History
First point at Moscow Long Distance Telephone Exchange-9 (M9), 1995
- M9 is the heart of all international telephone lines, the best point for telecommunication operators
- 7 ISPs have agreed to make a point of mutual exchange of IP-traffic and were connected by 10 Mbit/s
- coordination of M9-IX was delegated to Russian Institute for Public Networks (RIPN)
- based on simpliest Ethernet-commutator