The Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) is a public 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...

 in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 with locations in Atlanta, GA and Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

. The TIE offers Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

 connectivity ranging from 1-Gigabit

Gigabit

The gigabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix giga is defined in the International System of Units as a multiplier of 109 , and therefore...

 to multiple 10-Gigabit speeds, and participants are able to utilize IPv4

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...

 and IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 connectivity to other peers

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...

.

The TIE is operated by Telx.

Requirements

Participants in the TIE must have the following:

• an Autonomous System Number and run BGP
• Single mode fiber connection at minimum 1-Gigabit speed
• Peer with the TIE route viewer

The TIE is a non-free exchange, and members must pay setup and recurring fees.

Members

The following is a list of participants:

• AboveNet Communications, Inc.
  AboveNet
  AboveNet, Inc. , provides high bandwidth connectivity primarily for large corporate enterprises and communications carriers. AboveNet operates private metro area and long haul optical networks, and offers services including high bandwidth metro access to WDM, Metro Ethernet, VPN and IP networks,...
  
  
• Akamai Technologies
  Akamai Technologies
  Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an Internet content delivery network headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US.The company was founded in 1998 by then-MIT graduate student Daniel M. Lewin, and MIT Applied Mathematics professor Tom Leighton...
  
  
• American Fiber Systems
• API Digital
• BandCon
• BtNAccess
  PCCW
  PCCW Limited is the holding company of HKT Group Holdings Limited, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications provider in the Information and Communications Technologies industry. PCCW also holds a majority interest in Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited...
  
  
• Colo at 55
• Cox Communications
  Cox Communications
  Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television, telecommunications and wireless services in the United States...
  
  
• CWIE
• Cyberwurx
• DALnet
  DALnet
  DALnet is an Internet Relay Chat network that is currently populated by a stable population of around 30,000 users in about 18,000 channels, with 40 servers making up the network....
  
  
• Digital Service Consultants
• DoveTel Communications/SyncGlobal
• Earthlink
  EarthLink
  EarthLink , is an Internet service provider headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. It claims 1.94 million subscribers.- Business :EarthLink provides a variety of Internet connection types, including dial-up, DSL, satellite, and cable. Both dial-up and high speed Internet access are available...
  
  
• Education Networks of America, Inc.
• Emory University
  Emory University
  Emory University is a private research university in metropolitan Atlanta, located in the Druid Hills section of unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The university was founded as Emory College in 1836 in Oxford, Georgia by a small group of Methodists and was named in honor of...
  
  
• Florida LambdaRail
  National LambdaRail
  National LambdaRail is a , high-speed national network infrastructure owned and operated by the U.S. research and education community that runs over fiber-optic lines, and is the first transcontinental 10-Gigabit Ethernet network...
  
  
• Global NAPs
• Global Net Access, LLC
• Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
  
• GreatAccess.com
• GRUCom
• Highwinds Network Group
  Highwinds Network Group
  Highwinds Network Group, Inc. is a content delivery, network and IP services business that offers a comprehensive suite of solutions, including CDN, IP transit, transport, peering, colocation, content storage and IP software. The company headquarters are located in Winter Park, Florida, U.S.A....
  
  
• Hostway Corporation
  Hostway
  Hostway is a multinational web hosting company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, founded in 1998. It provides individuals, small- to medium-sized businesses and large corporations with hosting services for web sites, databases and business applications in addition to Internet...
  
  
• Hunt Telecom
• Hurricane Electric
  Hurricane Electric
  Hurricane Electric is a global Internet backbone , with a specific focus on IPv6. Hurricane Electric operates datacenters in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily within the city of Fremont...
  
  
• Internet South
• Internet Operating Services of AZ
• ISC
  Internet Systems Consortium
  Internet Systems Consortium, Inc., also known as ISC, is a Delaware-registered, 501 public benefit non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and...
  
  
• Knology, Inc.
  Knology
  Knology Inc. is a cable company that formed in 1994 by ITC Holding Company, Inc, a telecommunications holding company in West Point, Georgia that also founded Internet service provider Mindspring. In late 1994, shortly after Knology's inception, two employees made a $600,000 investment to make...
  
  
• LightCore CenturyTel
• Limelight Networks
  Limelight Networks
  Limelight Networks is a content delivery network service provider. The company is based in Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A., with offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Tokyo. The company operates a global fiber-optic network that helps content publishers avoid sending...
  
  
• LTT Inc
• McAfee
  McAfee
  McAfee, Inc. is a computer security company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. It markets software and services to home users, businesses and the public sector. On August 19, 2010, electronics company Intel agreed to purchase McAfee for $7.68 billion...
  
  
• Megapath
• Mzima
• NationalNet, Inc.
• Net2Atlanta
• Nexxlinx
• nLayer Communications
• OCCAID
  Occaid
  The Open Contributors Corporation for Advanced Internet Development is a non-profit consortium that operates one of the largest IPv6 research networks in the world...
  
  
• One Ring Networks
• Pavlov Media
• Packet Clearing House
  Packet Clearing House
  Packet Clearing House or PCH is a non-profit research institute formed in 1994. It supports operations and analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development.-Overview:...
  
   (PCH)
• PeachNet
• Peer1
  PEER 1
  Peer 1 Hosting provides Internet hosting services that include managed hosting, dedicated servers, colocation, and cloud computing. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada and the stock is traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX...
  
  
• Rapid Link
• Smoothstone IP Communications
• Speakeasy Broadband Services
  Speakeasy (ISP)
  Speakeasy, Inc. is a broadband internet service provider and Voice over IP carrier based in Seattle, Washington, United States. They are known for their liberal usage policies for home users whereby subscribers are explicitly permitted to run any number of serversand are permitted to resell their...
  
  
• Spirit Telecom
• TDS Telecom
  TDS Telecom
  TDS Telecom, a wholly owned subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, is a telecommunications company that sells telephone and Internet services in rural and suburban communities in 30 states...
  
  
• US Carrier
• WBS Connect
• Woodynet
• WVFiber.com
• Ygnition Networks
  Ygnition
  Ygnition is an American private cable operator and broadband Internet services company headquartered in Seattle, Washington focused on the MDU market. It is a privately held company with backers including ComVentures, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California, Advanced Equities and...
  
  

TIE Locations

The TIE is currently available at 6 of Telx's Carrier hotels.

• Atlanta, Georgia - 56 Marietta Street
• Phoenix, Arizona
  Phoenix, Arizona
  Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
  
   - 120 East Van Buren Street
• Dallas, TX- 2323 Bryan St, 8435 Stemmons Freeway
• New York, NY- 60 Hudson St, 111 8th Ave

External links

• Telx TIE website
• Telx corporate homepage
• 120 East Van Buren Street website for the carrier hotel in Phoenix, AZ