Equinix IXP Update – NANOG24

1. Equinix IXP Update – NANOG24 Lane Patterson <lane@equinix.net> Equinix, Inc. February, 2002

2. Switch Fabric Update Operations Update Issues and Future Directions Internet Core Exchange (ICE) Equinix Contacts Overview  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

3. ASHBURN, VA EXISTING IBX SITE CITIES - 7 IBX Locations • 810,000 square feet currently operational in the US CHICAGO, IL SECAUCUS, NJ NEWARK, NJ SAN JOSE, CA LOS ANGELES, CA DALLAS, TX  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

4. Switch fabrics currently operating in San Jose, CA; Ashburn, VA; and Dallas, TX Chicago, IL switch fabric planned for March, 2002 Based on Foundry BigIron switches, 10/100BaseTX or 1000BaseSX/LX ports Public Unicast VLAN for public peering Private VLANs for “virtual private peering” Of 40 ports ordered, 20 in operation, 20 in progress; About 25 more coming. GigE predominates over FastE. http://www.equinix.com/peering -- List of carriers, ISPs, and large content peers Operational Update  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

5. ATG Arbos AT&T Cambrian Communications Dominion Telecom KMC Telecom Level3 Looking Glass Networks MFN New Edge Network SBC Sigma Networks Sphera Optical Networks Sprint Telseon Velocita Verizon Williams Worldcom XO Communications Yipes Akamai Aleron Atlantech Online BlueArc BT Ignite Cable & Wireless Carrier1 Charles Schwab Cogent Communications Core Communications Digital Island EDS IBX Partipants, Partial List Ashburn San Jose… Euclid Network Solutions Excite@Home EYT Genuity Global Crossing Global NAPs Gomez Google, Inc. iBasis IBM ICG Communications Inter.net IntoNetworks Keybridge LinkSpace Loudcloud Loudeye Technologies Media Station Microstrategy MindShift Technologies The Motley Fool Netrail netVMG Nextra Qwest SBC Internet Services SiteLite StatusSphere Steaming Media Corporation Teleglobe Telstra UUNET UltraDNS Verio Vista IT Washington Post Worldstor Yahoo! ATG AT&T KMC Telecom Level3 MFN OnFiber Communcations SBC Pacific Bell Sigma Networks Telseon Velocita Worldcom Yipes Akamai Asera Beyond the Network BlueStar Solutions Cable & Wireless Carrier 1 Charles Schwab Cogent Communications CommTouch Coradiant Digital Island eWanted.com Excite@Home Fandango, Inc. Gig Guardian GoBeam Goldman Sachs Google, Inc. IBM IIJ America, Inc. InterNAP IntoNetworks iPhrase.com iPIN Keybridge Loudcloud Media Station MSN/Hotmail Net36, Inc. netVMG On Demand, Inc. ONlPNet LLC PayPal Portera Systems Qwest Radiance Technologies RealNames Rocket Networks Scheduling.com Securenet Shaw Fiber/BigPipe Sigaba SiteROCK StorageNetworks StorageLink Streaming Media Teleglobe USA Telstra Tiscali SpA UltraDNS UUNET Velotel.com Verio WebUseNet Williams Yahoo! Yellowpages.com Zaplet Please check the web page. It doesn’t fit.  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

6. Exchange Architecture  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

7. 100% Uptime since traffic commenced Seeing rapid rise in Aggregate Utilization on San Jose Exchange (Jan 13-24, 2002 shown): Exchange Stats  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

8. Hybrid L2/L3 devices like OSR/7600 present new challenges Risk of incorrect configuration may violate MOU Future requirement for Jumbo Frames anticipated ISPs currently moving to 4470 or 9192 core MTU Peter Lothberg religion at NANOG22: core MTU at least 4470 is a MUST: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0105/real/iponly.ram IXPs need to move in step with ISPs to avoid becoming the MTU bottleneck Issues and Future Directions  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

9. IPv6 Unicast Exchange VLAN now available: No longer experimental Driven by commercial forces Bill Woodcock / PCH installing BGP archive collectors in Ashburn and San Jose 10GigE: some disruptive price per port is on the horizon :-) Multicast—still experimental (as usual ;-) Issues and Future Directions (cont’d)  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

10. A natural evolution to more efficient, high-capacity private peering A central, neutral meet-me in major cities avoids a metro SONET mess^Hh Geared toward folks that have OC48+ backbones across western, central, and eastern U.S. More than 15 companies in the process of moving to Equinix ICE peering architecture Major domestic, international, or global ISPs. GigE switch port is bundled with the service, ICE participants are free to use this for certain peers Internet Core Exchange (ICE)  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

11. Architecture is simple, and benefits obvious: You can participate whenever you choose, unlike metro peering rings which need to be designed up front with participants in mind Avoids closed rings that limit participation Eliminates requirement for all participants to adopt the same technology Much faster and more flexible provisioning No more local loop facilities issues Much more scalable Internet Core Exchange (cont’d)  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

12. Jay Adelson, Founder / CTO <adelson@equinix.net> Bill Norton, Peering Pimp^H^H^H^H Evangelist <wbn@equinix.net> Lane Patterson, Technical Guy <lane@equinix.net> Peering Alias <peering@equinix.net> Lists for existing Equinix customers: <exchange-discussion@lists.equinix.com> <exchange-maint@lists.equinix.com> <exchange-announce@lists.equinix.com> Equinix IXP Contacts  2000 Equinix, All rights reserved

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