Peering

Peer Where the Midwest Meets

Heartland IX puts content companies, ISPs, carriers, government and education networks one session away — cutting transit costs and latency together.

Heartland IX

Settlement-Free Routes, Local Hops

Every megabit you peer is a megabit you don’t buy as transit. Heartland IX members exchange traffic directly over the exchange fabric — keeping regional traffic regional instead of tromboning to the coasts.

Connect one port and reach every participant through the route servers, or set up bilateral sessions with the peers that matter most to your traffic.

Start Peering

Network engineers monitoring peering traffic on indoor workstations

Public Peering

One port, one session to the route servers, and immediate reach to the full exchange membership.

Private Peering

Direct cross connects to high-volume peers for dedicated capacity and granular traffic engineering.

Traffic Insight

Port statistics and guidance on which sessions will move the most transit off your bill.

Who Peers Here

Content, Eyeballs and Institutions

The exchange mixes large content platforms with regional ISPs, wireless carriers, state and local government networks, and higher-education systems — the exact combination that keeps Midwest traffic local.

New to peering? We help with ASN setup, routing policy and session tuning. Already peering elsewhere? Extend your existing sessions to Omaha over Carrier transport.

How It Works

Peering Live in Four Steps

Join

Sign the exchange agreement and get your ASN registered.

Port

We provision 1G, 10G or 100G exchange ports.

Session

BGP comes up with route servers and bilateral peers.

Save

Watch transit volumes — and costs — drop month over month.

Bring Your ASN to Heartland IX

Get port pricing and the current participant list for your traffic planning.

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