Whois & Analysis for torix.ca

The Toronto Internet Exchange Community (TorIX) is a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point (IXP) located in a carrier hotel at 151 Front Street West and Equinix's TR2 data centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada., TorIX has 219 members and peak traffic rates of 429 Gbit/s, making it the largest IXP in Canada.

According to Wikipedia's List of Internet Exchange Points by Size, TorIX is the 18th largest IXP in the world in numbers of peers, and 18th in the world in traffic averages.

The Exchange is organized and run by industry professionals in voluntary capacity.

It is accessible directly at two separate physical locations: 151 Front Street W.

and Equinix's TR2 facility on Parliament St. Within 151, TorIX is accessible within facilities operated by Equinix, Cologix and Neutral Data Centres, or available via the building's meet-me-room, which makes the IX reachable by any organization with a presence in the building.

At Equinix TR2, TorIX is available to all organizations present there.

In computer networking, peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the users of each network.

The pure definition of peering is settlement-free, "bill-and-keep," or "sender keeps all," meaning that neither party pays the other in association with the exchange of traffic; instead, each derives and retains revenue from its own customers.

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building and has its network equipment and interconnects locally managed.

By contrast, a wide area network (WAN), not only covers a larger geographic distance, but also generally involves leased telecommunication circuits or Internet links.

An even greater contrast is the Internet, which is a system of globally connected business and personal computers.

Internet traffic is the flow of data across the Internet.

Because of the distributed nature of the Internet, there is no single point of measurement for total Internet traffic.

Internet traffic data from public peering points can give an indication of Internet volume and growth, but these figures exclude traffic that remains within a single service provider's network as well as traffic that crosses private peering points.

A telecommunications network is a collection of terminal nodes, links are connected so as to enable telecommunication between the terminals.