Who Are We?

AccurIX is the newest Internet exchange in Ottawa, Canada. The exchange was started as a peering LAN between 4 Accuris Hosting customers but quickly grew in member count.

Anyone can join if they are on-net in the PureColo Datacentre in Ottawa. Colo service, dedicated servers, and hybrid-solutions from Accuris Technologies may also connect. All connections are free of charge but cross-connect fees will not be covered.

We are officially registered with the Canadian government as a non-profit organization under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act, under the name Accuris Internet Exchange Association with corporation number 1595450-9. You can find our registration details on the Corporations Canada website.

Policy

By using any of accurix.net's (AccurIX) services, you confirm that you are in agreement and bound by AccurIX's policies.

In order to join AccurIX you must make sure that:

1. You have an AS Number registered with the appropriate Regional Internet Registry for your country (i.e. RIPE, ARIN, APNIC, etc.);
2. You have all networks announced registered in the RIR database with proper IRR Entries;
3. Only run BGP as your routing protocol on the IXP fabric;
4. No layer 2 protocols are allowed, except IPv4 (Ethertype 0x0800), IPv6 (Ethertype 0x86DD), and ARP (Ethertype 0x0806);
5. Only use one source MAC address on your physical connection to AccurIX;
6. Disable proxy-arp and ICMP redirects on the IXP fabric;
7. No IPv6 ND-RA;
8. Only exchange peering traffic;
9. Members with two ports may not backhaul over the IXP fabric, use a VLAN or cross-connect instead;
10. Do not point default routes at exchange members; and
11. Members must be present in the facility to join and have an active port (no remote peering).

Last updated September 26, 2023.

Sponsorship

We will gladly accept donations of optical fiber transceivers (speeds ranging from 1Gbps, 10Gbps, 25Gbps, 40Gbps and 100Gbps), network switching equipment, servers for our infrastructure, and monetary donations to help support and maintain the exchange. For more information, please contact us by email at [email protected].

We would like to thank the following sponsors for making AccurIX possible:

• Accuris Technologies Ltd - Rack space and power for exchange infrastructure
• FlexOptix - Optical transceivers for member connectivity

Joining AccurIX

To join AccurIX, contact us by email at [email protected], or if you are an existing Accuris Hosting customer, simply open a ticket with your request.

Possible port sizes are:

• 100 Mbps;
• 1 Gbps;
• 10 Gbps;
• 40 Gbps; and
• 100 Gbps.

Interested prospective members connecting via cross-connect must arrange the cross-connect with the datacentre themselves and supply transceivers compatible with Cisco switching equipment.

Port-channels are possible for fiber-based connections depending on details and justification.

The IXP fabric runs on 9000 MTU.

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