Palermo · Italy
PeeringDB records two exchanges in Palermo, MIX Palermo with 19 participants and DE-CIX Palermo with 18, for 37 unique peers. Two facilities hold 21 network presences, 19 of them at the Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle Palermo Data Center. An IP that geolocates to Palermo describes an operator's registration rather than a device location.
Internet exchanges in Palermo
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 |
|---|---|---|
MIX Palermo Milan Internet Exchange | 19 | none in the registry |
DE-CIX Palermo | 18 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle Palermo Data Center | 19 | Via Ugo La Malfa, 99 |
| Tiscali Palermo | 2 | Italy Via Ugo La Malfa 28 |
What a Palermo IP address tells you
Palermo's two exchanges are close in size, MIX Palermo at 19 participants and DE-CIX Palermo at 18, and between them the city records 37 unique peers. Colocation is small too: PeeringDB lists two facilities and 21 network presences, 19 inside the Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle Palermo Data Center and 2 at Tiscali Palermo. Neither exchange records a mobile ASN among its participants, so TIM's AS16232, Vodafone's AS30722 and WindTre's AS1267 and AS24608 are all missing from the city's peering data.
An address that geolocates to Palermo may not be a device in Palermo. An operator announces address blocks from a registry record that names one location for the entire allocation, and geolocation databases follow that published location. Italian mobile addresses come from pools breaking out through a small number of national gateways, so a handset connected in Sicily and one connected far to the north can share a block. The city a lookup returns is the operator's, not the user's.
With few networks recorded locally, the origin ASN carries most of the information in a Palermo address. A prefix originated by one of the mobile ASNs means subscriber access somewhere on that operator's network. A prefix originated by a network present in the Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle Palermo Data Center points at hosted equipment. The netname and the holder shown on the prefix record separate those two cases better than any city field in a geolocation database.
Mobile carriers in Italy
A mobile address in Palermo 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 Palermo?
Two. MIX Palermo has 19 participants and DE-CIX Palermo has 18, and the city records 37 unique peers between them. PeeringDB adds two facilities with 21 network presences, 19 of which sit in the Sicily Hub - Telecom Italia Sparkle Palermo Data Center.
Do Italian mobile carriers peer in Palermo?
Not in this data. Neither MIX Palermo nor DE-CIX Palermo lists a carrier ASN, so TIM's AS16232, Vodafone's AS30722 and WindTre's AS1267 and AS24608 have no recorded presence at either exchange. The registry cannot see private interconnection, so it is silent rather than negative.
Does an IP that geolocates to Palermo mean the device is in Sicily?
No. An address places where the operator registered the block, and Italian mobile ranges are announced for the whole country from a few gateways. Check the origin ASN and the netname on the prefix to see whether the range is subscriber access or a network hosted in 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