How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet Exchange?

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?
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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Internet Exchange allows different networks to
  exchange Internet traffic
• Connecting directly to an IX, a service
  providers network traffic doesnt have to travel
  great distance

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Direct interconnection to Internet Exchange
  provides number of advantages
• Cost agreeing to exchange traffic lowers or
  eliminates routing costs
• Latency number of hops servers make to
  deliver data to destination is reduced in an
  Internet Exchange. Enables better routing and
  allows provider control on routing traffic
• Bandwidth applications are becoming more
  bandwidth-intensive, Internet Exchange will play
  bigger role in network configurations
• Resilience organizations gain connectivity from
  all members in the IX, therefore risks of being
  impacted from providers failure is greatly
  minimized

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Service Provider Competition suppliers can be
  evaluated against each other, organizations will
  benefit from a flexible, competitive marketplace

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Leveraging a Colocation Providers Internet
  Exchange
• CyrusOne developed National Internet Exchange to
  deliver interconnection across states and
  metro-enabled sites
• Customers access IX platform for
  high-performance, low-cost data transfer
  accessibility

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Leveraging a Colocation Providers Internet
  Exchange
• CyrusOne provides following benefits
• Hundreds of available providers ensure the best
  flexibility, cost management and control
• Freedom to choose dedicated MPLS port arrays or
  pay as you eat scalability
• Numerous peering options endless scalability
  for peering protocols via BGP or 802.1Q

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How Can Businesses Benefit from an Internet
Exchange?

• Leveraging a Colocation Providers Internet
  Exchange
• CyrusOne provides following benefits
• All CyrusOne on-net facilities offer low-cost IX
  ports
• CyrusOne providers more than 1,000,000 square
  feet of colocated floor space in top tier data
  centers across the nation

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About the author

• Scott Brueggeman is Chief Marketing Officer at
  CyrusOne, a global enterprise colocation provider
  operating 24 highly secure data centers across
  the United States, London and Singapore. Learn
  more about an Internet Exchange by visiting
  http//www.cyrusone.com/.