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RIPE Meeting: |
49 |
Working Group: |
EIX |
Status: |
Final |
Revision Number: |
1 |
Wednesday September 22
11:00 - 12:30 BST
14:00 - 15:30 BST
Agenda
A. Administrative Matters
B. IXP Presentations
C. SLAs & Pricing at IXPs - Call for information for research
D. Switching Wish List - Final call for input
E. Euro-IX Update
F. AMS-IX Membership Survey
G. Routing Registry Courses Announcement
H. KIX Overview and Future Plan
A. Administrative Matters
Chair: Fearghas McKay
Co-Chair: Mike Hughes
Scribe: Rene Wilhelm
B. Presentations by Exchange Points
AMS-IX Steven Bakker
The change of topology has been completed 10 GigE is in betatesting
15 partners (NL-IX)
50% of traffic coming through partner program
Question: Any news on IPv6 participants?
Answer: we have 50 IPv6, 6 multicast connectees
DE-CIX - Bernhard Kroenung
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-decix.pdf
Proposal for a bit more idenpendence from ECO approved.
DE-CIX will start to offer VLAN services by end of year.
Had first technical meeting on September 9th.
Aggregated traffic 23 Gbps on 21/09/2004.
134 members, 25% using IPv6
LINX, Mike Hughes
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-linx.pdf
Reached 40 Gig/sec aggregate peak traffic this monday!
Membership continues to grow, 162 members from 27 countries
Upgrade of Foundry platform is now almost completed
Extreme platform had some reliability problems during summer, researching upgrade paths.
Multicast experiment by BBC during olympics
Question: What is your experience with 10 GigE?
Is there a business case for connecting at such speeds, any customers looking at it, or are they satisfied with two or three 1 GigE connections?
Answer: LINX have no members at 10 GigE yet; connecting two or three GigE can work well (and we will sell that if requested by customer) but we do want to stimulate parties to use a 10 GigE instead; the price of a 10 GigE port is set at 3.5 times that of 1 normal GigE port.
Question: how many parties connect on each platform? How many on IPv6?
Answer: Foundry infrastructure is the primary platform to which everone connects. 80-85% in addition connected to the Extreme based infrastructure and that number is going up. People are encouraged to connect to both. As for IPv6, we have 9 sessions at the v6 collector.
LoNAP, Paul Thornton
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-lonap.pdf
Entirely based on Cisco hardware
3 sites in London Docklands
45 members, 250 Mbit/sec traffic total
interconnect with xchange point
6 connections on IPv6
8-9 multicast
Core switch fabric upgraded to new 6509s
10 GigE connections coming very soon.
Investigating other locations.
MIX - Milan Internet Exchange, Raffaele D'Albenzino
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-mix.pdf
56 members, 14 carriers present in MIX data center
Traffic on public peering LAN peaked with 7.7 Gbps in May 2004
Today (Sep '04) 6.2 Gbps
New services:
- IPv6 operational since April 2004, currently 6 connected members
- Multicast will be in production starting from november 2004.
- Test Traffic Measuremnet box, also used as NTP server
- RIS route collector, rrc10, 16 IPv4 peerings, 6 IPv6
- DNS root name servers:
o I-root server replica since december 2003
o K-root server replica since august 2004
Inter provider traffic Analyzer, first presented at RIPE46, new version 1.0 has been released. More info from:
http://www.mix-it.net/ipta/index.html or
[email protected]
Software Available for euro-ix members at:
http://www.euro-ix.net/members/resources/tools/mix/
Netnod/Autonomica, Kurtis Lindquist
Netnod is the company which operates the exchanges, Autonomica is a fully owned daughter which is responsible for services like i.root-servers.net
News:
- private VLAN service
- working on 10GigE, likely to be same price as GigE
- new general terms and conditions and ... all SRP now out of production
NIX-CZ - Czech Neutral Internet Exchange, Jozef Chomyn
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-nixcz.pdf
46 members + 4 customers (2 x DE, 1 x SE, 1 x CZ)
8 networks peer on IPv6
Czech academic network plans to upgrade to 10GigE
NIX.CZ infrastructure must also be upgraded - currently thinking about technology and charging scheme
VIX - Vienna Internet Exchange, Christian Panigl
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-vix.pdf
Sept 2004: 80 members (12 on IPv6 VLAN)
Summary peaks at 5Gbps
Core switches upgraded, intersite trunc upgraded to 2x 10Gig, prepared for more traffic to come.
