Vancouver · Canada
PeeringDB records four exchanges in Vancouver and 11 colocation facilities holding 210 network presences. VANIX is the best connected with 78 participants, ahead of UNM-Exch Canada-West at 64. No Canadian mobile ASN appears at any of the four, so a Vancouver address points to a registry entry rather than to a device in the city.
Internet exchanges in Vancouver
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 |
|---|---|---|
VANIX | 78 | none in the registry |
UNM-Exch Canada-West UNMETERED.Exchange | 64 | none in the registry |
CSIX CloudSingularity Internet Exchange | 16 | none in the registry |
XSIX VAN Xentain Solutions Internet Exchange Vancouver | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Harbour Centre Vancouver | 62 | 555 West Hastings St. |
| Cologix VAN2 | 39 | 1050 W Pender Street |
| Cologix VAN3 | 31 | 2828 Natal Street |
| Cologix VAN1 | 27 | 555 West Hastings St |
| eStruxture VAN-2 | 16 | 555 W Hastings St 21N |
| Tech Futures YVR1 | 11 | 2828 Natal Street |
| eStruxture VAN-1 | 7 | 55 East 7th Ave |
| PureColo Vancouver V1 | 6 | 200 Burrard St Vancouver BC V6C 3L6 |
| PureColo Harbour Centre MMR6B | 5 | 555 Hastings St W Vancouver BC V6B 0B2 |
| Cologix VAN4 | 3 | 175 Cordova St W Vancouver BC V6B 1E1 |
| Cologix VAN5 | 3 | 555 WEST HASTINGS ST |
What a Vancouver IP address tells you
Vancouver's exchange traffic concentrates in VANIX, which has 78 participants, and UNM-Exch Canada-West, listed as UNMETERED.Exchange, with 64. CSIX follows at 16 and XSIX VAN at one. More of the city's connectivity sits in colocation than those figures suggest, since 11 facilities record 210 network presences against 159 distinct peers citywide. Harbour Centre Vancouver holds 62 networks and the five Cologix VAN sites hold 103 between them. None of the four exchanges lists an ASN from the carrier registry, so Bell, Rogers, Telus and Freedom Mobile have no recorded peering presence in the city.
An address that geolocates to Vancouver can belong to a network whose equipment is somewhere else entirely. Operators register an address block once, against a single postal address, and geolocation databases follow that published record for every address inside it. Mobile subscribers sit further from it again. Rogers routes mobile traffic on AS18475, AS20453 and AS36676, Bell on AS36522, and Freedom Mobile on AS20365 and AS36273, and those networks hand subscribers to the internet at a few gateway sites that need not be in the city a lookup names.
The origin ASN on the exact prefix is the better check. A prefix originating from AS14663 is Telus mobile wherever a database places it, and a prefix from a network present on VANIX or racked in Cologix VAN2 is fixed capacity with a real Vancouver footprint. Reading the netname and the registered holder on that prefix, rather than the city string a lookup returns, tells you whether an address belongs to one of the 159 peers PeeringDB sees here.
Mobile carriers in Canada
A mobile address in Vancouver 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 Vancouver?
Four. VANIX has 78 participants and UNM-Exch Canada-West, listed as UNMETERED.Exchange, has 64. CSIX, the CloudSingularity Internet Exchange, has 16, and XSIX VAN, the Xentain Solutions exchange, records a single participant.
Do Canadian mobile carriers peer in Vancouver?
Not according to PeeringDB. None of the four Vancouver exchanges records an ASN from the carrier registry, so Bell, Rogers, Telus and Freedom Mobile show no peering there. That silence is a fact about the registry, not proof that they run no equipment in the city.
Does a Vancouver IP address mean the device is in Vancouver?
No. The city string comes from the location an operator published for a whole address block, and mobile traffic exits through a small number of gateways. Check which ASN originates the prefix before you treat the label as a device location.
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