Swiss Internet ExchangeAssociation

http://www.swissix.net/

Wouter van Hulten

mailto:woutervh@interxion.com

InterXion

Contents

• Introduction• Current Situation• Trends• Solution• Next Steps

Current Situation Internet in Switzerland

• Swisscom– Around 45% of all traffic through incumbent backbone

• CIXP (CERN)– 34 members today

– Cisco, Extreme Summit

– Expansion to Telehouse (Geneva)

• TIX (IX-Europe)– 40+ members?

– Foundry BigIron switch

– Expansion to new facilities

• No Internet Exchange Association

The Road Ahead: Trends in the European IXs

• Continued membership growth– Stage 1,2,3

• More peerings– International and national ISPs, webhosting, ASP

• 100% growth of traffic every 6 months AMS-IX– e.g. AMS-IX will need to upgrade to 10 Gbps network interfaces

• New technologies– 2,5Gbps backbones, growth in connection speed: 1Gbps minimum

Membership of European Internet Exchanges

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

LINX

AMS-IX

DE-CIX

BNIX

KTHNOCCIX

PDIX

ESPANIXIN

EX

Jan-00

Sep-00

Source: exchange websites, Jan-00 & Sept-00, InterXion analysis

Growth of the Exchanges

Phase 1 2 3Small Medium Large

Organisation

Association with volunteers

Association with volunteers or Research organisation

Association with Professional staff

Members 20 50-100 100+Switches Cisco 29xx Cisco 55xx Cisco 65xx

Extreme BlackDiamondFoundry BigIron

Interfaces (Mbps) 10/100 10/100/1000 10/100/1000Traffic (Mbps) 5-50 100+ 1000+Housing (number of sites) 1 2 2+Examples INEX CIXP LINX

BNIX SFINXVIX DECIX

AMS-IX

Source: InterXion analysis, 1998-2000

Problems in the core network

• Switch Capacity too low: 10Gbps interfaces

• Reliability and Resilience: Distributed Topology

• Scaling of the infrastructure

• Administration & Procedures: Best Current Practice

SystemManagement

How are others dealing with these issues?

Example: CERN Examples: CERN, InterXion,IX-Europe, Telehouse

GeneralAssembly

Executive

Housing &Remote Hands

Association

Technical WG

Members

Note: Typical not actualorganisation is shown.

What you win from an Association

• Quality of the infrastructure through cooperation• Low Cost of connection: not-for-profit• Open organisation • Development

– CIXP: Knowledge transfer: from R&D to Production

– TIX: Expansion

• Best Common Practices & Standards– RIPE conference (http://www.ripe.net/)

• Working Group for future technologies & services– Multicast, IPv6

• Branding “SwissIX powered”

Who pays for what?

GeneralAssembly

Executive

Housing &Remote Hands

SystemManagement

Association

Technical WG

Members

Hardware

Fibre

Housing750EUR / cabinet1130CHF / cabinet

MembershipConnection1200EUR/1 Gb port1800CHF

Service

Lease

PurchaseUS$200,000

Note: Numbers are indicative from other European exchanges.

What are the Next Steps?

• Do you want an Association?

• Invitation: join the founding of SwissIX Association !

• Founding Meeting– Date: 14 November 2000

– Location: to be announced

– Time: 2pm

– Contact: swissix@interxion.com

http://www.swissix.net/

Appendix: Aim of the Association

• “The purpose of the Organisation is to enable and facilitate (Internet) traffic. It can carry out all forms of business which are directly or indirectly associated with the above mentioned purpose or are suitable for promoting this purpose. The Organisation is non-profit making.”

• “The aim of the Organisation is to achieve its purpose through:– a) facilitating the direct or indirect connection to the Swiss Internet

Exchange, for its members– b) to develop additional activities which serve the purpose of the

Organisation.”