San Francisco Main Internet Exchange in downtown San Francisco offers a Gigabit cross-connect to the peering fabric without a monthly charge.

365 Main Inc., a data center operator, recently announced the opening of SFMIX, the first Internet exchange point in downtown San Francisco.

According to 365 Main, SFMIX will allow customers and network providers to exchange traffic with one another without having to route data outside 365 Main's San Francisco data center. SFMIX will also enable access to content and information housed within the 365 Main data center.

SFMIX is available to the customers and network providers in its San Francisco data center. It offers a Gigabit cross-connect to the peering fabric without a monthly charge. To establish SFMIX, 365 Main worked with Packet Clearing House (PCH), an institute committed to the optimization of routing Internet traffic.

"We're very encouraged to see progressive data center operators like 365 Main understanding the core economics of Internet growth and allowing their tenants to make the transition to the next generation of multi-gigabit Internet service," said PCH Research Director, Bill Woodcock.