At each site NaMeX provides a high-end, redundant, distributed switching platform that enables members to connect their border routers and establish peering relationships by means of BGPv4 protocol. By establishing peering relationships, NaMeX members can save on transit costs and optimize their access to all other members’ networks.

NaMeX switching platform supports the following Ethernet technologies:

• 1000BASE-TX / 1000BASE-LX / 1000BASE-SX
• 10GBASE-LR / 10GBASE-SR
• 100GBASE-SR / 100GBASE-LR / 100GBASE-ER (upon request)

Additionally, it is possible to activate multiple connections with link aggregation (802.3ad).

The switching platform supports two separate public peering VLANs, each one is associated with a separate IPv4/IPv6 subnet provided by NaMeX. This enables each member to add redundancy to its connection and/or balance its traffic load across a dual connection. Backup peering port is available at 50% discount, additional ports (from the third on) will be charged full price.

Besides public peering VLANs, NaMeX provides private VLANs on demand to enable members to establish private peering or transit relationships in a separated broadcast domain. Private VLANs can be assigned to existing public peering ports, by enabling 802.1q VLAN trunking, or to additional ports upon request.