About us

Community-IX brings sponsors of IP-transits and non-commercial projects in Berlin and Frankfurt together

The Community-IX was created, because in Berlin the were many non-commercial Projects searching independent for IP-Transit sponsoring. This is exhausting for the project, but also for the sponsor, as he has to expend effort for each project. A crossconnect is required, a port on the router is occupied, and BGP sessions and filter lists must be set up and maintained.

With the community-ix the effort is reduced to one port on his Router one crossconnect, and one-time configuration of BGP sessions to our route servers through which all prefixes can be exchanged between IP transit sponsors and communities. With the connection to the community-ix, Communities as well as Sponsors can concentrate more on there core projects and can directly reach other projects and IP transit sponsors.

Thanks to multiple locations, for peers we can also offer Layer 2 transport between locations.