IX.br

IX.br
LocationBrazil
Websiteix.br

IX.br is the Internet exchange point system of Brazil. It is a project of the government agency Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, CGI.br), and operates as a non-profit funded by NIC.br.[1]

IX.br is an interconnection of metropolitan area network IXPs (called PIXes in Brazil) with commercial and academic networks, under centralized management. IX.br has 36 Internet exchange points in Brazil, as of January 2024. The aggregated traffic over its 36 locations has peaked over 31 Tb/s in 2023, making it the largest IXP aggregator in the world.[2]

The most important IXP points are located in São Paulo with a traffic peak over 22 Tbit/s, and Fortaleza and Rio de Janeiro at around 4 Tbit/s.[3][4][5] The São Paulo point is the largest in the world, both by traffic volume and number of participants, with more than 2400 ASNs in early 2024.[6][2]

  1. ^ Brito, Samuel Henrique Bucke; Santos, Mateus Augusto Silva; Fontes, Ramon dos Reis; Perez, Danny Alex Lachos; Silva, Hirley Dayan Lourenço da; Rothenberg, Christian Rodolfo Esteve (26 October 2016). "An Analysis of the Largest National Ecosystem of Public Internet eXchange Points: The Case of Brazil". Journal of Communication and Information Systems. 31 (1). doi:10.14209/jcis.2016.23.
  2. ^ a b "In a new record, IX.br surpasses 31 Tbit/s of peak Internet traffic exchange". NIC.br - Núcleo de Informação e Coordenação do Ponto BR (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 1 February 2024.
  3. ^ "IX.br São Paulo". ix.br.
  4. ^ "IX.br Fortaleza". ix.br.
  5. ^ "IX.br Rio de Janeiro". ix.br.
  6. ^ "The IXP Database". ixpdb.euro-ix.net. Retrieved 1 February 2024.