Toronto Internet Exchange
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The Toronto Internet Exchange (TorIX) is an Internet Exchange Point located in a carrier hotel at 151 Front Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
TorIX initially started in July of 1996 within the RACO facility at 151 Front St. W.
As of 2005-10-28, TorIX had 64 connected members and traffic rates over 4 Gbit/s, making it the largest IXP in Canada. It thus follows that TorIX is the exchange point with the largest membership of Canadian ISPs. However, Canada is a very large country physically, and thus many ISPs, especially those that operate in the western provinces of the country, are not connected, as they are located over 2000 km away.
TorIX offers ethernet connections of 10/100TX or 1000SX, providing a large range of speed. TorIX assigns peers IP addresses from its own pool; however, TorIX is purely a layer 2 service, and it is up to individual members to negotiate peering agreements and routing protocols such as BGP4. Carriers wishing to connect to TorIX must make colocation arrangements on their own, negotiating a contract with one of the many companies operating at 151 Front street.
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