TIX – Telehouse Zurich Internet Exchange

By Andre OppermannTIX founder and project manager

SWINOG Meeting, Berne, 18. October 2000

Contents

• TIX today

what it is today and where it stands-- boring stuff --

• Future developments

planned enhancements and services-- interesting stuff –

;-)

TIX today

• What it is:

- ISP and Carrier neutral Internet Exchange

• Where it is:

- Located in Telehouse Facilities AG (now IXEurope Zurich) Zurich Datacentre in Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich

- http://www.telehouse.ch

TIX today

• Connected parties

- 42 connected ISPs- 1 connected Enterprise

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TIX today

• History

- announced in October 1999

- operations started in December 1999

- Foundry BigIron8000 in May 2000

- 40th ISP in September 2000

TIX today

• Switched traffic

- average on a working day is 140Mbit/s and 25kpps

- peak traffic was 435Mbit/s and 165kpps

(beginning of October 2000)

- estimated average 500MBit/s and 200kpps in Q1/2001

TIX today

• Route Server in Test-Operations

- 17 ISPs actively participating

- 8200 prefixes seen on route server

- Transparent AS and transparent Nexthop processing

- Extensive communities support (see AS8235 RIPE object)

• Shall I spend a minute on further explaining the Route Server as of today?

Future Developments (1/4)

• SLAs

- zero packet loss on the switch

- participants are not allowed to overload their connections

- guaranteed support response times

Future Developments (2/4)

• Support for Multicast

- starting from Q2/2000- do you need/want it earlier?

• Support for IPv6

- starting from Q2/2000- do you need/want it earlier?

• Expansions sites

- in other carrier neutral telehousing facilities in Zurich, starting from Q2/2001

Future Developments (3/4)

• Managed Peering!

Managed Peering

• The traditional Internet Exchange model where every ISP negotiates peerings with each other has reached it‘s limitations

• Lots of small and medium ISPs don‘t have the resources to follow up with all newly connected peers

• Lots of large ISPs don‘t want to spend the time and effort to deal with all the small ISPs

Managed Peering

• The Route Server makes life easier but has also it‘s shortcomings:

- some large ISP‘s don‘t want to peer with it

- sometimes peering is not free

- it‘s a „best-effort“ service

Managed Peering

• Managed Peering extends the Route Server so that it provides:

- guaranteed service and support with SLA‘s

- manpower to assist and trace down problems

- provide outsourcing for handling of peerings

- central point of responsibility

Managed Peering

• Managed Peering also wants to:

- creating „pre-packaged“ peering with large ISP‘s for small ISP‘s- creating „pre-packaged“ peering with small ISP‘s for large ISP‘s- depending on the peering policy of the offering ISP the package will be free or will have a certain monthly fee- the monthly fee for the package is defined by the ISP but the money is collected by Telehouse Zurich and passed on to the ISP minus a handling deduction

Example:SWITCH would say peering up to 2Mbit/s costs 500.- a month, Telehouse Zurich will offer this to the ISP‘s and enable the ones that have choosen the package. Telehouse Zurich will collect the fee and credit it to SWITCH.

Managed Peering

• Further services of Managed Peering:

- monitor parts of the SLA‘s of the ISP‘s and escalate them if necessary

- provide traffic statistics and also Netflow analysis to the ISP‘s

Managed Peering

• Managed Peering will be available in Q1/2001

• What do YOU think?

• Comments and suggestions?

Future Developments (4/4)

• Give non-ISP‘s access to the Internet Exchange!

Service provider connect

• Create a win-win situation for bandwidth users and ISP‘s

Service provider connect

• Only target a very specific set of bandwidth customers with/which:

- have high bandwidth requirements- manage and operate their own servers!- need multiple upstreams- want to be independent- high connectivity requirements- have the choice of ISP‘s- connect to multiple ISP‘s

• Don‘t compete with housing offers from ISP‘s

Service provider connect

• Great benefits for ISP‘s and customers:

- ISP‘s gain better access to high traffic customers- Customers gain better access to ISP‘s - Customers BUY IP feeds from several ISP‘s

- ISP‘s can offer instant service to connected customers, no provisioning times and no local loops required

Service provider connect

• Targeted customers:

- Video & Audio Streamers- High traffic server operators- Independent Content providers - Application service providers

Service provider connect

• How it works:

- The SP is gets a 100M or a GigE port on the TIX and pays a monthly port fee- The SP does not get a IP from and has no access to the public Internet Exchange- The SP has to connect a router- There is a dedicated VLAN between the customer and every ISP the SP is buying a IP feed from

Service provider connect

• There will be different classes of connections to the Internet Exchange:

- ISP, member of RIPE/ARIN/APNIC, own AS, own PA IPs

- Enterprise, member of RIPE/ARIN/APNIC, own AS, own PI IPs

- „Corporate“, all others, no own IPs, no own AS, will get IPs from ISP

Service provider connect

• Available ports and port fees:

- ISPs 2x 100BaseT CHF 250.-2x 1000BaseSX CHF 1500.-

- Other 1x 100BaseT CHF 1500.-1x 1000BaseSX CHF 5500.-

per month

Service provider connect

• Service Provider connect will be available in Q1/2001, but first movers will be allowed already (see Aargauer Zeitung)

• What do YOU think?

• Comments and suggestions?

That was it!

• You have survived!

• Thank you for your attention!

• I‘m available for further questions and discussions at and after the panel discussion

TIX – Telehouse Zurich Internet Exchange

SWINOG Meeting, Berne, 18. October 2000

Andre Oppermann

oppermann@telehouse.ch