Manitoba Internet Exchange
| Abbreviation | MBIX |
|---|---|
| Founded | September 2011 |
| Location |
 Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Website |
mbix |
| Members | 21[1] |
| Peak in | 1.73Gbit/s[2] |
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.[3] [4] [5] MBIX is incorporated as a Manitoban tax-exempt non-profit corporation.
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
See also
References
- ↑ "MBIX Participants". Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ↑ "MBIX Graphs". Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ↑ Jackson, Brian (September 30, 2013). "Canada must build routing infrastructure to skirt US snooping, CIRA says". ITBusiness.ca. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
- ↑ Schick, Shane (October 2, 2013). "The quest to keep Canada's Internet traffic in-country". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
- ↑ Woodcock, Bill; Edelman, Ben (September 12, 2012). "Toward Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange" (pdf). Packet Clearing House. Retrieved October 4, 2013.