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New Zealand Peering Exchanges APE and WIX

Andy Linton <asjl@citylink.co.nz> February 2004. New Zealand Peering Exchanges APE and WIX. New Zealand Peering Exchanges. Currently in Auckland and Wellington Auckland Peering Exchange – APE Wellington Internet Exchange – WIX Proposed for Hamilton, Christchurch

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New Zealand Peering Exchanges APE and WIX

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  1. Andy Linton <asjl@citylink.co.nz> February 2004 New Zealand Peering ExchangesAPE and WIX

  2. New Zealand Peering Exchanges • Currently in Auckland and Wellington • Auckland Peering Exchange – APE • Wellington Internet Exchange – WIX • Proposed for Hamilton, Christchurch • Possible for Palmerston North, Dunedin, Hawkes Bay

  3. Auckland Peering Exchange APE Location

  4. Auckland Peering Exchange

  5. APE Peering Environment

  6. APE Peering Points • We don't use big carrier class switches • We can't afford them • We use enterprise grade Cisco switches in two locations – third coming soon • 3548 • 3508 • 3524 • F-Root server instance is housed here since Juky 2003 • http://www.isc.org

  7. Route Servers • 266 Mhz 586 class processor from www.soekris.com • Uses LEAF code - leaf.sourceforge.org • Quagga Routing Suite - www.quagga.net

  8. Route Servers

  9. APE Peers • Currently 32 peering sessions with the APE route servers • There is no requirement to peer with the route servers • There are other bilateral arrangements – large providers e.g. telcos favour this arrangement! • Smaller providers are keen to peer – no surprises here! • Looking glass available • http://www.wix.net.nz/cgi-bin/mrlg-ape.cgi

  10. Wellington Internet Exchange

  11. Wellington Internet Exchange

  12. Wellington Internet Exchange

  13. Wellington Internet Exchange

  14. WIX Distributed Peering Environment

  15. WIX Switches • Highly distributed switch fabric • 60+ Cisco switches with connections to 300+ buildings in Wellington CBD • 35xx, 29xx • Connections at 10, 100, 1000 Mbps

  16. WIX Peers • Currently over 120 peering sessions with the WIX route servers • Smallest prefixes announced - /29 • 41 peers have public AS numbers • 85 peers have private AS numbers • We operate our own route registry • http://www.wix.net.nz/cgi-bin/whois.pl • We use RPSL to manage all IPv4 route servers • Looking glass available • http://www.wix.net.nz/cgi-bin/mrlg-wix.cgi

  17. What's next? • IPv6 peering also available in both locations • Small number of peers so far • Experimental link joining APE6 and WIX6 will be commissioned very soon • IPv4 to IPv6 tunnelbrokers available • More exchanges planned – part of design for NZ Internet 2 linking the universities and research community

  18. Questions?

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