Mexico is expected to surpass Brazil as the largest OTT market in Latin America by 2022, with revenues ranging from $698 million in 2019 to nearly $1.5 billion by 2024. Mexico will overtake Brazil as…
Last year, Mexico’s 72.5 million gamers spent over 32,175 million pesos according to the data provided by Ernesto Piedras, director of The Competitive Intelligence Unit (CIU). PWC’s Global Entertainment & Media Outlook report predicts that…
Updated November 30th, 2020 In recent months the MEX-IX has reached record traffic peaks, peaking at 130Gbps in November. Previously the MEX-IX had broken a record with 60.18G peak traffic recorded last August. In October…
MDC Data Centers and the MEX-IX have begun the work to join the MANRS IXP program to promote better routing security. MANRS presents a set of routing security measures to address the unique needs and…
Now, more than ever, the internet serves as the backbone of our society, but it still faces certain risks that can result in major disruption in communication, great financial loss, or even ruin the reputation…
The peering world can be very exciting and if you’re just getting started we would like to review some of the basics. So let’s begin by defining what peering is: Peering is when two or…
McAllen, the official south pole of Texas, is home to the MEX-IX, an internet exchange point (IXP) on the border established and operated by MDC Data Centers to enable international carriers and content providers to…
The MEX-IX is an Internet exchange platform located in our data center in McAllen, Texas, where the largest concentration of Mexican networks are gathered. The MEX-IX is also the first IXP to focus on establishing…
All peering at an internet exchange point (IXP), like the MEX-IX, requires Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) sessions to be established between two or more participating members. BGP enables networks to announce their IP addresses to…
PeeringDB recently announced a new feature that allows networks to indicate whether or not they should be reached via route servers. This new function serves as an additional preventative measure to avoid catastrophic BGP route…
