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The Athens Internet Exchange (https://web.archive.org/web/20080315061014/http://www.aix.gr/) was until January 2010 the main Internet Exchange Point in
Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders with ...
, offering peering connectivity between the largest commercial
ISP An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise private ...
s as well as the academic network organization,
GRNET The Greek Research and Technology Network or GRNET ( el, Εθνικό Δίκτυο Υποδομών Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας, ΕΔΥΤΕ) is the national research and education network of Greece. GRNET S.A. gives internet conn ...
. Operational authorities were GRNET along with the Network Operations Centre of the
National Technical University of Athens The National (Metsovian) Technical University of Athens (NTUA; el, Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο, ''National Metsovian Polytechnic''), sometimes known as Athens Polytechnic, is among the oldest higher education institution ...
. It operated under the auspices of the Hellenic National Telecommunications and Posts Committee the Greek regulator. AIX members were the following ISPs: #
GRNET The Greek Research and Technology Network or GRNET ( el, Εθνικό Δίκτυο Υποδομών Τεχνολογίας και Έρευνας, ΕΔΥΤΕ) is the national research and education network of Greece. GRNET S.A. gives internet conn ...
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Forthnet Nova Telecommunications S.M.S.A. is a telecommunications company in Greece which provides broadband, television and fixed telephony. It also offers satellite services in Cyprus. It is traded on the Athens Exchange until its delisting in 2021. In ...
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Hellas OnLine Hellas Online was one of the leading Greek fixed-line telephony service providers based in Athens. Founded in 1993, Hellas Online (hol) was one of the first Internet service providers in Greece offering public dial-up Internet access. It evolved ...
# Altec Telecoms #
Net One Net*One was the first cellular network operator in Zimbabwe based on the Global System for Mobile Communications. The company was originally launched during the World Solar Summit in September 1996 in the capital Harare with 500 lines. Service wa ...
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Vivodi Vivodi was a private telecom operator in Greece that offered telephone rates for OTE subscribers. History Vivodi was acquired by On Telecoms, a telecommunications business backed by UK-based Argo Capital Management, in 2009. ADSL Vivodi's main ...
# Verizon Hellas #
On Telecoms On Telecoms was a Greek telecommunications company offering triple play, double play and fixed telephony services in Athens and Thessaloniki through Local Loop Unbundling. The company was founded in March 2006 and started its commercial opera ...
# Otenet # ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES # AT&T Global Network Services Hellas # Vodafone NET #
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Tellas The Internet in Greece relied on PSTN/ISDN modem dial-up from 1990 until 2003, when ADSL was commercially launched by incumbent operator OTE. ADSL2+, VDSL2 and GPON are currently the main broadband standards. Greece also has 3G, 4G, 4G+ and 5G m ...
# Lannet AIX was a founding member o
European Internet Exchange Association
( Euro-IX) In January 2010, AIX was replaced by the
Greek Internet Exchange The Greek Internet Exchange (GR-IX) is an Internet exchange point located in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece. It was founded in 2009 in order to replace the Athens Internet Exchange as the principal Internet Exchange Point in Greece, which was ...
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IXP Internet exchange points (IXes or IXPs) are common grounds of IP networking, allowing participant Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange data destined for their respective networks. IXPs are generally located at places with preexisting ...
ndustry definition of an IXP
Internet exchange points European Internet Exchange Association
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Packet Clearing House Packet Clearing House (PCH) is the international nonprofit organization responsible for providing operational support and security to critical internet infrastructure, including Internet exchange points and the core of the domain name system. ...

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