Stockholm Internet eXchange is an Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

-based Internet exchange point

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...

 operator. Founded in late 2005 and with the first joining ISPs in December 2006, the organization is non-profit and independent. Currently there are more than 60 active members of STHIX.

STHIX is based on Ethernet

Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....

 technology and currently offers connection speeds of 100Mbit/s (FE), 1000Mbit/s (GE) and 10000Mbit/s (TE).

STHIX provides peering for both the IPv4

IPv4

Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth revision in the development of the Internet Protocol and the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. Together with IPv6, it is at the core of standards-based internetworking methods of the Internet...

 and IPv6

IPv6

Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

 internet protocols, currently STHIX only supports MTU

Maximum transmission unit

In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit of a communications protocol of a layer is the size of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards. MTU parameters usually appear in association with a communications interface...

1500 peering.

STHIX is a distributed Internet exchange point, currently present at eight data-centers in the Stockholm area, with its core node located at Stokabs KN1 facility.

External links

• sthix.net
• STHIX - RIPE whois data
• Stokab
• PeeringDB STHIX page - Free login required, no registration required.