Blix Solutions

Network

Reliable connections for the nordics

The below table has the latency metrics, measured from router to router in our network. RTD is short hand for Round Trip Time, which measures the time in milliseconds in takes for a ping packet to reach the destination and respond back to the source.

RTDOsloKristiansandStavangerStockholmCopenhagenHelsinkiLondonAmsterdamNew York CityDallasSingapore
OsloX4ms8ms7ms7ms12ms16ms22ms84ms122ms172ms
Kristiansand4msX4ms12ms4ms16ms20ms20ms88ms124ms180ms
Stavanger8ms4msX12ms8ms20ms12ms24ms88ms120ms180ms
Stockholm7ms12ms12msX7ms6ms23ms20ms97ms126ms186ms
Copenhagen7ms4ms8ms7msX13ms16ms10ms90ms113ms173ms
Helsinki12ms16ms20ms6ms13msX27ms35ms100ms132ms187ms
London16ms20ms12ms23ms16ms27msX6ms70ms106ms163ms
Amsterdam22ms20ms24ms20ms10ms35ms6msX76ms123ms160ms
New York City84ms88ms88ms97ms90ms100ms70ms76msX33ms
Dallas122ms124ms120ms126ms113ms132ms106ms123ms33ms
Singapore172ms180ms180ms186ms173ms187ms163ms160ms
Latency metrics for the Blix Solutions network

 

Secure network

All customers are terminated on a unique VLAN and IP-domain, so that sniffing of network traffic and capture of IP addresses between customers is not possible.

Professional incident management

In case of incidents, proactive information is alfa omega for confidence in the issue being resolved. We provide immediate reporting of all planned maintenance and incidents through a customer mailing list, in this list we have high transparency of our challenges and provide up-to-date information about any issues that may rise.

Far reaching MPLS services

We offer EoMPLS (Ethernet / Layer2) services on all our pops throughout our network, with high MTU.

Network design

All customers are directly terminated in coreswitches with a collapsed core configuration. We avoid shared capacity solutions and get the fastest possible convergence. The AS50304 network is designed for high uptime.

We have multiple redundant connections to the Internet and have our own BGP network, AS50304. We peer with other networks extensively, and we are the first network in Norway to get a 100Gbps port to the national internet exchange NIX (article in Norwegian). In addition our network is also present on the following exchanges FIXO in Norway, SONIX, Netnod, SOLIX and STHIX in Sweden, STHIX CPH in Denmark, and AMSIX in Amsterdam, LINX in London, and DE-CIX NYC in New York City to ensure low latency and high uptime. Our network has had IPv6 in production since the start and we have native IPv6 connections to all our transit partners and peers.

Carrier neutral

Customers can put equipment in our datacenters and choose their own upstream (carrier neutral). We provide services to traditional datacenter customers as well as telecom and/or other Internet Service Providers.

Point-to-point

We also provide point-to-point circuits through our network.

Local Internet Registry (LIR with RIPE)

Blix Group, which owns Blix Solutions, is registered with RIPE as a LIR which lets us provide LIR and other RIPE consultancy services to our customers. This gives us the advantage of delivering unique IP addresses to our customers, which in some circumstances also can be transferable between providers.

Blix Network Backbone Network Map

Blix Network Oslo Metro Network Map