Bringing content, networks, and Internet resources closer to the Carolinas.
North and South Carolina are home to 16.8 million people. The two states added more than 225,000 residents between July 2024 and July 2025, with South Carolina first and North Carolina third in the nation for percentage population growth.
Carolina IX is being built to give the networks serving that region more opportunities to connect locally. Our focus is on bringing content closer to users, improving access to regional Internet resources, and building relationships between the operators who make those connections work.
Population: U.S. Census Bureau, July 2025 estimates.
Content localization takes both places to host services and networks able to reach them. We want to bring those pieces together so more traffic can be exchanged within the Carolinas.
Bring broadband networks together with content, cloud, gaming, and hosting providers. Concentrating regional demand can make local delivery more attractive to providers and create more opportunities to peer. Each provider decides where to connect and which services to make available.
Help networks reach locally hosted business applications, regional hosting platforms, and services operated by education and community organizations. Local access should be useful to the businesses and institutions here, as well as to the largest content platforms.
Add regional peering options alongside established hubs such as Ashburn and Atlanta. Local paths can reduce the need to carry some traffic out of the region, while wider connections remain essential. The benefit depends on the networks present, their routing policies, and the physical paths between them.
Further reading: Internet Society: Measuring the Impact of Local IXPs.
The Carolinas already have exchanges, data centers, content networks, and research infrastructure. Carolina IX will build on that foundation, not replace it. We welcome independent ISPs, regional broadband providers, hosting companies, enterprise networks, and research and education operators.
A useful exchange starts with traffic that participants want to exchange and a practical place to meet. Network interest will help shape our first sites and capacity plans. Our priorities are clear connection costs, dependable operations, and participation from networks of different sizes.
The aim is a stronger local Internet economy: more reasons to host services here, more local relationships between operators, and better access to the resources our communities use every day.
Peering at Carolina IX →The exchange is coming soon. If you operate a network, deliver content, or can help establish a local exchange site, we want to hear from you. Choose a topic below to start an email with a few useful details. An inquiry does not commit your network to joining.
Prefer a blank email? info@carolinaix.com. General, privacy, and website security questions are welcome too. Please do not send credentials, customer data, or private router configurations.