Computer Network Router, CIX Router (Cisco 7500)
date: label: Date made
content: 1994
name: label: maker
content: Cisco Systems
notes: label: Description
content: This Cisco Systems 7500 router was used between 1994 and 2001 in the first Commercial Internet Exchange (CIX). For most of its active life, this server was located in the Palo Alto Internet Exchange, Palo Alto, California. The router's IP address block was 149.20.00/16. The Commercial Internet Exchange was a private, membership organization that allowed networks to exchange internet traffic directly, regardless of which network the customer obtained service from, at no additional charge for the traffic.
label: Description
content: The CIX router provided traffic exchange of last resort for a small group of Internet Service Providers for whom there were no other commercial or technically feasible alternative options. CIX shut down its router in December 2001. However similar arrangements continued to exist in other countries where networking services are not as developed as in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Farooq Hussain
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0270.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0270.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0270
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Network Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 19 in x 19 in; 76.2 cm x 48.26 cm x 48.26 cm