Service Manager
The Pix service is theInternet Exchange Point promoted and operated by FCCN, FCT's digital services - an Internet Exchange Point is a neutral point of traffic exchange between different organizations, with the mission of allowing various IP networks to interconnect with each other more efficiently.
Pix improves the quality of the interconnection of IP networks in Portugal and avoids the use of international resources for the transit of IP packets to and from Portugal.
Without an infrastructure like Pix, traffic to and from nearby geographical locations would often have to cross borders, making communication less efficient (and more expensive).
Reducing costs for participating networks is one of the main advantages of Pix, but to this we can also add a reduction in latency (delay). Pix makes local communications faster.
FEATURES
GigaPIX is an evolution of PIX(Portuguese Internet eXchange) created in September 1995. The name change occurred in 2001 and reflects the fact that the infrastructure now has ports with Gigabit capacity.
At the moment, FCCN provides GigaPIX to dozens of networks, spread across the Lisbon and Porto data centers, with individual 100Gbps, 10Gbps, 1Gbps and 100Mbps ports.
