March 3, 2007 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Server colocation and hosting services provider Zogmo (http://www.zogmo.com) has created the ‘HoustonIX’ peering fabric, it was announced recently. This is the first-ever public peering fabric in the Houston, Texas metropolitan area and enables Internet service providers to exchange Internet traffic at a neutral exchange point.
Powered by Cisco networking hardware with FastE, GigE, or 10Gig connections, HoustonIX provides lower-latency connections to servers based in Houston. It also provides Houston residents with faster connections to a wide array of web destinations, especially those located within the city. Currently, Houston hosts several of the largest datacenters in the world, and has a high concentration of web servers.
“We have been discussing and planning a robust peering fabric for about 18 months, and we are excited to not only serve the residents of Houston, but also the tens of thousands of customers who have servers located in Houston datacenters,” said Linn Boyd, Vice President of Operations for Zogmo. “Until now, Houston was the largest metropolitan area in the nation to not have a public peering fabric in place.”
Peering allows independent Internet network operators to exchange traffic directly, which reduces the number of routers a data packet must reach before it arrives at its final destination. Zogmo will manage the peering fabric, and will be responsible for its ongoing maintenance.
