AVAILABILITY
PEERING
RESILIENCE
Peering is built on trust: 99.999% availability in the first half of 2026
Peering is built on trust. At the slightest instability, the whole network suffers. That is why this sector plays in a different league from the rest of telecoms.
Two networks that interconnect trust each other. They accept that their traffic (with their data, their customers, etc.) goes through an infrastructure they do not control.
But this trust comes at a price: stability.
A one-second disruption is multiplied by the number of members. A domino effect is guaranteed: ISPs, operators, CDNs, companies… They are all interconnected in the same place.
That is why availability standards in peering cannot be compared with those of a conventional service. Over my last 14 years in telecommunications, committing to 99.97% availability has been the norm.
At France-IX, our internal target is a minimum of 99.995% per month. And we exceed it, consistently and by a wide margin. We get used to this very high availability.
May 2026 was not a good month by our standards: 99.993% availability in Paris.
Many would be delighted to exceed 99.99%, not us.
Over the first half of 2026, we are holding 99.999% availability. And that is possible thanks to an architecture designed to absorb incidents before they become outages.
In practice, this means redundancy with robust and distinct infrastructure, continuous monitoring, but also teams available 24/7.
This level of demand is what you are entitled to expect from your interconnection infrastructure.
If you would like to know more about our infrastructure and what makes it resilient, let’s talk.
PS: Phew, in June and July, back to 100% everywhere :)
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