Network – Blix Solutions

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.

RTD	Oslo	Kristiansand	Stavanger	Stockholm	Copenhagen	Helsinki	London	Amsterdam	New York City	Dallas	Singapore
Oslo	X	4ms	8ms	7ms	7ms	12ms	16ms	22ms	84ms	122ms	172ms
Kristiansand	4ms	X	4ms	12ms	4ms	16ms	20ms	20ms	88ms	124ms	180ms
Stavanger	8ms	4ms	X	12ms	8ms	20ms	12ms	24ms	88ms	120ms	180ms
Stockholm	7ms	12ms	12ms	X	7ms	6ms	23ms	20ms	97ms	126ms	186ms
Copenhagen	7ms	4ms	8ms	7ms	X	13ms	16ms	10ms	90ms	113ms	173ms
Helsinki	12ms	16ms	20ms	6ms	13ms	X	27ms	35ms	100ms	132ms	187ms
London	16ms	20ms	12ms	23ms	16ms	27ms	X	6ms	70ms	106ms	163ms
Amsterdam	22ms	20ms	24ms	20ms	10ms	35ms	6ms	X	76ms	123ms	160ms
New York City	84ms	88ms	88ms	97ms	90ms	100ms	70ms	76ms	X	33ms
Dallas	122ms	124ms	120ms	126ms	113ms	132ms	106ms	123ms	33ms
Singapore	172ms	180ms	180ms	186ms	173ms	187ms	163ms	160ms

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