MIX has created a peering environment dedicated to operators connected locally in its PoP activated in Palermo in 2017 in Open Hub Med, of which MIX is a co-founder. MIX Palermo facilitates and encourages the exchange of data and guarantees the best latency possible.
This technological choice is fundamental at a time when MIX Palermo has directly connected its first OTT network and connecting content operators whose delivery requires local platforms (cache) to reduce access times.
Due to the connection of the Sicilian PoP with the core PoP of MIX in Milan, all operators connected to MIX Palermo can also enjoy direct peering with the over 300 connected networks on the MIX public LAN in Milan.
“MIX Palermo represents the first remote PoP of MIX with its own technical autonomy. It is a solution with the great advantage of ensuring that data exchange and access to content of local connected operators takes place on the shortest path”, said Valeria Rossi, General Manager of MIX.
The unequivocal trend of decentralised network services, enabled by increasingly performing and high-speed access technologies, cannot ignore the need to create guaranteed interconnections at a local level. Unique in Southern Italy, the growth of the Open Hub Med consortium and the open and neutral model of its data centre has made this further step a necessity.
In Open Hub Med, MIX has recreated the development model established in Milan and now strengthens it by giving even more meaning to the motto “keep local traffic local”, a tacit agreement that MIX has provided its customers for over twenty years.
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