Meet Me in Chicago
February 2023
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Richard Lukaj
Experienced Financial Executive, Private Investor, PhilanthropistGreat value to feature the substance behind the strategic value of these critical interconnection facilities.
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Arnold Nipper
Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) at DE-CIXGreat work!
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 RACO, a neutral colocation facility tenant, at 600 S. Federal Street and the building owned Meet Me Room at 350 E. Cermak Road. Both facilities and buildings have amazing histories, especially 350 E Cermak, which was originally the R.R. Donnelley printing plant, and at 1.1 million square feet it is one of the largest carrier hotels in the world. Over the years both buildings traded and are now both owned by Digital Realty Trust. The original series referenced 30 networks at 600 S Federal, with 8 carriers listed at RACO and 350 E Cermak had 16 networks listed as present in the building MMR. There were no Internet Exchanges listed at either facility.
Read the original 2003 article
Read the original 2005 article
Now
600 S Federal has faded from prominence with CoreSite’s 427 S LaSalle moving up to take the number two position in the city, but 350 E Cermak has surged and remains at the top of the list with 10 IX’s accessible through 4 facilities within the building.
Chicago Internet Exchanges
Currently there are a total of 12 IX’s accessible from 18 facilities within 14 addresses that appear within PeeringDB. The largest, Equinix Chicago, has 254 ASN’s and the smallest, CyrusOne IX Chicago, has 1. The difference between the largest and 2nd largest, NetIX with 116 ASN’s, is 138.
The Top 5 Networks, by number of IX’s connected to, are Hurricane Electric, CloudFlare, Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Facebook).
The tables below display live data on all IXs in the region highlighted in this map image.
Chicago - Internet Exchanges by Location Address
Archived February 16, 2023
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.
Chicago - 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 please visit the NV Research Facilities Page (see list below this table).
Archived February 16, 2023
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.
Chicago - 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.
