Our Global Network
The continuously-replicated backbone that powers every Tuxxin product — and the vantage points we use to measure the internet from the inside.
Tuxxin runs its own global network — a continuously-replicated backbone with points of presence and internet-exchange peering across four continents. It is the foundation every Tuxxin product sits on, from real-time IP intelligence and internet measurement to multi-egress threat scanning. We build and operate it ourselves: no reseller markup, no single-cloud lock-in, and network vantage points in places most providers never reach. That reach is not just for speed — it is what lets us measure the internet from the inside.
Where We Peer & Operate
Regional hubs form a continuously-replicated backbone with internet-exchange peering across four continents — keeping traffic fast, paths short, and our measurement vantage points diverse. We publish presence at the country and state level to keep our operational fingerprint minimal.
Geolocation by Triangulation
Here is the real reason we are standing up so many internet exchanges: we are building our own IP geolocation database — and location, done properly, is a measurement problem, not a lookup.
Legacy geo databases like MaxMind — and the registration records they lean on — have fallen behind. They largely tell you where an address block was registered, not where it actually answers from today. Proxies, VPNs, carrier-grade NAT, and blocks that get re-homed across regions all break that assumption, and a growing share of the internet now hides behind exactly those.
Our approach is different. With a dense mesh of peering points around the world, we observe each address from many directions at once and triangulate where it truly is — the same principle as GPS, applied to network latency and topology. More vantage points means tighter triangulation, which is exactly why the IX footprint keeps growing.
Measured, not registered
Real location from latency & topology, not a stale WHOIS entry.
Proxy & VPN aware
First-class detection of the addresses legacy geo gets wrong.
More angles, tighter fixes
Every new exchange sharpens the triangulation — like GPS satellites.
Keeps up with change
Continuous measurement tracks IPs as they move, instead of once a month.
In development now — the geolocation engine that will power worldip.io.
A Network Built to Measure & Defend
Globally-replicated backbone
A continuously-replicated ClickHouse backbone spans multiple continents. Every region reads and writes close to home while the full dataset stays queryable in real time.
Internet-exchange peering
Direct peering across 22 internet exchanges shortens network paths and cuts transit dependence — and gives us the diverse vantage points behind our geolocation triangulation.
Multi-region points of presence
Points of presence across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific give us low-latency reach and observation angles most providers never deploy to.
Continuous internet measurement
A scanner fleet runs continuous reverse-DNS (PTR) measurement of the allocated IPv4 space — the engine behind worldip.io. We measure, we do not intrude: PTR lookups only, no port scans, no connections to the hosts themselves.
Honeypot sensor network
A distributed network of honeypots captures live attacker and scanner behavior in real time, feeding fresh threat intelligence into whack.sh and our cybersecurity services.
Built for resilience
Read replicas, regional failover, and no single-region dependency keep the fleet online. The network is designed to lose a site without losing service.
The Fleet That Runs on It
IP intelligence & continuous internet measurement
Multi-egress URL threat scanner
Anonymous external security scans
Anonymous HTTP inspection
Screenshot-as-a-service API
issued.live
SoonSSL & domain-issuance tracking
…and the wider Tuxxin Stack.
Network & Geolocation, Answered
Build on Our Network
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