It provides public exchange points around the country where ISP members can exchange traffic resulting in faster, more redundant service for their customers while substantially reducing the peering costs customary with other public exchanges such as the WorldCom MAEs. Packet Exchange Networks are being formed in major cities throughout the United States beginning with the Los Angeles area. Primarily, local area and regional ISPs will have an alternative to the costly and exclusionary peering agreements of the WorldCom MAEs. The LAPX reduces network latency between local providers in the Southern California community.
Members offer both end users and commercial customers the quickest path between browser and server.
Traffic destined for customers' sites gets there faster with packet loss eliminated. Membership in the LAPX is easy and cost-effective. By joining LAPX, every member agrees to peer, and because of the open nature of the LAPX, routing issues are simplified.