MONTREAL – The Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) has grown its membership to 60 members and peaked traffic over 50Gbps over the last year, highlighting the relevance of Montreal on the global network map.
Launched in 2013, the exchange was established to provide lower costs and faster performance of Internet traffic in Eastern Canada and to enable traffic patterns that created data sovereignty to keep Internet traffic originating and terminating in Canada from having to traverse through the United States. The mission of the independent, non-profit exchange is to establish and operate an Internet Exchange infrastructure that meets the needs of local, national and foreign network, content and Internet Service providers, elevating the status of Montreal to that of one of the preeminent peering locations in the Canadian and North American market.
"QIX has grown from a project of passion for many of the original supporters to a core component of the Tech landscape in Montreal," said QIX Board of Directors chair and interconnection relations at Google Inc. Sylvie LaPerriere, in the news release. "QIX provides a one-to-many peering tool where global content, gaming and cloud providers can exchange traffic with international and regional ISPs which makes the Internet more efficient."
QIX’s core node is located in Cologix's data centre at 1250 Rene Levesque Boulevard West, and peers can access the QIX nodes through any of Cologix's seven data centres throughout Montreal.
