Toronto · Canada
PeeringDB records eight exchanges in Toronto and 24 colocation facilities holding 476 network presences. TorIX is the best connected of them, with 233 participants, ahead of ONIX at 172. An address that geolocates to Toronto tells you where an operator registered the block that contains it, not where the device using it sits.
Internet exchanges in Toronto
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 |
|---|---|---|
TorIX Toronto Internet Exchange Community | 233 | |
ONIX Ontario Internet Exchange | 172 | none in the registry |
BGP.Exchange - Toronto | 22 | none in the registry |
Equinix Toronto Equinix Internet Exchange Toronto | 16 | none in the registry |
MegaIX Toronto Megaport MegaIX Toronto | 16 | none in the registry |
CANIX Toronto CANIX Toronto IXP | 9 | none in the registry |
GTIIX Greater Toronto International Internet Exchange | 2 | none in the registry |
PIX Toronto Peer1 Internet Exchange - Toronto | 0 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Telehouse Toronto (151 Front St West) | 143 | 151 Front Street West |
| Equinix TR2 - Toronto | 86 | 45 Parliament St |
| Cologix TOR1 | 85 | 151 Front St W. |
| Equinix TR1 - Toronto | 45 | 151 Front St |
| Coloware YTZ1 | 33 | 151 Front St W |
| Cologix TOR2 | 12 | 905 King St. West |
| Cogent Toronto | 7 | 245 Consumers Rd |
| Neutral Data Toronto | 6 | 151 Front St. W. |
| Telehouse Toronto (250 Front St West) | 6 | 250 Front St West |
| Bell Toronto | 6 | 151 Front Street West |
| eStruxture TOR-1 | 6 | 151 Front St W Suite 402 |
| Digital Realty YYZ12 Toronto (151 Front Street) | 6 | 151 Front Street |
Showing the 12 facilities with the most networks, of 24 recorded.
What a Toronto IP address tells you
Toronto's peering weight sits in two exchanges. TorIX carries 233 participants and ONIX 172, while the other six run from 22 at BGP.Exchange Toronto down to none at PIX Toronto. Colocation holds a comparable share of the city's connectivity, with 24 facilities recording 476 network presences. Telehouse Toronto at 151 Front St West has 143 of those, Equinix TR2 86 and Cologix TOR1 85. PeeringDB counts 470 distinct peers citywide. TorIX also lists four ASNs from the carrier registry, AS812, AS852, AS2685 and AS3303, and none of them is a Canadian mobile ASN.
An address a database places in Toronto need not be a device here. Operators announce prefixes from a registry record that names one address for a whole allocation, so a block held by Rogers or Bell reads as Toronto while the traffic on it enters from anywhere that network reaches. Mobile addresses stretch furthest. Bell carries subscribers on AS36522, Rogers on AS18475, AS20453 and AS36676, and Telus on AS14663, and each of those networks hands traffic to the internet through a small set of gateways rather than from the city a subscriber stands in.
The origin ASN on the exact prefix answers what a city field cannot. A route originating from AS14663 or AS20365 is mobile traffic on Telus or Freedom Mobile whatever city a database prints, while a prefix from a network that peers at TorIX or racks equipment in Cologix TOR1 is fixed capacity with hardware in Toronto. Read the netname and the registered holder on that prefix together with the announcing ASN, and you can tell which of the city's 470 peers actually carries the address.
Mobile carriers in Canada
A mobile address in Toronto 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 Toronto?
PeeringDB lists eight. TorIX, the Toronto Internet Exchange Community, has 233 participants and ONIX 172. BGP.Exchange Toronto has 22, Equinix Toronto and MegaIX Toronto 16 each, CANIX Toronto nine, GTIIX two, and PIX Toronto none.
Do Canadian mobile carriers peer in Toronto?
The registry does not show it. TorIX records AS812, AS852, AS2685 and AS3303 from the carrier registry, and none of those is one of the mobile ASNs held by Bell, Rogers, Telus or Freedom Mobile. Their mobile networks can still reach the city over transit.
Does an IP that geolocates to Toronto mean the device is there?
No. Geolocation databases mostly copy the location an operator publishes for an entire address block, and mobile traffic leaves through a handful of gateways. A Toronto label is evidence about a registry record rather than about where a device sits.
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