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Service for French Internet Exchange

Internet exchange point in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ3480435 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Service for French Internet Exchange (SFINX) is a French IXPs (Internet Exchange Points), along with France-IX and PARIX. It's PoPs are based at Interxion "Paris 1" in Aubervilliers and Telehouse "Paris 2" in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

It is operated by RENATER, the French National Research and Education Network (NREN).

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The public source identifies “Service for French Internet Exchange” as internet exchange point in France. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Service, French and Internet.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 52-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Service, French and Internet providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3480435. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Service for French Internet Exchange” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.