Carriers or Enterprise branching out to Europe may want their first stop to be France-IX

France-IX has announced that they will be supporting 100Gb service for their members. Franck Simon, President at France-IX, continues to explain to Don Witt of The Channel Daily News, a TR publication that their bandwidth demand has been based on current traffic which is composed of video streaming, content and gaming primarily.  There is telephone demands and some IoT demands as well. Currently support for G3 & G4 is provided. As the technology evolves for G5, it will also be supported. Franck goes on to say the France-IX exchange provides a Peering service for members composed of Operators, Providers and Internet networks all connected together. The Peering service is a point to point communication between two networks. France-IX also offers a market place where members can sell their technology solutions to others.  Typical products would include: Security VPN Cloud Services In December 2009, France-IX was born to federate all French operators in Paris and to provide a high quality of service. They were supported by first-class entities and founding members who are Akamai, Jaguar Network, Neo Telecoms (become Zayo France), Interxion, Google and Bouygues Telecom. Their IXP aims to ease the exchanges of data, communications and transactions on the Internet and to develop French and international operators and services providers transit through Paris and Marseille. Partnerships were and are still being implemented to make sure that the ISPs and content providers present on France-IX can not only peer with other partners on our IX, but also peer with companies connected on other IXPs. For more information, go to: https://www.franceix.net/en/