BIX Infrastructure

• BIX consists of 3 PoPs in Budapest, one in Vienna and two fully redundant PoPs in Frankfurt. The PoPs are based on NOKIA 7750 SR switches, that  are distributed in a spine leaf architecture through the most important 3 Data Centres in Hungary, 1 in Vienna and 2 more in Frankfurt. They are interconnected through a redundant optical backbone, nx 400G bandwidths. The sites are: 

  • Budapest, Victor Hugo street Datacenters („BIX building”)

  • Budapest, 2Connect DC10 (former Dataneum)

  • Budapest, T-Systems Cloud and Datacenter (former Dataplex)

  • Vienna Digital Realty (Interxion)

  • Frankfurt Equinix FR5

  • Frankfurt Digital Realty FRA8

• IPv4 and IPv6 Peering LAN with Route Servers

• 10G and 100G ports (LR and LR4)

• VLAN and PNI interconnection between sites

• Passive wavelength service between Budapest BIX sites

• BIRD Route Servers (IPv4 + IPv6)

  • Prefix filtering based on RIPE and other RIR DB

  • Support for BGP advertisement manipulations

  • Custom Bird and Cisco-like Looking Glass (self developed)

  • Route server prefixes: 4200 IPv4 and 13500 IPv6 (both list downloadable)

IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes at BIX