Equinix Internet Exchange Paris

Equinix Internet Exchange™ Paris

Established in April 2008, the Paris Equinix Internet Exchange is the leading Internet Exchange in France, providing peering services to more than 135 customers. The Equinix Internet Exchange provides a highly available switching platform for network interconnection. This efficient and cost-effective service is designed to reduce operating costs and enable efficient IP traffic interchange by aggregating thousands of peering sessions onto a single hardware platform at an Equinix International Business Exchange™ IBX® data center.  

Paris is a central location for the exchange of Internet traffic between the United States and Europe, and is a hub for French Internet traffic, which is among the highest in the world. France's central location in Europe and its border with the Mediterranean Sea means many submarine cable systems land here, bringing providers to Europe from Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia Pacific. This makes Paris an ideal location for the exchange of internet traffic.

Why Equinix?

As the leading global network-neutral data center provider, Equinix offers network service providers, content & digital media properties, enterprises, financial firms and cloud/SaaS platforms the ability to connect with 690+ networks worldwide. The Equinix Internet Exchange provides an efficient and cost-effective means to leverage these ecosystems for traffic exchange and transit.
 
Through the Equinix Internet Exchange service, customers can directly connect to each other for traffic exchange via a convenient and flexible central switching fabric managed by Equinix. This streamlined connectivity improves end-to-end network performance, reduces latency and packet loss, and lowers overall IP transit costs.

Equinix has been a world leader in Internet Exchange services since 2001, operating 16 exchanges in the United States, Europe, and Asia. We bring the same knowledge and experience to our Exchange in Paris.

Equinix Internet Exchange service offers

• Unique French and international networks that enhance your peering opportunities
• A Service Level Agreement of 99.9999% availability
• Guaranteed provisioning of your port within five working days
• 24/7/365 Network Operations Centre for issue resolution at every site
• Commitment and ability to invest in upgrades and expansion of our facilities and the exchange before our customers need it.
• Access to the Equinix Internet Exchange (IX) Portal offering:
  • sFlow-based data and charting tools: view how much traffic is being exchanged with each peer
  • Participant lists for each Internet Exchange
  • Network health reports: jitter, latency and packet loss stats
  • Network topology diagrams and information
  • Peering events calendar