Seattle Internet Exchange
Encyclopedia
| Name | Seattle Internet Exchange |
| Abbreviation | SIX |
| Founded | April 1997 |
| Location | Seattle, WA, USA United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
| Homepage | www.seattleix.net |
| Participants | 155 |
| Daily traffic Internet traffic -Historical Internet Traffic Growth:Because of the distributed nature of the Internet, there is no single point of measurement for total Internet traffic... |
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| - Max | 102 Gbit/s |
| - Average | 70 Gbit/s |
The Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) 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 the Westin Building
Westin Building
The Westin Building is a major telecommunications hub and carrier hotel facility located in downtown Seattle, Washington. Though building receives its name from the Westin that made its home there when the building was first completed, it is also home to the Seattle Internet Exchange and Pacific...
in Seattle, WA, in the USA. The SIX is a fast growing, neutral and independent peering
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
point which was created as a free exchange point sponsored only by donations. It continues to run without any re-occurring charges to the participants and current major funding comes from one-time 10 Gbit/s port fees. The SIX is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
As of September 9th, 2011 there are 159 routers at the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) advertising at least 90,000 unique BGP routes.
Technology
The core of the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an Arista NetworksArista Networks
Arista Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The company designs and sells network switches for datacenter, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments...
7508 and a Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
Catalyst 6509. Participants may connect to the SIX core using a 1 Gbit/s or 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connection (fiber) or to one of the eight extensions. Many of the extensions are sponsored by the colocation facilities
Colocation centre
A colocation centre or colocation center , is a type of data centre where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers...
in the building, and many of these extensions support 100BASE-TX or greater connections.
Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering is available and encouraged at the SIX, availability is dependent on peer.
Extensions
The following is a list of the extensions connected to the SIX:- Cipherkey: Connects participants in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- ColoCenters: 18th floor of the Westin Building.
- Equinix: PAIX SEAPAIXPAIX, the Peering And Internet eXchange, is a neutral Internet exchange point operated by Switch and Data.PAIX began operations in 1996 as Palo Alto Internet Exchange in Palo Alto, California, and was owned and operated by Digital Equipment Corporation, or DEC...
, which is a neutral Internet exchange point operated by EquinixEquinixEquinix, Inc. is an American public corporation that provides carrier-neutral data centers and internet exchanges. Equinix provides network-neutral data centers and interconnection services...
in Seattle, Washington. - FiberCloud: 18th and 19th floor of the Westin Building.
- Layer42: Connects to Layer42's MPLS-enabled backbone which includes San Jose, California and Ashburn, Virginia. This was the first extension to connect participants outside of the Westin Building.
- NSIX: North Seattle Internet Exchange, located at the Fisher Plaza in Seattle, Washington.
- Swift Communications: 20th floor of the Westin Building.
Location
Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX)- Westin Building
- 2001 6th Ave,
- 19th Floor MMR
- Seattle, WA 98121
- NPA-NXX : 206-443
North Seattle Internet Exchange (NSIX)
- Fisher Plaza
- 140 4th Ave North, Suite 201
- Seattle, WA 98109
- NPA-NXX : 206-505
Board Members
Current SIX board members for 2011/2012 are:- Nikos Mouat - President
- Jared Reimer - Vice President
- Chris Caputo - Secretary and Treasurer
- Troy Davis
- Patrick Gilmore