ALP-IX Regional Internet Exchange (ALP-IX) is an Internet Exchange Point

Internet Exchange Point

An Internet exchange point is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks . IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit...

 situated in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

). It is operated by DE-CIX

DE-CIX

Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange is an Internet Exchange Point situated in Frankfurt ....

 Management GmbH. In 2011 the ALP-IX was renamed to DE-CIX Munich to be in line with their main brand.

ALP-IX operates on a Force10

Force10

Force10 Networks , is a United States company which develops and markets 10 Gigabit and 100 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It has offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.In 2011 Dell announced that they...

TeraScale C300 switch and serves the Equinix "Hopfenpost" location as well as the Spacenet Datacenter at Landsberger Strasse in Munich.