Ge-DIX is the new born Internet Exchange that will operate in Genoa and managed by a Consortium that has the following founding members: Comune di Genova, Liguria Digitale, BBBell, Fastweb, Retelit, Rocket Way, TOP-IX.
The Consortium is open to other players that will need Interconnection Services provided by Ge-DIX.
The venture has been supported by Genoa Municipality through Ambassadors of Genoa in the World who grabbed some very recent important trends.
First, Genoa (and Liguria Region) has been chosen as lending places of new communications submarine cables that are the key component to transport data at global scale. Actually 2Africa and Blue Raman are under provisioning to land in Genoa. Also the India Europe Xpress (IEX) will soon arrive in Savona. Other submarine platforms are expected. The opportunity to intercept the huge amounts of data transported by these infrastructures would allow Genoa to join other Mediterranean cities (such as Marseille and Barcelona) as a digital hub.
Moreover, actual digital trends suggest application and services that require low network latency to provide the better user experience: considering the physical limits of a transmission on optical media, a more capillary interconnection is needed between those who provide the services and those who connect the end users.
Finally, Internet Exchanges, while being increasingly involved in traditional Internet traffic exchange (for example live sport events broadcasted on the Internet) are turning into advances Interconnection systems that allow, with a single access, the opportunity to interconnect in a safe and efficient way to different services provided by Edge/Cloud Providers. With that, the extended name of Data Internet Exchange.