IX.NET
Six exchanges. Five extensions. One neutral platform.

Connect inKansas City.Reach 11exchanges.

IX.NET operates six exchanges across Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Texas, and provides local access to five more in Seattle, Minneapolis, Denver, Dallas and New York.

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The IX.NET exchange platformBlue routes connect six IX.NET operated exchanges. Red routes extend five remote exchange fabrics to Kansas City. This diagram shows access relationships, not physical network routes.
267unique ASNs on our exchanges
$0IX.NET monthly port fees
1G—400G1G / 10G / 40G / 100G / 400G
2006established in Kansas City
Why IX.NET

One relationship.
A much bigger reach.

One team, one application process and one set of policies, whether you need a single exchange or all eleven. The people running IX.NET have run KCIX since 2006.

01

Six markets

Kansas City, St. Louis, Houston, Springfield, Des Moines and Sioux City. KCIX also reaches Minneapolis and Southfield, MI.

02

Free local ports

No monthly port fee on any IX.NET exchange, at any speed. You pay the data center for the cross-connect.

03

Five remote exchanges

SIX, MICE, IX-Denver, DE-CIX Dallas and DE-CIX New York, handed off locally in Kansas City.

04

Neutral

IX.NET doesn’t sell transit or colocation. Every member gets the same route servers and policies.

Our exchanges

Six exchanges.
Free to join.

$0
MONTHLY PORT FEES / ALL SPEEDS

Each exchange has its own peering LAN, route servers and member list. Connect to one or all six. You pay the facility for the cross-connect.

How we keep ports free

01KCIX

$0 port fee
Kansas City, MO and KS

Six buildings across the Kansas City metro, including Netrality KC2 in Shawnee, the first exchange in Kansas. Also reaches St. Louis, Houston, Des Moines, Minneapolis and Southfield, MI.

kcix.netPeeringDB
213 participating ASNs

Find your next peer.

267 unique networks across our six exchanges. Directory snapshot: October 2, 2026.

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Extensions

Five remote exchanges.One local handoff.

Get a port on a remote exchange’s peering LAN, handed off in Kansas City. Every extension has its own transport and port fee.

EXT / 01

SIX

Seattle
370participating networks

Content, cloud, Asia and western Canada. The largest US exchange by networks.

1G / 10G
Monthly port fee
Contact for pricing
EXT / 02

MICE

Minneapolis
147participating networks

Upper Midwest ISPs and research networks at the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange.

1G / 10G
Yearly fee · Same as a direct MICE port
Port pricing
EXT / 03

IX-Denver

Denver
92participating networks

A member-governed exchange for the Rocky Mountain region.

1G / 10G
Same as a direct IX-Denver port
Port pricing
EXT / 04

DE-CIX Dallas

Dallas
162participating networks

Where networks from Mexico and Latin America meet US networks.

1G / 10G / 40G / 100G
Monthly port fee
Contact for pricing

Network counts: PeeringDB, September 2026. MICE ports are billed yearly. MICE and IX-Denver cost the same as a direct port. Email us for current extension pricing.

peering@ix.net
Locations

Meet us where
your network is.

Every location gets the same ports and route servers. All eleven exchange fabrics are available at 1530 Swift in Kansas City.

Kansas City

1102 GrandKCIX
1530 SwiftAll eleven
LightEdge SubtropolisKCIX
Netrality KC2, Shawnee, KSKCIX
NOCIX ClayKCIX
Patmos KC1KCIX

St. Louis

Netrality 210 N TuckerSTLIX, KCIX
Netrality 900 WalnutSTLIX, KCIX

Houston

Digital Realty, 12001 N FreewayHOUIX
FiberTown HoustonHOUIX
Netrality 1301 FanninHOUIX, KCIX

Springfield

Bluebird UndergroundSpringIX

Des Moines

Cologix DSM1KCIX
DesMoinesIX locations

More cities

Minneapolis, Cologix MIN1KCIX
Peoria, IL, SFNSTLIX
Southfield, MI, 123.NET DC1KCIX
Sioux City locations

Extension ports for SIX, MICE, IX-Denver and DE-CIX are handed off in Kansas City. Ask about reaching them from your location.

How it works

A shorter path
between networks.

An exchange is a shared switch in a data center. Networks connect once, then trade traffic directly with each other.

Direct paths

Traffic between two networks goes straight across the exchange, instead of through a third-party transit provider in another city.

Lower latency & cost

Shorter paths mean faster connections. Traffic you exchange here no longer counts against your transit bill.

Who can join

Any network with its own ASN: ISPs, hosting and content providers, cloud platforms, universities and enterprises.

What it costs

Ports on our six exchanges are free. You pay for the cross-connect. Extension ports carry a port fee.

Connect

Your next connection
starts here.

The process is the same at every exchange. Ask for several at once and we’ll set them up together.

01

Update PeeringDB

Make sure your network’s PeeringDB record is current and lists your IRR AS-SET. The route servers filter on it.

03

Get your LOA

We send a letter of authorization. Order the cross-connect from the building; the facility may charge for it.

04

Turn up BGP

Bring up sessions with the route servers, peer bilaterally with anyone you like, and join the members’ mailing list.

Questions about peering or extension ports? Talk to our team.

Request a port
Technical

Built for BGP.

All fabrics use a 1500-byte MTU. Max-prefix recommendations are in each exchange’s PeeringDB notes.

Peering LANs & route servers
ExchangeIPv4 peering LANIPv6 peering LANRoute serversNOC
KCIX206.51.7.0/242001:504:1b:1::/64AS40542noc@kcix.net
STLIX206.83.12.0/242001:504:98::/64AS46389noc@stlix.net
HOUIX206.83.136.0/242001:504:9e::/64AS35920noc@houix.net
SpringIX149.112.4.0/242001:504:100::/64AS63203info@springix.net
DesMoinesIX149.112.17.0/242001:504:110::/64See siteinfo@desmoinesix.net
SIOUIX149.112.41.0/24See siteSee sitenoc@siouix.net

Route-server communities: 0:peer-as keeps your routes from one peer; rs-as:peer-as sends them only to that peer; 0:rs-as keeps them from everyone. Read the peering policy.