Research

Meet Me in Toronto

December 2022

  • Richard Lukaj
    Experienced Financial Executive, Private Investor, Philanthropist

    Great value to feature the substance behind the strategic value of these critical interconnection facilities.

  • Arnold Nipper
    Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) at DE-CIX

    Great 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 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

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 tables below display live data on all IXs in the region highlighted in this map image.
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Toronto - Internet Exchanges by Location Address

Address IX`s @ Facilities @ IX Name: TorIX NetIX ONIX BGP.Exchange Equinix Toronto MegaIX Toronto PIX Toronto
      #ASNs: 260 116 37 25 18 9 2
151 Front St 6 , , ,    
45 Parliament St 5      
905 King St. West 2 ,            
1 Century Place 1              
100 Wellington Street West 1              
4175 14th Avenue 1              
6800 Millcreek Drive 1              

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

Network Name (ASN) #IX`s IX Name: TorIX NetIX ONIX BGP.Exchange Equinix Toronto MegaIX Toronto PIX Toronto
    #ASNs: 260 116 37 25 18 9 2
Hurricane Electric (6939) 5      
Google LLC (15169) 4        
Cloudflare (13335) 4        
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Royal Bank of Canada (399409) 1              
DC Host (208287) 1              
Schneider's Computing (398482) 1              
Route48.org (Retired) (44570) 1              
SF-ServerForge (207556) 1              
Zhijie Jin (149795) 1              
Windscribe (397540) 1              
CONTROLD (398962) 1              
OHOST LLC (210106) 1              
ESO (13172) 1              
Istqrar for Servers Services (211826) 1              
Edgio - AS26506 - Edgextend (26506) 1              
Cloudie Networks AS924 (924) 1              
Ohanacast (959) 1              
ioHarbor (951) 1              
andrewnet (1003) 1              
ServerForge LLC NA (23428) 1              
FGL Telecom (46091) 1              
Oxio (398721) 1              
ServerForge LLC EU (50842) 1              
Hammy Web Services AS923 (923) 1              
Level 86 (212483) 1              
Thomas Riley Brown (203069) 1              
Unlimited Is Limited (203458) 1              
Dominik Pohl (205848) 1              
NBI Systems (39396) 1              
Solytro LTD (400687) 1              
Pluxcon Ltd (209165) 1              
Ursin Filli (202427) 1              
Radish Network (201217) 1              
Kjartan Hrafnkelsson (51019) 1              
Accuris Technologies Primary (52210) 1              
Guarandoo (200866) 1              
Junxiao Shi (200690) 1              
Epoxytel Networks LLC (200775) 1              
wFlare LTD (200572) 1              
Jonathan Smith (200731) 1              
MythicalKitten (50224) 1              
OpenSolutions (205138) 1              
Path Global UK Limited (61977) 1              
pob.network (200219) 1              

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