PIPE Networks is Australia's largest peering provider with 16 IX locations across 6 metro-IX networks. Part of this success is because PIPE Networks operates a vendor and carrier neutral environment for its peers and provides fully redundant, state of the art layer 2/3 Ethernet switches and routers operating up to gigabit speed.

PIPE Networks is a Metro Area Internet Exchange in that it has distributed its switching capacity in areas of high customer density in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart and Canberra. As such the PIPE network can connect to customers in buildings other than its main point of presence.

The strength of PIPE Networks IX service allows our customers to:

• Improve quality of service by keeping traffic local, providing lower latency end-to-end and better reliability. Without connections to Internet exchanges, ISPs, web hosting and application service providers are separated by the length of the carrier networks between them. Poor local connections between networks can degrade service and force packets into long haul trips just to get across town.
• Enable next generation applications. PIPE Networks IX makes possible many new and exciting applications that, in the rising world of DSL and broadband access, will be all too important in order to deliver high speed services to your high speed customers, streaming audio and video content, quality on-line gaming and application service provision to name a few.
• Reduce reliance on expensive tail circuits to carriers by taking traffic over the cheaper and more efficient PIPE Networks IX infrastructure. Some customers have almost removed their reliance on expensive telco tail circuits by using PIPE Networks dark fibre

PIPE has a broad range of customers and partners who include:

• National ISPs
• Large modern telecommunications carriers
• Regional and Local ISPs
• Large Web hosting companies
• Public and Private Educational establishments
• Medium and large corporations