Kansas · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records eight facilities in Kansas spread over four cities, holding sixteen network presences. Lenexa carries the most, with three sites counting ten presences between them, headed by DataBank Kansas City (MCI3). The state has no internet exchange in this snapshot, so networks that want to peer do it outside Kansas.
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| DataBank Kansas City (MCI3) | Lenexa | 4 |
| DataBank Kansas City (MCI2) | Overland Park | 3 |
| TierPoint Kansas City - Lenexa | Lenexa | 3 |
| LightEdge Kansas City Cavern (KCI2) | Lenexa | 3 |
| Netrality Kansas City Metro - KC2 | 7801 Nieman | Shawnee | 2 |
| QTS Overland Park (OVP1) | Overland Park | 1 |
| Beloit-NOC | Beloit | 0 |
| WANSEC DC16 | Overland Park | 0 |
What a Kansas IP address tells you
Kansas capacity sits in the Kansas City suburbs. Lenexa has three of the eight recorded sites, and DataBank Kansas City (MCI3) is the busiest of them with four networks. Overland Park adds DataBank Kansas City (MCI2) and QTS Overland Park (OVP1), and Shawnee has Netrality Kansas City Metro - KC2. Beloit-NOC sits well west of that cluster and records no networks at all. With no exchange in the state, the sixteen presences here connect to each other through transit or through peering points in other states.
A Kansas IP address tells you what the operator wrote in its registration record, not where the hardware sits. Geolocation databases read the address block the operator publishes, and that record can name a city the traffic never passes through. Mobile addressing is looser still. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon each run subscriber traffic through a handful of mobile ASNs covering wide service areas, so a handset on a Kansas tower can leave the network at a gateway registered in another state and read as being there.
Check the origin ASN on the prefix rather than the city label. Whois gives the netname and the registered address for that block, and an ASN drawn from the mobile ranges above tells you the connection is a handset rather than a rack in one of the eight Kansas sites. Where a placement has to be in Kansas, the address block itself has to be registered to a Kansas address by the operator that holds it.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in Kansas 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 Kansas?
The snapshot lists eight facilities in Kansas, in Lenexa, Overland Park, Shawnee and Beloit. Between them they hold sixteen network presences. DataBank Kansas City (MCI3) in Lenexa has four networks, more than any other single site in the state, and two of the eight record none at all.
Is there an internet exchange in Kansas?
No. The snapshot records no internet exchange in Kansas and no peers inside the state, so networks in the Kansas City suburbs either buy transit or carry their traffic to an exchange in another state before they meet each other.
Can I get an IP address in Kansas?
That depends on the operator, not on a customer preference. An address geolocates to Kansas when the operator that holds the block registers it to a Kansas address, so placement follows registration. Mobile blocks in particular are registered in wide ranges and often resolve to a different state.
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