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Manitoba Internet Exchange

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Abbreviation
  
MBIX

Members
  
21

Website
  
mbix.ca

Peak in
  
1.73Gbit/s

Founded
  
September 2011 (2011-09)

Location
  
Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Manitoba Internet Exchange Inc (MBIX) is an Internet exchange point situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It allows traffic between members to stay within the Canadian jurisdiction, optimizing the performance and economy of traffic flows, while limiting the potential for extra-legal surveillance. MBIX is incorporated as a Manitoban tax-exempt non-profit corporation.

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Technology

MBIX is currently running on a Cisco Nexus 7004 ethernet switch, supporting speeds of 10Mbit/s/100Mbit/s/1000Mbit/s on copper, or 1Gbit/s/10Gbit/s on copper or fiber. MBIX provides NTP and an optional BGP route reflector for multilateral peering.

Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering is possible and encouraged at MBIX.

Services Available

MBIX offers several services under its ASN.

  • Route Servers. MBIX provides managed route servers giving a safe, hands-off way of establishing multilateral peering with all peers.
  • NTP Services. MBIX provides CDMA-backed, public NTP services under the hostname time.mbix.ca which round robins between time{1..3}.mbix.ca

    • Other services present at, but not directly provided by MBIX include:

  • DNS Roots. Many Root, TLD and CCTLD DNS servers are available via MBIX.

    • Availability

    MBIX has signed a Memorandum of Understanding which provides no-cost cross-connects to members inside its data centers. MBIX is currently available in two data centers in Winnipeg:

  • Global Server Centre, Suite 570 – 167 Lombard Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
  • Les.net YWG2, Suite 201- 294 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

    • References

    Manitoba Internet Exchange Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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