Open Peering & Internet Exchange
Freedom to Connect with Patmos
Our open peering policy and support for free Internet Exchanges promote a fairer, freer, more resilient, and more cost-effective Internet.
Solving the Internet’s Big Problem
The Internet was conceived as a decentralized network with no central ownership. Today, a handful of large carriers control the transit of data, and that’s a bad idea:
It puts rural, regional, and community networks at a disadvantage
It increases cost for smaller ISPs, content providers, and customers
It makes the Internet more vulnerable to outages, politics, and censorship
It’s inefficient for traffic routing, increasing latency and leading to poor quality of service
Putting Control Back in Your Hands
At Patmos we’re rebuilding the promise of an open, decentralized Internet. Our IXP and open peering initiatives benefit small ISPs, WISPs, FTTH ISPs, rural co-ops, and all of their business and consumer customers.
Regional Proximity
We build infrastructure to serve underserved areas
Edge-Aware
We cache in or near local networks to reduce upstream transit costs
Engineer-Led Peering
Not just sales reps, optimized BGP
We Own Our Infrastructure
Freedom-first policy, no cancel culture
True Blended Bandwidth
Combining transit, peers, CDN and direct connects tailored to your needs
Free Internet Exchanges
Free Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) are the key building blocks for a faster, fairer, and more resilient Internet. We are committed to creating IXPs and hosting partner IXPs in Patmos data centers. By enabling local networks to exchange traffic directly, we provide a low-cost, high-efficiency alternative for traffic routing and create the network diversity and local throughput needed to overcome the drawbacks of a monopolized Internet.
Improving Performance
Direct interconnections decrease the distance that traffic has to travel, resulting in lower latency, fewer hops, and better performance for end users.
Cutting Transit Costs
Settlement-free peering allows networks to avoid paying upstream providers for traffic exchanged locally, creating significant cost savings for bandwidth-intensive services like streaming or cloud computing.
Increasing Resilience
Multiple interconnection paths at IXPs give networks redundancy. If one peer fails, traffic can quickly reroute through another, making the Internet more resilient to faults.
Enabling Local Traffic to Stay Local
Free IXPs help keep domestic or regional traffic from unnecessarily traveling overseas, which improves efficiency, security, and reliability.
Empowering Small & Community Networks
With no settlement costs, smaller ISPs, rural co-ops, universities, and non-profits can peer directly with major networks and content providers, leveling the playing field and increasing access.
Improving CDN & Cloud Distribution
Content providers can colocate cache nodes at IXPs to directly serve local ISPs, reducing backhaul demand and improving speed for video, software updates, and real-time apps.
Open Peering
We will peer with any IPv4 or IPv6 network connected to any exchange location we have in common with you. We have a completely open policy as long as you follow a few best practices:
- Only Public AS numbers and public address prefix(es) (no RFC 1918 addresses)
- Network Operations Center should be reachable
- Notifications when possible for maintenance and outages
- No static and/or default routes pointed at us
Patmos Peering Locations
AMS-IX Bay Area
Amsterdam Internet Exchange Bay Area
- IPv4: 206.41.106.43
- IPv6: 2001:504:3d:1:0:a501:9969:1
Peer with Public Route Server
Kansas City Internet Exchange
- IPv4: 206.51.7.10
- IPv6: 2001:504:1B:1::10
Peer with Public Route Server
KCIX
Springfield Internet Exchange
- IPv4: 149.112.4.4
- IPv6: 2001:504:100::4
Peer with Public Route Server
SpringIX
Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange
IPv4: 206.80.238.47
IPv6: 2001:504:91::47
Peer with Public Route Server
FCIX
Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange
- IPv4: 206.108.255.134
- IPv6: 2001:504:27:0:0:4E01::1
Peer with Public Route Server
MICE
St. Louis Internet Exchange
- IPv4: Coming Soon
- IPv6: Coming Soon
Peer with Public Route Server Coming Soon
STLIX
Houston Internet Exchange
- IPv4: 206.83.136.14
- IPv6: 2001:504:9e::14
Peer with Public Route Server
HOUIX
San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange
- IPv4: 206.197.187.75
- IPv6: 2001:504:30::ba01:9969:1
Peer with Public Route Server
SFMIX
Deutscher Commercial IX – New York
- IPv4: 206.82.105.39
- IPv6: 2001:504:36::4e01:0:1
Peer with Public Route Server
DE-CIX NY
Interconnection eXchange Denver
- IPv4: 206.80.238.47
- IPv6: 2001:504:91::47
Peer with Public Route Server
IX-Denver
Seattle Internet Exchange
- IPv4: 206.81.80.70
- IPv6: 2001:504:16::4e01
Peer with Public Route Server
SIX Seattle
Deutscher Commercial IX – Germany
- IPv4: 80.81.193.229
- IPv6: 2001:7f8::4e01:0:1
Peer with Public Route Server