Montreal Internet Exchange
The Montreal Internet Exchange was incorporated in 2013 as a not-for-profit Internet Exchange Point and is located in Montreal, Canada. It was originally created in 1995 and was operated by the Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec until June 2019. Since then, the exchange is operated by a local private network operator called MetroOptic Inc.
QIX has currently two core switches, one located at the biggest carrier hotel in Montreal, Cologix MTL3, located at 1250 René-Lévesque West and one at Cologix MTL1, located at 625 René-Lévesque West.
, QIX has 73 unique autonomous systems representing 100 peer connections and peak traffic rates of 115 Gbps, making it the second largest IXP in Canada.
