Louisiana · network infrastructure
PeeringDB records 6 facilities in Louisiana across 4 cities, holding 16 network presences. Baton Rouge has the most, eight over three buildings, while Cogent New Orleans carries five in one. Louisiana has one internet exchange, DartPoints Bridge IX Baton Rouge, and the snapshot counts two peers on it.
Internet exchanges in Louisiana
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DartPoints Bridge IX Baton Rouge, LA | Baton Rouge | 2 |
Colocation facilities
Buildings where networks put equipment. The network count is how many PeeringDB members list a presence there.
| Facility | City | Networks present |
|---|---|---|
| Cogent New Orleans | New Orleans | 5 |
| DartPoints Baton Rouge, LA - BTR1 | Baton Rouge | 4 |
| DartPoints Shreveport, LA - SHV1 | Shreveport | 3 |
| Venyu BTR1 | Baton Rouge | 2 |
| DartPoints Baton Rouge, LA - BTR2 | Baton Rouge | 2 |
| EdgeConneX New Orleans (EDCSLI01) | Slidell | 0 |
What a Louisiana IP address tells you
Baton Rouge holds eight of Louisiana's sixteen network presences, spread over DartPoints Baton Rouge, LA - BTR1 with four, Venyu BTR1 with two and DartPoints BTR2 with two. Cogent New Orleans carries five networks in one building, the highest count at any single Louisiana facility. DartPoints Shreveport, LA - SHV1 holds three, and EdgeConneX New Orleans in Slidell records none. Louisiana has one internet exchange, DartPoints Bridge IX Baton Rouge, with two participants, so most traffic still leaves the state to be exchanged.
An address that geolocates to Louisiana carries the location the operator wrote into its registration, which is not the same as where a device sits. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon concentrate mobile subscribers behind regional gateways, so a phone in Shreveport can present an address that a database places in a different state. With sixteen network presences recorded statewide and two peers at the single exchange, few operators anchor address space to Louisiana itself.
The origin ASN and the netname on the specific prefix answer what a city label only guesses at. Verizon's mobile traffic runs through seven ASNs in this snapshot, T-Mobile's through five and AT&T's through five, and one of those can serve subscribers over a wide area. Read the registered company and address on the prefix first, then treat any city a lookup returns as something derived from that record.
Mobile carriers in the United States
A mobile address anywhere in Louisiana 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 Louisiana?
The snapshot lists 6 facilities in Louisiana, in Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Shreveport and Slidell. Baton Rouge holds three of them and eight of the state's 16 network presences. Cogent New Orleans has the highest count at a single site, with five networks.
Is there an internet exchange in Louisiana?
Yes. DartPoints Bridge IX Baton Rouge is the one internet exchange in the snapshot, and it records two participants. That is a small amount of local peering, so networks elsewhere in Louisiana generally carry traffic out of the state to exchange it.
Can I get an IP address in Louisiana?
Placement follows the operator's address registration, not a customer's choice of state. A block reads as Louisiana because the network holding it filed a Louisiana address for that range, and mobile ranges are commonly registered once for a region much wider than one 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