The success of the Internet relies on the cooperation of the organisations that use this channel to do business, whether they compete or not. Many Edge-IX members are in competition with each other, yet on the Exchange they collaborate to benefit themselves and their customers and the wider Internet community.
As a nationally distributed exchange, Edge-IX is uniquely placed in a number of key areas, including emerging communications hubs, as a partner to work with. Our services provide members with the ability to meet their changing needs and the ever growing expectations of their users.
Our core service is to act as an Internet Exchange point and facilitate the interconnection of member networks enabling them to exchange Internet traffic and reduce costs, reduce latency and improve the end user experience.
Growing the Exchange
The number of peering arrangements you can set-up across an exchange platform determines the costs savings as well as network optimisations. The more members we have, the more it benefits all of the Edge-IX membership.
We encourage our members to peer with each other, and we also actively build relationships with key content providers to enhance the value of the Exchange for all of our membership.
As a new breed of Internet Exchange, Edge-IX is uniquely positioned to meet the changing needs of the Internet community and how they use the network. This is being driven by the content delivery needs of many service providers being met through the emergence of regional hubs.
Regional Communications Hubs
Many development agencies across the UK are in the process of developing local communications hubs to serve communities in their regions. We offer a cost effective central hub and aggregator Peering LAN for these types of regional communications hubs.
- Next generation Internet is built on the ability to deliver large amounts of bandwidth-hungry content quickly to users.
- End users demand reliable high speed connectivity and access, and in order to meet these needs, the correct infrastructure is required.
- Content providers want to ensure that their content can reach their customers quickly.
- Access providers want to drive down the cost of carrying content across their networks.
Peering communities formed on a regional basis can keep content local. Rather than having it delivered from a central point, by peering with others in their regional peering community, content can be delivered between users in that area without having to cross several hops on the Internet. The Exchange provides a cost-effective means of content delivery. The unique nature of Edge-IX not only keeps local traffic local, but also enables access providers to reach any of the content providers on the national network increasing the amount of traffic that can be moved over the Exchange, improving the cost efficiency and solving the sustainability issue.