Toronto Internet Exchange
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| Full name | Toronto Internet Exchange Community |
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| Abbreviation | TorIX |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Location |
 Canada, Toronto, Ontario
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| Website | www |
| Members | 222 |
| Ports | 272 |
| Peak in | 531 Gb/s |
| Peak out | 531 Gb/s |
TorIX initially started by Jason Lixfeld and others in 1997 the RACO facility in suite 604 at 151 Front Street West. In 2003, the exchange began offering gigabit Ethernet. In 2008, the Exchange began offering 10GE ports. In 2015, 100GE ports began to be offered.
The exchange is Ethernet-based and currently operates two Cisco Nexus 7010 series switches, which act as core nodes, as well as several Cisco Nexus 9200 and Cisco ME-3600X series switches which act as edge or leaf nodes. Core nodes handle port speeds of GigabitEthernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet, including bonded configurations. Peers connect to the Layer 2 fabric using IPv4 & IPv6 addresses provided by TorIX to connect with each other, via the BGP routing protocol. Single-mode fiber is required, and peers can connect from anywhere in the building via the meet-me-room.
The Exchange also offers two BGP Route-Servers, which allow peers to exchange prefixes with each other while minimizing the number of direct BGP peering sessions configured on their routers. Participation is voluntary, with approximately three-quarters of the membership using the free service. The exchange now allows participants the option of eliminating the TorIX ASN from the AS path of prefixes received via the route-servers. This can substantially increase the utility of the route-servers for participants, but should only be undertaken after careful consideration. In addition, TorIX participants will have a range of BGP communities that can be used for traffic engineering purposes.
The Exchange operates a members-only portal that allows peers to publish their peering policies, contact other members with peering requests, configure route-server access and options, track traffic usage, etc.
TorIX will consider hosting Internet community projects that are of an interest to members of the Exchange or the wider Canadian Internet.
Since 2012, TorIX has been hosting a cluster of servers for use by the Internet as a whole. Using servers which sync to both GPS and CDMA sources, the TorIX NTP cluster is a stratum 1 time source. The equipment was donated by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), and as of August 2015 provides time to over 1,200,000 devices worldwide.
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