National Internet Exchange of India
The National Internet Exchange of India is a non-profit Company incorporated under Section 25 of the India Companies Act, 1956 with an objective of facilitating improved internet services in the country.
It was registered on 19 June 2003. Its Primary purpose is to facilitate exchange of domestic Internet traffic between the peering ISP, Content players and any other organizations with their own AS number. This enables more efficient use of international bandwidth, saving foreign exchange and also improves the Quality of Services for Internet users by avoiding multiple international hops and thus reducing latency.
Utilising servers routed through and administered by India also reduces the chances of Indian data being intercepted unlawfully by NSA and GCHQ. NIXI is managed and operated on a neutral basis and currently has eight operational NOC located in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Guwahati.
Since 2005, NIXI has also created INRegistry as its autonomous body for maintenance of.IN domain.
Since December 2012, NIXI also manages the National Internet Registry of the country delegation Internet Protocol addresses and Autonomous System numbers to its Affiliates.
