Tomáš Maršálek - Optimal course of IXP development – NIX.CZ
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This document discusses the optimal development of internet exchange points (IXPs), using NIX.CZ as a case study. It outlines that IXPs should be a neutral platform for interconnecting competitors and sharing experiences, not a battlefield or means to fulfill individual ambitions. NIX.CZ has transformed since being established in 1996 from a voluntary association to a commercial one with full-time staff. It now handles over 70Gbps of traffic monthly and has 89 members. Its success is attributed to professionalizing management, cooperation with other IXPs, and maintaining strategic location and neutrality. Risks include unsuitable people, market changes, and lack of technology advances, but NIX.CZ plans to build reserves and attract foreign networks while
Tomáš Maršálek - Optimal course of IXP development – NIX.CZ
- 1. Optimal course of IXP development – NIX.CZ Tomáš Maršálek NIX.CZ, Director of Association 16.1.2009, PLNOG 2
- 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 member or management position means just a 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 essenti a l conferences (RIPE,NANOG,APRICOT) • EURO-IX membership – great platform for sharing technical and political knowledge, experience and information
- 6. NIX.CZ – in numbers • No.7 in Europe regarding traffic • 10GB 2006 -› 70GB 2008 • 6 full-time employees • 7/24 NOC • 89 members/customers • VAS - TLDs hosting (10) • Internal stability of the organization • High credit regionally and internationallyIPv6 based peering
- 7. NIX.CZ today – regarding IPv6 • IPv6 based peering since the beginning of 2003 • 47 connected ports • 30 connected companies • 45 prefixes • All internal services fully available • Routeservers, web servers, etc… • Aproximately 70 Mbps traffic
- 8. Increase in port numbers
- 10. Traffic trend Exceeding 70 Gbps in December 2008 (compared to 40 Gbps in May 2008)
- 11. How has it been achieved? • You can have money, nice ideas but one of the major risk factors are people • Nothing is for free – volunteering model does not work forever • Quick management transformation • Ill-willed individuals and wrong ideas gradually become extinct– but that takes time • Strategic location – Prague is the natural geographical Central-European connection point between Western and Eastern Europe
- 12. How has i t been achieved?(continued) • Link-up with government and regulatory bodies • International experience • Participation in international meetings • Euro-IX member • Cooperation with other IXPs and knowledge sharing • Meeting hosting <Euro-ix, RIPE, CENTR, IETF>
- 13. Prospective risks • People – unsuitable people in the board o r 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
- 14. 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
- 15. Thank you! • Questions? • tm@nix.cz