How far can you go with IX Route Servers only?

J-Kuhn · 2026-03-16T07:55:04 1773647704

> five networks: Meta, Akamai, Google, Netflix, Amazon (I don’t know there is a decent name for these but i’ve been calling them the The “Magna” networks)

At a time when Meta was Facebook, there were FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and FAANG (with Apple), but it seems to be more used in a finance context.

great_wubwub · 2026-03-16T15:29:31 1773674971

Calling these Magna not Manga is a miss.

sshine · 2026-03-17T00:03:27 1773705807

Or "ganma" as in "lao gan ma", the Chinese chili brand.

By itself it means "stepmom".

pjf · 2026-03-16T09:21:26 1773652886

great post! key points for me:

1. 100 IXes alone would get 56% IPv4 and 61% IPv6 prefixes, but ~14% reachability

2. little uniqueness between exchanges: not many new prefixes after the top 5

3. for outbound-heavy networks IXes are great, but to attract traffic they are not (edit: applies to automatic peering via route servers)

benjojo12 · 2026-03-16T09:33:59 1773653639

Post author here

For inbound traffic, they're completely fine. This is only looking at the route servers. You can almost certainly receive 50/50 traffic ratios if you do bilateral peering. This post only covers the " automatic peering " services that IXs offer