The Greek Internet Exchange (GR-IX) is an

Internet exchange point Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of Internet Protocol, IP networking, allowing participant Internet service provider, Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks. IXPs are ...

located in

Athens Athens ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica (region), Attica region and is the southe ...

and

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...

Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

. It was founded in 2009 in order to replace the

Athens Internet Exchange The Athens Internet Exchange was until January 2010 the main Internet Exchange Point in Greece, offering peering connectivity between the largest commercial ISPs as well as the academic network organization, GRNET. Operational authorities were GRNET ...

as the principal Internet Exchange Point in Greece, which was achieved in January 2010. GR-IX is non-profit, independent and is supervised by the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET). GR-IX is a member of the

European Internet Exchange Association The European Internet Exchange Association, or Euro-IX, is an association of European Internet exchange points. It is a community-driven association serving European Internet exchange points and Internet service providers and the general IP commu ...

History

The predecessor of GR-IX,

(AIX) was created by GRNET in 1997, to provide interconnection services between the Greek ISPs. By the late 1990s, the way AIX was set up was not completely satisfactory to the member ISPs: since AIX was located in Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE) facilities, providers had to lease lines from OTE in order to connect to AIX. Additionally, ISPs had the right to charge other members for exchanged traffic, a right sometimes overused by the larger providers. To deal with these issues, GRNET decided in 2008 to create a new exchange, GR-IX. GR-IX went operational in 2009 and by January 2010 all AIX members had completed their move to GR-IX.

Members

Some of the member of GR-IX are: *

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* Cyta *

Forthnet Nova Telecommunications & Media S.M.S.A. is a Greek telecommunications company which provides broadband, television, mobile and fixed services. It also offers satellite services in Cyprus. It was traded on the Athens Exchange until its delistin ...

* Greek Research and Technology Network *

Hurricane Electric Hurricane Electric is a global Internet service provider offering Internet transit, tools, and network applications, as well as data center colocation and hosting services at one location in San Jose, California and two locations in Fremont, Cal ...

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

* OTE *

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WIND Hellas Wind Hellas (formerly TELESTET Hellas and later also TIM Hellas) was a Greek integrated telecommunications provider with headquarters in Athens, Greece. As of September 2010, Wind was the third largest mobile operator in Greece (after Cosmote ...

Network

GR-IX holds three points of presence in Athens; one is located at 48 King Constantinos Street, at a building owned by the

National Hellenic Research Foundation The National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF; Greek language, Greek: Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών (Ε.Ι.Ε.)) is a non-profit, private-law legal entity established in 1958 with the aim of conducting interdisciplinary research in th ...

, one a
Digital Realty's
Data Center in Koropi and one a
Telecom Italia Sparkle Greece's
Data Center in Metamorfosi. GR-IX has also one point of presence in Thessaloniki, located i
SYNAPSECOM's S.A.
Data Center in Kalohori.

References

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External links

Greek Internet Exchange
(official website)
Connected partiesPoints of presenceTraffic statisticsPresence in LAMDA HELLIX Data CentersEuropean Internet Exchange Association entry
2009 establishments in Greece Internet exchange points in Greece Internet in Greece