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…
As we get closer to the 100-day marker since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, we can begin to see how exactly it has altered the way we use the internet and what…
In the wake of the global challenge to combat COVID-19, data centers have become more critical than ever as network operators around the world witnessed a sharp increase in internet traffic due to the mass…
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…
Since its inception 15 years ago, PeeringDB has evolved to become one of the most important and valuable tools for building peering relationships in the industry. The interconnection database now has information on 712 exchanges,…
Hundreds of network engineering, operations, and architecture professionals gathered earlier this week at the Texas capital to network and discuss the current state of the internet at NANOG 77. It’s no surprise that peering and…
The benefits of internet exchange points (IXPs) have now been well documented for over a decade. Around the world, IXPs bring together Internet service providers (ISPs) and content delivery networks (CDNs) to exchange Internet traffic…
Some carriers believe that the cache servers of content providers such as Netflix or Facebook are sufficient to meet the growing demand from users, but this is not always the case. Many content providers do…
