Internet Exchange Points (IX / IXP) - What are they and why should you care?

This talk was delivered at the South West Colorado Regional Broadband Summit in Cortez, CO on 27 April 2022. It provides an intro into how the Internet works in order to describe what an internet exchange point really is and why they are so important. This talk is meant as a primer for policy makers and other non-expert audiences.

[@TAyinks]

The content in your “(poorly drawn) illustration” from about 12:37 was SUPER useful and very well explained - thanks for this video!

[@ChrisGrundemann]

Awesome! I'm stoked to hear that 😁

[@HVM_zeto]

@@ChrisGrundemann Its true.... these points on benefit of IXP are written in wikipedia, but it was hard to imagine how, now i understand what was being said in wiki, Thank you. I have a question,.......... apart from videocall apps(using webRTC), in what other circumstances ISP A subscriber need to connect with ISP B subscriber directly. Since in gmail , chat apps etc. we send the message to server and then the server sends the mail or reply to the receiver , so no interconnection between 2 ISPs is required?

[@menukawijayarathne886]

good one! thank you!

[@burstfireno1617]

01:55 actual beginning

[@Richmond_Ak]

Very explanatory video, thanks Chris

[@ChrisGrundemann]

You're very welcome! 🤙

[@RobertDunn310]

Outstanding video. I learned quite a lot from it.

[@ChrisGrundemann]

Excellent, thanks for saying so!

[@McKaktus259]

Thanks for the great explanation. Do I understand correctly that an IX is physically connected to the ISPs? Does that mean joining a local IX is a trade off between cost of connecting to an IX vs. transit cost?

[@TrippleXD545]

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[@samjones4327]

Thank you very much for this awesome and informative video! Cheers!!