Luxembourg Commercial Internet eXchange (LU-CIX)
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| Full name | Luxembourg Internet eXchange |
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| Abbreviation | LU-CIX |
| Founded | 2009 |
| Location | 202, Z.A.E. Wolser F 3290 Bettembourg, Luxembourg |
| Website | www.lu-cix.lu |
| Members | 69 |
The Luxembourg Internet eXchange (stylised as LU-CIX) is a carrier and neutral internet exchange point (IX) located in Luxembourg.
History
LU-CIX was founded in February 2009[1] under the initiative on cross-industry players. These members (listed below) keep running the technical backend requested for LU-CIX to provide its services portfolio.
LU-CIX gathers together national and international telecommunications operators, data centre operators, ISPs and online businesses.[2]
LU-CIX is a member of Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association).
Mission
LU-CIX ASBL, the LUxembourg Internet eXchange, was founded in 2009 based on a not-for-profit membership association with an open and neutral philosophy. Its aim is to develop and support the Internet and data center ecosystem in Luxembourg by providing the national peering infrastructure and by promoting the national and European ICT community.
LU-CIX brings a major contribution to the Luxembourg Internet community by organising its leading industry event, the Luxembourg Internet Days, which takes place every year and attracts over a thousand industry experts and decision makers from all around the globe.
LU-CIX also runs the datacenters-in-europe.com platform, which gathers the Luxembourg data center and Internet related players to promote Luxembourg as the best place for a data center and ICT business in the heart of Europe.
Infrastructure
LU-CIX is hosted in 8 data centers, PoPs, across the country to facilitate the membership of a majority of Internet related players.
The traffic peak of LU-CIX is 320,3 Gbps.
It also leverages strong partnerships with other IX in Europe[3] (ECIX & FranceIX[4]).
References
- ^ Lancement de LU-CIX Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, IT nation, 13/10/2009
- ^ Optimiser la transmission des données, L'essentiel, 13/03/2014
- ^ LU-CIX and IX Reach open up connectivity to major Internet exchanges, Chronicle, 02/04/2013
- ^ France IX et LU-CIX scellent leur partenariat dans le monde des points d'échange Internet, Paperjam, 29/11/2011