Meet Me in Toronto
December 2022
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Richard Lukaj
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In this Article
Series Introduction
Welcome to the next evolution of the "Meet Me In..." research series. The goal of the series has always been to educate, create awareness, and highlight key facts about where, how and why the physical networks that make up the world's information infrastructure meet.
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Then
The original series featured 151 Front St, the King of Carrier Hotels and network interconnection in Toronto at the time - and it is easily the most important building in Canada. As per the research data, 151 Front St is still reigning champion in Toronto today. Back then, in 2003, were the days of networks measured by a physical presence alone and not ASN’s on an IX. 151 Front had 9 physical networks present and published in the official building Meet Me Room at the time, which was a passive, fiber-only (fibre-only for the Canadians) room in the basement. The Defacto Meet Me Room where electrical, de-muxxed circuits were available, was RACO. RACO was also featured in the original series and had 22 physical networks present as published. The Toronto Internet Exchange Community (TorIX), the largest Internet Exchange in Canada, was one of those “networks” listed at RACO.
Read the original 2003 article
Read the original 2005 article
Now
Once again, and as the research data will prove continually, networks go to where networks already are and the same holds true for IX’s. 151 Front is a jewel. It was then in 2003 and it is ever more so now. Allied Properties REIT owns the building and the official building Meet Me Room, with three other neutral colocation facility operators, Equinix (former RACO / Switch and Data), Cologix and Neutral Data Centers Corp., existing at 151 Front, all providing access to TorIX.
Toronto Internet Exchanges
LIVE SUMMARY
EDITORIAL COMMENTARY
Currently there are 6 IX’s in 11 facilities within 7 addresses in Toronto. The largest, TorIX, has 259 ASN’s and the smallest, PIX Toronto, has 2 ASN’s published. The difference between the largest IX and 2nd largest, NetIX with 113 ASN’s, is 146. That is a large delta making TorIX the clearly dominant IX in Toronto. These numbers change as networks move on and off of IX’s, but the general direction is typically up.
The Top 5 Networks, by number of IX’s connected to, are Hurricane Electric, Google, CloudFlare, Packet Clearing House, and Microsoft.
The data tables below display live data on all IXs in the region outlined in this map image.
Toronto - Internet Exchanges by Location Address
This table was archived on April 14, 2023 – four months after the time of writing.
* # of VLAN accessible networks on the IX
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
This table is in the process of updating with live data. You are viewing an archived data table from the time of the article. Please check back in a few minutes for live data.
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
Toronto - Networks by Internet Exchange
Networks (ASN’s) are listed as “accessible” via an IX. Accessibility is on a VLAN basis. This does not imply that the networks are physically present in the Facility. To know if a network accessible on an IX is also physically present in the same Facility as the IX, see the "AS Network Accessibility by Facility" table below this table.
This table was archived on April 14, 2023 – four months after the time of writing.
* # of VLAN accessible networks on the IX
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
This table is in the process of updating with live data. You are viewing an archived data table from the time of the article. Please check back in a few minutes for live data.
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
Toronto - AS Network Accessibility by Facility
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
This table is in the process of updating with live data. You are viewing an archived data table from the time of the article. Please check back in a few minutes for live data.
All data is courtesy of peeringdb.com. Live data is refreshed nightly. If you see innacurate data for your organization, or your organizaion is missing, please update or create your profile at peeringdb.com and allow 24 hours for this table to update.
Toronto - Facility Owners With Access to Internet Exchanges
The following list includes all of the facility owners (organizations) for the facilities found in this page's data. This list is automatically updated daily as the tables above update.
NOTE: For an organization to appear in this list, they must have at least one facility related to their organization in PeeringDB, and at least one of those facility must be in the geographic area defined in this article.
