as a free exchange point sponsored only by donations. It continues to run without any re-occurring charges to the participants and current major funding comes from one-time 10 Gbit/s port fees. The SIX is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
As of April 29, 2015 there are 210 routers at the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) advertising at least 90,000 unique BGP routes. There are two route servers running BIRD.
Technology
The core of the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an Arista Networks 7508 and a Cisco Catalyst 6509 at the Westin Building and an Extreme Networks X670 at KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza).[1] Participants may connect to the SIX core using a 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connection (fiber) or to one of several extensions. Many of the extensions are sponsored by the colocation facilities in the building, and many of these extensions support 100BASE-TX or greater connections.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering is available and encouraged at the SIX, availability is dependent on peer. Jumbo frame peering with a 9000-byte MTU is an option.
Extensions
The following is a list of the extensions connected to the SIX:[1]
- Cipherkey: Connects participants in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- Colocation Northwest (was Swift): 20th floor of the Westin Building.
- ColoCenters: 18th floor of the Westin Building.
- Equinix: PAIX SEA, which is a neutral Internet exchange point operated by Equinix in Seattle, Washington.
- Green House Data (was FiberCloud): 18th and 19th 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.
- Sabey Data Centers' Intergate Xchange (IGX): Regional network.
- Spectrum Transport Network: Regional network.
- Wowrack: Wowrack datacenter in Tukwila.
- XM-DCIP: Connects participants in Salt Lake City, Utah.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "SIX Topology & Extensions". Seattle Internet Exchange. Retrieved 2015-04-10.