AMS-IX B.V.
„Quality IP exchange, peering value beyond measure”
AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange
The Internet and all its applications have almost become part of our senses these days. Many of us feel the need to be online 24 hours a day, being interconnected with your friends, family, colleagues and customers - interconnected with the world at large. This interconnectivity of people is fed by the interconnectivity of the networks they are using, which is the main purpose of AMS-IX.
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange, in short AMS-IX, is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world. It was founded as a not-for-profit organization by the European Internet community back in the nineteen-nineties. Now interconnecting hundreds of networks by offering professional IP exchange services, also called peering services. Peering enables these connected networks to offer stable, fast and cost-effective Internet services to their end-users and business customers. Peering is what makes the Internet robust and resilient, a network of networks all linked together.
And it is not limited to fixed data or traditional ISPs, AMS-IX serves a very diverse and unique mix of Internet companies including international carriers, mobile operators, content providers, Voice over IP parties, application providers, hosting companies, tv broadcasters and other related businesses - all unified in one community : AMS-IX.
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AMS-IX News
17 January 2012, TelecityGroup, IX Reach and AMS-IX enable direct UK connectivity to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange
London, 17 January 2012: TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium
carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX
to enable TelecityGroup customers in the UK to directly connect to the Amsterdam Internet
Exchange, AMS-IX, in the only official AMS-IX enabled sites in the UK.
16 January 2012, Atrato takes the lead with 100GbE ports at AMS-IX
Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Atrato IP Networks has become the first AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) member with a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) port connection.
13 January 2012, Werelds eerste 100 Gigabit aansluiting van Atrato op de Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Atrato IP Networks wordt eerste service provider met een operationele 100 Gigabit Ethernet aansluiting op een publieke internet exchange en markeert daarmee de volgende fase van de groei van het Internet.
12 January 2012, New vacancies at AMS-IX
We are currently looking for a NOC Engineer and a PR & Communications employee. For more information please see Working at AMS-IX
11 January 2012, AMS-IX builds PoP in EvoSwitch Datacenter
EvoSwitch Datacenter has today officially been added to the list of colocation providers with an AMS-IX Point of Presence (PoP), the PoP is currently being build and will be ready end of Februari, beginning of March. In addition to being an AMS-IX collocation EvoSwitch will be the first datacenter of its kind for which AMS-IX uses a single 100GE backbone connection.
Upcoming events
NANOG54, San Diego, USA, 05-08/02/2012
NANOG is an educational and operational forum for coordination of network operations in North America.
UK "AMS-IX Enabled" Launch event- TelecityGroup, I, 16/02/2012
TelecityGroup, IX Reach and AMS-IX have partnered to enable TelecityGroup UK customers to connect directly to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange, AMS-IX one of the world's largest peering hubs, through IX-Reach’s international network, highly efficient and low latency connections.
Capacity ME 2012, Dubai, 20-22/02/2012
Capacity conferences are focused on wholesale telecommunications for the decision makers from local, regional and international carriers and service providers.
APRICOT 2012, New Delhi, India, 21-02/03/2012
Held annually, the ten-day long summit consists of seminars, workshops, tutorials, conference sessions, birds-of-a-feather (BOFs), and other forums all with the goal of spreading and sharing the knowledge required to operate the Internet within the Asia Pacific region.
MORE-IP 2012, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 23-24/05/2012
