Peer with our members via the resellers that we trust
The approved France-IX Resellers below are trusted partners who sell access to France-IX peering services across their transport infrastructure. They offer a wide geographical diversity, strong technical competence, high service levels and finally, a single point of contact for all your transport and peering needs.
You may directly contact our resellers below to remotely peer with our members.
Peering via our resellers allows you to peer with our members without needing a physical presence in one of our PoPs. This available from over 285 virtual PoPs of our resellers.
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Benefits
Simple
- End-to-end connectivity to France-IX through one supplier: your reseller provides, manages, supports and bills the member for all the remote peering services (transport packaged with peering services).
- One-stop-shopping means one contract, one bill, one contact so less paperwork at the end of the day. You don’t need to sign any France-IX contract, you just sign with our reseller on their paperwork and we coordinate everything with them.
- Keep in mind that you still have full membership rights with France-IX non-profit association (with the right to vote during the France-IX meetings), you have access to the same services as any other member and you still need your own Autonomous System Number to be able to peer.
Quick and easy process
- No deployment of hardware or colocation means you can activate your connection in a matter of days, instead of weeks.
- Once your contract is in place with our reseller (already connected to France-IX), your can benefit from short delays for the activation of the service.
- The variety of connection packages allows you to upgrade easily and quickly and more importantly, to stay flexible.
Zero risk with no Capex required
- There is no need to colocate your equipment in Paris and/or Marseille, you choose your traffic level in each France-IX peering platforms (Paris and/or Marseille) through your reseller.
- The reseller connects to France-IX though GigE, 10 Gbps peering ports, which are either dedicated or shared via multiple VLANs between customers. Keep in mind resellers can not oversubscribe their port(s).
- The reseller provides you only with the connection and you keep the full control of your peering and routing policy.
Our resellers
How to become a reseller
France-IX offers the opportunity to operators/carriers, to the datacenters and hosting providers to become official resellers.
If you wish to become a certified reseller, please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. in order to start discussions. A non-disclosure agreement and a reseller contract will need to be signed. Once done you'll be able to start connecting your clients.
Step 1
To do so a non-disclosure agreement has first to be signed.
Step 2
he potential reseller provides France-IX with the following information via info_at_franceix.net:
Legal name and address
Name and title of the signatory
Step 3
Then France-IX send the reseller agreement to be signed and sent back to us.
Step 4
The connection of the port(s) follows the same principles as the usual connection process (cf. "Become a member" page). The reseller orders the cross-connect directly to the datacenter.
Step 5
Once the cable is delivered, we go on site to connect the port(s), inform the reseller of the IP addresses and configure the connection(s).
Step 6
The reseller must send a connection agreement signed between its entity and its customer, for each customer's connection.