Xchange Point Europe, Keith Mitchell
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-xpe.pdf
Over 180 customers
Fully operational in Frankfurt and Amsterdam
Started running European "peering forum" events.
Xchange point does not provide connections between the metropolitan areas.
Some London network stability issues between Dec '03 & July '04. due to hardware problems with the switches, now resolved, network has been stable with no outages for over 8 weeks.
See http://www.xchangepoint.net/news/Recent-outages.html for full history
NAP of the Americas, Josh Snowhorn
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-nap.pdf
NAP of the Americas connects North, South and Middle America. It is located in Miami, Florida
18 domestic fiber providers, 12 undersea cables
168 clients, 89 unique ASNs represented in facility Hosts J-root and I-root server anycast instances as well as Verising's "D" gTLD name server.
Entering partnership with Linx
C. SLAs & Pricing at IXPs: Call for information - Tomas Marsalak NIX.CZ
Tomas Marsalak is starting a research on prices at internet exchanges, prices for transit and SLAs. The study is expected to be completed study by the end of the year, the results will be made public. He requests people to send him information.
D. Switching Wish List: Final call for input - Mike Hughes LINX
The "switching" wish list:
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/wg/eix/wishlist-v2.0.html
is a work item on the eix working group. The current version has been up on the web for quite some time, Mike asks for final input.
Keith Mitchel (Xchange Point Europe) mentions several items he'd like to see added. Mike agrees and will incorporate these in the final list.
Mike also proposes to invite vendors to the next euro-ix or eix-wg meeting to give a presentation about what lies beyond 10 GigE.
Bill Norton (Equinix) sees two dangers with inviting vendors:
1. Vendors often don't want the competition to see what they're doing.
2. Vendors might send folk from marketing who could promise perfect systems that are far from becoming a reality.
E. Euro-IX Update - Serge Radovcic
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-euroix.pdf
Euro-IX is the European Internet Exchange Association Formed in 2001, euro-ix aims to further develop strengthen and improve the Internet Exchange Community
Currently 32 member IXPs in 21 different countries throughout Europe
Question: what is Europe for Euro-IX? where does it end?
Answer: definition is based on a workable region, larger than the European Union, but not as large as the RIPE region. Will put information up on the euro-ix website soon.
F. AMS-IX Membership Survey - Cara Mascini, AMS-IX
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-amsix.pdf
Cara Mascini presented the results of the membership survey conducted by AMS-IX. To the respondents (~50% of the membership) AMS-IX offers good value for money. The most important reasons to connect are "amount of connected parties" and "cost savings".
Question: what definition did you use for "open" peering policy?
Answer: we didn't define it; we just listed the various options in the survey, respondents picked what in their view matched best.
RIPE NCC Routing Registry Training - Arno Meulenkamp, RIPE NCC
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-rr-training.pdf
RIPE NCC organises Trainining Courses throughout the RIPE region on how to use the Routing Registry. Dates and venues of upcoming courses were shown in the slide.
Arno asks if Exchange Points would be interested in a condensed version, a short informational session to be presented at any of their regular meetings? If yes, contact him <[email protected]> or Rumy Kamis <[email protected]> (Training Team Leader)
H. KIX Overview and Future Plan - Chang Hun Lee, National Computerization Agency
http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-49/presentations/ripe49-eix-kix.pdf
KIX is the first IX in Korea built in 1995 by NCA and now it is the exchange point for public Internet Traffic. KIX internet connects non-commercial ISPs and enables these ISPs to connect to transit providers. KIX also connects to other Korean exchanges.