Danish Internet Exchange Point
Encyclopedia
Danish Internet Exchange Point (DIX) is operated by UNI•C in Kongens Lyngby
north of Copenhagen
, the capital of Denmark
.
Its purpose is to alleviate the exchange of data traffic between networks that constitute the Danish part of the global Internet
structure. The DIX was established in May 1994 and has most of the Danish Internet service providers connected.
Kongens Lyngby
Kongens Lyngby is the main city in the affluent Danish municipality of Lyngby-Taarbæk. Just north of Copenhagen, the city lies in the northern part of Denmark's largest island, Zealand...
north of Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, the capital of Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
.
Its purpose is to alleviate the exchange of data traffic between networks that constitute the Danish part of the global Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
structure. The DIX was established in May 1994 and has most of the Danish Internet service providers connected.
Technology
The DIX offers four ways of connecting to the neutral net:- Switched 10Mbit Standard EthernetEthernetEthernet is a family of computer networking technologies for local area networks commercially introduced in 1980. Standardized in IEEE 802.3, Ethernet has largely replaced competing wired LAN technologies....
- male RJ-45 connector - Switched 100Mbit Fast EthernetFast EthernetIn computer networking, Fast Ethernet is a collective term for a number of Ethernet standards that carry traffic at the nominal rate of 100 Mbit/s, against the original Ethernet speed of 10 Mbit/s. Of the fast Ethernet standards 100BASE-TX is by far the most common and is supported by the...
- male RJ-45 connector - Switched 1000Mbit Gigabit EthernetGigabit EthernetGigabit Ethernet is a term describing various technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of a gigabit per second , as defined by the IEEE 802.3-2008 standard. It came into use beginning in 1999, gradually supplanting Fast Ethernet in wired local networks where it performed...
. The provider must supply an appropriate GBICGBICA gigabit interface converter is a standard for transceivers, commonly used with Gigabit Ethernet and fibre channel in the 1990s...
suitable for a CiscoCiscoCisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
6509 switch - Switched 10000Mbit 10 Gigabit Ethernet10 Gigabit EthernetThe 10 gigabit Ethernet computer networking standard was first published in 2002. It defines a version of Ethernet with a nominal data rate of 10 Gbit/s , ten times faster than gigabit Ethernet.10 gigabit Ethernet defines only full duplex point to point links which are generally connected by...
. The provider must supply an appropriate X2 suitable for a Cisco 6509 switch