British Columbia · network infrastructure
British Columbia's snapshot records 17 facilities across five cities and 215 network presences. Vancouver holds all but a handful of them, with Harbour Centre Vancouver at 62 networks and three Cologix sites behind it. The province has four internet exchanges, all in Vancouver, and VANIX counts 78 participants.
Internet exchanges in British Columbia
Exchanges are attributed to the state through the city they sit in, because PeeringDB records a state for facilities but not for exchanges.
| Exchange | City | Participants |
|---|---|---|
| VANIX | Vancouver | 78 |
| UNM-Exch Canada-West | Vancouver | 64 |
| CSIX | Vancouver | 16 |
| XSIX VAN | Vancouver | 1 |
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| Harbour Centre Vancouver | Vancouver | 62 |
| Cologix VAN2 | Vancouver | 39 |
| Cologix VAN3 | Vancouver | 31 |
| Cologix VAN1 | Vancouver | 27 |
| eStruxture VAN-2 | Vancouver | 16 |
| Tech Futures YVR1 | Vancouver | 11 |
| eStruxture VAN-1 | Vancouver | 7 |
| PureColo Vancouver V1 | Vancouver | 6 |
| PureColo Harbour Centre MMR6B | Vancouver | 5 |
| Cologix VAN4 | Vancouver | 3 |
| Cologix VAN5 | Vancouver | 3 |
| Equinix VA1 - Vancouver | Burnaby | 2 |
| Equinix KA1 - Kamloops | Kamloops | 1 |
| eStruxture VAN-3 | Burnaby | 1 |
| Cube Global | Victoria | 1 |
Showing the 15 facilities with the most networks, of 17 recorded.
What a British Columbia IP address tells you
Vancouver holds the province's capacity. Harbour Centre Vancouver records 62 networks, with Cologix VAN2 at 39, Cologix VAN3 at 31, Cologix VAN1 at 27 and eStruxture VAN-2 at 16 behind it. Counts fall away outside the city, where Equinix VA1 in Burnaby has two networks and single-network entries sit at Equinix KA1 in Kamloops and Cube Global in Victoria. Traffic meets locally at VANIX, which has 78 participants, and at UNM-Exch Canada-West with 64, while CSIX and XSIX VAN are much smaller. Across those fabrics 159 networks appear.
A British Columbia IP address reflects the address an operator registered for the block, not the position of a device. Geolocation databases copy what the holder publishes, so a prefix registered to a Vancouver office can cover equipment anywhere that operator runs it. Mobile traffic compresses further, because Bell, Rogers, Telus and Freedom Mobile route subscribers through regional gateways. A phone in Kamloops or Victoria can be reported in Vancouver, and a session from this province can leave through a gateway registered in another one.
Read the origin ASN on the prefix instead of the city string. Telus announces mobile traffic from AS14663 and Bell from AS36522, while Rogers uses AS18475, AS20453 and AS36676, and Freedom Mobile uses AS20365 and AS36273. The netname on the block and the address the holder registered carry more weight than a database's city guess. British Columbia's 215 network presences sit in 17 facilities across five cities, and most of the announcing operators terminate in the same Vancouver buildings.
Cities in British Columbia with their own page
Mobile carriers in Canada
A mobile address anywhere in British Columbia 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
How many data centres are in British Columbia?
The snapshot lists 17 facilities across five cities, holding 215 network presences. Harbour Centre Vancouver is the densest with 62 networks, followed by Cologix VAN2 with 39, Cologix VAN3 with 31 and Cologix VAN1 with 27. Burnaby, Kamloops and Victoria each hold small entries.
Is there an internet exchange in British Columbia?
Yes. Four exchanges are recorded, all in Vancouver. VANIX has 78 participants and UNM-Exch Canada-West has 64, while CSIX has 16 and XSIX VAN has one. The province counts 159 networks peering across those fabrics rather than sending that traffic out of the region.
Can I get an IP address in British Columbia?
An address geolocates here when its holder registers a British Columbia record for the prefix, so placement follows the operator's registration and not a customer's request. Mobile addresses are reported from the gateway that carries the session, which for Bell, Rogers, Telus and Freedom Mobile often sits outside the city the device is in.
Sources
- PeeringDB - facilities, network presence and exchange participants, snapshot 2026-09-07
- PROXIES.SX carrier and ASN registry - the operators routing mobile addresses in this country