7. 2011-2012 report
Partnerships with other IXPs
• Existing partnerships
– SFINX (layer-2 interconnection)
– LU-CIX (layer-2 interconnection)
– Lyonix (layer-3 interconnection, based on routes servers)
• New partnerships
– Touix – Toulouse (layer-2 interconnection) : http://www.touix.net
– ToPIX – Torino Piemonte (layer-3 interconnection) : http://www.top-
ix.org/en
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NOC
• NOC organisation
– Level-1 support done by Witbe : contract to be ended by end of
2012 => running procedure to renew NOC contract (without
excluding the case of internalizing the NOC rather than outsourcing
it)
– Level-2 support done by France IX
– Level-3 support done by France IX / equipment vendors : Brocade,
Dell/Force10
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9. 2011-2012 report
Survey (1/4)
• From September till December 2012 1
Answers by countries
3
2
2 3
• 63 unique answers coming from 60 different France
entities
Switzerland
Netherlands
• 83% of the answers originated from entities
based in France USA
Spain
• Participation from all types of profiles in terms of 52 UK
traffic
Answers by type of traffic Answers by membership
10G
12 Direct member of
2G France-IX
1G/1000M SFINX
7
200M
Not a member
100M 44
No port
0 5 10 15 20
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Survey (2/4)
Partnerships with regional IXPs
• Generally speaking, the members 25
are interested in interconnections 20
with both regional and 15
international IXPs. 10
5
• In comparison, international IXPs 0
are more interesting than regional Neutral A bit Very No No
interested interested interested answer
ones: LONAP, Espanix, VIX… at all
Partnerships with international IXPs • In more details, the survey shows
35 that mostly operators and CDNs are
30
25
interested in these partnerships.
20
15
10 • This proves that the strategy of
5 interconnections deployment has to
0
Neutral A bit Very No No keep going.
interested interested interested answer
at all
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Survey (3/4)
• Concerning the new services:
– Only 20% of the surveyed crowd need a SIP peering
– 41% want SLA’s
• Among them, 61% are ready to pay an additional cost
• Between 5-10% more than the usual price
– 19% need a backup port offer which has to cost half the usual price of the port
– Only 6 surveyed people were interested in the reseller program…while 28 did not know what
it was! This is why we had a party to launch the programme and we are still working on the
promotion tools to help developint it
• Concerning the webportal
– Only half the surveyed connects to the web portal
– No average frequency: some get connected several times per month, a few every day or at
least one day a week.
– Those who don’t connect did not mention why
– Those who get connect want to see the statistics, a weather map, a looking glass and
administration documents (invoices and agreements)
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Survey (3/4)
• Would you recommend?
– 36% answered this question.
20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Real promoters
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Events
• France IX participed in the following events (and sponsored some)
– NANOG
– EPF
– RIPE
– MENOG
– Afpif
– FrNOG …
• And hosted its own too
– General assembly 2011
– Reseller programme launch 2012
– 2nd birthday
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14. 2012-2013 roadmap
Website
• France IX web site is now 2
years old
– Need to redesign it, to make
it more efficient, user-
friendly and more interactive
– Have a peek on the new
landing page
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15. 2011-2012 report
Communication
• Monthly newsletters
• Case Studies
• White paper on peering
• Press releases and articles worldwide
• Social networks: Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter
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17. 2012-2013 roadmap
Board changes
• France IX board seats were initially allocated for 3, 4 and 5
years to make the board stable and guarantee the
involvement of founding members to support the IXP in a
growing phase. Actual board members are entities, not
individuals.
• In 2013, elections will take place to renew some board seats
(1/3 of the board to be renewed).
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NOC
• NOC organisation
– Level-1 support done by Witbe : contract to be ended by end of
2012 => running procedure to renew NOC contract (without
excluding the case of internalizing the NOC rather than outsourcing
it)
– Level-2 support done by France IX
– Level-3 support done by France IX / equipment vendors : Brocade,
Dell/Force10
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Backbone evolution
• Actual backbone based on
– Brocade MLX-8 + MLX-16 chassis for core PoPs (VPLS activated
between the 2 core PoPs)
– Force 10 E1200 for edge PoPs
– Passive DWDM (CubeOptics) for connectivity between PoPs
• Next steps
– Start renew some of the Force 10 E1200 : DELL/Force 10 S4810 to be
deployed on 2 PoPs
– Increase backbone stability and resilience
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Events & communication
• Participation to new events
• Keep on sponsoring some events, especially in the Africa / Middle
East region of the world
• Organisation of a new international peering event in France
– Conference and meeting tables during 2 days
– Socials in the evening
⇒ Following the interconnection between IXPs in near Europe, we believe
there is an opportunity to host and organisation such an event
• Intensive PR actions abroad
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21. 2012-2013 roadmap
New projects
• Projects in France
– France IX will study opportunities for setting up regional PoPs
• Projects outside France
– Africa
• France IX will participate in ISOC (Internet Society) program to
help African countries to setup IXP in Africa.
• In parallel, France IX will study some partnerships with African
IXPs to consolidate Marseille as a gateway.
– Middle East / Asia
• France IX participation in international meetings to increase
Marseille position as an international gateway.
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22. 2012-2013 roadmap
New System Information – the context
RESEAU
Key elements Derived activities
• Network operations
• Equipment @ POPs I (monitoring, provisioning,
N maintenance)
F • Statistics, reporting,
• Connections O dashboards
R
• BGP routes servers M
• NOC / Technical
A support (TTS)
T
• Peering members I
• Billing & accounting
O
N
• Contracts • Etc.
23. Information System
Before France RESEAU
IX Information System
France IX Manual tasks Time Data processing
Time wasted Multiplicity of
on repetitive partial
tasks databases
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With France IX Information System deployed
RESEAU
I
N Information
France IX F System
O
R
M
A
T
I
O
N
One single information system
rather than several databases
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Current state of the project and evolution
• Existing features
– Automatic billing & invoicing
– Interactions with external tools (members portal & website)
• Member identity and connections data
• User account management (SSO planned)
• Peering data for automatic generation of BGP routes servers
configuration
• Upcoming features
– Check port usage vs contractual bandwidth
– Automatic generation of web pages (e.g members list)
– Interactions with ticketing system (NOC)
– Enhanced mailing-list subscriptions
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26. 2012-2013 roadmap
Current state of the project and evolution
• Existing features
– Automatic billing & invoicing
– Interactions with external tools (members portal & website)
• Member identity and connections data
• User account management (SSO planned)
• Peering data for automatic generation of BGP routes servers
configuration
• Upcoming features
– Check port usage vs contractual bandwidth
– Automatic generation of web pages (e.g members list)
– Interactions with ticketing system (NOC)
– Enhanced mailing-list subscriptions
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