[connect-wg] IXP

Fri Aug 28 10:11:16 CEST 2015

> On 28 Aug 2015, at 08:56, bha Qaqish <bha.Qaqish at NITC.gov.jo> wrote:
> 
> Dear 
> We are thinking about hosting the first IXP in jordan .
> What do you recommend to be the design L2 or L3 ,
> And did any had an experience to help us ?

Hello Bha,

You should see an IXP as a big L2 switch, don’t route packets between your members!
L3 design is needed for big IXP with several POPs/locations, but they use an overlay (like MLPS/VPLS) to have a single broadcast domain.

I suggest to begin with a small cheap switch, Remco made a nice presentation about this during AfPIF (http://www.internetsociety.org/afpif-2015/sessions).

You can have a look to http://www.ix-f.net/ and http://www.af-ix.net/

Cheers,

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Arnaud Fenioux
Network Engineer - FranceIX