locations

The Tampa Internet eXchange has presence at the following locations:

• The Franklin Exchange, 655 North Franklin Street, 12^th Floor (Hostway) or the 6^th floor Meet-Me-Room.
• The Madison Building, 412 East Madison Street, 10/11/12^th Floors (Hostway).
• The Lykes Building, 400 North Tampa Street.

The following connection types are currently available in all locations:

• Single- and Multi-mode optical gigabit and 100Base-FX Ethernet.
• 10/100/1000Base Ethernet over copper.

steps

1. Obtain physical connectivity to the exchange.
2. Obtain your TampaIX addresses by phone or email.
3. Contact other members and start peering!

rules

Peering is a cooperative effort. All participants must observe the following basic rules or be asked to leave the exchange:

• All arranged peering must be bilateral.
• Connections must be made to a router, or a layer 3 switch with a port in route-only mode or its own VLAN. The maximum number of MAC addresses you can present to the exchange is exactly one unless otherwise prearranged with exchange staff.
• No Spanning Tree packets may be delivered to the exchange under any circumstances.
• BGP-4 is used for peering and peers must set NEXT_HOP_SELF if advertising routes from other TampaIX participants.
• Participants may not direct unwarranted traffic or otherwise use another participant's resources without permission.
• Please limit broadcast and unknown unicast traffic on the exchange. Disable services such as CDP, FDP.
• Manipulating your MAC address or another participant's ARP traffic will result in your instant removal from the exchange.