• In order to further improve its services, BNIX has switched to a new ticketing system on 1 December 2018: the OTRS system has been replaced by ServiceNow.

• The Belgian Internet Exchange BNIX processed 451 petabyte of data last year, which translates into 23,076 years of full-HD streaming on Netflix. Compared to 2017, that’s an increase of 14 percent. The increase in total volume was mainly caused by large upgrades carried out by a number of participants, such as internet service providers like Proximus, VOO and Belnet, hosting providers like OVH and content providers like Facebook.

BNIX has more than 60 Participants, to encourage them to increase their interconnection capacity, the Belgian Internet node is offering a significant rate reduction!

Furthermore, 100Gbit/s ports are now available.

The internet host OVH is the first BNIX Participant to use this new connection speed.

With now 56 Participants, to respond to the growth of Internet use in Belgium, BNIX successfully completed migration to a whole new platform in June 2016.

The main advantage of this new platform is the increase in capacity that it enables: each new switch can exchange 13.2 terabits per second (Tbps). For comparison, the 2010 platform had a maximum capacity of 3.5 Tbps. Furthermore, the number of 10 Gbit/s ports available is much higher, and 100 Gbit/s links are made possible. In addition, the new BNIX is even more reliable and scalable. There is also much better energy efficiency: although each new switch is four times more powerful than before, at full capacity, they only need practically the same wattage as the previous platform.

Between 7 August and 20 September 2013, BNIX held its first satisfaction survey with the Participants connected.

It had 42 questions, and 17 different organisations took part.

Here are the main results:

• BNIX platform stability = 9.53/10
• Response time = 8.53/10
• Technical competence = 8.88/10
• 24/7 NOC = 8.59/10

LCL in Diegem became BNIX’s third point of presence (PoP), and it then had 43 Participants.

New, high-capacity communications systems were set up: the data traffic speed was five times higher than before. 
For the BNIX’s 15th anniversary, the first BNIX Networking Event was organised at the Musical Instruments Museum, on 25 March 2010.

BNIX refreshed its image: new logo and new website.

Belnet decided to close the BNIX PoP located in its own offices and entrust this responsibility to the specialist data centres Level3 and Interxion.

BNIX extended its physical infrastructure to two new points of presence (PoPs):

• Level3 in Evere;
• Interxion in Zaventem.

As the physical infrastructure is spread over different sites (redundancy), technical incidents remain very limited.

BNIX is a co-founder of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX), for collaboration and the exchange of information between European internet exchange points.

BNIX was founded by Belnet, the Belgian national research network. Belnet is a public body that provides superfast broadband Internet access as well as many other services to research centres, higher educational establishments and public services. Belnet was chosen because it is one of the pioneers of the Internet in Belgium, it is a neutral provider and it has the required expertise. Belnet became responsible for managing the BNIX and its first point of presence (PoP) in its own offices.

The platform, which was then called “X-Router” (the name BNIX was given in 1997), had 6 Participants in the year it was founded.