Neutral Internet Exchange

Not to be confused with Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX).

NL-ix (with the last two letters typeset in lowercase) - formerly known as Neutral Internet Exchange - is an Internet Exchange in Europe, which is distributed across ninety-six datacenters in sixteen European cities in eight countries by year-end 2023.^[2] The exchange was founded in 2002 to serve as an alternative to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.^[3] As of March 2024, the peak traffic is 8.61 Tbit/s and 630 members are connected.^[4] On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company KPN had purchased and, subsequently, acquired the exchange.^[5]

NL-ix

Full name	NL-ix
Abbreviation	NL-ix
Founded	2002
Location	Netherlands
Website	www.nl-ix.net
Members	661
Ports	1762
Peers	513
Peak in	8.61 Tbit/s
Peak out	8.61 Tbit/s
Daily in (avg.)	1.08 Tbit/s
Daily out (avg.)	1.08 Tbit/s

Year	Peak traffic[1]
2002	50 Mbit/s
2003	800 Mbit/s
2004	6.2 Gbit/s
2005	10.0 Gbit/s
2006	13.1 Gbit/s
2007	16.3 Gbit/s
2008	42.4 Gbit/s
2009	40.3 Gbit/s
2010	118.2 Gbit/s
2011	146.7 Gbit/s
2012	220.1 Gbit/s
2013	403.9 Gbit/s
2014	701.3 Gbit/s
2015	1.3424 Tbit/s
2023	7,98 Tbit/s
2024	8,61 Tbit/s

Datacenters

NL-ix members can connect at over 90 sites in 16 cities across 8 countries.^[6]