The Boston MXP was founded in 1996 by MAI.  Boston being the most Northern Tier 1 city on the US East Coast, it has always been a Spoke of the internet, requiring most all of the Internet traffic to flow to New York City, Washington DC, London, or Chicago.  This spoke type of design forces Internet Service Providers (ISP's) in the New England Boston areas to route traffic to other locations and have the return traffic flow back to its' origin.  These route paths cause congestion on many ISPs network links, addsing cost , delay and jitter to end user's traffic.

     Having a public, non-transit peering location solves all of these issue in one swoop. Any IP network in Boston can connect to the MXP public switch fabric and peer with any number of fellow members that are willing.

1: Any network can join the MXP.  Networks must acquire connectivity to one of our locations in order to interconnect.  Our switch only supports ethernet type connections, they are as follows: