Winnipeg · Canada
PeeringDB records one exchange in Winnipeg, WPGIX, and lists no participants on it. What the registry shows in the city is colocation, where 10 facilities hold 51 network presences and Global Server Center has 27 of them. A Winnipeg address tells you what an operator registered, not that a device sits in the city.
Internet exchanges in Winnipeg
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 |
|---|---|---|
WPGIX Winnipeg Internet Exchange | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Global Server Center | 27 | 167 Lombard Ave, Suite 570 |
| LES.NET YWG2 | 7 | Suite 201 |
| Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre | 6 | 360 Portage Ave |
| LES.NET YWG4 | 4 | 355 Portage Avenue |
| LES.NET YWG1 | 2 | 130 Portage Avenue East |
| Equinix WI1 - Winnipeg | 2 | 1450 Waverley Street |
| Bell MTS Data Centres G.P. - DC01 | 1 | 1450 Waverley Street |
| Richardson College for the Envrionment and Sciences | 1 | 599 Portage Ave |
| University of Winnipeg | 1 | 400 Spence St. |
| 201 Portage | 0 | 201 Portage Avenue |
What a Winnipeg IP address tells you
Winnipeg has no active exchange in the registry. WPGIX is listed but carries no participants, and PeeringDB counts zero peers in the city as a result. Everything recorded happens in colocation, where 10 facilities hold 51 network presences. Global Server Center has 27 of those, over half the city total. LES.NET runs three sites, YWG2, YWG4 and YWG1, with 13 networks between them, and Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre has six. Bell MTS Data Centres DC01, Equinix WI1 and two university buildings hold one or two networks each.
An address that geolocates to Winnipeg is a claim taken from a registry record. Operators announce prefixes registered to a single address, and geolocation databases publish that address for everything inside the block, so a national carrier's allocation can carry a Winnipeg label for customers spread over a wide area. Mobile addresses are tied to a city less still. Bell's AS36522, Telus's AS14663, the Rogers mobile ASNs and Freedom Mobile's AS20365 and AS36273 move subscriber traffic through a small number of gateways.
With no exchange participants to check an address against, the origin ASN carries more weight in Winnipeg than it does elsewhere. A prefix originating from one of the mobile ASNs is a phone network's address whatever city a database prints. A prefix from a network present in Global Server Center or at a LES.NET site is fixed capacity with hardware in Winnipeg. Read the netname and the registered holder on the exact prefix rather than the city string a lookup returns.
Mobile carriers in Canada
A mobile address in Winnipeg 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
Is there an internet exchange in Winnipeg?
WPGIX, the Winnipeg Internet Exchange, is listed in PeeringDB but has no participants recorded, so the registry counts zero peers in the city. Networks in Winnipeg interconnect inside colocation facilities or over transit instead.
Where do networks connect in Winnipeg?
In colocation. Ten facilities hold 51 network presences. Global Server Center has 27, the three LES.NET sites hold 13 between them, and Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre has six. Equinix WI1, Bell MTS DC01 and two university buildings account for most of the rest.
Does a Winnipeg IP address mean the device is in Winnipeg?
No. The city comes from the location an operator registered for the address block, and every address in that block inherits it. Mobile traffic leaves through a handful of gateways, so a Winnipeg label can belong to a device far from the city.
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