france-ix - presentation for the general meeting 2012

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 28 September 2012

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Agenda

14H - 14H20 14H20 - 14H30 14H30 – 15H15 15H15 - 15H30 15H30 – 16H 16H – 16H15

Coffee Introduction and roundtable France-IX 2011-2012 report / Roadmap for 2012-2013 New partnerships with other Internet exchanges ‘IPv6 implementation in Europe’ by Hurricane Electric Coffee break

Agenda

16H15 - 16H30 16H30 – 16H45 16H45 - 17H15 17H15 - 17H45 17H45 – 18H 18H – 19H30

‘Expand your Search : What’s behind the magic’ by Criteo ‘Multi-Pathing L2 & SDN’ by Extreme Networks Vote of the 2011 – 2012 fiscal year Akamai revealed Open microphone Cocktail

2011-2012 report

General meeting – 28/09/2012

Growth statistics

2011-2012 report

• 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


Partnerships with other IXPs

http://www.touix.net/

http://www.top-ix.org/en



2011-2012 report

• 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


NOC

Survey (1/4)

• From September till December 2012

• 63 unique answers coming from 60 different entities

• 83% of the answers originated from entities based in France

• Participation from all types of profiles in terms of traffic

2011-2012 report

Answers by countries

Answers by membership Answers by type of traffic

52

2 3 2

1 3

France

Switzerland

Netherlands

USA

Spain

UK

44

7

12 Direct member ofFrance-IX

SFINX

Not a member

0 5 10 15 20

No port

100M

200M

1G/1000M

2G

10G

Survey (2/4)

2011-2012 report

• Generally speaking, the members are interested in interconnections with both regional and international IXPs.

• In comparison, international IXPs are more interesting than regional ones: LONAP, Espanix, VIX…

0

5

10

15

20

25

Neutral A bitinterested

Veryinterested

Nointerested

at all

Noanswer

Partnerships with regional IXPs

05

101520253035

Neutral A bitinterested

Veryinterested

Nointerested

at all

Noanswer

Partnerships with international IXPs • In more details, the survey shows that mostly operators and CDNs are interested in these partnerships.

• This proves that the strategy of interconnections deployment has to keep going.

Survey (3/4)

2011-2012 report

• 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)

Survey (3/4)

2011-2012 report

• Would you recommend? – 36% answered this question.

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

20

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Real promoters

2011-2012 report

• 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


Events

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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


Website

2011-2012 report

• Monthly newsletters

• Case Studies

• White paper on peering

• Press releases and articles worldwide

• Social networks: Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter


Communication

ROADMAP

2012-2013

SPONSORS

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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).


Board changes

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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


NOC

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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


Backbone evolution

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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


Events & communication

2012-2013 roadmap

• 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.


New projects

RESEAU New System Information – the context

• Equipment @ POPs

2012-2013 roadmap

• Connections

Key elements

• BGP routes servers

• Peering members

Derived activities

• Contracts

• Network operations (monitoring, provisioning, maintenance)

• Statistics, reporting, dashboards

• NOC / Technical support (TTS)

• Billing & accounting

• Etc.

INFORMATION

RESEAU Before France IX Information System

Information System

Multiplicity of partial

databases

Time wasted on repetitive

tasks

France IX Manual tasks Time Data processing


RESEAU With France IX Information System deployed

2012-2013 roadmap

Information System

INFORMATION

One single information system rather than several databases

France IX


• 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


Current state of the project and evolution

2012-2013 roadmap

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