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Who is PacketExchange?
PacketExchange is a network services provider that offers connectivity and bandwidth solutions for enterprises, carriers, and content providers across Europe and international routes.
- IP transit and bandwidth services for carriers and service providers (network connectivity).
- Ethernet and MPLS-based point-to-point and point-to-multipoint circuits for enterprise connectivity (WAN services).
- Colocation and interconnection services in carrier-neutral data centers (data center networking).
- Peering and cross-connect options for content and cloud distribution (internet exchange and interconnect).
- Customized network design, provisioning, and monitoring services (managed network services).
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PacketExchange operates as a network services company focused on delivering IP transit, Ethernet transport, and related connectivity solutions to enterprises, carriers, and digital service providers that require consistent bandwidth and predictable routing across Europe and on international paths.
The company’s portfolio typically aligns with core enterprise networking categories such as IP transit (network connectivity), Ethernet private lines and virtual private Local Area Network (LAN) services (WAN services), and carrier-neutral interconnection (data center networking), enabling organizations to link data centers, offices, and cloud environments using standardized telecom protocols and interfaces.
In enterprise and carrier environments, PacketExchange services are commonly used to support backbone connectivity between major Internet Exchange Points (IXP), to extend reach into key metropolitan data centers, and to provide upstream transit for ISPs and content networks using BGP-based routing policies over high-capacity IP links.
Offerings in the Ethernet and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) domain (WAN services) typically rely on standard technologies such as IEEE Ethernet standards for Layer 2 transport, MPLS for traffic separation and Quality of Service (QoS), and common access models like point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or VPLS-style topologies for multi-site enterprise connectivity.
For data center and interconnection use cases (data center networking), PacketExchange connects customers to carrier-neutral facilities and internet exchanges, where organizations can establish peering sessions, cross-connects, and direct connectivity to cloud or content platforms to optimize latency paths and traffic flows.
Relative to other providers in the IP transit and Ethernet services category, PacketExchange operates within the same general technical framework built on Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for routing, Ethernet and MPLS for transport, and standardized Service Level Agreements (SLAs) around availability and latency that are familiar to network architects and infrastructure teams.
From a directory and taxonomy perspective, PacketExchange fits within network connectivity and infrastructure services, spanning IP transit, Ethernet Wide Area Network (WAN), and data center interconnection, and can be grouped with telecom carriers, wholesale bandwidth providers, and managed network service providers that focus on transport rather than higher-layer application services.
Our description of PacketExchange. Updated February 2026.
