AMS-IX
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| Full name | Amsterdam Internet Exchange |
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| Abbreviation | AMS-IX |
| Founded | 1997 (unofficially 1994) |
| Location |
 Netherlands, Amsterdam
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| Website | www |
| Members | 800 |
| Ports | 1,438 |
| Peers | 1,316 |
| Peak in | 5.513 Tb/s |
| Peak out | 5.505 Tb/s |
| Daily in (avg.) | 2.971 Tb/s |
| Daily out (avg.) | 2.971 Tb/s |
The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is an Internet exchange point based in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Established in the early 1990s, AMS-IX is a non-profit, neutral and independent peering point. With over 800 connected networks and a peak traffic exceeding 5 Tbit/s, AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet Exchanges in the world.
In February 1994, a layer 2 shared infrastructure, used between academic institutes, was connected with CERN to exchange traffic. Other internet service providers were allowed to connect and the name AMS-IX was first used. In 1997, the AMS-IX Association was founded by twenty of the connected internet service providers and carriers.
In 2002, the Neutral Internet Exchange was founded as an alternative or backup for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.
As of 5 January 2011[update], AMS-IX connected 396 members on 684 ports. The all-time peak of incoming traffic was 1.513 Tbit/s and of outgoing traffic 1.512 Tbit/s compared to 0.833 Tbit/s average incoming and outgoing, in January 2012. In November 2016, AMS-IX broke through the 5 Tbit/s ceiling.
The total amount of data transferred by month was (Avg. incoming and outgoing) 75,940 TB in November 2008. By April 2009, it had grown to 124,550 TB, 64% more traffic in a 5-month period.
These traffic speeds make the Amsterdam Internet Exchange the second largest internet exchange in the world, when measured by number of connected members and by internet traffic, placing it second to the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (traffic).
In September 2013, the board voted to create a legal framework to facilitate an expansion into the United States. An AMS-IX press release said that:
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