Cork Neutral Internet Exchange

Cork Neutral Internet Exchange (CNIX) is a neutral, not-for-profit association which was founded on June 30th 2009 by leading members of the Cork business community. The key objective is to provide a high-speed, reliable and resilient IP traffic exchange facility in Cork, allowing CNIX members to route IP traffic efficiently thereby providing faster, more reliable and lower-latency internet access for their customers.

CNIX is the second Neutral Internet Exchange Point in Ireland outside Dublin, the other being eXchange West in Galway. CNIX aims to support the local economy and grow local infrastructure by enabling higher capacity data transfer at Gigabit speeds at a reduced cost to Munster operators.

An Internet exchange point (IX or IXP) is a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet service providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic between their networks autonomous systems by means of mutual peering agreements, which allow traffic to be exchanged without cost. IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the Average Per-Bit Delivery Cost of their service. Furthermore, the increased number of paths learned through the IXP improves routing efficiency and fault-tolerance.

The CNIX Team

Chairman	Micheal Twomey
Chief Financial Officer	Jerry Sweeney
Chief Technology Officer	Keith Nolan
Secretary	Bob Grantham