France-IX

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France-IX is an Internet hub in Paris . It was founded in June 2010 as a membership organization. It connects more than 420 networks, which makes it the largest Internet node in France.

history

Raphael Maunier (worked for Neo Telecoms) and Maurice Dean (worked for Google ) came up with the idea of ​​founding France-IX in Dublin in 2008 . The Internet node, initially called PhoenIX, went online in December 2008. Christian Kaufmann (works for Akamai ) and Nicolas Strina (works for Jaguar Network) joined the initiative.

Following the presentation, a survey was sent to the Internet networking community. The results of this survey were presented during FRnOG 14 in June 2009. Since then, the working group has received official financial and logistical support from Jaguar Network, Google, Akamai, Interxion and Neo Telecoms and has been renamed France-IX.

The first international presentation of the project took place at RIPE 59 in Lisbon .

organization

France-IX consists of a non-profit association in which each member has one vote, as well as a commercial company, which is 100% owned by the association and is responsible for day-to-day operations. When a network books the services of France-IX, it becomes a member of the association and receives the right to vote at the general assembly. There are currently 278 members.

As of August 2015, France-IX has eight board members. Six of these are corporate offices (Akamai, Bouygues Telecom , Cloudflare , Google, Jaguar Network and Schneider Electric ) and two of them are assigned to individuals (Bocar Kane and Clément Cavadore).

network

France-IX operates 12 Points of Presence (PoP).

There is also the option of remote peering via a reseller.

Connectivity

There are two types of ports with different bandwidths available for connection to the France-IX.

port traffic
1 Gbit / s LX Traffic up to 100Mbit / s
1 Gbit / s LX Traffic up to 200 Mbit / s
1 Gbit / s LX Data rate of the line
10 Gbit / s LR Traffic up to 1Gbit / s
10 Gbit / s LR Traffic up to 2Gbit / s
10 Gbit / s LR Data rate of the line

services

France-IX offers the following services:

  • Public Peering: Unicast & multicast IPv4, unicast IPv6
  • Connections to 5 internet nodes in France, Italy and Luxembourg
  • Private Peering (Selected User Group)
  • NTP synchronization
  • Route server (with community feature)
  • Web portal: private login for members, personal traffic statistics
  • 24/7 NOC

partner

France-IX operates five connections to other Internet nodes in France and Europe to promote data exchange.

  • SFINX, based in Paris, operated by the French academic network (RENATER)
  • Lyonix, based in Lyon , France, operated by Rezopole
  • LU-CIX based in Luxembourg
  • TouIX based in Toulouse , France
  • TopIX based in Torino, Italy

In 2012 France-IX introduced a reseller program and won seven partners by 2015.

Events

  • France-IX hosted the 26th Euro-IX Forum, which was held from April 12, 2015 to April 14, 2015 in Marseille .
  • France-IX conducted three training units in support of the Comoros and Guinea set up three Internet nodes of its own.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ France-IX: Current Members . Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Présentation de France-IX ( French ) Selfserveur. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
  3. ^ France-IX: Remote peering . Retrieved May 28, 2020.
  4. ↑ http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=476850
  5. ↑ http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ix-reach-adds-15-members-to-france-ix-internet-exchange--926197
  6. ↑ http://www.hibernianetworks.com/hnservices/etherreach-global-ix/
  7. ↑ http://allafrica.com/stories/201309031106.html
  8. ↑ http://www.phibee.net/index.php/fr/produits-et-services/remote-ix
  9. ↑ https://euro-ix.net/news-and-events/euro-ix-forum/
  10. ↑ http://www.itwebafrica.com/network/333-africa/232563-comoros-undergoes-ixp-training