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Full name
  
Mumbai Convergence Hub

Website
  
www.mumbaich.com

Date founded
  
15 August 2014

Abbreviation
  
Mumbai CH ; Mumbai IX

Members
  
145 as of January 2017

Location
  
India, Mumbai, Navi Mumbai

Mumbai convergence hub recognized as a top digital innovator at 2016 digital india summit


Mumbai Convergence Hub is a Mumbai-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in 15 August 2014 as an Open Peering Exchange. As of 1 August 2015 it interconnects more than 145 members, making it the largest IXP in India and surrounding region.

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Organisation

Mumbai Convergence Hub is composed of a non-profit association association model focus on improving Internet experience of Indian users. There are currently 145 members spread across two locations

Network

As of 1 April 2016, Mumbai Convergence Hub network has 2 points of presence (PoP).

  • Web Werks Mum DC2, Rabale, Navi Mumbai.
  • Web Werks Mum DC1, Prabhadevi, Mumbai.
  • Upcoming Locations

    Mumbai CH will be expanding its facilities to new cities in 2016, all will be carrier neutral and allow the settlement free exchange of traffic. The new locations are:

  • Northern India New Delhi
  • Northeastern India Guwahati
  • Eastern India Kolkata
  • Southern India Bangalore
  • Southern India Hyderabad
  • Southern India Chennai
  • Ports of connection

    Services are available through following types of port and several bandwidth options.

    Services

    Mumbai Convergence Hub offers the following professional services:

  • Public peering: Unicast & multicast IPv4, unicast IPv6
  • Private peering (Closed user group)
  • Routes servers (with the communities feature)
  • Web Portal: private login per member, personal detailed traffic statistics.
  • 24/7 NOC
  • Community

    Mumbai Convergence Hub community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number (also known as ASN) can be connected to Mumbai Convergence Hub . The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:

  • Social media
  • Ecommerce
  • ISP / Internet Access Providers / Telcos
  • CDN Provider (Content Delivery Network)
  • Hosting companies
  • Cloud providers
  • IPTV Networks
  • Corporations
  • DNS Root Server
  • Email and Hosting
  • Awards and Recognition

    Mumbai Convergence Hub was Recognised as a Top Digital Innovator at 2016 Digital India Summit in the Digital Start-up Innovators category.

    References

    Mumbai Convergence Hub Wikipedia