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Internet exchange points began as Network Access Points or NAPs, a key component of Al Gore's National Information Infrastructure (NII) plan, which defined the transition from the US Government-paid-for NSFNET era (when Internet access was government sponsored and commercial traffic was prohibited) to the commercial Internet of today.
A Tier 1 network is an Internet Protocol (IP) network that can reach every other network on the Internet solely via settlement-free interconnection (also known as settlement-free peering). [1] [2] Tier 1 networks can exchange traffic with other Tier 1 networks without paying any fees for the exchange of traffic in either direction. [3]
Network Access Point (NAP) of the Americas (called MI1 by Equinix) [2] is a massive, six-story, 750,000 square foot data center [3] and Internet exchange point [4] in Miami, Florida, operated by Equinix. It is one of the world's largest data centers and among the 10 most interconnected data centers in the United States.
Historically, public peering locations were known as network access points (NAPs). Today they are most often called exchange points or Internet exchanges ("IXP"). Many of the largest exchange points in the world can have hundreds of participants, and some span multiple buildings and colocation facilities across a city. [10]
A transit free network uses only peering; a network that uses only unpaid peering and connects to the whole Internet is considered a Tier 1 network. [1] In the 1990s, the network access point concept provided one form of transit. [2] Pricing for the internet transit varies at different times and geographical locations. [3]
Examples of large peering points without public data are NAP of the Americas or PacketExchange. Neither is it any longer authoritative, as companies aggregate their data capacity. For example, as of 2024, the top two entries each contained data for about 40 separate locations, in one case on four different continents.
Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses.This is a small look at the backbone of the Internet. The Internet backbone is the principal data routes between large, strategically interconnected computer networks and core routers of the Internet.
Asia Internet Exchange Network Access Point Malaysia (ARIX) * APIX: Asia Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur: Kuala Lumpur Internet Exchange * APIX: Asia Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Internet Exchange (SLIX) [405] * APIX: Asia Taiwan: Taipei: Taiwan Network Access Point (TWNAP) * APIX: Asia Thailand: Bangkok: NECTEC IIR Public Internet Exchange [406] (NECTEC-PIE ...