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peering
An agreement between two networks to accept each other's data packets and forward them. The Internet is a combination of public and private peering. See IXP and Tier 1 network.


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The company said that with the expansion to Munich, via a new exchange platform in its IXDatacentre based in Munich, the region's ISPs will have access to a neutral peering point in order to exchange Internet traffic.
Others, however, chose to create private network access points--P-NAPs (the term has been trademarked by InterNAP) -- that would avoid the congestion of the public access and peering points like MAE-East and-West (MERIT Access Exchange).
Today's announcement follows Hurricane Electric's recent global expansion that includes new peering points such as SwissIX at Zurich, and SOLIX and STHIX at Stockholm.
 
 
 
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