Interconnection

AS60171 AFRIX-AS

Unclassified RIPE

Exchanges 30 30 active

Countries 18 most in South Africa

Regions 3

Largest fabric 1,078 DE-CIX Frankfurt

Recorded presence

Internet exchanges

recorded

Internet exchanges where Packet Clearing House has a port recorded for AS60171, largest fabric first. An exchange is shared switching where networks interconnect directly rather than paying a transit provider, so turning up at one is a deliberate choice about how this network wants to be reached. Each name opens that exchange's page, with its peering LANs and everyone else on it.

Africa 18 Europe 11 North America 1

Exchange	Location	Their address	Policy	Member ports
DE-CIX Frankfurt	Frankfurt, Germany	80.81.193.31	Selective	1,078
LINX LON1	London, United Kingdom	195.66.226.123	Selective	932
NAPAfrica IX Johannesburg	Johannesburg, South Africa	196.60.9.214	Selective	603
France-IX Paris	Paris, France	37.49.236.239	Selective	570
Milan Internet Exchange	Milan, Italy	217.29.67.246	—	418
Equinix Internet Exchange Ashburn	Ashburn, United States	206.126.238.93	Selective	390
NAPAfrica IX Cape Town	Cape Town, South Africa	196.60.71.42	Selective	311
Johannesburg Internet Exchange	Johannesburg, South Africa	196.60.97.33	Selective	217
ESpanix Madrid Lower LAN	Madrid, Spain	193.149.1.246	Selective	177
Kenya Internet Exchange Point - Nairobi	Nairobi, Kenya	196.223.21.143	Selective	155
NAPAfrica IX Durban	Durban, South Africa	196.10.141.69	Selective	146
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria - Lagos	Lagos, Nigeria	196.216.148.93	Open	138
Cape Town Internet Exchange	Cape Town, South Africa	196.223.23.33	Selective	127
France-IX Marseille	Marseille, France	37.49.232.86	—	127
Durban Internet eXchange	Durban, South Africa	196.223.31.33	Selective	104
DE-CIX Lisbon	Lisbon, Portugal	185.1.131.20	Selective	63
Gigabit Portuguese Internet Exchange Point	Lisbon, Portugal	193.136.250.125	Selective	63
IXPlay Global Peers	Madrid, Spain	185.1.90.22	Selective	63
Catalunya Neutral Internet Exchange Point	Barcelona, Spain	193.242.98.147	Selective	57
Asteroid Mombasa	Mombasa, Kenya	196.60.66.10	Open	54
DE-CIX Barcelona	Barcelona, Spain	185.1.119.10	Selective	49
West Africa Interconnection Exchange	Lagos, Nigeria	196.49.90.13	—	45
ANGONIX	Luanda, Angola	196.11.234.47	Selective	38
Uganda Internet Exchange	Kampala, Uganda	196.223.25.43	Selective	38
Rwanda Internet exchange	Kigali, Rwanda	196.223.12.231	Selective	29
Ghana Internet Exchange Association	Accra, Ghana	196.201.2.136	Selective	27
AMS-IX Djibouti	Djibouti City, Djibouti	196.223.38.218	Selective	22
Kinshasa Internet Exchange	Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo	196.223.28.35	Selective	18
Mozambique Internet Exchange	Maputo, Mozambique	196.223.33.30	Selective	18
Douala Internet Exchange	Douala, Cameroon	2001:43fd:c000:d0ae::eb0b	Selective	7

Recorded rather than inferred: an address on a peering LAN is at that exchange by definition. Member ports counts every participant at the exchange, not this network's ports, so read it as a size proxy. An absent exchange means PCH has no record of it, not that the network is not there. For the operator's own claims, see its PeeringDB record.

From the exchange directory collected 2026-10-10 by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data), covering 1,346 exchanges and 98,215 recorded member ports, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0.

PeeringDB is the better-known directory and is deliberately not the source here: its acceptable-use policy forbids the bulk storage this needs. The two answer different questions anyway. PeeringDB reports what an operator declares about itself; this reports what PCH has recorded.