Melbourne · Australia
PeeringDB records six exchanges in Melbourne. MegaIX Melbourne has the most participants at 135, followed by IX Australia Melbourne (VIC-IX) with 102 and EdgeIX Melbourne with 74. Six facilities hold 324 network presences. An IP that geolocates to Melbourne points at an operator's registry entry rather than the location of a device.
Internet exchanges in Melbourne
An exchange is a shared switch where networks hand traffic to each other directly. Participant counts come from PeeringDB, where each network maintains its own record.
| Exchange | Participants | Registry carriers peering |
|---|---|---|
MegaIX Melbourne Megaport MegaIX Melbourne | 135 | none in the registry |
IX Australia Melbourne (VIC-IX) Victorian Internet Exchange | 102 | none in the registry |
EdgeIX - Melbourne | 74 | none in the registry |
Equinix Melbourne Equinix Internet Exchange Melbourne | 56 | none in the registry |
BGP.Exchange - Melbourne | 18 | none in the registry |
HSIX-VIC HackerSpace Networking - Melbourne, VIC | 1 | none in the registry |
Exchange records: PeeringDB.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there, which shows where capacity in the city sits.
| Facility | Networks present | Address |
|---|---|---|
| NEXTDC M1 | 141 | 820 Lorimer Street Port Melbourne |
| Equinix ME1/ME2 - Melbourne | 135 | 600 Lorimer Street Port Melbourne |
| Vocus Melbourne MEL03 | 24 | 530 Collins St |
| 5GN Melbourne Data Centre (MDC) | 16 | Level 15, 530 Collins St |
| Equinix ME5 - Melbourne (formerly Metronode Melbourne 1) | 6 | 22-36 Walsh Street West Melbourne |
| PIPE Networks Melbourne | 2 | Level 3, 55 King St |
What a Melbourne IP address tells you
Melbourne is the second Australian city by peering weight in this data, with 386 peer records against Sydney's 782. MegaIX Melbourne carries 135 participants, IX Australia Melbourne (VIC-IX) 102, EdgeIX Melbourne 74 and Equinix Melbourne 56, while BGP.Exchange Melbourne has 18 and HSIX-VIC has one. Colocation is concentrated rather than spread out. Two buildings, NEXTDC M1 with 141 networks and Equinix ME1/ME2 with 135, hold most of the 324 network presences across six facilities. No Australian mobile ASN shows up on a Melbourne exchange participant list.
A Melbourne geolocation result says where an address block is registered, which is a different question from where the equipment using it sits. Telstra (AS1221), Optus (AS4804) and Vodafone Australia (AS133612) announce blocks from registry records tied to one published address, and their mobile traffic exits through a limited set of gateways. Geolocation vendors take the operator's own published location for a prefix, so an entire allocation can read as Melbourne while the handsets on it are anywhere the network reaches.
The useful checks on a single address are the origin ASN and the netname on the prefix that covers it. Those two fields separate a mobile allocation from a hosting allocation, which a city name cannot do. If the origin network appears among the 135 participants at MegaIX Melbourne or the 141 networks in NEXTDC M1, that points to infrastructure with a fixed address. A mobile origin ASN points to a pool of subscribers spread across whatever the network covers.
Mobile carriers in Australia
A mobile address in Melbourne is routed by one of the country's operators. Each entry lists the operator's ASNs, so you can check which network an address belongs to.
Questions
Which internet exchanges are in Melbourne?
Six appear in PeeringDB. MegaIX Melbourne has 135 participants, IX Australia Melbourne (VIC-IX) 102, EdgeIX Melbourne 74, Equinix Melbourne 56 and BGP.Exchange Melbourne 18, with HSIX-VIC on one. Melbourne exchanges hold 386 peer records in total.
Do Australian mobile carriers peer in Melbourne?
The participant lists for the six Melbourne exchanges do not include Telstra (AS1221), Optus (AS4804) or Vodafone Australia (AS133612). Carriers often interconnect privately inside colocation instead of over a public exchange, and PeeringDB only records what each network chooses to publish.
Does an IP that geolocates to Melbourne mean the device is there?
Not on its own. The city comes from the location an operator publishes for the address block, and mobile networks route subscribers through a small number of gateways. Check the origin ASN and the netname on the prefix to see what kind of network holds the address.
Sources
- PeeringDB - exchanges, participant counts, facilities and network presence, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - operator ASNs used to match peering participants