AI Performance Begins Where Networks Meet.
We're building regional Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) across the U.S. to reduce latency, improve network performance, and ensure that next-generation AI applications work for everyone.
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Network operators
Meet other networks close to home
Peer locally, reach national exchanges and the cloud, and gain the option of a diverse route in and out of your region, in a neutral facility.
Connect in Wichita -
Broadband offices and policymakers
Make interconnection part of the plan
See why IXPs belong in broadband and resilience planning, and why more of them need to be built.
Public policy -
Everyone
Why IXPs matter to you
Where networks meet shapes the speed, cost and reliability of the internet you use every day.
What are IXPs?
The problem
Where do your region's networks meet today?
Too often in a major city hundreds of miles away, even when both networks serve the same community. A local IXP lets them meet close to home.
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Higher costLower costs
Networks pay to haul local traffic to distant cities and back.
Local traffic is exchanged locally, and wholesale IP transit is bought in a competitive local marketplace, which can reduce costs by as much as 90%.
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More lag timeLower latency
Every exchange between neighboring networks makes a long round trip.
Shorter paths for the video calls, gaming, cloud apps and AI tools people use every day.
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Less resilienceOptions for resilience
A single long-haul path is a single point of failure for the region.
Networks gain the option of a new, diverse route in and out of the region, and traffic exchanged locally keeps flowing if a long-haul route goes down.
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Far from the cloudGlobal reach, locally
Reaching the cloud and national exchanges means buying transport to a distant hub.
Peering at national exchanges, private cloud connections and Microsoft Azure Peering Service, from a port close to home.
Democratizing Network Interconnection Across America
- Target Cities
- 135
- States
- 47
- Peers on the DE-CIX Exchange
- 260+
- University Partnerships (to Date)
- 10
Now in final commissioning
IXP.US Wichita: Kansas's first carrier-neutral IXP
On Wichita State University's Innovation Campus, launching soon. Bring your own fiber or connect through a network already in the building, then peer locally on two exchanges: Omnexus IX, with reach to DE-CIX Dallas and private cloud connections, and KCIX, with reach to Kansas City.
- Omnexus IX, powered by DE-CIX
- KCIX
For broadband offices and policymakers
Most regions still exchange their traffic somewhere else
Many regional hub communities have no neutral place for networks to meet, so their speed and resilience depend on distant cities. We've identified 135 communities where an IXP would change that, and we're working with states, universities, and AI companies to build them.
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