BCIX
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Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange (BCIX) is a Berlin
-based Internet exchange point
(IXP) founded in 2002 as a membership organisation and currently has 54 members, making it one of the largest IXP in Germany by membership. BCIX currently operates a Brocade
-based infrastructure with 10Gb/s links between three sites:
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
-based 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...
(IXP) founded in 2002 as a membership organisation and currently has 54 members, making it one of the largest IXP in Germany by membership. BCIX currently operates a Brocade
Brocade Communications Systems
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. , based in Silicon Valley , is a vendor of storage area network hardware and software. The company also designs, manufactures, and sells networking products and management applications for local, metro, and wide area networks...
-based infrastructure with 10Gb/s links between three sites:
- Versatel Gradestrasse 40
- I/P/B/ Carrier-Colo
- e-shelter Berlin