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Optimal Course of IXP Development by NIX.CZ

Learn about the ideal form of an Internet Exchange Point, NIX.CZ's history, current status, challenges, and future plans for continued success in the industry.

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Optimal Course of IXP Development by NIX.CZ

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  1. Optimal course of IXP development – NIX.CZ Tomáš Maršálek NIX.CZ,Director of Association 24.2.2009, Apricot2009

  2. Ideal IXP form • HW interconnecting platform • Association of competitors • Place for experience sharing • Place where member delegates share their Company’s approaches to IXP • Place enabling communication among competitors • Reflection of the Internet development in the country or region • Neutral body

  3. What should not be an IXP • Battlefield for competitors • Equivalent to IP transit service • Place for fulfilment of individual member/person ambitions • Rigid association where Board membership or management position means just new business cards and nice entry in CV • Political force

  4. NIX.CZ - history • First discussion at RIPE in 1995 • Association established in 1996 • Long debate about neutrality, political role and structure of NIX.CZ • Up to 2002 based on voluntary work • In 2002 first full-time employee

  5. NIX.CZ - today • Since 2002 transforming from non-commercial association to commercial association • Periodical board members change • Gradual increase in active marketing • Participation in essential conferences (RIPE,NANOG,APRICOT)‏ • EURO-IX membership – great platform for sharing technical and political knowledge, experience and information • Goodwill building

  6. NIX.CZ today - IPv6 • 100% IPv6 compatible • IPv6 based peering since the beginning of 2003 • 47 connected ports today • 30 connected companies • 45 prefixes • All internal services fully available • Routeservers, web servers, etc… • Approximately 70 Mbps traffic

  7. NIX.CZ today - Routeservers • Officially launched 9/2008 • HW: 2 PCs on 2 locations, Quad Core Xeons • SW: Linux, FreeBSD • Peers on RS: • IPv4 - 48 peers (from 144 potential), 37 unique AS • IPv6 - 19 peers (from 29 potential), 12 unique AS

  8. NIX.CZ today - Routeservers

  9. NIX.CZ today – in numbers • No.7 in Europe regarding traffic • 10Gbps 2006 -› 70Gbps 2008 • 6 full-time employees • 24/7 NOC • 91 members/customers • VAS - TLDs hosting (5)‏ • 146 connected ports • 432Gbps capacity

  10. Increase in port numbers

  11. Connected companies

  12. Trafficstatistics Exceeding 70 Gbps in December 2008 (compared to 40 Gbps in May 2008)‏

  13. Current topology • 4 locations • 5 switches • primary ring • NIX1–NIX2–NIX4 • LR or DWDM • XENPAKs • between nodes

  14. How has it been achieved? • You can have money, nice ideas but one of the major risk factors arepeople • Nothing is for free – volunteering model does not work forever • Quick management transformation • Ill-willed individuals and wrong ideasgradually become extinct– but that takes time • Strategiclocation – Prague is the natural geographical Central-European connection point between Western and Eastern Europe

  15. How has it been achieved?(continued)‏ • Link-up with government and regulatory bodies • International experience • Participation in international meetings • Euro-IXmember • Cooperation with other IXPs and knowledge sharing • Meeting hosting <Euro-ix, RIPE, CENTR, IETF>

  16. Prospectiverisks • People – unsuitable people in the board or in management (sleeping on the wheel)‏ • ISP market globalization • IP Transit price decreasing almost to 0$ • Government regulatory bodies • Lack of technology? • Internet future in general???? • Force majeure

  17. Plans for future • Keeping EU “market” connection price • Building reserves, avoiding financial risks • Transition to more stable internal model – board voting procedure similar to ams-ix model • Marketing strategy aimed at foreign networks • Keeping service quality • Goodwill building • Keeping neutrality

  18. Thank you! • Questions? • tm@nix.cz

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