Abbreviation SIX Members 220 Headquarters Washington, United States | Website www.seattleix.net Peak 568 Gbit/s Date founded 1997 | |
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Location Seattle, Washington, US People also search for TOP-IX, London Internet Exchange, National Internet Exchange of India | ||
The Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an Internet exchange point in Seattle, USA. It has two locations in the city: the Westin Building and KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza). The SIX is a fast-growing, neutral and independent peering 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 and 100 Gbit/s port fees. The SIX is a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
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As of April 26, 2016 there are 240 routers at the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) advertising at least 90,000 unique Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes. There are two route servers running Bird Internet routing daemon (BIRD).
Technology
The core of the Seattle Internet Exchange (SIX) is an Arista Networks 7508 and a Cisco Catalyst 6509 at the Westin Building and an Extreme Networks X670 at KOMO Plaza (formerly Fisher Plaza). Participants may connect to the SIX core using a 1 Gbit/s, 10 Gbit/s or 100 Gbit/s Ethernet connection (fiber) or to one of several extensions. Many of the extensions are sponsored by the colocation facilities 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. Jumbo frame peering with a 9000-byte maximum transmission unit (MTU) option.
Extensions
The following is a list of the extensions connected to the SIX: