About us

What is Asteroid?

Asteroid is local interconnection at its best. Our IXPs provide a simple, modern and cost-effective interconnection solution with a full feature set, an elegant management system, and a powerful API.

Our innovative model uses the latest technology to deliver cost-effective IXPs. Our IXP platform is fully automated and highly scalable, because we believe in smart solutions.

We focus on local interconnection, where you need it.

The Asteroid Managed IXP solution is a lean and elegant IXP solution for data centres and existing IXPs, looking for a fully managed, modern and efficient IXP.


Sounds interesting? Get in touch for more information about the Asteroid Managed IXP.

Asteroid is a member of Euro-IX.

Remco van Mook

Remco is an Internet veteran, with more than a decade and a half of experience in the interconnection industry. His rich experience includes creating one of the most successful data centres in the Netherlands, building fast Internet access networks and running both small, local, IXPs, as well as the first multinational IXP in the world. Remco has served in numerous leadership positions and industry boards, including roles as Director of Interconnection for Equinix EMEA, Treasurer of the RIPE NCC Executive Board and Co-chair of the RIPE Connect Working Group.

Andy Davidson

Andy brings a wealth of operational experience from the interconnection industry. For the last decade, he has worked both as a peering manager and Internet exchange operator. During this time, he has negotiated several thousand peering sessions and helped to build a number of high-profile IXPs. He is an experienced architect of stable and highly available Internet networks, e-commerce platforms, and service provider products. Andy has served in numerous leadership positions and industry boards, including roles as Director of the London Access Point (Lonap), Chair of IXLeeds, council member of NAPAfrica, and board member of the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX).