Background

FICIX, Finnish Communication and Internet Exchange association, is the biggest Internet exchange point (IXP) in Finland. Since 1993 FICIX has provided neutral and reliable IP peering facilities for its members. As an registered association, Ficix is a non-profit organisation with currently 27 members.

Significant Finnish Internet service providers as well as International organisations are members of FICIX. Our objective is to develop constantly growing Finnish Internet and provide high-speed and high-quality IP traffic exchange facilities.

Traditionally Finnish Internet traffic has nearly doubled every year in FICIX's history. The level of Finnish Internet traffic is high compared to country population or compared to Central Europe IXP's in general.

FICIX welcomes IP service and content providers to join and route IP traffic efficiently within Finland, and offer fast and reliable Internet access for the customers.

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