NetIX strengthens partnership with MSK-IX through connectivity to all major regional hubs in Russia
Sofia, Bulgaria – 3rd September 2026: NetIX, the leading global distributed platform for connectivity and peering solutions, has expanded its partnership with MSK-IX by establishing connectivity to all of the major Internet Exchange's locations across the whole of Russia. This milestone further strengthens the relationship between the two organisations while delivering enhanced connectivity opportunities for their respective member communities.
Through this expansion, NetIX is now connected to MSK-IX's network in key metropolitan areas: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Kazan, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, and Vladivostok, providing broader access to Russian networks and end users than ever before.
The increased geographic reach enables NetIX members to benefit from improved access to Russian-hosted content and services while reducing latency across a wider range of destinations. By extending connectivity across the entire MSK-IX footprint, NetIX customers can achieve better network performance and an enhanced experience when accessing resources hosted throughout Russia. The deployment also makes NetIX one of the few international connectivity platforms with direct access to all MSK-IX regional hubs, providing unparalleled reach into the Russian Internet ecosystem.
The partnership also creates new opportunities for MSK-IX members; with NetIX available locally across all MSK-IX regional hubs, participating networks can establish connectivity into the NetIX platform through their nearest Point of Presence (PoP), gaining access to a global ecosystem of networks, Internet Exchanges, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), cloud providers, and connectivity services.
"Expanding our presence across MSK-IX's entire footprint is an important milestone in our long-standing partnership," said Dean Belev, VP of Connectivity Services at NetIX. "This deployment allows us to deliver improved reachability to Russian end users, lower latency to Russian-hosted content, and greater connectivity options for our members. Being connected across the full MSK-IX footprint also positions NetIX among a select group of international platforms capable of providing direct access to Russia's major regional Internet hubs through a single connection."
"We are pleased to deepen our collaboration with NetIX through its presence across the entire MSK-IX infrastructure," said Natalia Sidorkina, Head of International Development Projects at MSK-IX. "By enabling local access to NetIX services from each of our 45+ PoPs covering the whole of Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok, we are creating additional value for our members and helping facilitate more efficient interconnection between Russian networks and the wider international Internet community."
As demand for high-performance connectivity continues to grow, the strengthened partnership between NetIX and MSK-IX reinforces both organisations' commitment to delivering scalable, resilient, and efficient interconnection services to their members.
The NetIX platform simplifies network expansion through a single connection, providing access to thousands of networks, multiple Internet Exchanges, and a global ecosystem of connectivity services. Through one port, members can connect to peers and services across Europe and beyond without the need for additional infrastructure investments.
Are you ready to improve your network using the NetIX platform? To connect to all eight MSK-IX metropolitan areas and a further 50+ IXPs via NetIX’s GIX, visit netix.net. Speak to a member of the team about our services and solutions, please email the team: [email protected]
About NetIX
Our next-generation network accelerates the Internet; we connect content creators with users faster, cheaper, and more directly than ever.
Our network stretches across more than 220 global data centres in 100+ cities in 65 countries. The NetIX platform connects our 200+ members to content from 10,000+ visible networks and 50+ Internet Exchanges and reaches daily peaks of more than 7Tb of traffic throughput.
NetIX offers the best possible internet connectivity: our members can directly exchange traffic with peers, giving their end-users faster page-load times on 90% of the most popular sites.
Our members include internet service providers, broadcasters, telecoms operators, and content delivery networks – all the peers your customers need to access!
About MSK-IX
MSK-IX the largest Exchange Point in Russia with 30+ years of peering experience and extra strong expertise has more than unique 600+ networks and traffic level up to 8Tb and is constantly growing.
Our network covers all Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok with footprints in 10 Major cities of Russia.
We provide a direct connectivity to the most popular content, video, games, CDNs, cloud, hosting providers, enterprise sector and to Russian eyeballs audience.
