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Over the last decade, PeeringDB has shown that interconnection has become important to organizations whose networks don’t sell network services, such as enterprises and governments.

Despite massive investments by hyperscalers and CDNs into private backbone infrastructure, public Internet Exchanges (IXPs) remain a vital mechanism for traffic localization, reducing latency, and efficiently reaching local "eyeball" networks.

Participants at the PIMF Jamaica event identified the challenges of connecting people in the Caribbean and proposed solutions with measurable components to track the impact of their strategies.

Global peering is not contracting; it is undergoing a structural transformation.

Remote peering has quietly disrupted the benefits of anycast and IXPs.

A new framework enables users to understand when the Internet “breaks” due to conflict or sanctions and how countries reconfigure their digital ties in response.

Kazakhstan and the rest of Central Asia are dependent on Internet connectivity from Russia.

Multiple directories collate information about IXPs and networks that peer at them.

IXPs' unique vantage points can provide local and regional level availability and performance insights that public international measurement projects cannot measure as accurately.

Community-driven IXPs must focus on demonstrating value to ensure future stability.

RouteViews collects real-time information about the global routing system from the perspectives of several different backbones and locations around the Internet.

Internet resilience is usually considered from a technical point of view, with little consideration given to social implications that impact connectivity decisions.