BIX (Budapest Internet Exchange) a carrier neutral internet exchange was established in 1995 by the Council of Hungarian Internet Providers (ISZT). The main goal is to exchange Hungarian internet traffic and provide access solution for regional Internet providers to the Hungarian Internet traffic, and each other. The Council’s members are several internet providers so BIX is a provider-neutral internet exchange that serves the interest of the whole internet community. BIX provides the perfect peering location for Central European and Balkans based service providers. BIX consists of 3 PoPs in Budapest, and 1 in Vienna. The PoPs are based on Arista DCS-7280R3 switches, that are distributed in a spine leaf architecture through the most important 3 Data Centers in Hungary and 1 in Vienna. They are interconnected through a redundant optical backbone, using 400G and nx100G bandwidths. The sites are: Invitech DC10, T-Systems Cloud and Datacenter Budapest (former Dataplex), Victor Hugo street Datacenters and Interxion Vienna. BIX Meet-me-Room - BIX peering via 10G or 100G ports - SM optical cross-connections - 1st 12xSM patch panel is free for members in Budapest BIX PoPs BIX Services - Open-free/selective/restrictive peerings - Ethernet data transmission links - BIX passive wavelength service - BIX colocation service - IPv4 & IPv6 route servers - VLAN and PNI interconnection opportunities - LACP support - BIX member portal (real-time statistics)