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GNM-IX by GNM is a secure, internationally distributed IX facilitating high-performance traffic exchange between telecom operators and content providers across Europe and Asia. We offer scalable and resilient peering solutions both regionally and globally, ensuring optimal network efficiency. With 81 PoPs across 19 countries, GNM-IX provides seamless, low-latency connectivity. Our platform handles 9.04 Tbps of peak traffic, interconnecting 600+ ASNs to enhance network performance, redundancy, and scalability. Recently GNM-IX has expanded its presence across Central and Southeastern Europe, further enhancing connectivity in the Balkan region. By leveraging cutting-edge infrastructure and a distributed architecture, GNM-IX empowers networks to optimize traffic flow, reduce costs, and improve end-user experience. GNM, as a backbone provider, offers high-capacity connectivity solutions, including DWDM, L2VPN, and VLAN services, as well as IP Transit and Remote IX solutions—ensuring robust and flexible network expansion opportunities.

Smartoptics is a Scandinavian company founded in 2006, providing innovative optical networking solutions designed for the new era of open networking. We focus on solving network challenges and increasing the competitiveness of our customer base, ranging from cable and telecom operators to cloud providers, Internet exchanges, governments, and enterprises. We leverage modern software design principles and expand network horizons by taking an open approach in everything we do, which empowers our customers to break free from vendor lock-in, remain flexible, and minimize costs. Built on open networking standards and protocols, our solutions are used in metro and regional network applications as well as in metro access networks.

Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Deutsche Telekom, BENOCS introduced the industry’s first ever ISP/ CDN cooperative solution allowing network operators more network traffic control. Today, BENOCS gives CSPs, Hosting Companies, CDNs and NRENs a strategic way to cope with growing content demands, providing their customers around the world with full visibility of their network traffic from source to destination. Every facet of telecommunications companies benefits from BENOCS products: from network operations, backbone engineering and network planning teams, to peering and IP Transit sales. BENOCS customers have the competitive advantage in the connectivity market.

InterLAN-IX, established in 2005 by a Romanian association of telecom operators, is a neutral internet exchange point designed to facilitate free traffic exchange across the internet. It operates 18 points of presence across Romania, including major cities and additional locations in Frankfurt and Sofia. This extensive network supports over 150 operators from Romania and beyond, encompassing a diverse range of network operators, educational networks, content providers, and enterprises. With traffic exceeding 600 Gbps and partnerships in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific, InterLAN-IX is recognized as one of the significant internet exchanges in Romania and Southeast Europe. The platform is committed to enhancing the performance of IP networking for all participants, promoting a robust local telecom community and contributing to global internet infrastructure as a supporting member of Euro-IX and RIPE NCC.

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NIX.CZ is a company which associates Czech and foreign Internet related businesses in order to mutually interconnect their networks. The access to the company’s infrastructure is enabled through seven locations in Prague. They also provide services in Bratislava and Vienna. NIX.CZ has been bringing together Czech and foreign Internet service providers for more than 25 years. Since 2015, NIX.CZ has operated a peering node in Bratislava (NIX.SK). This node was connected to the Prague node in 2019, which allows the connected networks to peer with companies connected in both countries. The Czech neutral peering node is a member of the foreign organizations Euro-IX and RIPE NCC. Its employees cooperate with other world IXPs and present at foreign professional conferences, such as NANOG, Global Peering Forum or European Peering Forum. Since its inception, the NIX.CZ association has been a co-organizer of the Peering Days conference and the community meeting of the CSNOG group. The active participation of association representatives in professional events enables NIX.CZ to obtain up-to-date information that is important for the further development of the node.