Manitoba Internet Exchange

Manitoba Internet Exchange
Abbreviation	MBIX
Founded	September 2011
Location	Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Website	mbix.ca
Members	21[1]
Peak in	1.73Gbit/s[2]

The Manitoba Internet Exchange Inc (MBIX) is an Internet exchange point situated in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It allows traffic between members to stay within the Canadian jurisdiction, optimizing the performance and economy of traffic flows, while limiting the potential for extra-legal surveillance.[3] [4] [5] MBIX is incorporated as a Manitoban tax-exempt non-profit corporation.

Technology

As of 2017 MBIX is running on a Cisco Nexus 7004 ethernet switch, supporting speeds of 10Mbit/s/100Mbit/s/1000Mbit/s on copper, or 1Gbit/s/10Gbit/s on copper or fiber. MBIX provides NTP and an optional BGP route reflector for multilateral peering.

Both IPv4 and IPv6 peering is possible and encouraged at MBIX.

Services Available

MBIX offers several services under its ASN.

Route Servers. MBIX provides managed route servers giving a safe, hands-off way of establishing multilateral peering with all peers.
NTP Services. MBIX provides GPS-backed, public NTP services under the hostname time.mbix.ca which round robins between time{1..3}.mbix.ca

Other services present at, but not directly provided by MBIX include:

DNS Roots. Many Root, TLD and CCTLD DNS servers are available via MBIX.

Availability

MBIX has signed a Memorandum of Understanding which provides no-cost cross-connects to members inside its data centers. As of 2017 MBIX is available in two data centers in Winnipeg:

Global Server Centre, Suite 570 – 167 Lombard Avenue
LES.NET YWG2, Suite 201- 294 Portage Avenue

References

"MBIX Participants". Retrieved 2016-09-11.
"MBIX Graphs". Retrieved 2016-09-11.
Jackson, Brian (September 30, 2013). "Canada must build routing infrastructure to skirt US snooping, CIRA says". ITBusiness.ca. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
Schick, Shane (October 2, 2013). "The quest to keep Canada's Internet traffic in-country". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 3, 2013.
Woodcock, Bill; Edelman, Ben (September 12, 2012). "Toward Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange" (PDF). Packet Clearing House. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 25, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2013.

External links

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[connected-1] "MBIX Participants". Retrieved 2016-09-11.

[graphs-2] "MBIX Graphs". Retrieved 2016-09-11.

[itbusiness1-3] Jackson, Brian (September 30, 2013). "Canada must build routing infrastructure to skirt US snooping, CIRA says". ITBusiness.ca. Retrieved October 1, 2013.

[yahoo1-4] Schick, Shane (October 2, 2013). "The quest to keep Canada's Internet traffic in-country". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved October 3, 2013.

[PCH2012-5] Woodcock, Bill; Edelman, Ben (September 12, 2012). "Toward Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange" (PDF). Packet Clearing House. Archived from the original (pdf) on August 25, 2013. Retrieved October 4, 2013.