Why connect to AMS-IX?
The reasons to connect to AMS-IX vary per connected member, a recent customer survey has shown the following selection criteria, in order of importance:
- A cost effective means of exchanging traffic
- A large amount of parties to peer with
- The quality of service offered
- The neutrality and independence (i.e. being an Association)
- The geographical location
- The type of connected parties
- The range of ports and services offered
Especially the two first reasons are strongly related and together score almost 70% (35% and 34%) as the most important reason to connect. The large amount of parties to peer with actually represents both a means for cost savings through reduction of upstream connectivity but in some cases even more important it means improving network performance by improving connectivity, redundancy and more direct traffic flows/shorter paths.
Many connected parties at AMS-IX have open peering policies. We find 69% of the responding members to have an open peering policy. The average number of peering given in the survey was 109.
What do we offer?
AMS-IX is dedicated to offering professional non-blocking peering services over Ethernet infrastructure. We have no restrictions on utilization of the port. Our platform is designed for continuous optimum performance using innovative technologies. AMS-IX is the first IX worldwide to use photonic switching in the core of the switching platform. Moreover it is the first exchange to offer 10GE peering services. AMS-IX has a very extensive IX service portfolio with ports from 10 Mbps to 10Gbps allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 including:- Unicast peering VLAN – for regular IP peering all types of traffic – data & VoIP
- Multicast peering VLAN – especially useful for broadcasting streams
- Private Interconnects – between 2 members
- Closed User Groups – between 3 or more members
- GRX – the first global GPRS roaming exchange peering service (restricted)
- MDX – the first Mobile Data exchange peering service
All these services will be available to you through AMS-IX membership.
What our members say
This is what our members said during the member survey, summer 2004:“AMS-IX enhances the way networks can handle traffic. Instead of relying heavily on transit providers, a lot of traffic can be offloaded through peering, which reduces costs greatly.”
“According to my experience AMS-IX offers real value for money, saving us approximately 30% on our transit costs.”
“Super service, highly skilled personnel, flat fee bandwidth, easy to get in contact with, what else could one want?”
“Good stable network, clearly announced maintenance.”
“It is our strategy to have as much peers as possible. Therefore
we are connected to AMS-IX.”
Testimonials
For more detailed information on how some of our members experience the connection process or make use of their connection view our testimonials/case studies:
Communications/ Marketing
Here you find a brochure document regarding communications and marketing through the AMS-IX Partner Program (APP):![[*]](/graphics/mime/PDF_icon-24x24.png){kind=icon}
Brochure text (in English) [PDF, 34,9 KB]