France-IX

France-IX
Full name France-IX
Abbreviation France-IX
Founded June 2010
Location  France, Paris and Marseille
Website www.franceix.net
Members 278 as of August 2015[1]
Peak 314 Gbits/s as of April 2015[2]

France-IX is a Paris-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in June 2010 as a membership organisation. As of 1 August 2015 it interconnects more than 278 members,[1] making it the largest IXP in France.

History

France-IX was initially discussed by Raphael Maunier (then with Neo Telecoms) and Maurice Dean (then working for Google) in 2008 in Dublin. The project of setting up the internet exchange, initially called PhoenIX, was launched in December 2008. Christian Kaufmann (working for Akamai) and Nicolas Strina (then working for Jaguar Network) soon joined the initiative.[3]

Following the presentation, a survey was sent to the community of internet networks whose results were published during the FRnOG 14 in June 2009. Around that time, the working group got the official financial and logistics support from Jaguar Network, Google, Akamai, Interxion and Neo Telecoms and was renamed France-IX.

The first international presentation of this project was made during RIPE 59 in Lisbon.

Organisation

France-IX is composed of a non-profit association where each member holds one vote, and a commercial company, 100% owned by the association, in charge of daily operations. When a network subscribes to France-IX services, it becomes a de facto member of the association and holds the right to vote during the general assemblies. There are currently 278 members.

As of August 1, 2015, France-IX has eight board members, six of which are corporate seats (Akamai, Bouygues Telecom, Cloudflare, Google, Jaguar Network and Schneider Electric) and two individuals (Bocar Kane and Clément Cavadore). France-IX has nine employees.

Network

As of August 1, 2015, France-IX network has 11 points of presence (PoP).

Ports of connection

Services are available through two types of ports and several bandwidth options.

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 line-rate
10 Gbit/s LR traffic up to 1Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s LR traffic up to 2Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s LR line-rate

Services

France-IX offers the following professional services:

Community

France-IX community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number (also known as ASN) can be connected to France-IX. The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:

Partners

France-IX concluded five interconnections with other internet exchanges to foster the exchange of internet traffic in France and Europe.

In 2012, France-IX rolled out a reseller program and counts seven resellers as of August 1, 2015.[5][6][7][8]

Events

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "France-IX: Current Members". Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  2. ↑ "France-IX: Bandwidth Statistics". Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  3. ↑ "Présentation de France-IX" (in French). Selfserveur. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  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

External links

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