Your BNIX interconnection

As a BNIX (Belgian National Internet eXchange) Participant, you must have at least one active peering relationship. Participants that wish to set up peering between themselves subscribe to a bilateral peering contract, with no BNIX involvement. In principle, the data traffic goes directly through these connections, but it can also transit via the central route server.

BNIX offers you the following connection speeds:

  • 10 Gigabit Ethernet (LR or ER)
  • 100 Gigabit Ethernet (LR4)

5 immediate benefits from joining BNIX

Increased reliability

Your organisation can exchange IP traffic with several Internet service providers. If there is a technical problem with one of them, you have alternatives. You can also negotiate conditions relating to a connection that will only serve as back-up.

Reduce transit costs

You improve the efficiency of your network by choosing a direct data exchange with BNIX Participants. You can agree that the direct exchange of data with other BNIX participants is free, and reduce your costs this way. Transit traffic to other networks is allowed.

Faster traffic

A direct connection reduces the number of intermediary stages (“hops”) on the route between two connected BNIX participants.

High transfer capacity

The BNIX provides high capacity LAN connections, which enables you to send large data volumes easily to a large number of end users.

Inexpensive connections

As BNIX services are based on LAN technology, the price of the bandwidth is low.

Customised Ethernet, VLAN and IP

BNIX employees adapt your BNIX connection to your needs and give you advice to optimise your interconnection concerning:

  • the group of Ethernet connections (Etherchannel/PortChannel);
  • IPv4 and IPv6 support.

BNIX services do not include VLAN installation for the private interconnection between Participants.

IPv4 and IPV6 Protocols

The BNIX works with the IPv4 Internet protocol and the IPv6 protocol. You can configure IPv6 in two ways:

  • by using a specific IPv6 port;
  • by configuring IPv4 and IPv6 on the same port (dual stacking) in the VLAN for unicast.

Assistance

  • Service Desk and Network Operation Centre (NOC) 24/7.
  • Hardware support available 24/7 for BNIX switches
  • Technical advice

Do you want to join BNIX?

Testimonies

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BNIX provides a platform on which operators, with which we have different interconnections, can immediately provide traffic in Belgium. This traffic is transported on the BNIX platform and does not have to go on our own network. 

In Belgium, the traffic volumes for peering are limited. With our connection to the BNIX, we have immediate access to most of the public IP traffic. For this reason, we have completely integrated BNIX in our IP traffic offering.

BNIX remains an essential part of our offering in Belgium. 

Testimonial author
Erik Loos
Testimonial function
Senior Product Manager Capacity & IP
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The presence of BNIX provides very high level bandwidth for all interconnected providers. The network also enables a direct interaction with the other providers without us needing to go through inter-network transit

As a result, the speed is faster and the excellent redundancy increases the system’s reliability. The cherry on the cake is that the BNIX also reduces our costs.

Beyond the BNIX’s intrinsic quality, the services provided enable us to centralise our requests and to manage the platform as effectively as possible.

Testimonial author
Laurent Delbascour
Testimonial function
IP services manager / VOO
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As a leading web hosting service provider, we think it is crucial to continue investing in the best connections for our clients. We already peer with major parties on several different internet exchanges. That redundant infrastructure allows us to guarantee our clients the accustomed business continuity. Other important reasons for joining the BNIX platform were its stability and low latency, which ensure the maximum efficiency of the website and other apps. Finally, we can significantly reduce the number of points of failure thanks to the direct connections with other BNIX participants.

Testimonial author
Stijn Claerhout
Testimonial function
CTO / Combell

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