The Natural State · Est. 2025

NSCIX — Arkansas's community Internet Exchange

$8K+
Monthly per ISP
dual transit + transport
0
Internet exchange points
in Arkansas today
4
Tier-1 networks in-state
with zero local peering
I-40
Corridor traffic
bypassing the state
The problem

Local traffic. Long-distance bills.

Two ISPs a mile apart in Little Rock exchange traffic through Dallas. A stream from a Fayetteville home to a Fayetteville business goes to Kansas City first. A CDN cache in Atlanta serves every Arkansas customer, adding hundreds of miles of round-trip on every request.

The result: latency you feel, resilience you don't have, and tens of thousands of dollars per ISP leaving the state every month for the privilege of exchanging traffic that never needed to leave.

Arkansas transit dollars leaving the state Map of Arkansas. Four arrows carry dollars out of the state to Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas. At Little Rock, an NSCIX badge draws short arrows inward, showing money kept in state. Kansas City $ Chicago $ Atlanta $ Dallas $ NSCIX

Every hop out of state is a check written to somebody else's network. Peering locally keeps the traffic — and the money — in Arkansas.

How it works

Peer once. Save monthly.

Three steps from "we should join" to "our transit bill dropped."

Connect

Bring fiber to our Little Rock facility (or use a partner carrier). One 10G or 100G port — that's your ticket to the whole fabric.

Peer

Establish BGP sessions with every other member and every content partner over the neutral fabric. No bilateral negotiation, no gatekeeping.

Save

Traffic that used to route through Dallas now stays local. Watch your transit bill drop and your latency graphs flatten. Pay only the annual fee.

Who we are

A non-profit, community-governed exchange.

Built by Arkansas natives with 20+ years of combined networking experience. Every dollar goes to operations — no founder salaries, no investor returns.

501(c)(6) non-profit
MANRS-aligned routing policy
Carrier-neutral by charter
Arkansas-built & governed

The fabric is up. Let's get you on it.

NSCIX is onboarding new members today. If you run a network in Arkansas, come help us make our state a premier interconnection hub.