Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico
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Internet Exchange Point
An Internet exchange point is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks . IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit...
situated in San Juan
San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
. It was established on November 22, 2005 by the Gauss Research Laboratory
Gauss Research Laboratory
The Gauss Research Laboratory, Inc. is the corporation in charge of managing the Puerto Rico's Top Level Domain. It is responsible for providing a stable and secure management of the .pr domain. This organization has been recognized and approved by the international oversight agencies, ICANN and...
of the University of Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...
. Packet Clearing House
Packet Clearing House
Packet Clearing House or PCH is a non-profit research institute formed in 1994. It supports operations and analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development.-Overview:...
(PCH) and Dell donated the equipment. Bill Woodcock
Bill Woodcock
Bill Woodcock is research director of Packet Clearing House, a non-profit research institute dedicated to understanding and supporting Internet traffic exchange technology, policy, and economics...
from PCH served as technical advisor.
IXPR was the first internet exchange point set in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Caribbean
The Caribbean is a crescent-shaped group of islands more than 2,000 miles long separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the west and south, from the Atlantic Ocean, to the east and north...
. Centennial of Puerto Rico, ULTRACOM
ULTRACOM
ULTRACOM — or Telecomunicaciones Ultramarinas de Puerto Rico in Spanish— is a telecommunications corporation that manages satellite and submarine communications cable systems connected to Puerto Rico. It is jointly owned by PREPA.Net and Telefonica S.A...
, Caribe.Net
Caribe.Net
Caribe.Net , also known as Critical Hub Networks, is a telecommunications company that provides broadband Internet access, data center and telephone services in Puerto Rico. The company is headquartered in San Juan...
, and the University of Puerto Rico were the first nodes to exchange data through the point. IXPR used a Cisco
Cisco Systems
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gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second , as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed...
switch.
As of 2011, IXPR is no longer operating as an Internet Exchange Point.