The South Coast Access Exchange (TheSCAX)
Serving Southwestern OregonThe South Coast Access Exchange interconnects Ethernet/IP networks to improve regional access and improve Southwestern Oregon's economy.
How to get involved?
Without your support this technology will take many more years to come to our region while larger communities become more competitive, productive and affluent. We must educate our government officials, encourage local business and citizen groups to work together to promote the local metro Ethernet networks. Join us in the “Keep Local Traffic Local Initiative”. This website lists the people and organizations that are promoting the local Metro Ethernet and how they are making a difference. Join the community of people that are helping build a smarter life for our region.
With a physical point of presence in Brookings, Oregon and built in partnership with 600Amps Internet Services, TheSCAX is the only IX to offer peering and interconnect services in Southwestern Oregon.
Sending traffic to any peering member across TheSCAX can be done at line rate from a technical point of view. TheSCAX encourages the settlement free high bandwidth exchange of network traffic between it's members, because it leads to a higher quality and more resilient stable Internet for our region.
Most large Transit providers usually only interconnect in large metro areas. It's entirely likely that traffic between two parties in Brookings is sent to Portland or Seattle and back, just to go across the street. Customers often have very limited control over the physical path their traffic takes. Connecting with TheSCAX guarantees low latency that is equal to the physical limitations of fiber networks.
Advantages of a local Internet Exchange
The benefit of using an Internet Exchange (IX) is to reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic that must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit delivery cost as well as reducing the end-to-end latency as seen by their customers. The increased number of paths available through the IX improves routing efficiency and fault-tolerance. Traffic avoids going the scenic route through Oregon to a large hub like Portland, Seattle, or even the California bay area. Why send that traffic more than 300+ miles to access resources that can otherwise be accessed locally in Southwestern Oregon?
Let's keep local internet traffic local:
- Reduce transit costs
- Enable less expensive connections to multiple facilities/networks
- Low latency connections allow for great voice & videoconferencing communication
- Peered traffic between local locations rides free from your internet transit connection
Joining Requirements
- Have a public ASN from ARIN
- Have up-to-date PeeringDB and Whois records
- Have at least one IPv4 /24 or IPV6 /48 to announce on the IX
- Only send traffic to destinations announced by BGP on the IX
- Will not announce or export TheSCAX peering prefixes externally