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 Association: AMS-IX. 

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[Live Statistics]
Members: 369
Ports: 649
Peak: 949.6 Gb/s
Cur: 725.6 Gb/s

AMS-IX News

2 September 2010, AMS-IX completes Nikhef Migration

Over the last 9 months AMS-IX has been working to migrate all customers connected to the Nikhef switches to new MLX and Glimmerglass hardware. The migration has been done is several steps starting in Februari to minimize customer impact and was completed by the final step of moving customers two weeks ago. Now after cleaning up over a 1000 old fibers the complete project has finished.

31 August 2010, AMS-IX NOC Job opening

AMS-IX has a job opening for a NOC engineer. Please see https://www.ams-ix.net/working-at-ams-ix/ for relevant details

11 August 2010, AMS-IX Engineers Introduce RFC Draft on Route Servers at IETF78

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the largest Internet and peering exchanges in the world, will be collaborating in the standardization process for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Servers.

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