123.Net leads effort to create Detroit Internet Exchange

123.Net is leading an effort to add more speed and remove more problems from your Internet experience.

The Southfield-based Internet/data center company has created the Detroit Internet Exchange (Det-IX for short), a local Internet exchange passing Internet traffic locally between carriers for improved speed and lower cost.

“Our goal is to get as many companies in Michigan to interconnect locally instead of paying carriers in Chicago,” says Ryan Duda, CTO of 123.Net.

Today, people from metro Detroit who send an email to their neighbor might have to route it through a Chicago-based Internet exchange. Going through a third-party provider in another time zone creates a longer sending time. Many major metropolitan areas already have an Internet exchange, but this will be metro Detroit’s first.

Det-IX will enable local carriers who share bandwidth to send information over the World Wide Web faster and more affordably by utilizing peer-to-peer efficiencies. The creation of Det-IX will also upgrade the data infrastructure in Michigan and make it more appealing to new economy businesses who depend on Internet connectivity.

Source: Ryan Duda, CTO of 123.Net
Writer: Jon Zemke

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