Nikhef is a significant part of Europe’s internet ecosystem, connecting more than 350 organisations including internet exchanges, Tier-1 and Tier-2 ISPs, and content and service providers.
Customers can arrange cross-connects within the facility, creating direct connection options that help networks improve performance and resilience. Nikhef also uses 100% green electricity and applies waste-heat recovery initiatives.
Our connectivity at Nikhef gives your network access to more than 600 direct peers and Tier-1 networks, with IP transit, IX access, L2 transport and DDoS protection available from one port.
We can also manage cross-connects, remote hands and infrastructure under an SLA. That keeps deployment and day-to-day operations with one team, while you retain a clear, reliable network edge.
One uplink carries transit, IX access, L2 connectivity and DDoS mitigation, so there is nothing separate to provision or pay for.
ACL-based filtering and Flowspec included on every port up to full capacity. Advanced multi-terabit mitigation available on request.
Five independent upstreams and five 100G IX ports mean no single provider or exchange is a point of failure.
Real engineers monitor the network around the clock, and answer the same NOC mailbox they configure it from.
Single-hop or multihop eBGP, IPv4 and IPv6, full/partial tables or default route.
RETN, Cogent, GTT, Aristo and Eranium: five independent transit providers.
AMS-IX, ERA-IX, GNM-IX, NINE-IX and FRYS-IX, each on a 100G port. Open peering policy.
Granular BGP communities for prepending, blackholing and selective announcement.
Live route and path visibility from our core at any time.
Included on every plan, at no extra cost, staffed by the engineers who run the network.
Announce your own space with redundant, low-latency transit and free DDoS protection.
Scale your commit up as you grow, with dedicated flat-rate options once volume justifies it.
Direct 100G IX peering keeps paths short to the networks your players are actually on.
A redundant, monitored internet edge without having to build or staff it yourself.