Reykjavik Internet Exchange (RIX) is an

Internet Exchange Point 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 ...

located in

Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a po ...

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, founded in 1999. It is operated by ISNIC, the same organisation that oversees the registration of Iceland's

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, '

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'. Its primary site, RIX-TG, is located at Tæknigarður (The Centre for Technical Innovation), part of the

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( is, Háskóli Íslands ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' s ...

. As of 2022 it operates 2 other peering sites in addition to their original site: RIX-KT (Katrínartún) and RIX-MH (Múlastöð, Ármúli 25). It offers peering at port speeds of 1Gbs/10Gbs/100Gbs using mix of

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and

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switch fabrics. RIX is currently Iceland's only neutral policy internet exchange and is a member of the European Internet Exchange Association, Euro-IX. As of 2022, it has 27 members and sees an average of around 11Gb/s of traffic. All ISPs in Iceland are connected, as well as

RÚV Ríkisútvarpið (RÚV) (pronounced or ) ( en, 'The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service') is Iceland's national public-service broadcasting organization. Operating from studios in the country's capital, Reykjavík, as well as regional cent ...

(The Icelandic public broadcaster) as well as international providers such as

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. RIX has seen a large portion of its traffic offloaded since 2021 as four major Icelandic ISPs as well as RÚV started to peer at a new private exchange, Múli-IXP, which is operated by

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, hosted in a

Síminn Síminn hf. (Iceland Telecom), previously named ''Landssíminn'' and ''Póstur og Sími,'' is an Icelandic telecommunications company. It offers communication services for both private and corporate clients, including mobile (2G/3G/4G/5G), landline ...

facility (Ármúli 25), which also hosts one of the RIX sites. Múli-IXP sees traffic of around 40Gb/s.

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Official website
(in Icelandic)
Peers connected to RIX
Internet exchange points in Europe Communications in Iceland {{iceland-stub

See also

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