CAR-IX infrastructure

CAR-IX RX4 production and standby switch.

The current CAR-IX peering infrastructure consists of a single Brocade (former Foundrynetworks) RX4 switch located in the E-Commercepark datacenter on Curacao. CAR-IX members can connect to peering infrastructure using Gigabit Ethernet (Copper, Multimode, Singlemode) or fast Ethernet.

A cold standby switch of the same type and with identical interface blades is located in the same rack as the production switch.

In case of hardware failures of the productions switch this allows for fast replacement of components and minimal downtime