Victorian Internet Exchange
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The Victorian Internet Exchange is an Internet Exchange Point
in Australia
. Formed from the Australian Internet Exchange (AUIX) project, VIX is located in the Melbourne AAPT
Exchange and offers multi-lateral peering
.
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...
in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Formed from the Australian Internet Exchange (AUIX) project, VIX is located in the Melbourne AAPT
AAPT
AAPT is Australia's third largest land line telecommunications company and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Telecom New Zealand. The company is a member of the Infrastructure Assurance Advisory Group for the Critical Infrastructure Protection branch of the Attorney-General's...
Exchange and offers multi-lateral peering
Peering
In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. The pure definition of peering is settlement-free or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the...
.
- Note AAPT site is long since defunct. there is a "VIX" run by WAIX; http://www.waia.asn.au/content/new-carrier-neutral-peering-point-melbourne