Internet exchange made simple.

The National Broadband Co-Op (NBBC) has taken a major step in its mission to support independent Internet providers by joining Fiber Data Internet Exchange (FD-IX). NBBC, operating under AS400701, represents operators who serve small towns, rural communities, and regions where the Internet depends on collaboration as much as fiber. By connecting through FD-IX, NBBC gains access to a wide mix of ISPs, content networks, gaming platforms, and cloud providers spread across Indiana, Illinois, and Oh

FD-IX has put together a fast track for BEAD members to optimize the most out of your new traffic. Are you looking to reduce your broadband operating costs? Are you looking to improve application performance for your customers? FD-IX now offers a BEAD Fast Track Package. * Engineering consultation * BGP review * Peering assistance * Route server setup * RPKI assistance * Looking Glass validation * PeeringDB * Traffic analysis Contact FD-IX today to learn how your network can optimize b

When CIOs start thinking about network performance, peering usually isn't the first thing on their list. Firewalls, SD-WAN, another bandwidth upgrade, maybe a second ISP for redundancy. All of that has its place. But none of it touches the one thing that actually determines where your traffic goes once it leaves your network: BGP. If every packet headed to Microsoft, Google, or Cloudflare exits through the same upstream transit provider, your users are stuck with whatever path that provider happ