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Interconnect your LAN to LyonIX gives you many benefits :

  • High speed Internet >10 MB

  • Improve Local - Local Internet speed due to traffic on a Local Loop ( higher than passing by a long-distance connection).

  • Improve Local - Outside Internet speed, as the “long-distance” pipes will be freed from Local - Local traffic.

  • Free, unlimited peering with the other users

  • Significant reduction of the ping, by several tens of ms

  • Increase redundancy (offering more possible routes)

  • Significant reduction of the ping (response time)

  • Reduce the number of outages by using fewer routers (a router is used as a relay to get from one point to another)

  • A more economic and more easy way to implement collecion networks

  • Opportunity to secure your network by using several GIXs or operators

  • Facility and economy of implementation of collection networks or specialized lines

NAP benefits :

  • Possibility to buy transit from several operators

  • Possibility to easily buy or sell IP services

  • Direct access to national and international operators

  • Access to better offers from user-operators

  • Flexibility of increasing or reducing the bandwidth

Economic benefits :

  • Reduced prices of internet bandwidth and telecommunication services in general due to the transit marketplace

  • Users can expect the price of high-speed connections (over 10 Mb/s) to drop, as the cost of Local-Local traffic will be lower for ISPs

  • Customer can benefit from greater competition among providers

  • Avoid the relocation of services in the Paris region and concentrate highly skilled jobs (and associated taxes) in Lyon and Rhone-Alpe

  • Develop ICT use, finally truly accessible

  • Development of new multimedia services requiring adequate technical equipment (size of "pipes" carrying more and more data

Benefits for the region :

  • Boost the IT sector (Data centers, ISPs, application service providers, software vendors) of the region

  • Attract high-tech and networking foreign firms already working with GIXs and used to purchasing important Internet capacity

  • Be on the same level as other cities that are a real Internet connection point (Barcelona, Manchester, Milan, Geneva)

  • Increased job offer in the IT sector
  • Having a Resource and expertise telecommunication center


As a user, you may also benefit from our interconnection with the Turin and Geneva GIX in terms of peering.